Hospital Neurology, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 40-1 - November 23, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Vanja Douglas, Maulik Shah
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 1 3 4 9 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 1 3 5 0 - 1
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Management of Status Epilepticus and Indications for Inpatient Electroencephalography Monitoring
- Key points
- Introduction
- Part 1. Management of status epilepticus
- Part 2. Indications for inpatient electroencephalography monitoring
- Acute Treatment of Ischemic Stroke
- Key points
- Introduction
- Intravenous thrombolysis
- Endovascular management of acute ischemic stroke with large vessel occlusion
- Controversies and ongoing clinical trials in endovascular therapy
- Summary
- Inpatient Management of Acute Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack
- Key points
- Foundational principles
- Evaluation and management by stroke etiology
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Approach to Altered Mental Status and Inpatient Delirium
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Initial evaluation
- Subsequent evaluation
- Evaluation and Management of Delirium
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Prognostication, Ethical Issues, and Palliative Care in Disorders of Consciousness
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definitions of disorders of consciousness
- Clinical examination in disorders of consciousness
- Multimodal diagnosis in disorders of consciousness
- The problem of other minds
- Prognosis in disorders of consciousness
- Acute disorders of consciousness
- Ethical considerations in the care of patients with disorders of consciousness
- Inpatient care for patients with disorders of consciousness: a neuropalliative care approach
- Symptom management
- Communicating uncertainty
- Caregiver support
- Summary
- Acknowledgement
- Infectious Meningitis and Encephalitis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Clinical presentation
- Evaluation
- Treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Autoimmune Meningitis and Encephalitis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Diagnostic approach
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Diagnosis and Management of Central Nervous System Demyelinating Disorders
- Key points
- Introduction
- Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis
- The acute multiple sclerosis relapse
- Multiple sclerosis variants
- Other fulminant demyelinating diseases
- Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
- Antimyelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disease
- Summary
- Approach to Myelopathy and Myelitis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Compressive myelopathy
- Vascular causes of myelopathy
- Metabolic, nutritional, and toxic myelopathy
- Inflammatory myelitis
- Infectious myelitis
- Neoplastic myelopathy
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Recognition and Management of Neuromuscular Emergencies
- Key points
- Approach to neuromuscular weakness
- Management of specific neuromuscular disorders
- Inpatient treatment
- Acute neuropathy
- Guillain-Barré syndrome and variants
- Vasculitic neuropathy
- Treatment
- Neuromuscular junction disorders
- Treatment
- Supportive care
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Common Focal Neuropathies in the Hospitalized Patient
- Key points
- Introduction
- Causes and mechanisms of nerve fiber injury
- Common focal neuropathies
- Ulnar neuropathy
- Median neuropathy
- Radial neuropathy
- Sciatic neuropathy
- Peroneal neuropathy
- Lateral femoral cutaneous neuropathy
- Pregnancy, obstetric surgery, and gynecologic surgery
- Orthopedic surgery
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Multiple mononeuropathies
- Evaluation
- Treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Neurologic Complications of Surgery and Anesthesia
- Key points
- Introduction
- Preoperative neurologic evaluation
- Management of postoperative neurologic complications
- Neurologic complications of advanced circulatory support
- Neurologic complications in specific surgical populations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Quality Improvement Metrics and Methods for Neurohospitalists
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Quality improvement metrics
- Quality improvement tools and their application
- Resources and additional training opportunities in quality improvement
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Social Determinants of Health in Neurology
- Key points
- Introduction
- Social Determinants of Health in Neurology
- Social determinants of health in hospital medicine
- Interventions to address social determinants of health
- Disclosure
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 40-1
- Published: November 23, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323813495
- eBook ISBN: 9780323813501
VD
Vanja Douglas
Affiliations and expertise
Sara & Evan Williams Foundation
Endowed Neurohospitalist Chair
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
UCSF Department of Neurology
Director, Neurohospitalist Division
Assistant Program Director,
UCSF Neurology ResidencyMS
Maulik Shah
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Neurology
Medical Director, Adult Inpatient Neurology services and Adult Integrated Transfer Center
University of California, San Francisco