Successfully managing on-call situations requires a masterful combination of speed, skill, and knowledge. When you're on call...alone...in the middle of the night...On Call Neurology provides you with immediate access to the vital, step-by-step information you need to rise to the occasion! For every complaint, it guides you through the initial evaluation, differential diagnosis, neurologic examination, and treatment planning, so you can face any problem with confidence!
主要特點
- Provides easy-to-reference, specialty-specific guidance on how to manage problems that arise while on call without direct supervision.
- Catalogs the calls you are most likely to receive and provides you with the questions you should ask to assess the urgency of each situation.
- Details the ideal approach to diagnose and manage patients, communicate with colleagues and families, and avoid common mistakes for every call.
- Reviews the temporary orders appropriate for each call, as well as the general protocol, and the major threats to life you must consider before arriving at bedside.
- Indexes problems by disease as well as by symptoms to expedite your access to the answers you need.
- Includes a comprehensive collection of differential diagnoses and a detailed formulary of commonly used medications-a quick, alphabetically arranged reference for indications, drug dosages, routes of administration, side effects, contraindications, and modes of action.
| ISBN | 9781416023753 |
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| 作者資訊 | By Randolph S. Marshall, MD, Elisabeth K Harris Professor of Neurology Chief, Stroke Division Department of Neurology Columbia University Irving Medical Center New York, New York and Stephan A. Mayer, MD, William T. Gossett Chair of Neurology Co-Director, Neuroscience Institute Henry Ford Health System Professor of Neurology Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, Michigan |
| Table of Content | Introduction 1. Approach to the Neurologic Patient On Call: History Taking, Differential Diagnosis, and Anatomic Localization 2. The Neurologic Examination 3. Diagnostic Studies Patient-Related Problems: The Common Calls 4. Seizures and Status Epilepticus 5. Stupor and Coma 6. Acute Stroke 7. Spinal Cord Compression 8. Delirium 9. Head Injury 10. Ataxia and Gait Failure 11. Acute Visual Disturbances 12. Increased Intracranial Pressure 13. Dizziness and Vertigo 14. Headache 15. Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure 16. Syncope 17. Pain Syndromes 18. Amnesia and Dementia 19. Brain Death 20. Nerve and Muscle Diseases 21. Demyelinating and Inflammatory Disorders of the Central Nervous System 22. Infections of the Central Nervous System 23. Neuro-oncology 24. Cerebrovascular Disease 25. Movement Disorders 26. Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders 27. Pediatric Neurologic Emergencies Appendices A-1. Muscles of the Neck and Brachial Plexus A-2. Muscles of the Perineum and Lumbosacral Plexus A-3. Brachial Plexus A-4. Lumbar Plexus A-5. Sensory Dermatome Map A-6. Mini-Mental State Examination A-7. Surface Map of the Brain A-8. Nuclei of the Brainstem A-9. Surface Anatomy of the Brainstem B. On-Call Formulary: Commonly Prescribed Medications in Neurology Index |
| 出版日期 | 01-06-2007 |
| Pages | 528 |
| Trim | 197x121 |
| 現貨 | In Stock |
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