By Kumar Abhinav
ISBN-10: 0470654430
ISBN-13: 9780470654439
ISBN-10: 1118308506
ISBN-13: 9781118308509
Rapid Neurology and Neurosurgery is a needs to for all scientific scholars and junior medical professionals - it's a speedy and simple on-the-ward or health center reference and the correct revision software for these imminent finals, undergraduate neurology and neurosurgery examinations, and the club of Royal university of Surgeons (MRCS) examinations.
It offers a concise, based method of neurology and neurosurgery studying, masking key proof in an easy and noteworthy way:
Part I - The Basics - gains the fundamental rules and evidence crucial for an outstanding knowing of neurology and neurosurgery and comprises sections on correct neuroanatomy; neurological historical past and exam; and investigations together with neurophysiology and neuroradiology. MRI and CT scans are incorporated during the text.
Part II - lawsuits: nose to nose with the patient - good points OSCE-style and the viva-voce exam instruction and has chapters on featuring proceedings with proper and chosen inquiries to ask for developing the differential diagnoses (presented in a desk) with easy investigations and management.
Part III - stipulations: employing the basics - offers very important medical stipulations with sections on definition; epidemiology; aetiology; associations/risk elements; pathology; background; exam; investigations; administration; problems; diagnosis and an inventory of differential diagnoses often in a desk with normal medical details and distinguishing details to exclude the choice diagnoses.
Each bankruptcy additionally contains key issues to recollect and highlights key facts.
Rapid Neurology and Neurosurgery comprises in simple terms the fundamental, center, and appropriate evidence in a concise, pocket-sized, 'rapid' refresher supplying an intensive beginning of neurology and neurosurgery wisdom permitting you to excel within the examinations.
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ECG initially followed by 24 h ECG, echocardiogram and a tilt table test if indicated. If seizure suspected, check routine bloods as above and further consider the following: EEG (sleep-deprived EEG has higher sensitivity). MRI/CT scan to investigate for space-occupying lesion acting as seizure focus. Basic management Depends on the underlying pathology. Advise to refrain from driving until a cause determined, and then as applicable. 36 7 COMPLAINTS: FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE PATIENT Visual disturbances This chapter follows a different format from the rest of the chapters in Part II owing to the nature of the topic.
Both seizures and syncope can cause this). Duration of loss of consciousness? (Seconds in syncope versus minutes in seizures). Still while unconscious (more suggestive of syncope) or stiffness followed by jerking of limbs? (Tonic–clonic seizures) Involuntarily passing of urine or faeces? (Considered to be a seizure marker but can occur in syncope). Biting of tongue? (Rare in syncope; commoner in tonic–clonic seizures, where often the side of the tongue is damaged). Any other associated symptoms like palpitations or breathlessness?