A Practical Guide to Canine and Feline Neurology
ISBN: 9780813812496
Vydavatelství: Blackwell
Rok vydání: 2003
Nárok na dopravu zdarma
Although a working knowledge of neuroanatomy is necessary for
clinicians, learning neuroanatomy in depth is rarely an achievable goal
of any veterinarian in practice. Additionally, there are countless
neurologic diseases, far more than any general small animal
practitioner could possibly remember. This book provides clinicians the
tools they need to understand and be clinically proficient with the
neurology cases they face in practice. Using a logical and simple
approach, this book serves as a succinct handbook of canine and feline
clinical neurology.
The
first chapter condenses the neuroanatomy needed to perform and
interpret a neurologic examination. The second chapter offers
practitioners a step-by-step guide on how to perform and interpret the
neurologic examination so that lesions of the nervous system can be
accurately identified and localised. From these two chapters alone,
practitioners will be able to discern whether or not a specific patient
has neurologic disease and, if so, whether it is in the brain, the
spinal cord, or the peripheral nervous system. Subsequent chapters
provide an excellent resource to fine-tune that localisation and to
identify the specific diseases. Extensive references are also included
for further reading.
A Practical Guide to Canine and Feline Neurology is
an invaluable reference source for small animal practitioners,
veterinary students, residents, specialists and anyone needing a
refresher course on neurology before taking specialty board or state
board examinations.
Table of contents:
1. Functional/Dysfunctional Neuroanatomy: The Key to Lesion Localization.
2. Performing the Neurologic Examination.
3. Neurodiagnostics.
4. Encephalopathies: Disorders of the Brain.
5. Head-Trauma Management.
6. Seizures and Narcolepsy.
7. Disorders of Hearing and Balance: The Vestibulocochlear Nerve (CN VIII) and Associated Structures.
8. Cerebellar Diseases and Tremor Syndromes.
9. Myelopathies: Disorders of the Spinal Cord.
10. Disorders of the Cauda Equina.
11. Neurology and Neuropharmacology of Normal and Abnormal Urination.
12. Disorders of the Peripheral Nervous System: Mononeuropathies and Polyneuropathies.
13. Myopathies: Disorders of Skeletal Muscle.
14. Junctionopathies: Disorders of Neuromuscular Junction.
15. Nursing care for Patients with Neurologic Disease.
16. Pharmacologic Management of Pain.
17. Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Patients with Neurologic Disease.
18. Neurotoxicological Syndromes.
Index.