Main description:

Mount Sinai Expert Guides: Neurology provides trainees in neurology with an extremely clinical and accessible handbook covering the major neurologic disorders and symptoms, their diagnosis and clinical management. Perfect as a point-of-care resource on the hospital wards and also as a refresher for board exam preparation, the focus throughout is on providing rapid reference, essential information on each disorder to allow for quick, easy browsing and assimilation of the must-know information.
All chapters follow a consistent template including the following features: * An opening bottom-line/key points section * Classification, pathogenesis and prevention of disorder * Evidence-based diagnosis, including relevant algorithms, laboratory and imaging tests, and potential pitfalls when diagnosing a patient * Disease management including commonly used medications with dosages, management algorithms and how to prevent complications * How to manage special populations, ie, in pregnancy, children and the elderly * The very latest evidence-based results, major society guidelines and key external sources to consult In addition, the book comes with a companion website housing extra features such as case studies with related questions for self-assessment, key patient advice and ICD codes. Each guide also has its own mobile app available for purchase, allowing you rapid access to the key features wherever you may be. If you're specialising in neurology and require concise, practical and clinical guidance from one of the world's leading institutions in this field, then this is the perfect book for you.

Contents:

Contributors xxx Series foreword xxx Preface xxx About the Companion Website xxx Section 1: Introduction 1 Neurologic history and examination Stuart Sealfon 2 Neuroradiology Thomas P. Naidich, Ruby J. Lien, Reade De Leacy 3 Neurophysiologic and other neurodiagnostic tests Susan Shin , Deborah Horowitz, David M. Simpson Section 2: Diagnosis of patients with neurologic symptoms 4 Delirium and Coma Stephen Krieger 5 Episodic collapse, loss of consciousness, seizures Lara V. Marcuse, Madeline C. Fields 5 Dysphasias, dyspraxias, and dysexecutive syndromes: the non-memory cognitive impairments Martin Goldstein 7 Memory Loss and Dementia Sam Gandy 8 Headache Mark Green 9 Abnormal movements and incoordination Winona Tse 10 Sleep Disorders, Somnolence, and Fatigue Charles B Stacy 11 Visual loss and double vision Janet C Rucker 12 Vertigo, Dizziness and Hearing Loss Bernard Cohen, Eric Smouha 13 Facial weakness, slurred speech and difficulty swallowing Hailun Wang, Kenneth Altman 14 Difficulty walking Ruth H Walker 15 Muscle weakness and paralysis Rajeev Motiwala 16 Tingling and loss of sensation Lan Zhou 17 Low back pain and neck pain Charles B Stacy 18 Suspected spinal cord dysfunction Aaron Miller 19 Bladder and sexual dysfunction Steven Weissbart and Jonathan M. Vapnek Section 3: Neurologic Diseases and Therapeutics 20 Vascular diseases-ischemic stroke, intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral venous thrombosis, arterio-venous malformations Stanley Tuhrim 21 Neurologic complications of systemic disease Michelle T. Fabian 22 Neurooncology Isabelle Germano 23 Multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory diseases Fred D Lublin 24 Infections of the nervous system Michael P. Mullen, Geena Varghese 25 Parkinson disease and related disorders Barbara Kelly Changizi 26 Hyperkinetic movement disorders Ritesh A. Ramdhani, Steven J. Frucht 27 Alzheimer s disease and frontotemporal dementia Sam Gandy 28 Cerebellar and brain stem disorders Florence Ching-Fen Chang, Catherine Cho 29 Inborn errors of metabolism Shannon E. Babineau 30 Epilepsy Madeline C. Fields, Lara V. Marcuse, Isabelle Germano 31 Autonomic disorders Jessica Robinson-Papp 32 Peripheral neuropathies Raj Motiwala 33 Myopathy Lan Zhou 34 Neuromuscular junction disorders Mark A. Sivak 35 Motor neuron disease Mark A. Sivak 36 Metabolic encephalopathy, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and brain death Mandip S. Dhamoon 37 Pain disorders Charles B Stacy 38 Migraine and other headache syndromes Mark W. Green 39 Sleep disorders Steven H. Feinsilver 40 Neurocritical care Errol L. Gordon 41 Trauma Jeremy M Steinberger, Margaret Pain, Jamie S. Ullman 42 The postoperative Care of Neurosurgical Patients Justin Mascitelli, Asha Iyer, Joshua Bederson Index