ISBN : 9780199928798
Core Principles of Acute Neurology is a series of short volumes that handles major topics not found in sufficient detail elsewhere and provides useful context. 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 their neurologic signs have changed. Correct decisions are imperative: any type of neurocritical illness demands immediate treatment in the emergency department. Neurologist can assist further with the successful triage of the neurologic emergency and this volume in the Core Principles of Acute Neurology will serve as a handy, concise, reference to both the neurologist and the emergency physician.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction to the Series
Chapter 1: Defining Neuroemergencies
Chapter 2: The Unresponsive Patient
Chapter 3: Major Warning Signs: Headache, Vertigo, Syncope
Chapter 4: Treating Acute Neurologic Pain Syndromes
Chapter 5: Treating Movement Disorder Emergencies
Chapter 6: Triaging Seizures and Spells
Chapter 7: Triaging Traumatic Head and Spine Injury
Chapter 8: Triaging Acute Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke
Chapter 9: Triaging Acute Neuroinfections
Chapter 10: Troubleshooting: Errors and Misjudgments
Index