TY - BOOK AU - Wijdicks,Eelco F.M. TI - Identifying Neuroemergencies T2 - Core Principles of Acute Neurology Series SN - 9780199322091 AV - RC530 U1 - 616.8/4025 PY - 2015/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Central Nervous System Diseases - diagnosis KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2121276 ER -