Handling Difficult Situations

Informationen zum Autor Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD, FNCS, FANA, is a Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He is the Chair of the Division of Critical Care Neurology, and a Consultant for the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Saint Marys Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Klappentext In any acute neurologic condition situations come up which generate questions about management. Zusammenfassung In any acute neurologic condition situations come up which generate questions about management.In a deteriorating patient there is a strain in decision making and many acute problems are hard calls. Handling Difficult Situations includes solutions for these reoccurring dilemmas. Each topic is carefully chosen and reflects clinical practice. The book addresses how to recognize treatable coma, how to judge the severity of traumatic brain and spine injury, and discusses how to recognize neurosurgical emergencies.Handling Difficult Situations also includes recognition and management of acute respiratory neuromuscular failure. A separate chapter discusses errors in CT scan evaluation of acute neurologic conditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Treatable Coma Chapter 2: When Seizures Continue Chapter 3: Judging Severity of Traumatic Brain Injury Chapter 4: Recognition of Acute Spinal Cord Injury Chapter 5: Treating Acute Autoimmune Encephalitis Chapter 6: Neurosurgical Emergencies in Acute Brain Injury Chapter 7: Endovascular Options in Ischemic Stroke Chapter 8: Supporting Acute Respiratory Muscle Weakness Chapter 9: Emergencies in the Transplant Recipient Chapter 10: Troubleshooting: Easily overlooked CT scan Signs

Product details

• Authors: Eelco F M Wijdicks, Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9780199928767
• ISBN: 978-0-19-992876-7
• No. of pages: 168
• 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