
Handbook of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Spinal Medicine for Nurses and Advanced Practice Health Professionals
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Book Description
This practical handbook allows nurses, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, and allied health professionals practicing in the fields of neurosurgery, neurology, and spinal care to quickly review essentials while in the work environment. It emphasizes procedural steps and critical elements in patient management, including intensive care, the neurological examination, differential diagnoses, and pain management. Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts, the handbook is expected to become a well-worn companion and essential aid to the busy practitioner.
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction
1. The importance of neurological illnesses, emergencies, and treatments, S. Shelby Burks and Michael Y. Wang
2. Neurological decompensation and emergencies, NIRAV PATEL, MD & BIANCA BELCHER, MPH, PA-C
3. The Neurointensive Care and Neuromonitoring Unit, Michael Safaee, Sanjay Dhall
4. The Neurosurgical Operating Room, Erika Freiberg, Sara Kadlec, Sharad Rajpal
5. Neurological Triage and the Differential Diagnosis, Krishana Sichinga
Part II: Anatomy
6. Neuroanatomy overview Part I: Cranial, Cristina Matthews
7. Neuroanatomy overview Part II: Spine, Carolina Sandoval-Garcia, Daniel K. Resnick
8. Neuroanatomy Overview Part III: Peripheral Nervous System, Marine Didize and Allan Levi
9. The neurological examination Part I: Cranial, S. Shelby Burks and Michael Y. Wang
10. The neurological examination Part II: Spine, Sherri Patchen and Ruth Perez
11. The Neurological Examination Part III: Peripheral Nervous System, Yoshua Esquenazi, Ashley E. Brown, and Daniel Kim
12. Lesion Localization, Jennifer A. Viner
13. The neurological examination of the infant and child, Karthik Madhavan, George M. Ghobrial, Stephen S Burks, Michael Y Wang
Part III: The team approach
14. Collaborative Practice with the Neurointensivist, Neurologist, and Neurosurgeon , Megan Keiser
15. Occupational, physical and speech therapies, Amy Wang and Alison Kirkpatrick
16. Neuroanesthesia , Cheng-Hsin Cheng, Junichi Ohya, Praveen Mummaneni, and Valli Mummaneni
17, Nutrition and Surgical Recovery, Marianne J. Beare and Nilesh A. Vyas
18. Social Services & Case Management , John Kenneally
19. Coordinating and Preparing for the Transition from the Acute Care Setting, Andrea L Strayer and Gregory R Trost
20. Adaptive Equipment , Amy Wang and Alison Kirkpatrick
21. Short and Long Term Disability, Sandra Stafford
22. Scientific Research & Clinical Trials, Lauren N. Simpson, Christina Sayama
Part IV: Monitoring the patient
23. Serial Neurologic Examinations, Adriana L. Castano, Scott A. Meyer
24. Intracranial Pressure Management, Eli Johnson, Katie Shpanskaya , Jamshid Ghajar, Odette A. Harris
25. Electrophysiology , Danielle Hulsebus, Martha Mangum, Paul Park
26. Monitoring the Patient: CSF Drainage, Vincent J. Alentado, Michael P. Steinmet
27. Spine Surgery Wound and Drain Management, Christine Orlina Macasieb and Praveen V. Mummaneni
28. Neurological Monitoring, Michael Y. Wang and Gregory Basil
29. The Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Environment and the Neurosurgical Patient, Luke R. Hattenhauer
Part V: Clinical pathologies and scenarios: Brain
30. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, S. Shelby Burks, Patrick Wang, and George Ghobrial
31. Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, George Ghobrial, Karthik Madhavan, Shelby Burks
