The Neurosurgical Consult Book

Written by neurosurgery residents for neurosurgery residents and other providers, The Neurosurgical Consult Book focuses on the initial care and treatment of the neurosurgical consult patient, providing the key guidance you need when quick clinical management decisions are critical. You will learn to recognize the acuity of patient presentation and determine how to immediately triage the needs of the patient at an appropriate level of care. This portable, practical guide helps you quickly steer neurosurgical patients to medical stability and safety until a definitive treatment plan is implemented.

• Features a real-life approach, based on actual consults, with chapters titled by the symptoms and clinical presentation of the patient, not by neurosurgical diagnosis.
• Begins each chapter with the actual consult notification from the consulting team, mimicking how the neurosurgery provider is notified about a new patient in practice.
• Presents initial imaging as it occurs in real life-whether imaging has already been done or whether the consulting physician needs guidance on what imaging is needed.
• Includes "Walking Thoughts", guidance on how to tailor your thoughts toward the most important and pressing issues facing the patients before even meeting them, so that upon evaluation, the most important questions are asked first.
• Covers the most essential neurosurgical grading scales, key physical exam findings, the systematic thought process behind triage management, and learning points to remember when seeing a particular type of neurosurgical patient.
• Summarizes evidence-based standards of care and key literature.
• Stepwise video demonstration of the most common emergent bedside procedures.
• An excellent learning tool for neurosurgery residents as well as neurosurgery fellows, neurology residents, emergency room providers, neurocritical care providers, registered nurses, clinical fellows, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, medical students, and nursing students.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, videos, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Author: Risheng Xu
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 12/20/2022
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.22w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780323756143

About the Author
Liu, Anne: - Dr. Liu is currently a resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Neurosurgery. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was the founder of Carolina Scientific Undergraduate Research Magazine, a semesterly peer-reviewed magazine on undergraduate research, as well as the chemistry and production editor from 2008 to 2010 (https: //issuu.com/uncsci).Rincon-Torroella, Jordina: - Jordina Rincon-Torroella, MD
Dr. Rincon-Torroella is currently a resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Neurosurgery. She has published extensively in clinical and translational research having produced more than 70 book chapters, clinical and translational peer-reviewed manuscripts. She has served as a content developer for various neurosurgical books working together with Elsevier and Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa as an editor for the Video Atlas of Neurosurgery: Contemporary Tumor and Skull Base Surgery. She also co-authored chapters for major neurosurgical textbooks such as Youmans, Kumar´s Neurocritical Care Management of the Neurosurgical Patient, and Goodman´s Neurosurgery Oral Board Review.Xu, Risheng: - Dr. Xu is currently chief resident at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital Department of Neurosurgery. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers, in journals such as Nature, Neuron, PNAS, Neurosurgery, and Journal of Neurosurgery. He was a News Executive of The Harvard Crimson, and was a contributing editor towards 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays: What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice.