Controversies in obesity
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33708
David Haslam, Arya M. Sharma, Carel W. le Roux, editors.
--London:
Springer
, c2014.
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Obesity is a relatively new and controversial field of medicine. Some of the controversies surrounding obesity can be dismissed as myths, others reveal the lack of consensus and comprehensive knowledge which exist in obesity and its complex relationship with diabetes and other serious long-term conditions. Controversies in Obesity takes the unique approach of assessing the controversies surrounding obesity, thus seeking to debunk the myths and highlight and explore the genuine science, whilst d…
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- Haslam, David W
- Sharma, Arya M
- Le Roux, Carel W
- Responsibility
- David Haslam, Arya M. Sharma, Carel W. le Roux, editors
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages)
- ISBN
- 9781447128342 (electronic bk.)
- 9781447128335
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Obesity
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Obesity
- Abstract
- Obesity is a relatively new and controversial field of medicine. Some of the controversies surrounding obesity can be dismissed as myths, others reveal the lack of consensus and comprehensive knowledge which exist in obesity and its complex relationship with diabetes and other serious long-term conditions. Controversies in Obesity takes the unique approach of assessing the controversies surrounding obesity, thus seeking to debunk the myths and highlight and explore the genuine science, whilst demonstrating areas where there is healthy debate. This book will appeal to primary care physicians, trainees and specialist nurses involved in care of the obese patient, and would be of interest to anyone who wishes to gain a better understanding of the complex nature of obesity and its management.
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction -- Obesity : Why Bother? / Stephan Rössner -- -- Part II: Sociopolitical -- Too Late to Challenge the Modern Obesity Epidemic? / Neville J. Rigby -- Government Action to Tackle Obesity / Susan A. Jebb -- Why Are Governments Abdicating from Dealing with the Obesity Crisis? / Boyd A. Swinburn -- Childhood Habits and the Obesity Epidemic / Michael E.J. Lean -- Obesity and Sexuality / David W. Haslam -- Fat on Display / David W. Haslam -- Part III. Causes -- The Emerging Paradigm Shift in Understanding the Causes of Obesity / Shamil A. Chandaria -- Adenoviruses and Obesity / Richard L. Atkinson -- The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Obesity / Kristine H. Allin and Oluf Pedersen -- Saturated Fat in Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity : Friend or Foe? / Aseem Malhotra -- Childhood Obesity and the Environment / Paul A. Whaley -- Genetics and Epigenetics : Myths or Facts? / Kirsi H. Pietiläinen -- Chronicities of Modernity and the Contained Body as an Explanation for the Global Pandemic of Obesity, Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome / Dennis Wiedman -- Part IV. Clinical -- Screening for Type 2 Diabetes / Laura J. Gray, Melanie J. Davies, and Kamlesh Khunti -- Assessing the Cardiometabolic Risk of Obesity : Importance of Visceral/Ectopic Fat and of the Use of Hypertriglyceridemic Waist / Jean-Pierre Després -- Moving Beyond Scales and Tapes : The Edmonton Obesity Staging System / Arya M. Sharma -- Obstructive Sleep Apnea / Bertrand R. de Silva -- Obesity and the Heart Disease Patient : Controversies Abound / Henry J. Purcell -- Obesity, Diabetes and Dental Health : Relationship and Management / Rajesh Chauhan -- Very Low Calorie Diets : Saint or Sinner? / Debbie R.J. Cook -- Obesity and the Mind / David W. Haslam -- Adipose Tissue Expansion for Improving Glycemic Control / Niklil V. Dhurandhar -- Should Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Be Restricted in the Obese? / Tim S. Waters -- Is It Time to Rename Obesity Management as Secondary Prevention? / Matthew S. Capehorn -- Part V. Childhood -- Childhood Obesity : What Harm, Any Solutions? / Julian Paul Hamilton-Shield -- Residential Weight Loss Camps for Children and Young People / Paul J. Gately -- Part VI. Treatment -- Sibutramine and Rimonabant : A Postmortem Forensic Examination / Gary Wittert -- Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding : The Physicians Choice in Bariatric Surgery / John B. Dixon -- Challenges Faced by the Bariatric Multidisciplinary Team / Wen Bun Leong and Shahrad Taheri-- The Controversies Around Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass / Carel W. le Roux -- Weight Gain on Glucose-Lowering Agents / Abdul Fattah Lakhdar -- Tipping the Scales of Truth : Why the Energy Balance Equation Is a Dangerous Lie / Damian Edwards -- OTC Slimming Aids / Terry Maguire -- Overcoming Sloth / Fred Turok.
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- e-Book
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Denying AIDS : conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and human tragedy
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat40970
Seth C. Kalichman ; foreward by Nicoli Nattarass.
--New York, NY:
Copernicus Books
, c2009.
