Emergencies in Neuromuscular Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Agostoni, Elio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Emergency Management in Neurology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This book offers a practical tool for handling neuromuscular emergencies, and is divided by the main neuromuscular diseases on the basis of their anatomical and clinical location: diseases affecting the anterior horn of the spinal cord (tetanus), those that affect the nerve roots and nerves (SGB, mu...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Glossary
• Part I. Neuromuscular Disease: Recent Progress in Diagnosis and Therapy
• Neuromuscular Disease: An Overview
• Tetanus
• Guillain-Barré Syndrome
• Porphyria
• Vasculitis
• Myasthenia Gravis
• Botulism
• Malignant Hyperthermia
• Rhabdomyolysis
• Periodic Paralysis.-Part II. Case Studies
• Case Study: Atypical GBS
• Part III. Differentiated Decisional Algorithms
• Differentiated Decisional Algorithms Based on the Technical and Organizational Characteristics of the Hospital Receiving the Clinical Case.