Publisher's Synopsis
Approximately one-fifth of admissions to hospital are due to neurological disease. Most of the patients present themselves as emergencies to doctors in Accident and Emergency departments, or to their GP or general physicians, none of whom have been specially trained to deal with diseases of the nervous system.;This text offers guidance on the diagnosis and current management of 13 of the most common neurological emergencies: coma, head injury, stroke, delirium, acute behavioural disturbances, status epilepticus, raised intracranial pressure, subarachnoid haemorrhage, cerebral infection, spinal cord compression, neuromuscular respiratory paralysis, visual failure or brainstem death.
