Child Neurology

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Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (01 October, 2005)
ISBN: 0781751047
Book author: John H Menkes, Harvey B Sarnat, Bernard L Maria
Amazon Rating: 5.0

Book Description:
Revised to incorporate the latest advances in the neurosciences and clinical neurology, the Seventh Edition of this classic text provides practical, cost-effective problem-solving approaches to all diseases affecting the developing nervous system. In clinically relevant terms, the book explains how recent developments in molecular biology, genetics, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, neuropathology, and neuroimaging impact on diagnosis and treatment.Chapters focus on specific disorders or groups of disorders and emphasize differential diagnosis, disease course, treatment, and prognosis. This edition has a new chapter on mitochondrial cytopathies.

Catastrophic Neurologic Disorders in the Emergency Department

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Book Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (11 January, 2004)
ISBN: 0195168801
Book author: Eelco F.M. Wijdicks

Book Description:
This unique text takes a comprehensive approach to the care of patients with neurologic catastrophes immediately after their entry into the emergency department. Wijdicks discusses clinical evaluations, triage, and emergency procedures in detail, and covers many other topics. For this thoroughly updated second edition, he has added eight new chapters, seven of which appear in an entirely new first section on the evaluation of presenting symptoms indicating urgency. The conversational titles of these chapters echo common requests for urgent consultation (e.g. “short of breath,” “can’t walk or stand,” “confused and febrile”). A special feature of this section is the use of algorithms and decision trees in triage - to help the physician make a very fast and yet informed decision. The remaining two sections of the book cover the evaluation and management of evolving catastrophes in the neuraxis and catastrophic neurologic disorders due to specificcauses. There is a final new chapter on forensic neurology. This practical handbook will continue to be an invaluable guide for neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, emergency physicians, and their residents and fellows. The third volume in the author’s trilogy on critical care neurology, it combines the images of a neuroradiology text with the practical advice of an emergency neurology manual without compromising academic rigor.

Bull’s Sports Injuries Handbook, 2/e

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Book Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional (12 February, 2004)
ISBN: 0071402918
Book author: William O. Roberts

Book Description:
Covers the physical examination, assessment and treatment considerations for all major sports injuries. Provides insight into the cause of injuries as a result of a specific sport in order to tailor treatment to that injury.

Clinical Obstetrics: The Fetus and Mother

By John Hobbins
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Number Of Pages: 1560
Publication Date: 2007-02-01
ISBN / ASIN: 1405132167

Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person

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Book Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (14 January, 2006)
ISBN: 0198566158
Book author: Julian C. Hughes, Stephen J. Louw, Steven R. Sabat

Book Description:
Dementia is an illness that raises important questions about our own attitudes to illness and aging.
It also raises very important issues beyond the bounds of dementia to do with how we think of ourselves as people - fundamental questions about personal identity. Is the person with dementia the same person he or she was before? Is the individual with dementia a person at all? In a striking way, dementia seems to threaten the very existence of the self. This book brings together philosophers and practitioners to explore the conceptual issues that arise in connection with this increasingly common illness. Drawing on a variety of philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, Hume, Wittgenstein, the authors explore the nature of personal identity in dementia. They also show how the lives and selfhood of people with dementia can be enhanced by attention to their psychosocial and spiritual environment. Throughout, the book conveys a strong ethical message, arguing in favour of treating people with dementia with all the dignity they deserve as human beings. The book covers a range of topics, stretching from talk of basic biology to talk of a spiritual understanding of people with dementia. Accessibly written by leading figures in psychiatry and philosophy, the book presents a unique and long overdue examination of an illness that features in so many of our lives.