Twenty-first-century medicine has been marked by, among other things, the growth of various specialties, each with its unique perspective on any given patient. This is particularly true for patients suffering from acute neurological emergencies where emergency physicians, neurologists, radiologists, and neurosurgeons are often involved in their care. There is overlap between when the emergency physicians’ work is over and the neurologists’ starts. Wherever this line may be drawn, however, and it might be different in a small community hospital than in a tertiary care center, the best care and outcomes undoubtedly result from maximal cooperation and coordination between the various specialties.
Neurology Emergencies represents this teamwork in that each chapter is co-written by authors representing both the emergency medicine and neurology perspectives. To further ensure a balanced presentation that is useful to medical students and to physicians from both specialties, one editor is an emergency physician and the other is a neurologist. We have tried to create a book that will be as useful to physicians seeing patients in the emergency department as to those caring for patients on the medical or neurological wards and intensive care units.
This book purpose fully focus on the acute patient. It start by covering how the neurological examination can be used to localize the problem. And because patients arrive with symptoms, not diagnoses, then cover the various common acute presentations of these patients. Other chapters cover specific problems that are more diagnosis based, such as traumatic brain injury, stroke, and seizures. Because neuroimaging has become such an important part of the management of neurological emergencies, each chapter is illustrated with relevant computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and vascular studies, as well as other images, algorithms, and charts to clarify and supplement the text. Each chapter is presented in a way such that it can be used during a busy shift or to review the information afterward. Medical students, emergency physicians, neurologists, internists, family practitioners, critical care physicians, and hospitalists will find this book useful.
Contents
- 1 Approach to the Neurological Patient
- 2 Presenting Symptoms
- 3 Cerebral Ischemia
- 4 Cerebral Hemorrhage
- 5 Seizures
- 6 Generalized Weakness
- 7 CNS Infections
- 8 Selected Cranial and Peripheral Neuropathies
- 9 Traumatic Head Injury
- 10 Intracranial Pressure (ICP) and Hydrocephalus
- Index
About the Author
- Jonathan Edlow is Associate Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
- Magdy Selim is Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Book Details
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (September 30, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0195388585
- ISBN-13: 978-0195388589
- Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.6 inches
List Price: $39.95