| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Approach to the neurological patient / Magdy H. Selim and Jonathan A. Edlow -- Presenting symptoms / Magdy H. Selim and Jonathan A. Edlow -- Cerebral ischemia / Radoslav Raychev, Sidney Starkman, and David S. Liebeskind -- Cerebral hemorrhage / Joshua N. Goldstein and Jonathan Rosand -- Seizures / Michael Ganetsky and Frank W. Drislane -- Generalized weakness / Carl A. Germann and Nicholas J. Silvestri -- CNS infections / J. Stephen Huff and Barnett R. Nathan -- Selected cranial and peripheral neuropathies / Magdy H. Selim and Jonathan A. Edlow -- Traumatic head indury / Daniel C. McGillicuddy and John E. McGillicuddy -- Intracranial pressure (ICP) and hydrocephalus / Scott A. Marshall, Hardin A. Pantle, and Romergryko G. Geocadin. |
| Summary |
This compact handbook provides all the essential specific steps for assessment and management of emergencies in neurology. Edited by an emergency medicine physician and a neurologist, these chapters are easy to review during or after a busy shift. Focus is placed on the acute patient with both common and complex neurological presentations. Also covered are specific, diagnosis-based problems, including traumatic brain injury, stroke, and seizures. Each chapter is filled with relevant computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and vascular studies, as well as many other images, algorithms, and tab. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nervous system -- Diseases.
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Nervous system -- Diseases. |
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Neurological intensive care.
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Neurological intensive care. |
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Medical emergencies.
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Medical emergencies. |
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Central Nervous System Diseases -- diagnosis. |
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Central Nervous System Diseases -- therapy. |
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Diagnosis, Differential. |
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Emergency Treatment -- methods. |
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Neurologic Examination -- methods. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Edlow, Jonathan A.
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Selim, Magdy H.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Neurology emergencies. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011 9780195388589 (DLC) 2010003461 (OCoLC)503614659 |
| ISBN |
9780199780440 (electronic book) |
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0199780447 (electronic book) |
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9780195388589 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0195388585 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612763380 |
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