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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254498903321

Titolo

Emergencies in Neuromuscular Disease / / edited by Elio Agostoni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-56654-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 134 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color.)

Collana

Emergency Management in Neurology, , 2367-1076

Disciplina

616.80425

Soggetti

Neurology

Anesthesiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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, multiple mononeuritis, porphyria), the neuromuscular junction (MG and botulism) and, lastly, muscle pathologies (rhabdomyolysis, malignant hyperthermia, periodic paralysis). It provides updated diagnostic/therapeutic protocols and decision-making algorithms for each pathology, and examines a range of scenarios on the basis of clinical cases. Emergencies in Neuromuscular Disease will be of interests for a wide variety of specialists including neurologist, neurophysiologists and anesthesiologists.