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Identifying Neuroemergencies provides practical information how to best manage and triage patients in the first hour of admission in the emergency department.
Sommario
- 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
Info autore
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
Riassunto
Core Principles of Acute Neurology is a series of short volumes that handles major topics not found in sufficient detail elsewhere and provides useful context.
Identifying Neuroemergencies provides practical information how to best manage and triage patients in the first hour of admission in the emergency department. Physicians consider a neurologic emergency when the patient has clearly worsened and their neurologic signs have changed. Correct decisions are imperative: any type of neurocritical illness demands immediate treatment in the emergency department. Neurologist can assist further with the successful triage of the neurologic emergency and this volume in the Core Principles of Acute Neurology will serve as a handy, concise, reference to both the neurologist and the emergency physician.
Testo aggiuntivo
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.
