Plum and Posner's Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma
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2007
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4th Revised edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-532131-9 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-532131-9 (ISBN)
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This book describes the clinical approach to patients with abnormal states of consciousness including delirium, stupor and coma. It describes the pathophysiology, clinical and imaging findings, treatment and prognosis of such patients.
Delirium, stupor and coma are common clinical states that confront clinicians in almost every medical specialty. With appropriate diagnosis and treatment, coma can often be treated successfully. Conversely, delay in diagnosis and treatment may be lethal. This monograph provides an update on the clinical approach that was laid out in the previous 3 editions. It describes an approach for the physician at the bedside to diagnose and treat alterations of consciousness,
based on pathophysiologic principles. The book begins with a description of the physiology of consciousness and the pathophysiology of disorders of consciousness. It continues with a description of the approach to a patient with a disorder of consciousness, emphasizing the bedside examination, but
including the use of modern imaging techniques. The important structural and metabolic causes of coma are reviewed in detail. It then describes the emergency treatment, both medical and surgical, of patients with specific disorders of consciousness and their prognosis. New chapters describe the approach to the diagnosis of brain death and the clinical physiology of the vegetative state and minimally conscious state, as well as the ethics of dealing with such patients and their families.
The book is aimed at medical students and residents, in fields from internal medicine and pediatrics to emergency medicine, surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, who are likely to encounter patients with disordered states of consciousness. It includes historical background and basic neurophysiology that is important for those in the clinical neurosciences, but also lays out a practical approach to the comatose patient that is an important part of the repertoire of all clinicians
who provide emergency care for patients with disorders of consciousness.
Delirium, stupor and coma are common clinical states that confront clinicians in almost every medical specialty. With appropriate diagnosis and treatment, coma can often be treated successfully. Conversely, delay in diagnosis and treatment may be lethal. This monograph provides an update on the clinical approach that was laid out in the previous 3 editions. It describes an approach for the physician at the bedside to diagnose and treat alterations of consciousness,
based on pathophysiologic principles. The book begins with a description of the physiology of consciousness and the pathophysiology of disorders of consciousness. It continues with a description of the approach to a patient with a disorder of consciousness, emphasizing the bedside examination, but
including the use of modern imaging techniques. The important structural and metabolic causes of coma are reviewed in detail. It then describes the emergency treatment, both medical and surgical, of patients with specific disorders of consciousness and their prognosis. New chapters describe the approach to the diagnosis of brain death and the clinical physiology of the vegetative state and minimally conscious state, as well as the ethics of dealing with such patients and their families.
The book is aimed at medical students and residents, in fields from internal medicine and pediatrics to emergency medicine, surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, who are likely to encounter patients with disordered states of consciousness. It includes historical background and basic neurophysiology that is important for those in the clinical neurosciences, but also lays out a practical approach to the comatose patient that is an important part of the repertoire of all clinicians
who provide emergency care for patients with disorders of consciousness.
1. Pathophysiology of Signs and Symptoms of Coma ; 2. Examination of the Comatose Patient ; 3. Structural Causes of Stupor and Coma ; 4. Specific Causes of Structural Coma ; 5. Multifocal, Diffuse, and Metabolic Brain Diseases Causing Delirium, Stupor, or Coma ; 6. Psychogenic Unresponsiveness ; 7. Approach to Management of the Unconcsious Patient ; 8. Brain Death ; 9. Prognosis in Coma and Related Disorders of Unconsciousness, Mechanisims Underlying Outcomes, and Ethical Considerations
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.6.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Contemporary Neurology Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 25 photographs and 94 line illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 184 x 262 mm |
| Gewicht | 1092 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Intensivmedizin |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren ► Nuklearmedizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-532131-6 / 0195321316 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-532131-9 / 9780195321319 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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