Brain Injury Medicine - Principles and Practice

Kiadó: Demos Medical Publishing, LLC. - Given the complexities involved in the medical management of the individual with traumatic brain injury (TBI), clinicians have long needed an authoritative desk reference. Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice is the only core text to cover the full continuum from early diagnosis and evaluation through rehabilitation, post-acute care, and community re-entry. The book includes all aspects of brain injury medicine including assessment and treatment, epidemiology, pathophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, the neuroscientific basis for rehabilitation, ethical and medicolegal issues, life-care planning, and much more! The book 1. Explores the epidemiology and basic pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury; 2. Emphasizes a disease state management approach to patient assessment and treatment; 3. Promotes a holistic, biopsychosocial model of patient care; 4. Reviews expert consensus on important clinical practice issues; and, 5. Examines relevant clinical issues in brain injury medicine through each step of the clinical continuum of care. Written by 136 of the most prominent experts in the field of brain injury medicine, this multidisciplinary reference is essential for all physiatrists, neurologists, psychiatrists and other physicians who treat persons with brain injury and need to have the most comprehensive information available on brain injury medicine. It is also an ideal sourcebook for neuropsychologists; physical, occupational, and speech therapists; nurses; and other members of the rehabilitation team. Finally, lawyers and advocates will turn to it for current, medically reliable information on specific aspects of brain injury.