Emergency Neurology (What Do I Do Now?)

✍ Scribed by Sara C. LaHue, Morris Levin

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Series: What Do I Do Now?
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Included discussion of myopathies, including updated identification and approach to inflammatory myopathies.
Included discussion of neurologic complications from new cancer therapies, including checkpoint inhibitors.
Included an approach to post-cardiac arrest management and prognostication.
New to this Edition:

Focused more on medical management cases rather than ethical dilemmas.
Updated acute stroke management for adults and children to reflect current guidelines.
Added more cases focused on neuromuscular neurology.

Part of the "What Do I Do Now?" series, Emergency Neurology uses a case-based approach to cover challenging cases for clinicians caring for patients with urgent neurologic illnesses, addressing difficult questions of diasnosis and treatment. Each chapter provides a discussion of the diagnosis, key points to remember, and selected references for further reading. For this new edition, all cases and references have been updated, reflecting the advances in emergency neurologic care. Emergency Neurology is an engaging collection of thought-provoking cases which clinicians can utilize when they encounter difficult patients, who are in need of timely emergency treatment. The volume is also a self-assessment tool that tests the reader's ability to answer the question, "What do I do now?"

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Series
Emergency Neurology
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section 1 Diagnostic Dilemmas
1 Neurological Deficits Following Carotid Endarterectomy
2 Prolonged Migraine Aura
3 Acute Generalized Weakness
4 Syncope
5 Monocular Visual Loss
6 Thunderclap Headache
7 Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus
8 Hospital-​Acquired Delirium
9 Coma with Fever
10 Refractory Vertigo
11 Febrile Dystonia
12 Myelopathy
13 Neurologic Complications of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
14 Cauda Equina Syndrome
15 Intracranial Mass in a Person with HIV
16 Rapidly Progressive Dementia
17 Functional Hemiparesis
18 Acute Myopathy
Section 2 Treatment Dilemmas
19 Cardioembolic Stroke with Contraindications to Anticoagulation
20 Recurring Transient Ischemic Attack
21 Acute Neuralgia
22 Intractable Migraine
23 Intracerebral Hemorrhage on Anticoagulation
24 First Seizure
25 Acute Stroke Up to 24 Hours
26 Acute Cervical Radiculopathy
27 Post-​Cardiac Arrest Management
28 Myasthenic Crisis
29 Encephalopathy and Seizure After Transplant
30 Nonepileptic Spells
31 Migraine in a Pregnant Patient
Section 3 Pediatric Dilemmas
32 Acute Migraine in a Child
33 Febrile Seizure
34 Acute Ataxia in a Child
35 Concussion in an Adolescent
36 Acute Stroke in an Adolescent
Index

✦ Subjects

Emergency Neurology; Neurology; Emergency Medicine; Critical Care;