Candelise / Hughes / Liberati Evidence-Based Neurology

Management of Neurological Disorders
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99405-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Evidence-Based Medicine

In Evidence-based Neurology: Management of NeurologicalDisorders a carefully selected group of clinicallyexperienced collaborators use the best available evidence to answermore than 100 clinical questions about the treatment and managementof neurological disorders.
Divided into three sections and 24 chapters, this book
* * fills the gap between guidelines and primary studies as well asbetween primary and secondary scientific medical literature
* summarizes the most recent and important findings on treatmentsfor neurological patients
* measures the benefit and, when applicable, the risk of harminherent in specific neurological interventions.
This unique, evidence-based text, edited by members of theCochrane Neurological Network will be an essential resource for allgeneral neurologists, from the novice to the most experienced, intheir everyday clinical practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Candelise, Livia

Hughes, Richard A. C.

Liberati, Alessandro

Uitdehaag, Bernard M. J.

Warlow, Charles P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Introduction.
1 Evidence-based medicine: its contributions in the way wesearch, appraise and apply scientific information to patientcare.
Alessandro Liberati, Lorenzo P. Moja, Ivan Moschetti.
2 What to do when there is no evidence.
Charles Warlow.
3 Outcome and adverse effect measures in neurology.
Jorge G. Burneo, Samuel Wiebe.
4 Systematic reviews of diagnostic research.
Bernard M.J. Uitdehaag, Peter M. Rothwell.
Part 2 Neurological symptoms/problems.
5 Acute migraine attacks.
Anne MacGregor.
6 Back and neck pain.
Harry McNaughton.
7 Neuropathic pain.
Giorgio Cruccu, Nadine Attal, Rod Taylor.
8 Vertigo and dizziness: treatment of benign paroxysmalpositional vertigo, vestibular neuritis and Menière'sdisease.
Michael Strupp, Thomas Brandt, Christian DanielCnyrim.
9 Sleep disorders.
Michel Billiard.
10 Cognitive rehabilitation of non-progressiveneuropsychological disorders.
Stefano F. Cappa, Thomas Benke, Stephanie Clarke, BrunoRossi, Brigitte Stemmer, Caroline M. van Heugten.
11 Management and pharmaceutical treatment of central and spinalspasticity.
David T. Shakespeare.
12 Background to neurorehabilitation.
Kathryn McPherson, Paula Kersten, LynneTurner-Stokes.
Part 3 Neurological diseases.
13 Acute stroke management and prevention of recurrences.
Gord Gubitz.
14 Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.
Jan van Gijn, Gabriel J.E. Rinkel.
15 Acute traumatic brain injury.
Miguel F. Arango, Walter Videtta, Corina Puppo.
16 Corticosteroids in central nervous system infections.
Anu Jacob, Tom Solomon, Paul Garner.
17 Brain tumours.
Michael G. Hart, Robin Grant.
18 Epilepsy.
Sridharan Ramaratnam, Anthony Marson.
19 Dementia treatment: let the evidence lead us.
Bart M. Demaerschalk, Bryan K. Woodruff, Richard J.Caselli.
20 Parkinson's disease.
Miguel Coelho, Joaquim Ferreira, Cristina Sampaio.
21 Multiple sclerosis: critical review of the evidence for eachquestion.
Graziella Filippini, George Ebers.
22 Motor neurone disorders.
Douglas Mitchell.
23 Peripheral nerve disorders.
Richard Hughes, Eva L. Feldman, Jeremy D.P. Bland.
24 Muscle disorders.
Fiona Norwood, Michael R. Rose.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Livia Candelise, Cochrane Neurological Network, Dipartimentodi Scienze Neurologiche, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico,Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Richard Hughes, Department of Clinical Neurosciences,King's College London School of Medicine at Guy's,King's College and St Thomas' Hospitals, London,UK
Alessandro Liberati. Department of Hematology andOncology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, AziendaOspedaliera Policlinico, Ferrara, Italy
Bernard Uitdehaag, Department of Neurology and Departmentof Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU Medical Centre,Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Charles Warlow, Department of Clinical Neurosciences,Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK