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First Exposure to Neurology

Autor Howard Kirshner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2007
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The Ultimate Neurology Clerkship Companion
Everything you need for your rotation in neurology is right at your fingertips in this portable, hands-on guide. With its streamlined coverage of diagnostic skills, symptom complexes, specific diseases, plus “Don't Miss Diagnoses,” FIRST EXPOSURE TO NEUROLOGY accelerates your mastery of the core competencies of the Neurology clerkship.
The ideal databank and toolset for your rotation
FIRST EXPOSURE TO NEUROLOGY enhances your rotation with:
  • A compelling profile of the practice of neurology
  • Just the right amount of material for your 4-week clerkship
  • Information on how to interpret neurodiagnostic tests and brain imaging procedures
  • A focus on important concepts you should learn-not memorization of facts
  • How-to's for evaluating the emergency patient
  • The “Chief Complaints” most often presented in neurology departments
  • “Don't Miss Diagnoses” table for each major clinical problem
  • Clinically relevant detail on cases you will see
  • Learning objectives at the start of each chapter
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    Specificații

    ISBN-13: 9780071458191
    ISBN-10: 0071458190
    Pagini: 320
    Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 17 mm
    Greutate: 0.52 kg
    Editura: McGraw Hill Education
    Colecția McGraw Hill / Medical
    Locul publicării:United States

    Cuprins

    Section I. Approach to the neurological patient

    Chapter 1. The Neurological Examination


    a. How to take a neurological history
    b. How to perform a comprehensive neurological examination
    c. How to perform a screening neurological examination
    d. How to examine an obtunded or comatose patient
    e. How to interpret findings of the neurological examination
    f. An approach to differential diagnosis

    Chapter 2. Localization of neurological lesions


    a.Cerebral hemisphere lesions
    b.Posterior fossa lesions
    c.Spinal cord lesions
    d.Nerve root/plexus lesions
    e.Peripheral nerve lesions
    f.Muscle disorders

    Section II. Neurological symptom complexes


    Chapter 3. Focal weakness

    Chapter 4. Diffuse weakness

    Chapter 5. Clumsiness and ataxia

    Chapter 6. Involuntary movements

    Chapter 7. Gait disturbance

    Chapter 8. Bowel, bladder, and sexual dysfunction

    Chapter 9. Dizziness and vertigo

    Chapter 10. Vision loss

    Chapter 11. Diplopia

    Chapter 12. Dysarthria

    Chapter 13. Dysphagia

    Chapter 14. Acute mental status changes, delirium

    Chapter 15. Dementia

    Chapter 16. Aphasia

    Chapter 17. Headache

    Chapter 18. Focal pain syndromesi.Facial pain
    ii.Neck pain
    iii.Low back pain
    iv.Neuropathic (dysesthetic) pain

    Chapter 19. Numbness or paresthesias

    Chapter 20. Transient or episodic focal symptoms

    Chapter 21. Transient or episodic alteration of consciousness

    Chapter 22. Sleep disorders

    Chapter 23. Developmental disorders

    Section IV. Approach to specific neurological diseases

    Chapter 24. Neurological emergencies


    a. Increased intracranial pressure
    b.Encephalopathy/delirium
    c.Subarachnoid hemorrhage
    d.Meningitis, encephalitis
    e.Status epilepticus
    f.Acute stroke and cerebral hemorrhage
    g.Spinal cord or cauda equina syndromes
    h.Traumatic brain injury
    i.Acute respiratory distress secondary to neuromuscular disease
    j.Temporal arteritis

    Chapter 25. Stroke

    Chapter 26. Seizure disorders

    Chapter 27. Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

    Chapter 28. Parkinson’s disease and related syndromes

    Chapter 29. Essential tremor

    Chapter 30 Multiple sclerosis

    Chapter 31. Migraine

    Chapter 32. Bell’s palsy

    Chapter 33. Carpal tunnel syndrome

    Chapter 34. Diabetic polyneuropathy

    Chapter 35. Brain death