Identifying neuroemergencies
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 on 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 neurocrit…
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- Full title :Identifying neuroemergencies / Eelco F.M. Wijdicks.
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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 on 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.
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- Publication Date:2015
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
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- Description:1 online resource.
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- ISBN:9780199322091, 0199322090
- oclc:ocn915059286
- LC Classification:RC530
- Dewey Decimal:616.8/4025
Table of Contents
Defining neuroemergencies -- The unresponsive patient -- Major warning signs : headache, vertigo, syncope -- Treating acute neurologic pain syndromes -- Treating movement disorder emergencies -- Triaging seizures and spells -- Triaging traumatic head and spine injury -- Triaging acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke -- Triaging acute neuroinfections -- Troubleshooting: errors and misjudgments.
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