Spinal Cord Injury

Board Review
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-323-83389-9
Verlag: Elsevier Health Sciences

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 285 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 1090 g

The only review book currently available in this complex field, Spinal Cord Injury: Board Review focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injuries and dysfunction. Focused, high-yield content prepares you for success on exams and in practice, with up-to-date coverage of related injury assessment and management, acute and preventive medical care, common complications, physical, psychological, and vocational disabilities and complications—all equipping you to work as part of an interdisciplinary team with patients of all ages on a lifelong basis. Edited and written by seasoned authors and physicians in PM&R, this unique review tool is ideal for residents, fellows, and practitioners studying or working in the field and preparing to take the spinal cord injury medicine exam. - Supports self-assessment and review with 200+ board-style questions and explanations
- Includes questions on patient management including patient evaluation and diagnosis, prognosis/risk factors, and applied science
- Features chapters dedicated to key topics such as anatomy and imaging of the spinal cord; sexual and reproductive health; pressure injuries; pain management; and nutrition, endocrine and immune function in spinal cord injury and dysfunction
- Covers all aspects of rehabilitation in spinal cord injury medicine including functional assessment, exercise and modalities, mobility, ADLs, speech, communication and swallowing
- Ensures efficient, effective review with content written by experts in physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, psychiatry and psychology and a format that mirrors the sub-specialty board exam outline
- Contains references to primary literature that support the answers provided
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eapen, Blessen C.

Cifu, David

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Physiotherapie, Physikalische Therapie Rehabilitation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Neurophysiology of the Spinal Cord
2. Physiology and Pathophysiology
3. Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Genetics
4. Prevention of Spinal Cord Injury
5. Clinical and basic research

Section 2: Acute Injury Assessment and Care
6. Prehospital Evaluation and Management

7. Critical Care Management
7. Neurological Assessment and Classification
8. Medical and Surgical Options Management of Acute Spinal cord Injury
8. Neuroimaging
9. Electrodiagnostics in Spinal Cord Injury
10. Functional Assessment
11. Prognosis and Outcome Management
12. Cardiovascular Management
13. Autonomic Dysreflexia

Section 3: Medical Management
14. Pulmonary
15. Sleep disorders in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
16. Thromboembolism/DVT
17. Neurogenic Bowel
18. DYSPHAGIA AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY

19. Neurogenic Bladder
20. UROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN PERSONS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURED
21. Sexuality/ Reproductive
22. WOMEN’S HEALTH AFTER SCI

23. Musculoskeletal Pain and Overuse Injuries

24. Heterotopic Ossification
25. Spine Fractures, Dislocations, and Instability
26. Scoliosis and Late Spine complications
27. Spinal Orthosis
28. POSTTRAUMATIC SYRINGOMYELIA
29. Spasticity
30. Thermoregulation and Sweating
31. TBI and SCI
32. Neuromodulatory and dis-modifying agents
33. Pressure Injuries
34. Nutrition, weight management and body composition
35. Endocrine / Metabolic
36. Infection. Immune NOS
37. Pain
38. Psychological
39. Traumatic Myelopathy
40. NON TRAUMATIC MYELOPATHIES

SECTION 4: Myelopathy
41. Myelopathy without specified etiology
42. Healthcare maintenance
43. Spinal Cord Injury and Aging

SECTION 5: Long-Term Management and Outcomes
44. Exercise and modalities
45. FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY FOLLOWING SPINAL CORD INJURY

46. Activities of daily living
47. COMMUNICATION AND SCI

48. PARTICIPATION: LIVING WITH SCI
49. REHABILITATION TEAM

Über Autor(innen)

Cifu, David
David Cifu is an American physiatrist, researcher, and medical educator. He is the Associate Dean for Innovation and System Integration in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, the chairman and Herman J. Flax M.D. Professor of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Virginia Commonwealth University, staff physiatrist at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center, founding director of the VCU-Center for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering and senior TBI specialist in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration.

Eapen, Blessen C.
Blessen Eapen is the Chief of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Department at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and is a Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Eapen is a physiatrist, researcher, and medical educator who has received numerous professional awards and honors and has authored many peer-reviewed publications, chapters and books in the field of rehabilitation medicine