Handbook of Stroke delivers concise, practice-oriented overviews and practical recommendations to guide decision-making.

Handbook of Stroke includes:

• Clinical and laboratory assessment
• Differential diagnosis
• Management before determination of the disease mechanism
• Medical and surgical treatment based on specific mechanisms
• Primary prevention of cerebrovascular disorders
• Assessing and discussing prognosis and natural history
• Management and rehabilitation after stroke
• Plus more

Contents

Obstetric

Clinical and Laboratory Assessment of Patients with Cerebrovascular Disease

1. Systematic Clinical Assessment
2. Historical Evaluation of Key Signs and Symptoms
3. General Medical Review
4. General Examination
5. Neurologic Examination
6. Approach to the Comatose Patient
7. Laboratory Evaluation

Differential Diagnosis and Clinical Features of Cerebrovascular Disease

8. Differential Diagnosis Made Easy: General Approach
9. Temporal Profile of Ischemic Cerebrovascular Diseases

Management Before Determination of the Mechnaism of Cerebrovascular Disease

10. Telephone Interview and Triage
11. Management of Acute Stroke in Critically Ill Patients
12. Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor Cerebral Infarction: General Evaluation and Treatment
13. Major Cerebral Infarction: General Evaluation and Treatment
14. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: General Evaluation and Treatment
15. Intracerebral Hemorrhage: General Evaluation and Treatment

Medical and Surgical Management Based on Specific Mechanisms of Cerebrovascular Disease

16. Four Major Categories of Ischemic Cerebrovascular
17. Disease: Identification and Treatment
18. Five Major Categories of Hemorrhagic Disease: Treatment of Specific Underlying Mechanisms
19. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
20. Other Cerebrovascular Syndromes
21. Vascular Disease of the Spinal Cord
22. Cerebrovascular Disease in Children and Young Adults
23. Cerebrovascular Disease in Pregnant Patients
24. Cerebrovascular Disease Genetics

Primary Prevention of Cerebrovascular Disorders

24. Modifiable Lifestyle and Environmental Factors
25. Asymptomatic Carotid and Vertebral Stenosis
26. Hypertension
27. Dyslipidemia
28. Other Host Factors
29. Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
30. Unruptured Intracranial Vascular Malformations
31. Hematologic Disease

Assessing and Discussion Prognosis and Natural History of Cerbrovascular Disorders

32. Carotid or Vertebral Artery Occlusive Disease
33. Transient Ischemic Attack
34. Cerebral Infarction
35. Intracerebral Hemorrhage
36. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Management and Rehabilitaion After Stroke

37. Physical Therapy
38. Speech Therapy
39. Other Chronic Complications of Stroke
40. Family and Patient Education

Appendices

• Clinical Anatomy of the Brain and Spinal Cord Vascular System
• Glasgow Coma Scale
• Functional Status Scales (Stroke Severity Scales)
• A Stroke Risk Profile
• Practice Guidelines for Management of Cerebrovascular Disease
• Outline of Diets Low in Fat and Cholesterol and Table of Ideal Body Weight

Index

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