Clinical skills in neurology
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Clinical skills in neurology
Butterworth-Heinemann, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The ability to make a neurological diagnosis depends above all on the capacity to understand the patient's history, to carry out a reliable examination and to interpret neurological symptons and signs. 'Clinical Skills in Neurology' is a guide to the tricks of the trade in neurology - providing the student with the information needed to cope with neurological problems and their assessment. Divided into three sections, this book provides a fully illustrated guide and problem-orientated approach to neurological examination and clinical management. Chapter 1 covers the taking of the history and the technique of examination. Chapter 2 looks at common problems and their assessment, offering strategies built on critical points extracted in either the history or the examination. Chapter 3 covers available investigations - reviewing their use and application.
Based on the successful 'Neurological Skills' but completly updated and revised with the addition of a substantial amount of new material, 'Clinical Skills in Neurology' should achieve its aims: to provide a complete primer of neurological diagnosis which should help to build the confidence of any student approaching a neurological examination. This book attempts to demystify neurology but retain its fascination.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I History and Examination: The history
- The general examination
- The Neurological Examination: Mental State and Language
- Dysphasia
- Mutism
- Other faculties
- Cranial nerves
- Motor system
- Extrapyramidal system
- Dystonia
- Cerebellar function
- Sensation
- The unconscious patient: Locked-in syndrome
- Coma vigil (akinetic mutism)
- Chronic vegetative state
- Brain death
- II Common Problems: Headache: Sudden headache
- Continuous headache
- Rapidly developing headache
- Periodic headache
- Attacks of loss of consciousness
- Sleep Disorders: Excessive daytime sleepiness
- Memory Loss
- Visual Symptoms: Visual failure
- Double vision
- Some other visual symptoms
- Facial Pain: Acute attacks
- Shooting pains
- Periodic pain
- Continuous pain
- Vertigo
- Loss of balance
- Dysarthria
- Dysphonia
- Hearing loss
- Tinnitus
- Pain: Peripheral nerve
- Brachial plexus
- Dorsal Root Ganglia
- Nerve root
- Spinal cord
- Thalamus
- Paraesthesiae
- Muscle weakness: Generalised weakness
- Weakness in the arm
- The wasted hand
- dropping things
- Weakness of the face
- Weakness of bulbar muscles
- Weakness of respiratory muscles
- Weakness of the neck
- Weakness in the leg
- Foot drop
- Does the patient have Motor neurone disease?
- Hemiplegia
- Has the patient got Parkinson's disease?
- Gait disorder
- Fatigue
- Bladder problems: Management
- Impotence
- III Investigations: Electromyography (EMG)
- Nerve conduction studies
- Evoked potentials
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Dementia
- Metabolic encephalopathy
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Coma
- Sleep disorders
- Electronystagmography (ENG)
- Cerebrospinal fluid: Meningitis/Encephalitis
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome
- Neurosyphilis
- Neuroimaging: Head injury
- Strokes
- Tumours
- Abscesses
- Encephalitis
- Dementia
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Cerebral aneurysms
- High density lesions on CT
- Low density lesions on CT
- Spine
- CT or MRI?
- X-ray Angiography
- Air and Myodil ventriculography
- Investigation of bladder dysfunction
- Tissue Biopsies: muscle biopsy
- nerve biopsy
- brain biop
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