Acute care neurosurgery by case management : pearls and pitfalls

Acute care neurosurgery by case management : pearls and pitfalls / P.B. Raksin, editor.

This book reviews the common clinical scenarios that might trigger emergent consultation for neurosurgical intervention, with attention to key components of the clinical interview and exam, optimal diagnostic evaluation, indications for and the goals of operative intervention, perioperative consider...

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Other Authors: Raksin, P. B. (Patricia B.) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2022]
Subjects:
Nervous system > Surgery.
Nervous system > Diseases > Patients > Care.
Nervous system > Surgery
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Table of Contents:
  • Hemorrhagic stroke - spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage
  • Cerebellar stroke and suboccipital trauma
  • Venous sinus thrombosis
  • Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • Pituitary apoplexy
  • Hydrocephalus and shunt failure
  • Cerebrospinal fluid fistulae
  • Acute epidural compression syndromes of the spinal canal - epidural hematoma, metastatic disease, abscess
  • Cauda equina syndrome
  • Initial evaluation of concussion
  • Epidural and subdural hematoma
  • Cerebral contusion
  • Penetrating brain injury
  • Traumatic arterial vascular and venous injuries
  • Decompressive craniectomy - for stroke, trauma
  • Cervical spine fractures
  • Thoracolumbar fractures
  • Central cord syndrome
  • Approach to the patient with acute neurologic worsening
  • Status epilepticus
  • Central nervous system infection
  • Abnormal clotting and coagulopathy
  • Fever.

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