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The Practice of Emergency and Critical Care Neurology
The Practice of Emergency and Critical Care Neurology puts a more modern approach on the practice of emergency neurological care. This new edition concentrates on the management of neurologic conditions, recognition of deterioration of neurologic functions, neurosurgical procedures, and immediate interventions. Dr. Wijdicks condenses essential information into several sections comprising of the principles in recognizing critically ill neurologic patients in the emergency department, the evaluation of symptoms indicating critical emergency, general principles of managing critically ill patients, monitoring devices and diagnostic tests, complete management of specific disorders in the neurosciences intensive care unit, postoperative neurosurgical and neurointerventional complications, management of medical complications, and end of life care.
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Solving Critical Consults
This volume in the core principles of acute neurology series with a major focus on care of acutely ill neurologic patients admitted to general intensive care units. Acute consults in the ICU for a new neurologic problem are the most challenging consults in the hospital.
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Identifying Neuroemergencies
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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The Comatose Patient
The Comatose Patient, Second Edition, is a critical historical overview of the concepts of consciousness and unconsciousness, covering all aspects of coma within 100 detailed case vignettes. As the Chair of Division of Critical Care Neurology at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Wijdicks uses his extensive knowledge to discuss a new practical multistep approach to the diagnosis of the comatose patient.
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Catastrophic neurologic disorders in the emergency department
This handbook on the management of critically ill neurologic patients in the Emergency Department focuses is on disorders that have the potential for rapid deterioration. This updated second edition has eight new chapters, seven of which appear in an entirely new first section on the evaluation of presenting symptoms indicating urgency.
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Recognizing Brain Injury
A primer on acute brain injury and its medical consequences. This is a structured comprehensive book presenting major concepts in a easy to read format and provides the reader with an most up to date understanding of complex concepts involving acute brain injury.
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Communicating Prognosis
Communicating Prognosis centers on practical discussions with family members of patients who suffered a neurocatastrophy. The book summarizes current data on outcome in acute neurologic conditions. It provides guidance in family conferences and how to best convey prognosis.Conflict resolution and how to proceed with palliative care is also discussed.
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Handling Difficult Situations
Handling Difficult Situations offers a reasonable approach to difficult decisions that arise in clinical problems. The book addresses how to recognize treatable coma, how to judge the severity of traumatic brain and spine injury, and discusses how to recognize neurosurgical emergencies.
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Providing Acute Care
Very little information on the nitty gritty of daily care provided can be found in current hospitalist books. Providing Acute Care not only provides the fundamentals of medical complications after acute neurologic injury but also the most essential information to care for acutely hospitalized neurologic patient and has a major focus on management of the neurologic condition.
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