The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma"The book is aimed at medical students and residents, in fields from internal medicine and pediatrics to emergency medicine, surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, who are likely to encounter patients with disordered states of consciousness. It includes historical background and basic neurophysiology that is important for those in the clinical neurosciences, but also lays out a practical approach to the comatose patient that is an important part of the repertoire of all clinicians who provide emergency care for patients with disorders of consciousness."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
The Pathologic Physiology of Signs and Symptoms of Coma | 1 |
Supratentorial Lesions Causing Coma | 87 |
Subtentorial Lesions Causing Coma | 153 |
Multifocal Diffuse and Metabolic Brain Diseases Causing Stupor | 177 |
Psychogenic Unresponsiveness | 305 |
Common terms and phrases
abnormalities acidosis acute anoxia Arch artery associated asterixis behavior bilateral blood pressure brain death brainstem caloric cardiac cells cerebellar cerebral blood flow cerebral hemispheres changes chronic clinical compression conjugate consciousness cortex cortical CT scan damage decerebrate delirium depression developed diabetic diagnosis diencephalic diffuse dilated disease disorders drugs dysfunction edema effects encephalitis eye movements focal frontal function glucose head injury headache hematoma hemiparesis hemorrhage hepatic hypertension hyperventilation hypoglycemia hyponatremia hypoxia impaired infarction infection intracranial pressure ischemia lesions lumbar puncture meningitis metabolic coma midbrain motor nerve nervous system Neurol neurologic signs Neurosurg normal nuclei nystagmus occlusion occurs ocular oculocephalic oculomotor oculovestibular responses onset oxygen pathologic pathways percent physiologic pontine posterior fossa produce psychogenic pulmonary pupillary pupils reflexes respiration respiratory reticular formation seizures serum severe stimulation structures stupor or coma subarachnoid subarachnoid hemorrhage subdural subdural hematoma supratentorial symptoms syndrome tentorial thalamus tion transtentorial herniation tumor unresponsiveness uremia usually vascular
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Page xi - And men ought to know that from nothing else but thence (from the brain) come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear, and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet, and what unsavory; some we discriminate by habit, .and some we perceive by their utility.