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In any acute neurologic condition situations come up which generate questions about management.In a deteriorating patient there is a strain in decision making and many acute problems are hard calls. Handling Difficult Situations includes solutions for these reoccurring dilemmas. Each topic is carefully chosen and reflects clinical practice. The book addresses how to recognize treatable coma, how to judge the severity of traumatic brain and spine injury, and discusses how to recognize neurosurgical emergencies.Handling Difficult Situations also includes recognition and management of acute respiratory neuromuscular failure. A separate chapter discusses errors in CT scan evaluation of acute neurologic conditions.

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All clinicians who will take care of acutely ill neurological patients will benefit from this book. ...it is a quick, easy, and helpful review for those who are inexperienced or in training. --Doody's Health Sciences Book Review All clinicians who will take care of acutely ill neurological patients will benefit from this book. ...it is a quick, easy, and helpful review for those who are inexperienced or in training. --Doody's Health Sciences Book Review

All clinicians who will take care of acutely ill neurological patients will benefit from this book. ...it is a quick, easy, and helpful review for those who are inexperienced or in training. --Doody's Health Sciences Book Review

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Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD, FNCS, FANA, is a Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He is the Chair of the Division of Critical Care Neurology, and a Consultant for the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Saint Marys Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

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