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Identifying neuroemergencies / Eelco F.M. Wijdicks, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, FNCS, FANA, Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Chair, Division of Critical Care Neurology, Consultant, Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, Saint Marys Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wijdicks, Eelco F. M., 1954- author.
- Series:
- Core principles of acute neurology.
- Core principles of acute neurology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurologic manifestations of general diseases.
- Central nervous system--Diseases--Diagnosis.
- Central nervous system.
- Central nervous system--Diseases--Treatment.
- Emergency medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-932210-4
- 0-19-026470-5
- 0-19-932209-0
- OCLC:
- 915059286
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