Neurology Emerencies app for iPhone and iPad

Based on the popular pocketbook, this app provides all the essential specific steps for assessment and management of emergencies in neurology. Edited by an emergency medicine physician and a neurologist, chapters are easy to review during or after a busy shift. Focus is placed on the acute patient with both common and complex neurological presentations. Also covered are specific, diagnosis-based problems, including traumatic brain injury, stroke, and seizures. Each chapter is filled with relevant computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and vascular studies, as well as many other images, algorithms, and tables. Neurology Emergencies will prove invaluable not only to busy residents in emergency and internal medicine, family practice and neurology, but also medical students who want to excel. This reference guide will also benefit hospitalists and attendings who care for patients with acute neurological problems.

Contents include:

1. Approach to the Neurological Patient

2. Presenting Symptoms

3. Vascular Processes: Cerebral Ischemia

4. Vascular Processes: Cerebral Hemorrhag

5. Seizures

6. Generalized Weakness

7. CNS Infections

8. Selected Cranial and Peripheral Neuropathies

9. Traumatic Processes

10. Intracranial Pressure and Hydrocephalus

Key App Features
The app will allow users to mark articles and images as favorites to keep key content within quick access for reference. A robust index search feature will let users get quick access to the content they are looking for. Neuroimaging content is provided in context as well as in a separate section for easy access and reference.

•Rapid review of essential specific steps for assessment and management of emergences in neurology

•Packed with relevant neuroimaging figures and diagrams

•Co-edited by an emergency physician and a neurologist

•Focuses on acute patient with both common and complex neurological presentations