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This book aims to provide adequate and updated clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic references for the treatment of neurological emergencies. This volume describes the approach with decision-making algorithms that start from the symptom(s) for which the patient has accessed the emergency room. The volume provides practical tools for conducting a diagnostic and therapeutic path in urgent neurological conditions. Therefore, the volume clearly describes that a neurological emergency can be treated only after a clear-cut diagnosis has been carried out, and that this task is reserved to the neurologists. The book has also the important value to offer a complete overview on the most relevant advancement in the treatment of the neurological emergencies, contributing to the process of education of a modern neurologist that has the capacity to face the numerous and difficult problems of the diseases of the nervous system.

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Giuseppe Micieli was the Director of the Emergency Neurology Department at the Mondino Institute in Pavia and Past President ANEU. Formerly the editor of the first edition of the book Decision Algorithms in Emergency Neurology, he is the author of numerous indexed publications on the subject. Fabrizio de Falco was the director of Neurology at the Loreto Mare Hospital in Naples and Vice-President of the Italian Society of Neurology. He conducted interesting Italian surveys on Emergency Neurology. Domenico Consoli is the Emeritus Director of Neurology at the Jazzolino Hospital in Vibo Valentia. He has conducted important evaluation studies on the impact of Neurology in Italian hospitals and was the editor of the Italian version of the volume in question. Jonathan A. Edlow is Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He lectures nationally and internationally on topics such as stroke, TIA, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and various causes of weakness and dizziness. He is an internationally renowned expert on neurological emergencies.

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