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Paralleling the discovery of HIV and the rise of the AIDS pandemic, a flock of naysayers has dedicated itself to replacing genuine knowledge with destructive misinformation and spreading from the fringe to the mainstream media and the think tank. Now from the editor of the journal AIDS and Behavior comes a bold exposé of the scientific and sociopolitical forces involved in this toxic evasion. Denying AIDS traces the origins of AIDS dissidents disclaimers during the earliest days of the epidemic…
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- Author
- Kalichman, Seth C.
- Responsibility
- Seth C. Kalichman ; foreward by Nicoli Nattarass
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Copernicus Books
- Date of Publication
- c2009
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 205 p. : ill.)
- ISBN
- 9780387794761
- 9780387794754 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - psychology
- Anti-HIV Agents
- Denial (Psychology)
- Health Policy
- Quackery
- Abstract
- Paralleling the discovery of HIV and the rise of the AIDS pandemic, a flock of naysayers has dedicated itself to replacing genuine knowledge with destructive misinformation and spreading from the fringe to the mainstream media and the think tank. Now from the editor of the journal AIDS and Behavior comes a bold exposé of the scientific and sociopolitical forces involved in this toxic evasion. Denying AIDS traces the origins of AIDS dissidents disclaimers during the earliest days of the epidemic and delves into the psychology and politics of the current denial movement in its various incarnations. Seth Kalichman focuses not on the “difficult” or doubting patient, but on organized, widespread forms of denial (including the idea that HIV itself is a myth and HIV treatments are poison) and the junk science, faulty logic, conspiracy theories, and larger forces of homophobia and racism that fuel them. The malignant results of AIDS denial can be seen in those individuals who refuse to be tested, ignore their diagnoses, or reject the treatments that could save their lives. Instead of ignoring these currents, asserts Kalichman, science has a duty to counter them. Among the topics covered include: why AIDS denialism endures, and why science must understand it, pioneer virus HIV researcher Peter Duesberg’s role in AIDS denialism, the social conservative agenda and the politics of AIDS denial, from the courts to the White House, yhe impact of HIV misinformation on public health in South Africa and fighting fiction with reality: anti-denialism and the scientific community. For anyone affected by, interested in, or working with researchers in HIV/AIDS, and public health professionals in general, the insight and vision of Denying AIDS will inspire outrage, discussion, and ultimately action.
- Contents
- HIV/AIDS Denialism Is Alive and Well -- Peter Duesberg and the Origins of HIV/AIDS Denialism -- AIDS Pseudoscience -- Denalist Journalism and Conspiracy Theories -- Politics of Denialsm -- Getting Out of Denial -- Epilogue: The Most Ironic Conspiracy.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Detection of Malingering During Head Injury Litigation
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30913
Cecil R. Reynolds, Arthur MacNeill Horton, Jr., editors.
(2nd ed.)
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2012.
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Increased public awareness of traumatic brain injuries has fueled a number of significant developments: on the one hand, more funding and more research related to these injuries and their resulting deficits; on the other, the possibility of higher stakes in personal injury suits - and more reasons for individuals to feign injury. Expanding both the conceptual and clinical knowledge base on the subject, the second edition of Detection of Malingering during Head Injury Litigation offers the lates…
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- Reynolds, Cecil R
- Horton, Arthur MacNeill
- Responsibility
- Cecil R. Reynolds, Arthur MacNeill Horton, Jr., editors
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2012
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 381 p. : 34 ill.)
- ISBN
- 9781461404422
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Craniocerebral Trauma - complications
- Forensic Psychiatry - methods
- Jurisprudence
- Malingering - diagnosis
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Psychology, clinical
- Law - Psychological aspects
- Forensic medicine
- Abstract
- Increased public awareness of traumatic brain injuries has fueled a number of significant developments: on the one hand, more funding and more research related to these injuries and their resulting deficits; on the other, the possibility of higher stakes in personal injury suits - and more reasons for individuals to feign injury. Expanding both the conceptual and clinical knowledge base on the subject, the second edition of Detection of Malingering during Head Injury Litigation offers the latest detection tools and techniques for veteran and novice alike. As in its incarnation, this practical revision demonstrates how to combine clinical expertise, carefully-gathered data, and the use of actuarial models as well as common sense in making sound evaluations and reducing ambiguous results. And, the book navigates the reader through the many caveats that come with the job, beginning with the scenario that an individual may be malingering despite having an actual brain injury. Professional neuropsychologists and forensic psychologists will appreciate this new edition of Detection of Malingering during Head Injury Litigation as an invaluable source of refinements to their craft, and improvement as an expert witness.
