Interpretation of Emergency Head CT: A Practical Handbook

This easy-to-read handbook offers clinicians a practical system for interpreting emergency head CT.

This image driven book covers a wide spectrum of conditions likely to be encountered in everyday clinical practice. Practical tips for recognizing subtle pathology, through to the more obvious, are supplemented by easy-to-interpret diagrams. New topics have been added since the first edition, including trauma CT cervical spine interpretation, and an up-to-date section on acute stroke. In addition to the clinical chapters, this Handbook provides simplified technical details, and a brief historical background, making it an excellent reference manual and learning aide for all clinicians with an interest in emergency CT head interpretation.

Key features:

• Covers a wide range of conditions relating to emergency head CT, allowing the variety of specialist groups needing to interpret these conditions to develop these skills
• Includes a large number of heightened resolution CT plates showing subtle and obvious anomalies, with the accompanying text limited to precise details
• Cervical spine CT interpretation and an extended review of normal anatomy have been added to this second edition

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Holmes, Erskine J.; Misra, Rakesh R.

ISBN:

978-1-10-749593-7

Specialty:

• Emergency Medicine & Trauma

Language:

English

Edition:

2nd

Pages:

148

Publication Year:

2017

Doody's Star Rating®:

Score:

74