A Guide to the Primary Care of Neurological DisordersComprehensive book to assist the primary care physician in the challenges of managing patients with neurological disorders. Provides the initial treatment, referral guidelines and continuing care for disorders covering the breadth of the clinical neurosciences. |
Contents
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Diagnosis of the Patient With Neurological Disease | 63 |
Electrophysiological Testing in Neurological Disorders Electroencephalography | 87 |
Common Neurological Symptoms Their Diagnosis and Management | 101 |
Headache | 121 |
Management of the Patient With Chronic Pain | 141 |
The Patient Presenting With Psychiatric Disorders | 251 |
The Patient With an Altered Mental State Dementia and Delirium | 267 |
Stupor Coma and Brain Death | 281 |
Management of Specific Categories of Neurological Diseases and Patients | 295 |
Spinal Trauma | 317 |
Cerebrovascular Disease | 331 |
NeuroOncology | 351 |
InfectionsParainfectious Disorders of the Central Nervous System | 365 |
The Patient Complaining of Numbness or Weakness | 157 |
Disorders of Motor Control | 171 |
Management of the Patient With Visual Symptoms | 191 |
The Dizzy Patient | 215 |
Epilepsy and Seizures | 231 |
The Pediatric Patient | 387 |
The Geriatric Patient | 413 |
Role of the Emergency Department in the Patient With an Acute Neurological Disorder | 431 |
Index | 456 |
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A Guide to the Primary Care of Neurological Disorders A. John Popp,Eric M. Deshaies Limited preview - 2008 |
A Guide to the Primary Care of Neurological Disorders John A. Popp,Eric M. Deshaies Limited preview - 2011 |
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