Jerome Engel Jr

Epilepsy Board Quick Review

Selected Tables and Figures from Seizures and Epilepsy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Engel's "Epilepsy Board Quick Review: Selected Tables and Figures from Seizures and Epilepsy" will utilize 86 tables and 47 black and white figures from the "parent book" to provide a quick guide for anyone preparing for the boards. In addition to serving as a board-review guide, this will also be a handy pocket guide for any physician interested in a quick reference to drug tables, signs and symptoms, and other unusual facets of child or adult presenting withseizures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 102mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9780199398416
• ISBN-10: 0199398410
• Artikelnr.: 47869571

Autorenporträt

Jerome Engel, Jr., MD, PhD Jonathan Sinay Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Director UCLA Seizure Disorder Center David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction
1. Terminology and Classifications
Part II: Pathophysiology
3. Mechanisms of Neuronal Excitation and
Synchronization
4. Basic Mechanisms of Seizure and Epilepsy
5. Causes of Human Epilepsy
PART III: PHENOMENOLOGY
6. Epileptic Seizures
7. Epilepsy Syndromes
8. Epileptogenesis
9. Periictal Phenomena
10. Status Epilepticus
11. Chronic Behavioral Disturbances
PART IV: MANAGEMENT
12. Diagnostic Evaluation
13. Differential Diagnosis
14. General Principles of Treatment
15. Antiseizure Drugs
16. Nonpharmacologic Therapy of Seizure
17. Social Management