This volume is designed as a resource for clinicians at all levels of training in all fields of medicine who treat patients with urgent and emergent neurological syndromes. The book uses a novel approach which focuses on the 'clinical impasse' that so often occurs in complex cases, and emphasizes the creative intellectual process clinicians relish.
Contents
Part I. Diagnostic Dilemmas In Adult Patients : -- 1. Coma with Fever -- 2. Agitated Delirium -- 3. Post Carotid Endarterectomy Neurological Deficit -- 4. Persistent Migraine Aura -- 5. Contraindication to Lumbar Puncture -- 6. Diffuse Weakness -- 7. Subacute Paraparesis in an Elderly Patient -- 8. Isolated Vertigo -- 9. Syncope -- 10. Acute Monocular Visual Loss -- 11. Thunderclap Headache -- 12. Febrile Delirium with Rigidity -- Part II. Therapeutic Dilemmas In Adult Patients : -- 13. Acute Stroke after 3 Hours -- 14. Cardioembolic Stroke with Contraindication to Anticoagulation -- 15. Progressive Posterior Circulation Ischemia -- 16. Recurring Transient Ischemic Attacks -- 17. Intractable Status Epilepticus -- 18. Severe Intractable Headache -- 19. Acute Lumbar Radiculopathy -- 20. Post-traumatic Paraplegia -- 21. Acute Severe Facial Pain -- Part III. Neuropsychiatric, Ethical, and Legal Dilemmas : -- 22. Neurological Patients and Decision-making Capacity -- 23. Functional Paraparesis -- 24. Nonepileptic Spells -- 25. Intracranial Mass Lesion in HIV Infection -- 26. First Seizure -- Part IV. Pediatric Dilemmas In Neurology : -- 27. Severe Headache in a Child with Migraine -- 28. Febrile Seizure -- 29. Acute Ataxia in a Child -- 30. Confusion in Childhood with Possible Abuse -- 31. Concussion -- 32. Acute Stroke in an Adolescent.
