2 options
Coma and Disorders of Consciousness / edited by Caroline Schnakers, Steven Laureys.
Connect to full text Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine.
- Nervous system--Radiography.
- Nervous system.
- Neurology.
- Nervous system--Surgery.
- Psychiatry.
- Rehabilitation.
- Medicine & Public Health.
- Neurosurgery.
- Neuroradiology.
- Local Subjects:
- Medicine & Public Health.
- Neurology.
- Rehabilitation.
- Neurosurgery.
- Psychiatry.
- Neuroradiology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XVII, 276 pages 29 illustrations, 20 illustrations in color)
- Edition:
- Second edition 2018.
- Contained In:
- Springer eBooks
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- This revised and expanded second edition discusses the assessment and treatment of patients recovering from coma and disorders of consciousness. Besides diagnostic, prognostic and ethical issues, this book describes well-established techniques and procedures, and also techniques under development. New chapters include consciousness theories, issues relating to long-term care, and neuromodulation treatments. Coma and Disorders of Consciousness, Second Edition is a comprehensive review of the field for clinicians and researchers, regardless of whether they are already familiar with the difficult but exciting field of disorders of consciousness.
- Contents:
- Consciousness theories
- Behavioral assessment and diagnosis of disorders of consciousness
- Prognosis in disorders of consciousness
- Neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness
- Electrophysiology in disorders of consciousness
- Caregivers burnout in disorders of consciousness
- Spasticity in disorders of consciousness
- Feasibility of oral feeding in patients with disorders of consciousness
- Sleep in disorders of consciousness
- Sensory stimulation program
- Pharmacological treatments
- Neuromodulation treatments
- Long term care in disorders of consciousness
- Ethics in disorders of consciousness
- Near Death Experience
- Future perspectives of clinical coma science.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9783319559643
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.