Description
Concise and informative, this guide is for doctors preparing to specialise in stroke care and strokologists looking for rapid but in-depth scientific guidance on stroke management. This third edition is fully revised to ensure that medical professionals are completely up-to-date in this fast-moving field. Its practical and problem-based approach covers all important issues of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, and reviews epidemiology and risk assessment. This new edition features expanded sections on topics of stroke unit management, thrombolysis, neurointerventions, cognitive impairment, secondary prevention and rehabilitation, and includes new chapters on neurointensive care and small vessel disease. Comprehensive in its coverage, the textbook includes acute assessment, imaging and emergency interventions. The authors are renowned experts in their field and have been working together in a teaching faculty for the European Master in Stroke Medicine Programme, which is supported by the European Stroke Organisation and the World Stroke Organisation.
Fully revised, this third edition is a concise and practice-orientated guide to the fast-moving and expanding field of stroke medicine.
About the Author
Michael Brainin is Professor of Neurology and Chair of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Preventive Medicine at Donau-Universitat Krems, Austria. He is currently President of the World Stroke Organisation. Wolf-Dieter Heiss is Visiting Professor at Donau-Universitat Krems, Austria, Adjunct Professor at McGill University, Montreal, and Associate Professor at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is a former Professor of Neurology and Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Cologne and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research.
Book Information
ISBN 9781108426350
Author Michael Brainin
Format Hardback
Page Count 472
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1190g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 194mm * 24mm
Fully revised, this third edition is a concise and practice-orientated guide to the fast-moving and expanding field of stroke medicine.
About the Author
Michael Brainin is Professor of Neurology and Chair of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Preventive Medicine at Donau-Universitat Krems, Austria. He is currently President of the World Stroke Organisation. Wolf-Dieter Heiss is Visiting Professor at Donau-Universitat Krems, Austria, Adjunct Professor at McGill University, Montreal, and Associate Professor at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is a former Professor of Neurology and Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Cologne and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research.
Book Information
ISBN 9781108426350
Author Michael Brainin
Format Hardback
Page Count 472
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1190g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 194mm * 24mm
