SOAP for neurology

• Main Author: Lin, Frank P. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, Mass. Blackwell Pub. 2006
• Series: SOAP series
• Subjects: Diagnostic Techniques, Neurological > Handbooks; Nervous System Diseases > Handbooks > diagnosis; Nervous System Diseases > Handbooks > therapy
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SOAP for Neurology features 60 clinical problems with each case presented in an easy to read 2-page layout. Each step presents information on how that case would likely be handled. Questions under each category teach the students important steps in clinical care.The SOAP series is a unique resource...

Table of Contents:

• Neurologic evaluation
• Ischemic stroke
• Hemorrhagic stroke
• Transient ischemic attack
• Cerebral venous thrombosis
• Strokes in children and young adults
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Hydrocephalus
• Increased intracranial pressure
• Vascular malformations
• Traumatic brain injury
• First time seizure
• Epilepsy
• Status epilepticus
• Epilepsy syndromes
• Localization related epilepsies
• Altered mental status
• Brain death
• Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
• Bacterial meningitis
• Herpes and other viral encephalitides
• Neurosyphilis
• Neurocysticercosis
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Lyme disease
• Opportunistic infections
• Acute spinal cord syndromes
• Spasticity and muscle spasms
• Optic neuritis and neuropathies
• Cavernous sinus syndrome
• Diplopia
• Horner syndrome
• Dizziness and vertigo
• Myasthenia gravis
• Guillain-Barré syndrome
• Botulism
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
• Myopathies and myositis
• Muscular dystrophies
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis