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Plum and Posner's diagnosis of stupor and coma
| العنوان: | Plum and Posner's diagnosis of stupor and coma Diagnosis of stupor and coma |
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| المساهمون: | Plum, Fred, 1924-2010. Diagnosis of stupor and coma., Posner, Jerome B., 1932- |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. 4th ed. |
| سنة النشر: | 2007 |
| وصف مادي: | xiv, 401 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Contemporary neurology series Contemporary neurology series |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Coma -- Diagnosis., Stupor -- Diagnosis., Coma -- diagnosis., Stupor -- diagnosis., Brain Diseases -- diagnosis., Brain Injuries -- diagnosis. |
| الوصف: | Provides an update on the clinical approath that was laid out in the previous three editions. It describes an approach for the physician at the bedside to diagnose and treat alterations of consciousness, based on pathophysiologic principles. It beins with a description of the physiology of consicousness and the pathophysiology of disorders of consciousness. It contnues with a description of the approach to a patient with a disorder of consiousness, emphasizing the bedside examination, but including the use of modern imaging techniques. The important structural and metabolic causes of coma are reviewed in detail. It then describes the emergency treatment, both medical and surgical, of patients with specific disorders of consciousness and their prognosis. New chapters describe the approach to the diagnosisof brain death and the clinical physiology of the vegetative state and minimally consiouls state, as well as the ethics of dealing with such patients and their families. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Pathophysiology of signs and symptoms of coma -- Examination of the comatose patient -- Structural causes of stupor and coma -- Specific causes of structural coma -- Multifocal, diffuse, and metabolic brain diseases causing delirium, stupor, or coma -- Psychogenic unresponsiveness -- Approach to management of the unconscious patient -- Brain death -- Prognosis in coma and related disorders of consciousness, mechanisms underlying outcomes, and ethical considerations. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm77520745 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-19-532131-9 0-19-532131-6 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Rev. ed. of: The diagnosis of stupor and coma / Fred Plum, Jerome B. Posner. 3rd ed. c1980. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.011291922.7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780195321319 0195321316 |
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