BookEelco F.M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD, FACP, FNCS, FANA, Professor of Neurology,
... Show More Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Chair, Division of Critical Care Neurology, Consultant, Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Contents:
A history of coma : evolution of ideas
The neuroscience of the awake state
Neurological examination of the comatose patient and localization principles
Prolonged impaired consciousness
Brain death
Neuroimaging, neurophysiology and neuropathology
Clinical diagnosis and decisions
Medical care of the comatose patient
Recovery and rehabilitation
Law and bioethics
Media and popular culture
The clinical vignettes.