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By
Alejandro Rabinstein, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology, Cerebrovascular Division, Department of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL
Eelco Wijdicks, MD, PhD, FACP, Professor of Neurology, Mayo Medical School; Consultant in Neurology and Co-Director of the Neurology/Neurosurgery Intensive
Care Unit, Saint Mary's Hospital and Mayo Medical Center, Rochester, MN, USA
Description
A case-based collection of monographs on the most complex matter in acute neurology, this book provides thoughtful analysis of the topics
by experts in the field. Careful and critical review of available evidence is combined with the practical opinion of the authors. The
decision-making process is expounded in all its science and art and clinically relevant conclusions are realized for each case presented.
Focused clinical descriptions of the unlimited dilemmas and tough calls encountered in the practice of neurology. This book is a collection
of discussions and criticisms revolving around these decisions that are very difficult to make.
Audience
Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, Emergency Physicians, Hospitalists, Intensivists
Contents
I.
Tough Calls in Clinical Diagnosis
Chapter 1: Found Comatose
Chapter 2: Acute Neuro-ophthalmologic
Conditions
Chapter 3: Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus
Chapter 4: Movement Disorder Emergencies
Chapter
5: The Febrile Agitated Immunosuppressed Patient
Chapter 6: Thunderclap Headache
II.
Tough Calls in Procedures
Chapter
7: When to Intubate Critically Ill Neurological Patients
Chapter 8: When to use Hyperventilation, Mannitol, or Corticosteroids
to Reduce Increased Intracranial Pressure from Cerebral Edema
Chapter 9: When to Consider Emergency Interventional Procedures
Chapter
10: When and How to Monitor Acute Brain Injury
III.
Tough Calls in Major Disease Categories
Chapter
11: Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis Before General or Vascular Surgery
Chapter 12: Management of Incidental Aneurysms and Vascular
Malformations
Chapter 13: Recurrent Cerebral Infarcts
Chapter 14: Intracranial Hemorrhage in Patients Using Warfarin
Chapter
15: Spinal Epidural Metastases
Chapter 16: Surgery for Intracerebral Hematoma
Chapter 17: Chemotherapy for Brain Tumors
Chapter
18: Acute Poisoning from Tropical Fish
Chapter 19: Crisis in Myasthenia Gravis
Chapter 20: Fulminant White Matter Disease
Chapter
21: The Unstable Spine after Trauma
Chapter 22: The Clinical Diversity of Traumatic Head Injury
Chapter 23: Withholding
and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
INDEX
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Hardbound, 384 pages, publication date: APR-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-7466-9
ISBN-10: 0-7506-7466-0
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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