Identifying Neuroemergencies

Identifying Neuroemergencies provides practical information how to best manage and triage patients in the first hour of admission in the emergency department.

List of contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS


• Preface


• Introduction to the Series


• Chapter 1: Defining Neuroemergencies


• Chapter 2: The Unresponsive Patient


• Chapter 3: Major Warning Signs: Headache, Vertigo, Syncope


• Chapter 4: Treating Acute Neurologic Pain Syndromes


• Chapter 5: Treating Movement Disorder Emergencies


• Chapter 6: Triaging Seizures and Spells


• Chapter 7: Triaging Traumatic Head and Spine Injury


• Chapter 8: Triaging Acute Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke


• Chapter 9: Triaging Acute Neuroinfections


• Chapter 10: Troubleshooting: Errors and Misjudgments


• Index

About the author

Eelco Wijdicks is Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Chair of the Division of Critical Care Neurology, and Consultant, Neurological Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, Saint Marys Hospital, Mayo Clinic

Summary

Identifying Neuroemergencies provides practical information how to best manage and triage patients in the first hour of admission in the emergency department.

Additional text

The greatest strength of this book is that it gives a true emergency medicine perspective to providers who are not emergency medicine physicians. At the same time, it is a useful summary of neurological emergencies for any provider caring for these patients in the emergency department.

Product details

• Authors: Eelco F.M. Wijdicks, Eelco F.m. (Md Wijdicks
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2015
• EAN: 9780199928798
• ISBN: 978-0-19-992879-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Core Principles of Acute Neurology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; neurosurgery, MEDICAL / Neurology, MEDICAL / Surgery / Neurosurgery, MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Accident & emergency medicine, Accident and emergency medicine