Isbn: 9780557978830 - neurology for primary care clinicians: comprehensive guide to headache, vertigo, and movement disorders for family physicians (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Localize the Symptom, Rule Out the Emergency, Make the Call Built for the clinician who sees the dizzy patient, the new headache, the tremor, and the family member saying 'he just seemed different' before neurology ever gets involved, this reference works from one discipline: localize first, screen for red flags, then decide. It moves from the neurologic history and bedside exam through the presentations that fill a primary care schedule - headache, dizziness, seizure and syncope, weakness, cognitive change, movement disorders, vision, sleep, and autonomic complaints - into the decision every visit turns on: manage now, or refer, and how urgently. The Red Flag Decoder System runs through every chapter, ending each high-stakes presentation in a stated decision, and closes in a Master Atlas indexing all sixty instances for rapid lookup. From the First Question to the Referral Letter, You Will Separate vestibular neuritis from cerebellar stroke - the HINTS exam walkthrough that catches the stroke a reassuring CT scan misses. Screen headache red flags in real time - thunderclap onset, papilledema, and giant cell arteritis worked into a same-day decision, not a reflexive scan. Localize weakness and numbness by nerve root, plexus, and peripheral nerve - patterns that turn 'arm pain' into a confident diagnosis. Separate seizure from syncope from psychogenic nonepileptic events - a witness-history framework that catches convulsive syncope before it becomes an unnecessary diagnosis. Recognize myasthenic crisis and status epilepticus - findings that convert a routine visit into an emergency transfer. Distinguish reversible cognitive decline from dementia - pseudodementia, normal pressure hydrocephalus, and the gait-cognition-continence triad that changes the diagnosis. Read parkinsonism correctly - essential tremor, drug-induced parkinsonism, and the early-falls red flags that separate idiopathic disease from its mimics. Manage the ongoing neurologic patient between specialist visits - epilepsy reconciliation, Parkinson coordination, and multiple sclerosis relapse recognition. Open it before the next dizzy, weak, or forgetful patient walks in - the decision they need, ready before the first question.…