Roughly 1.9 million people are afflicted with Parkinson's disease and, according to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, that number is on the rise! Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guide for Physicians will comprehensively cover Parkinson's disease (PD), including diagnosis, testing, prognosis, and possible causes. Its primary focus will be on treatment, specifying appropriate drugs, doses, and common side effects. It will address not only the treatment of motor problems (tremor, gait, etc.), but everything else that routinely arises in a PD practice, including osteoporosis prevention, blood pressure, sexual, bowel, or bladder dysfunction, dementia, depression, common skin rashes, and more. This book will mirror Dr. Ahlskog's earlier book, The Parkinson's Treatment Book: Partnering with Your Doctor to Get the Most from Your Medications (2005). Each chapter in the current book will follow the same outline and cover nearly the same material as in each chapter of the earlier patient book, but it will be more succint and direct, with many teaching points summarized wtih bullet points or in small tables. In effect, the clinician and patient can both be reading, or have read, the same material.
Reviews
"This is a valuable resource for practicing physicians who are charged with caring for patients with Parkinson's disease. The writing is clear and concise with a very practical approach to patient care that addresses every facet of the disease and its treatment."--Doody's "Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guide for Physicians offers the opportunity for a second opinion or at least a primary learning source...This work is clearly written and well referenced with up-to-date discussions that rival nearly anything out there in manuscript form." --Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota



Book Information
ISBN 9780195371772
Author J. Eric Ahlskog, MD, PhD
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 703g
Dimensions(mm) 160mm * 236mm * 28mm