- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA; 4 edition (14 Jun 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195321316
- ISBN-13: 978-0195321319
- Product Dimensions: 26 x 18.4 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 750,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is an excellent text, and the substantial changes since the third edition easily justify the purchase of a new copy. (Doody'd Notes, )
This is great book and a fitting tribute to him who inspired it. (Brain, Vol 130, )
Over 50 years after its first edition, this book remains a gem among neurological monographs. Beyond maintaining a contemporary status, it has matured like good wine, improving over time to provide the reader with the best available summary of disorders of consciousness available on the market today. (European Neurology, )
This is great book and a fitting tribute to him who inspired it. (Brain, Vol 130, )
Over 50 years after its first edition, this book remains a gem among neurological monographs. Beyond maintaining a contemporary status, it has matured like good wine, improving over time to provide the reader with the best available summary of disorders of consciousness available on the market today. (European Neurology, )
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Delirium, stupor and coma are common clinical states that confront clinicians in almost every medical specialty. With appropriate diagnosis and treatment, coma can often be treated successfully. Conversely, delay in diagnosis and treatment may be lethal. This monograph provides an update on the clinical approach that was laid out in the previous 3 editions. It describes an approach for the physician at the bedside to diagnose and treat alterations of consciousness, based on pathophysiologic principles. The book begins with a description of the physiology of consciousness and the pathophysiology of disorders of consciousness. It continues with a description of the approach to a patient with a disorder of consciousness, emphasizing the bedside examination, but including the use of modern imaging techniques. The important structural and metabolic causes of coma are reviewed in detail. It then describes the emergency treatment, both medical and surgical, of patients with specific disorders of consciousness and their prognosis. New chapters describe the approach to the diagnosis of brain death and the clinical physiology of the vegetative state and minimally conscious state, as well as the ethics of dealing with such patients and their families. The book is aimed at medical students and residents, in fields from internal medicine and pediatrics to emergency medicine, surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, who are likely to encounter patients with disordered states of consciousness. It includes historical background and basic neurophysiology that is important for those in the clinical neurosciences, but also lays out a practical approach to the comatose patient that is an important part of the repertoire of all clinicians who provide emergency care for patients with disorders of consciousness.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was written in the earliest days of modern imaging techniques when diagnosis of neurological emergencies required a systematic clinical approach. These clinical principles remain just as sound today, and are vital for anyone involved in the emergency assessment of an unconscious patient.
Plum and Posner have produced an exhaustive and excellently written volume on all aspects of clinical assessment and diagnosis of altered conscious levels. The causes and significance of physical signs are considered first, followed by a detailed discussion of supratentorial, subtentorial and diffuse pathologies. There are also chapters on brain death, prognosis and approach to the unconscious patient. Throughout the book, ideas in the text are illustrated by excellent case studies and diagrams.
The book can be approached equally on a sign/symptom basis or with a particular condition in mind.
Of particular note to anyone involved in emergency care are lucid explanations of such topics as herniation syndromes, respiratory abnormalities and assessment of eye signs.
The book is acknowledged as one of THE texts in this subspecialty. It has stood the test of time and will continue to do so.
Plum and Posner have produced an exhaustive and excellently written volume on all aspects of clinical assessment and diagnosis of altered conscious levels. The causes and significance of physical signs are considered first, followed by a detailed discussion of supratentorial, subtentorial and diffuse pathologies. There are also chapters on brain death, prognosis and approach to the unconscious patient. Throughout the book, ideas in the text are illustrated by excellent case studies and diagrams.
The book can be approached equally on a sign/symptom basis or with a particular condition in mind.
Of particular note to anyone involved in emergency care are lucid explanations of such topics as herniation syndromes, respiratory abnormalities and assessment of eye signs.
The book is acknowledged as one of THE texts in this subspecialty. It has stood the test of time and will continue to do so.
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A Classic
12 Sep 2007
Format:Hardcover
Plum and Posner is a classic book to be read by every doctor atleast once in his/her lifetime. I was fortunate to use the third edition of this book during my postgraduate days and later in practice. Now the fourth edition is even greater to read, expanded, uptodate and remains very clinical as the previous edition. It will be a very valuable addition to those who care for acute neurological patients. There is no other book like this and it will be a classic forever. The neurological community will always remain thankful to the authors for bringing out this new edition.
The publishers have failed us miserably for the fragile binding used. The pages keep coming away as you read the book. It is very unfortunate that they have made this kind of compromise. They should have known that this book is meant for the trenches and not for the coffee table.
The publishers have failed us miserably for the fragile binding used. The pages keep coming away as you read the book. It is very unfortunate that they have made this kind of compromise. They should have known that this book is meant for the trenches and not for the coffee table.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
there is no way around
25 Dec 2007
Format:Hardcover
If you are working in the field of acute neurology you will finally need this book telling you what you could or should know in unconscious patients. Its a clear "eye-opener" for doctors.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Classic and contemporary
15 Jan 2009
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Firstly, I was just glad that this book made it to the second edition.The classics get quoted so much that sometimes most of the material is in other books anyway.This book is such a nice read,not dull or dreary for a non neurologist.
Buy and keep reading!!
Buy and keep reading!!
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