On Call Neurology - 9781416023753

Marshall (clinical neurology, Columbia U. Medical Center) and Mayer (clinical neurology and neurosurgery, Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons and Columbia U. Medical Center) present a pocket reference for medical students, house officers, and non-neurologist physicians who care for patients in a hospital. They provide protocols for the assessment and management of neurologic disorders in the emergency room, intensive care unit, hospital floor, or clinic, and use a simulation of the thought processes of an experience clinical neurologist to explain treatment. Examination, testing, common calls (using a symptom-oriented approach), the management of selected disorders such as multiple sclerosis, cerebrovascular disease, and movement disorders, and neuroanatomic references are included. This edition has updated information to reflect new treatment approaches and the latest drugs and devices. Chapters on headache, demyelinating diseases, infections of the central nervous system, and dementia are enhanced and are by new authors. Additional contributors are neurologists from the US. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)