Pocket Neurology

Autor
Brandon Westover M.
Categoría
Neurología
Editorial
LWW
Año
2016
Edición
2da
Idioma
Ingles
ISBN
9781496305534
Tamaño
19cm x 11cm
Paginas
320
Encuadernación
Pasta dura
Tipo de Impresión
B/N
Presentación
De bolsillo
Fecha de publicación
Febrero de 2016

Descripción

POCKET NEUROLOGY



DESCRIPTION

Written by residents for residents, Pocket Neurology, 2nd Edition is your go-to resource for essential neurologic information in a high-yield, easy-to-use format. Concise and well organized, it provides must-know information on hospital- and clinic-based neurologic workup, diagnosis, and management. The second edition of this pocket-sized bestseller delivers highly relevant adult neurologic coverage in an easily portable source.

Find what you need quickly and easily with concise text, numerous tables, and bulleted lists throughout.
Progress logically from neurologic signs and symptoms to differential diagnosis, workup and diagnosis, assessment of risks and benefits of available treatments, to treatment and prognosis.
Focus on the most important, highly relevant facts thanks to a, streamlined presentation that allows for more algorithms, tables, diagrams, and images.
Stay up to date in every area of neurology with significantly revised chapters on stroke, epilepsy, dementia, and MS, and more drug dosing information regarding inpatient care.
Consult this high-yield handbook by clinical presentation, such as coma, stroke, headaches, and seizures, or by special topic, such as neuroimaging, behavioral neurology, and sleep medicine.
Learn from neurology residents and beginning neurology fellows in collaboration with attending neurologists at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.


CONTENT

Neurologic emergencies: quick reference
Lesion localization in clinical neurology
Neuroimaging
Vascular neurology
Neurocritical care
Interventional neurology
Seizures, epilepsy, and eeg
Delirium
Poisons and vitamin deficiencies
Rapidly progressive dementia
Dementia
Behavioral neurology
Movement disorders
Meningitis, encephalitis, and brain abscesses
Neurologic infectious diseases
Headache
Central nervous system vasculitis
Pain
Dizziness and deafness
Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system
Spine and spinal cord diseases
Motor neuron disease
Peripheral neuropathy
Radiculopathy and plexopathy
Neuromuscular junction disorders
Myopathy
Nerve conduction studies and electromyography
Neuro-rheumatology
Neuro-oncology
Sleep medicine
Pregnancy neurology
Neuro-ophthalmology


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts



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