Stroke Essentials for Primary Care: A Practical Guide

Description

Stroke Essentials for Primary Care: A Practical Guide is a must-have resource, offering the essential, practical knowledge required to evaluate and treat stroke patients. While an indispensable guide for primary care clinicians, including family practitioners and medical internists who often assume the care of stroke patients without the aid of a neurologist (primarily in underserved areas), the information contained herein is also an invaluable resource to all physicians in training, especially residents and fellows in neurology, cardiology, and surgery, among others. Stroke Essentials for Primary Care: A Practical Guide provides the latest diagnostic and treatment information that allows for greater clinical confidence. Designed to allow easy access to essential information, most chapters include a quick summary of their content and conclusions. Chapters review information on such topics as distinguishing features of presentation, rapid determination of stroke type, prevention strategies, long-term complications, and special topics that may apply to specific populations. Targeted and easy to read, Stroke Essentials for Primary Care: A Practical Guide is an essential resource for all practitioners in primary care medicine and specialty physicians in training. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Identifying Stroke and Stroke Type....Pages 1-8 Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack – Acute Evaluation and Management....Pages 9-33 Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: Long-Term Management and Secondary Prevention....Pages 35-56 Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Acute Evaluation and Management....Pages 57-68 Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Long-Term Complications and Prevention....Pages 69-79 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Diagnosis and Acute Management....Pages 81-105 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Long-Term Complications and Prevention....Pages 107-120 Ischemic Stroke in Young Adults....Pages 123-146 Headache and Stroke....Pages 147-158 Hypercoagulable States and Stroke....Pages 159-169 Carotid Artery Stenosis....Pages 171-182 Cerebral Venous Thrombosis....Pages 183-192 Back Matter....Pages 193-202