| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Approach to the neurological patient / Magdy H. Selim and Jonathan A. Edlow -- Presenting symptoms / Magdy H. Selim and Jonathan A. Edlow -- Cerebral ischemia / Radoslav Raychev, Sidney Starkman, and David S. Liebeskind -- Cerebral hemorrhage / Joshua N. Goldstein and Jonathan Rosand -- Seizures / Michael Ganetsky and Frank W. Drislane -- Generalized weakness / Carl A. Germann and Nicholas J. Silvestri -- CNS infections / J. Stephen Huff and Barnett R. Nathan -- Selected cranial and peripheral neuropathies / Magdy H. Selim and Jonathan A. Edlow -- Traumatic head indury / Daniel C. McGillicuddy and John E. McGillicuddy -- Intracranial pressure (ICP) and hydrocephalus / Scott A. Marshall, Hardin A. Pantle, and Romergryko G. Geocadin |
| Summary |
This compact handbook provides all the essential specific steps for assessment and management of emergencies in neurology. Edited by an emergency medicine physician and a neurologist, these chapters are easy to review during or after a busy shift. Focus is placed on the acute patient with both common and complex neurological presentations. Also covered are specific, diagnosis-based problems, including traumatic brain injury, stroke, and seizures. Each chapter is filled with relevant computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and vascular studies, as well as many other images, algorithms, and tab |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nervous system -- Diseases
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Neurological intensive care.
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Medical emergencies.
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Diagnosis, Differential.
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Central Nervous System Diseases -- diagnosis
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Central Nervous System Diseases -- therapy
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Emergency Treatment -- methods
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Neurologic Examination -- methods
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Nervous System Diseases
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Emergencies
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
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MEDICAL -- Neurology.
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Medical emergencies
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Nervous system -- Diseases
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Neurological intensive care
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Edlow, Jonathan A
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Selim, Magdy H
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| ISBN |
9780199780440 |
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0199780447 |
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9780195388589 |
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0195388585 |
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