
Neurologic Emergencies, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 39-1 - November 19, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Michael K. Abraham, Evie Marcolini
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 6 3 2 8 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 6 3 2 9 - 5
This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Michael K. Abraham and Evie Marcolini, focuses on Neurologic Emergencies. This issue is one of four selected each… Read more

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Request a sales quoteThis issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Michael K. Abraham and Evie Marcolini, focuses on Neurologic Emergencies. This issue is one of four selected each year by series Consulting Editor, Dr. Amal Mattu. Topics include: Traumatic injuries of the nervous system; Modern Neuroimaging Techniques in Diagnosing TIA and Acute Ischemic Stroke; Neurologic Emergencies at the Extremes of Age; Headache in the Emergency Department Avoiding Misdiagnosis of Dangerous Secondary Causes and Infections of the Central Nervous System.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface: Neurologic Emergencies: 2020 Update
- Traumatic Injuries to the Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nervous System
- Key points
- Introduction
- Peripheral nerve injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Modern Neuroimaging Techniques in Diagnosing Transient Ischemic Attack and Acute Ischemic Stroke
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Neurologic Emergencies at the Extremes of Age
- Key points
- Introduction
- Neurologic emergencies in the pediatric patient
- Neurologic emergencies in the geriatric patient
- Clinical care points
- Headache in the Emergency Department: Avoiding Misdiagnosis of Dangerous Secondary Causes, An Update
- Key points
- Nature of the problem/definition
- General approach to the patient with headache
- Dangerous causes of secondary headache
- Diagnosis and Initial Emergency Department Management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Central Nervous System Infections in the Immunocompromised Adult Presenting to the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Common clinical syndromes
- Approach to central nervous system infection in the emergency department
- A differential diagnosis of a central nervous system infection in immunocompromised patients
- Additional considerations
- Bacterial central nervous system infections
- Viral infection
- Fungal infection
- Parasitic infections
- Mycobacterial infections
- Summary
- Functional Seizures
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Evaluation
- History
- Semiology
- Laboratory findings
- Imaging
- Neurophysiology
- Therapeutic options
- Psychotherapy
- Future directions
- Summary
- Clinical care points
- Emergency Neuropharmacology
- Key points
- Introduction
- Status epilepticus
- Central nervous system infections
- Traumatic brain injury
- Traumatic spinal cord injury
- Pharmacotherapy adjuncts for targeted temperature management
- Antihypertensives for neurologic emergencies
- Diagnosis of Coma
- Key points
- Introduction
- History and physical examination pearls
- Differential diagnosis
- The future of coma
- Approach to Acute Weakness
- Introduction, history, definitions, and background
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinical care points
- Diagnosis of Patients with Acute Dizziness
- Key points
- Introduction
- History, definitions, and background
- Relevant anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology
- Current evidence
- Differential diagnosis and misdiagnosis
- Diagnostic approach
- Spontaneous episodic vestibular syndrome
- Triggered episodic vestibular syndrome
- Imaging
- Controversies
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Sedation for Rapid Sequence Induction and Intubation of Neurologically Injured Patients
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background/epidemiology
- Physiologic considerations in patients with traumatic brain injury
- Establishing an airway
- Adjunctive medications
- Induction agents
- Hypoxia, hypoventilation, and rapid sequence induction and intubation: the chicken or the egg?
- Summary
- Disclosure
- NeuroEthics and End of Life Care
- Key points
- Introduction
- The ethics of endovascular stroke therapy for patients in the emergency department
- Brain death in the emergency department
- Airway management in devastating neurologic conditions
- Consent in critical neurologic patients
- Organ donation in emergency medicine
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Novel Treatments for Transient Ischemic Attack and Acute Ischemic Stroke
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evaluation
- Intravenous thrombolysis
- Endovascular stroke care
- Neuroprotective therapy
- Contraindications to reperfusion strategies
- Special circumstances
- Transient ischemic attack
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 39-1
- Published: November 19, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323763288
- eBook ISBN: 9780323763295
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Evie Marcolini
Affiliations and expertise
Yale Emergency Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital