Neurological emergencies
| Main Author: | Shorvon, S. D. |
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| Other Authors: | ScienceDirect (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London ; Boston :
Butterworths in association with Current Medical Literature,
1989.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (x, 108 pages) : illustrations. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Neurological Emergencies; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Coma; Causes; Emergency management; Transtentorial herniation (tentorial coning); Further reading; Chapter 2. Acute Infective Encephalitis; Acute viral encephalitis; Non-viral infective encephalitis; Further reading; Chapter 3. Meningitis; Viral meningitis; Bacterial meningitis; Other forms of infective meningitis; Further reading; Chapter 4. Intracranial Abscess and Venous Thrombosis/ Thrombophlebitis; Cerebral abscess; Intracranial subdural empyema; Intracranial extradural abscess.
- Cerebral venous thrombosis/thrombophlebitisChapter 5. Stroke and Subarachnoid Haemorrhage; Stroke; Subarachnoid haemorrhage; Further reading; Chapter 6. Head Injury; Initial assessment; Admission to hospital; Early hospital management; Immediate complications; Further reading; Chapter 7. Acute Spinal Cord Dysfunction; Clinical features of spinal cord dysfunction; Acute spinal cord compression; Acute non-compressive spinal cord lesions; Emergency management in acute spinal cord dysfunction; Acute spinal cord injury; Chapter 8. Status Epilepticus; Emergency management.
- Refractory status epilepticusDrug treatment of status epilepticus in children; Further reading; Chapter 9. Acute Respiratory Failure Due to Neurological Disease; Diagnosis; Emergency management; Investigations; Chapter 10. Brain Death; Aetiology; Evaluation of clinical neurological status; EEG; Other; Further reading; Index.