Identifying Neuroemergencies.

By:

Wijdicks, Eelco F. M

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Core Principles of Acute Neurology SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (161 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199322091

Subject(s):

Central Nervous System Diseases - diagnosis

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Identifying NeuroemergenciesDDC classification:

616.8/4025

LOC classification:

RC530

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Contents:

Cover -- Series -- Identifying Neuroemergencies -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to the Series -- 1. Defining Neuroemergencies -- 2. The Unresponsive Patient -- 3. Major Warning Signs: Headache, Vertigo, Syncope -- 4. Treating Acute Neurologic Pain Syndromes -- 5. Treating Movement Disorder Emergencies -- 6. Triaging Seizures and Spells -- 7. Triaging Traumatic Brain and Spine Injury -- 8. Triaging Acute Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke -- 9. Triaging Acute Neuroinfections -- 10. Troubleshooting: Errors and Misjudgments -- Index.

Summary: Identifying Neuroemergencies provides practical information 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 has changing neurologic signs. Decisions are impactful; any neurocritical illness demands immediate treatment. Neurologists can assist further with successful triage of the neurologic emergency to an intensive care unit.

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Identifying Neuroemergencies provides practical information 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 has changing neurologic signs. Decisions are impactful; any neurocritical illness demands immediate treatment. Neurologists can assist further with successful triage of the neurologic emergency to an intensive care unit.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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