Evidence–Based Neurology: Management of Neurological Disorders

In Evidence–based Neurology: Management of Neurological Disorders, expert editors and contributors drawn from the Cochrane Neurological Network, provides specialists and those in training with the skills and knowledge to apply evidence–based practice in the clinical setting.

Fully revised and updated with twelve additional chapters, this second edition covers current developments in the application of evidence–based medicine for neurology with a new approach to methodology. Clinical content is structured according to presentation in clinical practice, with dedicated sections on evidence–based neurology in the hospital and in the clinic

This edition is divided into four sections over 30 chapters, highlighting the different approach to and application of EBM in the hospital, clinic and as telemedicine. The chapters present a brief definition of the clinical condition, together with its incidence and natural history. A clear formulation of a case or question usually follows, structured using the standard three elements of patient, intervention, and outcome with a focus on ensuring the results are as quantitative as possible.

Evidence–based Neurology: Management of Neurological Disorders: 

fills the gap between guidelines and primary studies as well as between primary and secondary scientific medical literature summarizes the most recent and important findings on treatments for neurological patients measures the benefit and, when applicable, the risk of harm inherent in specific neurological interventions now includes new non–clinical topics of interest to neurologists such as education and research

Evidence–Based Neurology is an essential resource for neurologists at any stage of their career wanting to improve their everyday practice.

Part I Evidence–Based Neurology: Introduction

Chapter 1 Evidence–based Neurology in Health Education
Lawrence Korngut, Miguel Bussière and Bart M. Demaerschalk

Chapter 2 Evidence–based Medicine in Health Research
Dean M. Wingerchuk

Chapter 3 Evidence and Ethics
Joseph L Verheijde

Part II Evidence–Based Neurology in the Hospital

Chapter 4 Thunderclap headache
Jonathan H. Smith and Todd J. Schwedt

Chapter 5 Coma
Bappaditya Ray and Salah G Keyrouz

Chapter 6 Acute Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack
Maria I Aguilar

Chapter 7 Spinal Cord Compression
Naresh P. Patel, Christopher A. Payne, Bhavesh M. Patel and Barry D. Birch

Chapter 8 Delirium
William David Freeman

Chapter 9 Status Epilepticus
Kameshwar Prasad, Manya Prasad, Sridharan Ramaratnam and Anthony G Marson

Chapter 10 Raised Intracranial Pressure
William David Freeman

Chapter 11 Traumatic Brain Injury
Miguel Arango, Walter Videtta and Corina Puppo

Chapter 12 Myasthenia Gravis
Brent P. Goodman

Chapter 13 Acute Visual loss
Byron Rodney Spencer

Chapter 14 Critical Illness Neuromyopathy
Brent P. Goodman and Andrea J. Boon

Part III Evidence–Based Neurology in the Clinic

Chapter 15 Secondary Prevention of Stroke
Gord Gubitz

Chapter 16 Central Nervous System Infections
Gloria von Geldern and Avindra Nath

Chapter 17 Neuro–Oncology
Michael C Hart and Robin Grant

Chapter 18 Epilepsy
Sridharan Ramaratnam and Anthony Marson

Chapter 19 Cognitive Disorders: Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer s Disease
Charlene Hoffman Snyder, Bryan K. Woodruff and Richard J. Caselli

Chapter 20 Parkinson Disease
Nicholas D. Child and Bryan T. Klassen

Chapter 21 Multiple Sclerosis
Greg Thaera and Dean M. Wingerchuk

Chapter 22 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Cumara B. O Carroll, Amelia K. Adcock and Bart M. Demaerschalk

Chapter 23 Peripheral Nerve Disorders
Jennifer A. Tracy and P. James B. Dyck

Chapter 24 Muscle Disorders
Amelia K. Adcock, Cumara B. O Carroll and Bart M. Demaerschalk

Chapter 25 Sleep Disorders
Joyce Lee Iannotti

Chapter 26 Headache Disorders
E. Anne MacGregor, Rashmi B. Halker and Bert B. Vargas

Chapter 27 Vestibular disorders and nystagmus
Michael Strupp and Thomas Brandt

Chapter 28 Neuro–Ophthalmology
Martin A. Sutton–Brown and Jason JS Barton

Chapter 29 Neurorehabilitation: Therapeutic connection, theory, evidence, and practice
Nicola M. Kayes, Kathryn M. McPherson, Paula Kersten

Part IV Supplemental Feature

Chapter 30 Evidence–Based Teleneurology Practice
William D. Freeman, Kevin M. Barrett, Kenneth A Vatz, Bart M. Demaerschalk

Index

Bart M. Demaerschalk, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Phoenix, AZ
USA

Dean M. Wingerchuk, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Scottsdale, AZ
USA