Main description:

In any acute neurologic condition situations come up which generate questions about management.
In a deteriorating patient there is a strain in decision making and many acute problems are hard calls. Handling Difficult Situations includes solutions for these reoccurring dilemmas. Each topic is carefully chosen and reflects clinical practice. The book addresses how to recognize treatable coma, how to judge the severity of traumatic brain and spine injury, and discusses how to recognize neurosurgical emergencies.
Handling Difficult Situations also includes recognition and management of acute respiratory neuromuscular failure. A separate chapter discusses errors in CT scan evaluation of acute neurologic conditions.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Treatable Coma ; Chapter 2: When Seizures Continue ; Chapter 3: Judging Severity of Traumatic Brain Injury ; Chapter 4: Recognition of Acute Spinal Cord Injury ; Chapter 5: Treating Acute Autoimmune Encephalitis ; Chapter 6: Neurosurgical Emergencies in Acute Brain Injury ; Chapter 7: Endovascular Options in Ischemic Stroke ; Chapter 8: Supporting Acute Respiratory Muscle Weakness ; Chapter 9: Emergencies in the Transplant Recipient ; Chapter 10: Troubleshooting: Easily overlooked CT scan Signs