Stroke Essentials for Primary Care A Practical Guide /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alway, David (Editor), Cole, John Walden (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Current Clinical Practice
• Subjects: Medicine.; Primary care (Medicine).; Medicine & Public Health.; Primary Care Medicine.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Special Topics
• Identifying Stroke and Stroke Type
• Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack – Acute Evaluation and Management
• Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: Long-Term Management and Secondary Prevention
• Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Acute Evaluation and Management
• Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Long-Term Complications and Prevention
• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Diagnosis and Acute Management
• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Long-Term Complications and Prevention
• Ischemic Stroke in Young Adults
• Headache and Stroke
• Hypercoagulable States and Stroke
• Carotid Artery Stenosis
• Cerebral Venous Thrombosis.