Brain injury medicine : board review /
Eapen, Blessen C.,author.
Cifu, David X.,author.
"The only review book currently available in this complex field, Brain Injury Medicine: Board Review focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of individuals with varying severity levels of brain injury. Focused, high-yield content prepares you for success on exams and in practice, with up-to-date coverage of traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, CNS neoplasms, anoxic brain injury, and other brain disorders. This unique review tool is ideal for residents, fellows, and practitioners studying or working in the field and preparing to take the brain injury medicine exam"--Publisher's description.
Includes bibliographical references.
Section 1: Brain anatomy and physiology. Neuroanatomy correlates -- Pathophysiology and basic sciences -- Section 2: Traumatic brain injury severity & patterns. Mild TBI (concussion), moderate to severe TBI -- TBI by pattern: penetrating, non- penetrating, blast injury -- Brain death criteria -- Section 3: Epidemiology and risk factors. Epidemiology and public health & prevention -- Proteomic, genetic, and epigenetic biomarkers in TBI -- Prognosis and recovery patterns -- Section 4: Emergency Room and intensive care management. Prehospital care -- Acute emergency management (non-surgical care & surgical care) -- Critical care management -- Complications -- Section 5: Evaluation and diagnosis. Physical examination, signs and symptoms -- Diagnostic procedures and electrophysiology -- Neuroimaging (structural and functional) -- Functional evaluation -- Intensity of services, specialized rehabilitation therapies, interdisciplinary team management -- Section 6: Complications and management. Cardiovascular and pulmonary -- GI and nutrition -- Genitourinary -- Soft tissue and orthopedic condition -- Pain -- Neuroendocrine/ metabolic/ hormonal -- Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity -- Spasticity & contractures -- Post-traumatic hydrocephalus -- Cranial nerve disorders -- Seizure disorder -- Movement disorder -- Pressure injuries, bed rest and deconditioning -- Dysphagia and aspiration -- Speech and language -- Cognitive dysfunction -- Neurosensory dysfunction -- Emotional dyscontrol -- Agitation and restlessness -- Sleep dysfunction and fatigue -- Mood disorders -- PTSD -- Suicide, personality d/o, anxiety -- Substance abuse -- Sexuality and intimacy -- Section 7: Rehabilitation concepts. Therapeutic exercise/rehabilitation -- Assistive technology -- Community re-entry -- Involving family in rehabilitation: role of physiatry -- Section 8: Special topics. Pediatric TBI -- Geriatric TBI -- Military TBI -- Sports concussion -- Gender specific issues in TBI -- Post-concussion syndrome assessment, management and Rx -- Nontraumatic brain injury -- Dual diagnosis: TBI and SCI -- Anoxic brain injury -- Doc and rehabilitation -- Complementary alternative therapies -- Neuromodulation & neuroprosthetics -- Neuropharmacology -- Neurodegeneration and dementia -- Basic statistics/research methods -- Ethics and law.
"The only review book currently available in this complex field, Brain Injury Medicine: Board Review focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of individuals with varying severity levels of brain injury. Focused, high-yield content prepares you for success on exams and in practice, with up-to-date coverage of traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, CNS neoplasms, anoxic brain injury, and other brain disorders. This unique review tool is ideal for residents, fellows, and practitioners studying or working in the field and preparing to take the brain injury medicine exam"--Publisher's description.
Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (ClinicalKey, viewed August 25, 2020).
ClinicalKey
Brain damage.
Brain damage
Brain Injuries.
Brain injury medicine.