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This all-encompassing text examines every aspect of coma from neurochemistry, monitoring, and treatments to prognostic factors. The recent findings in coma research are included here as well as the vast clinical insights of the author team that features four leading figures in the field. Throughout, the emphasis is on treatment of coma and the special needs of comatose patients. Unique chapter on poisoning and pharmacology examines causes and therapeutic agents, respectively.
| ISBN | 0070723710 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780070723719
(What's this?) | | Pages | 672 | | Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | McGraw-Hill Medical | | Weight (grammes) | 1052 | | Format | Hardback | | Published in | New York | | Publication date | 01 Jan 1998 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Non-book description | xiii, 665 p. : | | Width (mm) | 185 | | Library of Congress | 00000000 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY | 616.849 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Contributors | | | | | | Foreword | | | | | | Preface | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | Pt. 1 | | Consciousness, Major Syndromes, and Approach | | 1 | | 1 | | Consciousness by G. Bryan Young | | 3 | | 2 | | Major Sundromes of Impaired Consciousness by G. Bryan Young | | 39 | | 3 | | Initial Assessment and Management of the Patient with Impaired Alertness by G. Bryan Young | | 79 | | Pt. 2 | | Impaired Consciousness and Physical and Structural Insults | | 117 | | 4 | | Transtentorial Herniation by Allan H. Ropper | | 119 | | 5 | | Intracranial Hemorrhage by Eelco F. M. Wijdicks | | 131 | | 6 | | Head Injury by R. Moulton | | 149 | | 7 | | Impaired Consciousness Associated with Neoplasia by G. Bryan Young | | 183 | | 8 | | Impaired Consciousness and Disorders of Temperature: Hyperthermia and Hypothermia by G. Bryan Young | | 209 | | 9 | | Electrical Injuries by G. Bryan Young | | 217 | | 10 | | Burn Encephalopathy by G. Bryan Young | | 221 | | Pt. 3 | | Impaired Consciousness and Inflammatory Conditions | | 225 | | 11 | | Infections of the Central Nervous System by Charles F. Bolton | | 227 | | 12 | | Other Inflammatory Disorders by G. Bryan Young | | 271 | | Pt. 4 | | Metabolic, Nutritional, and Toxic Encephalopathies | | 305 | | 13 | | Metabolic Encephalopathies by G. Bryan Young and Debra A. DeRubeis | | 307 | | 14 | | Nutritional Deficiency and Impaired Consciousness by G. Bryan Young | | 393 | | 15 | | Anoxic and Ischemic Brain Injury by G. Bryan Young | | 409 | | 16 | | Drugs | | 457 | | | More... | | |
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