32. Chronic Subdural Hematoma management, Aminul I. Ahmed and Ross Bullock
33. Acute Hemorrhagic Stroke, Elizabeth Lee. Odette Harris
34. Clinical Pathologies and Scenarios: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Joli Vavao, Teresa Bell-Stephens, JJ Baumann and Gary K Steinberg
35. Hydrocephalus, Nadine Bradley, Jimmi Amick, Brandon G. Rocque
36. Malignant Brain Neoplasms and Brain Metastasis, Cathy Rosenberg, Simon Buttrick, Ricardo Komotar
37. Pituitary Surgery, Valentina Pennacchietti, Nelson M. Oyesiku
38. Skull base tumors, Angela Richardson, Cathy Rosenberg, Jacquer Morcos
39. Posterior Fossa Surgery, Solomon Ondoma, Yiping Li, Mustafa Baskaya
40. Epilepsy Surgery , Wendell Lake and Kyle Swanson
41. Brain Abscess, Andrea L Strayer, Wendell B. Lake
42. Type I Chiari Malformations, George M. Ghobrial, Karthik Madhavan, S. Shelby Burks
43. Brain Death and Organ Donation, Arun Paul Amar
Part VI: Clinical pathologies and scenarios: Spine, ,
44. Spinal Cord Injuries and Fractures , Laura Sweeney, George M. Ghobrial, James S. Harrop
45. Cauda Equina Syndrome, Jasmin Stefani, Luis M. Tumialán
46. Acute Low Back Pain, Laura Ellen Prado, David Benglis
47. Acute Neck Pain & Whiplash, Kelly Walters, John Lee, Honglian Huang
48. Anterior cervical surgery, Álvaro Martín Gallego, Chelsie McCarthy,; Roger Härtl
49. Posterior Cervical Surgery, Dennis T. Lockney, Angela Wolfe, Daniel J. Hoh
50. Spinal Decompressive Surgeries and Lumbar Microdiscectomy, Gabriel Duhancioglu, Rahul Kamath, Junyoung Ahn, Kern Singh.
51. ELECTIVE SPINAL SURGERY FOR LUMBAR FUSION, Nancy Thomas and Paul Park
52. Elective Spinal Surgery for Scoliosis & Kyphosis, Khoi D. Than, Junichi Ohya, Praveen V. Mummaneni
53. Spinal Tumors, Christine Boone, C. Rory Goodwin, Christina Hughes, Daniel M. Sciubba
54. Postoperative Multimodal Oral Pain Management in the Spine Patient, Andrea Strayer
55. Bracing and Electrical Stimulation, Kristina Shultz and Tricia Jette-Gonthier
56. Postoperative Physical and Occupational Therapy, Christie Stawicki, Tristan Fried, Gregory D. Schroeder, Alexander R. Vaccaro
57. Community-Acquired Spinal Infections, Tammy L. Tyree, Luis M. Tumialán
58. Iatrogenic Spinal Infections , Khalid Al-Rayess, Michael Virk, Praveen Mummaneni
59. Clinical Pathologies and Scenarios: Spinal Fluid Leakage, Vincent J. Alentado, Michael P. Steinmetz
60. Percutaneous Spinal Interventions & Pain Management, Eric Mayer and Karen Bond
Part VII: Clinical pathologies and scenarios: Neurology
61. Acute Ischemic Stroke, Nicole Bennett
62. Delirium, Colleen M. Foley
63. Meningitis, Nancy E. Villanueva
64. Alzheimer's dementia, LeAnn DeRungs
65. Parkinson Disease, Bruno V. Gallo, Alisabeth C. Hearron
66. Status Epilepticus, Candice Osuga Lin, Simon Buttrick, Odette Harris
67. DEMYELINATING SYNDROME: Multiple Sclerosis, Jeffrey Hernandez, Leticia Tornes, Janice Y. Maldonado
68. Intoxications, Timur M. Urakov, Rachel Hart
69. Headache, Jaclyn Baloga
70. Peripheral Nerve Disorders, Marine Dididze, Allan D. Levi
Editor(s)
Biography
Michael Wang, is a Professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery & Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
Odette Harris, is an associate professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Andrea Strayer, is a certified Adult and Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Cathy Rosenberg, is a Clinical Instructor and Certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in the Department of Neurological Surgery at tje University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
Praveen Mummaneni, is Joan O'Reilly Endowed Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, USA.