Eelco F M Wijdicks

Handling Difficult Situations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780199928767
• ISBN-10: 0199928762
• Artikelnr.: 39525112

Autorenporträt

Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD, FNCS, FANA, is a Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He is the Chair of the Division of Critical Care Neurology, and a Consultant for the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Saint Marys Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Treatable Coma
Chapter 2: When Seizures Continue
Chapter 3: Judging Severity of Traumatic Brain Injury
Chapter 4: Recognition of Acute Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 5: Treating Acute Autoimmune Encephalitis
Chapter 6: Neurosurgical Emergencies in Acute Brain Injury
Chapter 7: Endovascular Options in Ischemic Stroke
Chapter 8: Supporting Acute Respiratory Muscle Weakness
Chapter 9: Emergencies in the Transplant Recipient
Chapter 10: Troubleshooting: Easily overlooked CT scan Signs