Plum and Posner's diagnosis and treatment of stupor and coma

• Other Authors: Posner, Jerome B. 1932- (Editor), Saper, C. B. (Editor), Schiff, Nicholas D. (Editor), Claassen, Jan (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2019
• Edition: FIFTH EDITION
• Series: Contemporary neurology series
• Subjects: Coma > diagnosis; Sturtevant > diagnosis; Brain Diseases > diagnosis; Brain Ischemia > diagnosis
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• Physical Description: xi, 502 pages illustrations 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780190208875; 0190208872

Plum and Posner's Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma, 5th edition, is a major update of the classic work on diagnosing the cause of coma, with the addition of completely new sections on treatment of comatose patients, by Dr. Jan Claassen, the Director of the Neuro-ICU at Columbia New York Presbyterian Hospital. The first chapter of the book provides an up-to-date review on the brain mechanisms that maintain a conscious state in humans, and how lesions that damage these mechanisms cause loss of consciousness or coma. The second chapter reviews the neurological examination of the comatose patient, which provides the basis for determining whether the patient is suffering from a structural brain injury causing the coma, or from a metabolic disorder of consciousness. The third and fourth chapters review the pathophysiology of structural lesions causing coma, and the specific disease states that result in coma. Chapter five is a comprehensive treatment of the many causes of metabolic coma