The Neurosurgical Consult Book, 1st Edition
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Written by neurosurgery residents for neurosurgery residents and other providers, The Neurosurgical Consult Book focuses on the initial care and treatment of the neurosurgical consult patient, providing the key guidance you need when quick clinical management decisions are critical. You will learn to recognize the acuity of patient presentation and determine how to immediately triage the needs of the patient at an appropriate level of care. This portable, practical guide helps you quickly steer neurosurgical patients to medical stability and safety until a definitive treatment plan is implemented.
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- Features a real-life approach, based on actual consults, with chapters titled by the symptoms and clinical presentation of the patient, not by neurosurgical diagnosis
- Begins each chapter with the actual consult notification from the consulting team, mimicking how the neurosurgery provider is notified about a new patient in practice
- Presents initial imaging as it occurs in real life—whether imaging has already been done or whether the consulting physician needs guidance on what imaging is needed
- Includes "Walking Thoughts", guidance on how to tailor your thoughts toward the most important and pressing issues facing the patients before even meeting them, so that upon evaluation, the most important questions are asked first
- Covers the most essential neurosurgical grading scales, key physical exam findings, the systematic thought process behind triage management, and learning points to remember when seeing a particular type of neurosurgical patient
- Summarizes evidence-based standards of care and key literature
- Stepwise video demonstration of the most common emergent bedside procedures
- An excellent learning tool for neurosurgery residents as well as neurosurgery fellows, neurology residents, emergency room providers, neurocritical care providers, registered nurses, clinical fellows, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, medical students, and nursing students
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, videos, and references from the book on a variety of devices
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Section One- Trauma Consults.
1. Epidural Hematoma
2. Traumatic Subarachnoid
3. Acute Subdural Hematoma
4. Diffuse Axonal Injury
5. Gunshot Wound (spine and cranial)
6. Odontoid Fracture
7. Jefferson Fracture
8. Chance Fracture
9. Perched/Jumped facets
10. Burst fracture with retropulsion
11. Clay Shoveler Fracture
Section Two- Tumor Consults
12. Meningioma
13. Low grade intra-axial tumors
14. High grade intra-axial tumors
15. Supratentorial Metastases
16. Infratentorial Metastases
17. Pituitary Tumors
18. Pituitary apoplexy
19. Intraventricular tumor
20. Pituitary tumor with hypernatremia
21. Tumor mimic: stroke
22. Tumor progression vs treatment effect
Section Three - Vascular Diseases
23. Supratentorial intracranial hemorrhage
24. Infratentorial intracranial hemorrhage
25. Chronic subdural hematoma
26. Hemicraniectomy for stroke
27. Thrombectomy for stroke
28. Non-ruptured aneurysm
29. Ruptured aneurysm – subarachnoid hemorrhage
30. Perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage
31. Arteriovenous malformation after radiosurgery
32. Ruptured arteriovenous malformation
33. Dural arteriovenous fistula
34. Cavernous malformation
35. Carotid-cavernous fistulas
36. Internal carotid stenosis
Section Four - Spine and Peripheral Nerve Consults
37. Non-operative degenerative spine disease
38. Cervical myelopathy
39. Neck pain - ACDF
40. Thoracic myelopathy
41. Lumbar degenerative disease
42. Cauda equina
43. Sagittal balance/adjacent segment disease
44. Central cord
45. Postoperative epidural hematoma
46. Spinal tumor – intradural
47. Spinal tumor – extradural
48. Spinal dural arteriovenous fistula
49. Spinal cord intrinsic tumor mimic: MS
50. Nerve section injury
51. Nerve crush injury
Section Five – Pediatric consults
52. Perinatal intraventricular hemorrhage
53. Myelomeningocele/chiari
54. Shunt malfunction
55. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy
56. Pediatric brain tumors
57. Pediatric spinal tumor
58. Depressed skull fracture
59. Non-depressed skull fracture
60. Non-accidental trauma
61. SCIWORA
Section Six – Hydrocephalus
62. Normal pressure hydrocephalus
63. Acute shunt malfunction - distal
64. Acute shunt malfunction - proximal
65. Pseudotumor
66. Spontaneous CSF leak/encephalocele
Section Seven – Infection Consults
67. Puffy Pott’s Tumor
68. Intraparenchymal abscess
69. Osteomyelitis/epidural abscess - operative
70. Osteomyelitis/epidural abscess - nonoperative
Section Eight – Functional and Pain Consults
71. Baclofen pump malfunction
72. Baclofen pump infection
73. Spinal cord stimulator
74. Adult chiari and Ehler Danlos
75. Trigeminal Neuralgia
Section Nine – Post-operative Complications
76. Post-operative DVT/PE
77. Epidural hematoma – cranial
78. Epidural hematoma – spinal
79. Septic emboli/cement emboli
80. Wound infection – cranial
81. Wound infection – spinal
82. Shunt infection
83. Postoperative CSF leak
84. Postop intracranial hemorrhage
Section Ten – Procedures
85. Shunt change and shunt tap
86. Intracranial Pressure Monitor
87. Intraventricular catheter
88. Lumbar puncture
89. Lumbar drain -
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