by Brett Cucchiara (Editor), Raymond S. Price (Editor)
Written by neurologists for neurologists, Decision-Making in Adult Neurology provides practical guidance when encountering patients whose clinical presentation is unfamiliar or complex, or whose treatment path is not completely certain. This useful handbook is filled with diagnostic and treatment algorithms that encourage you to think systematically and follow a logical sequence through the steps necessary for efficient and effective decision-making.
- Outlines
the key decision points in patient management, providing a wealth of
systematic information that ensures you take into account the proper
physical signs and test results that will guide your recommendations.
- Contains 119
algorithms covering symptoms and signs, specific neurologic conditions,
vascular disorders, seizures, head trauma, neoplastic disease,
peripheral nervous disorders, and muscle disease.
- Accompanies each algorithm with brief text that explains the significance of important decision points.
- Provides step-by-step
decision-making guidelines for testing and management of paraneoplastic
diseases, choice of initial MS therapy, evaluation of incidentally
discovered MRI white matter lesions, management of asymptomatic carotid
stenosis, and much more.
