From an expert editor team drawn from the Cochrane Neurological Network, Evidence-Based Neurology provides specialists and those in training with the skills and knowledge to apply evidence-based practice in the clinical setting. * fills the gap between guidelines and primary studies as well as between primary and secondary scientific medical literature * summarizes the most recent and important findings on treatments for neurological patients * measures the benefit and, when applicable, the risk of harm inherent in specific neurological interventions * now includes new non-clinical topics of interest to neurologists such as education and research
Table of Contents
Part I Evidence–Based Neurology: Introduction
Chapter 1 Evidence–based Neurology in Health Education
Lawrence Korngut, Miguel Bussière and Bart M. Demaerschalk
Chapter 2 Evidence–based Medicine in Health Research
Dean M. Wingerchuk
Chapter 3 Evidence and Ethics
Joseph L Verheijde
Part II Evidence–Based Neurology in the Hospital
Chapter 4 Thunderclap headache
Jonathan H. Smith and Todd J. Schwedt
Chapter 5 Coma
Bappaditya Ray and Salah G Keyrouz
Chapter 6 Acute Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack
Maria I Aguilar
Chapter 7 Spinal Cord Compression
Naresh P. Patel, Christopher A. Payne, Bhavesh M. Patel and Barry D. Birch
Chapter 8 Delirium
William David Freeman
Chapter 9 Status Epilepticus
Kameshwar Prasad, Manya Prasad, Sridharan Ramaratnam and Anthony G Marson
Chapter 10 Raised Intracranial Pressure
William David Freeman
Chapter 11 Traumatic Brain Injury
Miguel Arango, Walter Videtta and Corina Puppo
Chapter 12 Myasthenia Gravis
Brent P. Goodman
Chapter 13 Acute Visual loss
Byron Rodney Spencer
Chapter 14 Critical Illness Neuromyopathy
Brent P. Goodman and Andrea J. Boon
Part III Evidence–Based Neurology in the Clinic
Chapter 15 Secondary Prevention of Stroke
Gord Gubitz
Chapter 16 Central Nervous System Infections
Gloria von Geldern and Avindra Nath
Chapter 17 Neuro–Oncology
Michael C Hart and Robin Grant
Chapter 18 Epilepsy
Sridharan Ramaratnam and Anthony Marson
Chapter 19 Cognitive Disorders: Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer s Disease
Charlene Hoffman Snyder, Bryan K. Woodruff and Richard J. Caselli
Chapter 20 Parkinson Disease
Nicholas D. Child and Bryan T. Klassen
Chapter 21 Multiple Sclerosis
Greg Thaera and Dean M. Wingerchuk
Chapter 22 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Cumara B. O Carroll, Amelia K. Adcock and Bart M. Demaerschalk
Chapter 23 Peripheral Nerve Disorders
Jennifer A. Tracy and P. James B. Dyck
Chapter 24 Muscle Disorders
Amelia K. Adcock, Cumara B. O Carroll and Bart M. Demaerschalk
Chapter 25 Sleep Disorders
Joyce Lee Iannotti
Chapter 26 Headache Disorders
E. Anne MacGregor, Rashmi B. Halker and Bert B. Vargas
Chapter 27 Vestibular disorders and nystagmus
Michael Strupp and Thomas Brandt
Chapter 28 Neuro–Ophthalmology
Martin A. Sutton–Brown and Jason JS Barton
Chapter 29 Neurorehabilitation: Therapeutic connection, theory, evidence, and practice
Nicola M. Kayes, Kathryn M. McPherson, Paula Kersten
Part IV Supplemental Feature
Chapter 30 Evidence–Based Teleneurology Practice
William D. Freeman, Kevin M. Barrett, Kenneth A Vatz, Bart M. Demaerschalk
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