Neurohospitalist Medicine

Description:
Over the past decade, the hospitalist model has become a dominant system for the delivery of inpatient care. Forces such as national mandates to improve safety and quality, and intense pressure to safely reduce length of hospital stays, are now exerting pressure on neurologists. To meet these challenges, a new neurohospitalist model is emerging. This is the first authoritative text to detail the advances and strategies for treating neurologic disease in a hospital setting. It includes chapters on specific acute neurologic diseases including stroke, epilepsy, neuromuscular disease and traumatic brain injury and also addresses common reasons for neurologic consultation in the hospital including encephalopathy, electrolyte disturbances and neurologic complications of pregnancy. Ethical and structural issues commonly encountered in neurologic inpatients are also addressed. This will be a key resource for any clinician or trainee caring for neurologic patients in the hospital including practising neurologists, internists and trainees across multiple subspecialities.

Table of Contents:
1. Cerebrovascular disease: ischemic Kevin M. Barrett and Thomas G. Brott; 2. Cerebrovascular disease: hemorrhagic Edward M. Manno; 3. Seizures and status epilepticus David McCollum and William O. Tatum IV; 4. Neuromuscular disorders Marcarena Cabrera Serrano and Alejandro Rabinstein; 5. Coma, delirium and other disorders of consciousness Arielle Davis and Sandeep Khot; 6. Neurologic complications of electrolytes Dimitriy Levin and Jeffrey J. Glasheen; 7. Inpatient management of neuro-oncology patients John W. Henson and Jennifer Wulff; 8. CNS infections Todd Czartoski; 9. Spinal cord disease in the hospitalized patient Leslie A. Gillum and John W. Engstrom; 10. Neurologic complications of systemic disorders Brian J. Scott; 11. Management of traumatic brain injury David Palestrant; 12. Perioperative neurologic disorders David J. Blacker and Janavi Danuwille; 13. Neurological complications of pregnancy Carmel Armon and Glenn R. Markenson; 14. Hypoxic ischemic brain injury Sarkis Morales-Vidal, Maria Baldwin, Michael J. Schneck and Jose Biller; 15. The diagnosis of brain death David M. Greer and Patricia D. Scripko; 16. Ethical issues in hospitalist and inpatient neurology Winston Chiong; 17. Structural issues for neurohospitalists Ira Chang; Index.

Author Biography:
S. Andrew Josephson is Associate Professor and Director, Neurohospitalist Program and Medical Director, Inpatient Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA. W. David Freeman is the Neurosciences ICU Director and Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic, Florida, USA. David J. Likosky is an Attending Neurologist, Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, USA.