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Interpretation of Emergency Head CT 2nd edition - A Practical Handbook

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Informationen zum Autor Erskine J. Holmes is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Craigavon Area Hospital, Northern Ireland. Rakesh R. Misra is a Consultant Radiologist at Wycombe Hospital, Buckinghamshire. Klappentext Using diagrams and CT images, this easy-to-read Handbook offers clinicians a practical system for interpreting an emergency cranial CT scan. Zusammenfassung Clinicians use cranial CT in a variety of life-threatening conditions! including acute stroke and trauma. Timely interpretation can facilitate early specialist intervention. This easy-to-read Handbook provides a practical system for interpretation! supplemented by clinical chapters covering wide-ranging pathology and simplified technical details! thereby making it an excellent learning aide. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1. Fundamentals of Computer Tomography Imaging: Important anatomical considerations; Section 2. Reviewing a CT Scan: 1. Acute stroke; 2. Subdural haematoma (SDH); 3. Extradural/epidural haematoma; 4. Subarachnoid haemorrhage; 5. Traumatic parenchyma brain injury; 6. Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis; 7. Hypoxic-ischaemic injury; 8. Skull fractures; 9. Raised intracranial pressure; 10. Hydrocephalus; 11. Meningitis; 12. Cerebral abscess; 13. Arteriovenous malformation; 14. Solitary lesions; 15. Multiple lesions; 16. Neck vessel dissection; Section 3. Cervical Spine: 'ABCS' approach to interpreting multiplanar reformats of the CT cervical spine; Types of spine fracture; Section 4. Self-Assessment Section: Self assessment - answers; Appendix 1. ABCD2 scoring system; Appendix 2. ROSIER score; Appendix 3. NICE acute stroke flow pathway; Appendix 4. Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) assessment; Appendix 5. NICE guideline for adult CT head; Appendix 6. NICE guideline for adult CT neck; Appendix 7. NICE guideline for paediatric CT head; Appendix 8. NICE guideline for paediatric CT neck; Appendix 9. Information required prior to neurosurgical transfer; Appendix 10. Differential diagnosis for intracerebral lesions....

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Authors Erskine Holmes, Erskine J Holmes, Erskine J. Holmes, Erskine J. Misra Holmes, Holmes Erskine J., Dr. Rakesh R. Misra, Rakesh R Misra, Rakesh R. Misra
Publisher Cambridge University Press Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.05.2017
 
EAN 9781107495937
ISBN 978-1-107-49593-7
Dimensions 156 mm x 233 mm x 7 mm
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine

MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, Accident & emergency medicine, Accident and emergency medicine

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