Neurologic emergencies. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Guest editors, Alireza Minagar, Alejandro A. Rabinstein ; consulting editor, Randolph W. Evans.
• Other Names: Minagar, Alireza; Rabinstein, Alejandro A
• Contents: Front Cover; Neurologic Clinics; Copyright Page; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface: Neurologic Emergencies; Chapter 1. Management of the Patient with Diminished Responsiveness; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; PRINCIPLES OF SUPPORTIVE CARE-PREVENTING SECONDARY INJURY; MANAGEMENT OF SPECIFIC CAUSES OF COMA; LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME PREDICTION; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Epilepsy Emergencies: Diagnosis and Management; DEFINITIONS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY; PRESENTATION AND CAUSE; MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY; PREHOSPITAL MANAGEMENT AND PRIMARY EVALUATION; PRIMARY MANAGEMENT OF SE. PRIMARY MANAGEMENT OF RSEMAINTENANCE THERAPY IN RSE; ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT OF RSE; TREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS IN THE COMATOSE OR CRITICALLY ILL; SPECIAL SITUATIONS: ORGAN FAILURE; SPECIAL SITUATIONS: ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SPECIAL SITUATIONS: PREGNANCY; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Headache Emergencies: Diagnosis and Management; CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS OF CONCERN; CAUSES OF CONCERN: HEADACHE AND CEREBROVASCULAR EMERGENCIES; CAUSES OF CONCERN: HEADACHE AND SPACE-OCCUPYING LESIONS; CAUSES OF CONCERN: HEADACHE AND INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE WITHOUT A MASS LESION. CAUSES OF CONCERN: HEADACHE AND SYSTEMIC ILLNESSCAUSES OF CONCERN: HEADACHE AND INFECTION; EMERGENCY PRESENTATIONS OF PRIMARY HEADACHE DISORDERS; AN APPROACH TO HEADACHE WORK-UP; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Dizziness and Vertigo: Emergencies and Management; THREE KEY ITEMS IN THE HISTORY; FIVE KEY ELEMENTS OF THE CLINICAL EXAMINATION; IMAGING AND LABORATORY TESTS; CLINICAL CASE EXAMPLES; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Acute Visual Loss and Other Neuro-Ophthalmologic Emergencies: Management; SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGIC DISORDERS. NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGIC SIGNS OF NEUROLOGIC EMERGENCIESREFERENCES; Chapter 6. Neurologic Emergencies in Patients Who Have Cancer: Diagnosis and Management; BRAIN METASTASES; SEIZURES; ACUTE OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; SPINAL METASTASES AND COMPRESSIVE MYELOPATHY; LEPTOMENINGEAL CARCINOMATOSIS/LYMPHOMATOSIS; ISCHEMIC STROKE AND INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE; CNS INFECTIONS; PARANEOPLASTIC LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Neurologic Infectious Disease Emergencies; EVALUATING THE PATIENT WITH SUSPECTED CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS. TREATMENT AND INVESTIGATION OF BACTERIAL MENINGITISLYMPHOCYTE-PREDOMINANT MENINGITIS; ENCEPHALITIS: BRAIN PARENCHYMAL DISEASE WITH OR WITHOUT FOCAL SIGNS; CURRENT IMPORTANT ENCEPHALITIC PATHOGENS: NORMAL OR IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOSTS; APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH FOCAL CEREBRAL SIGNS OF POSSIBLE INFECTIOUS ORIGIN; APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH FOCAL FINDINGS SUGGESTIVE OF SPINAL CORD OR PERIPHERAL PROCESSES; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Neuromuscular Disorders and Acute Respiratory Failure:Diagnosis and Management; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY.
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, Pa : Saunders
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 616.8025; Neurological emergencies; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain); MEDICAL -- Neurology; Neurological emergencies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781455742950; 1455742953
• Related ISBNs: 9781455738946; 1455738948
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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