- Contents
- Chapter 1 -- Assessment of Malingering and Falsification: Part one, Pushing to the Boundaries of Knowledge and Clinical Practice-Conceptual Issues -- Chapter 2. Assessment of Malingering and Falsification: Part two, Pushing the Boundaries of Knowledge and Clinical Practice-Clinical Application -- Chapter 3. Noncredible Performance in Mild Head Injury -- Chapter 4. Detection of Malingering Using Forced-Choice Techniques -- Chapter 5. Fractitious Responding and Malingered Memory Disorder -- Chapter 6. Performance on the WMT, MSVT & NV-MSVT in Children with Developmental Disabilities and in Adults with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury -- Chapter 7. Detecting Malingering on the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery -- Chapter 8. Detection of Malingering and Invalid Test Results Using the Halstead-Reitan Battery -- Chapter 9. Detection of Feigning of Head Injury Symptoms on the MMPI-2 -- Chapter 10. Explaining Symptom Validity Testing to the Trier of Fact -- Chapter 11. Distinguishing Genuine from Malingered Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Head Injury Litigation -- Chapter 12. Clinical Detection of Malingering -- Chapter 13. Clinical Acumen, Common Sense, and Data Based Decision Making: Actuarialism in the Detection of Dissimulation During Head Injury Litigation -- Index.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Managing Care : A Shared Responsibility
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by L. Joseph Verheijde.
--Dordrecht:
Springer
, c2006.
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The effective management of appropriate health care should be able to contain medical care costs and improve accessibility while addressing rationing concerns. However, managed care in the United States has not lived up to the expectations set for it. Managed care quickly gained popularity among employers and public policy makers as a mechanism for curbing the excessive growth of health care insurance costs. Nonetheless, since its introduction, the system of largely for-profit managed care has …
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- Verheijde, L. Joseph
- Responsibility
- by L. Joseph Verheijde
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2006
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 229 p.)
- Series Vol.
- v. 22
- Series Title
- Issues in Business Ethics
- ISBN
- 9781402041853
- 9781402041846 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 0925-6733
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Bioethical Issues
- Health Care Rationing - ethics
- Health Services Administration - ethics
- Managed Care Programs - ethics
- Social Responsibility
- Other Subjects
- United States
- Abstract
- The effective management of appropriate health care should be able to contain medical care costs and improve accessibility while addressing rationing concerns. However, managed care in the United States has not lived up to the expectations set for it. Managed care quickly gained popularity among employers and public policy makers as a mechanism for curbing the excessive growth of health care insurance costs. Nonetheless, since its introduction, the system of largely for-profit managed care has been the subject of much public and political debate. The change from a fee-for-service system toward a system in which the health care insurance component is combined with the delivery of a broad range of integrated health care services for populations of plan enrollees that are financed prospectively from a limited budget has been widely criticized and has even been called repugnant. Instead of placing the blame on managed care organizations, however, we need to keep in mind that such organizations operate without societal agreement on critical issues such as a workable definition of health, an authoritative standard for defining the scope of entitlements, and on the distribution of labor between public and private sector entities. The health care system in the United States is also characterized by decentralization as well as the absence of a comprehensive health care planning or budgeting system, substantive access rules, and agreed-upon minimum health care benefit package. Therefore, managed care organizations only have limited responsibilities. The nonexistence of a shared, unifying paradigm of responsibility has been called the leading cause of the inability to manage health care appropriately. The stakeholders in health care operate on a set of widely varying interpretations of the notion of responsibility. The concept of genuine responsibility, recognizing the complexity of health care and the need for stakeholder-specific interpretations of responsibility, proposes as the underlying premise of responsibility (at least in regard to health care) the social agreement that distributive choices should be made on the basis of the premise of deliberate reciprocity. When all parties share the same foundation on which the notion of responsibility is built the resulting trust and cooperation among stakeholders enables them to find morally appropriate solutions in reforming health care.
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Health Care Costs and Scarcity of Health Care Resources -- Introduction -- Development of Managed Care -- Rationing: A Dilemma for Ethicists -- Responsibility -- Chapter 2. The Concept of Managed Care and its Practical Implications -- Introduction -- Quality of Care in Managed Care -- History of Managed Care -- Where Does Managed Care Find its Market -- Definition of Managed Care -- Managed Care as Unknown Territory -- Methodological Concerns Regarding Data Collection -- Population-Based Distribution and Individual Autonomy -- Balancing Responsibilities -- Changes in Managed Care -- Chapter 3. Ideology: The Silent Partner -- Introduction -- The Concept of Ideology -- Ideology In Medicine -- The Context of Scarcity and its Ideological Impact on Health Care -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Concept of Genuine Responsibility -- Introduction -- Changing the Focus In Health Care Distribution -- The Notion of Responsibility -- Justice And Health Care -- Key Presumptions -- Chapter 5: Revising The Template For Modeling Health Care -- Introduction -- Necessity For Change -- Defining Health And Health Care -- The Main Parties Involved -- Chapter 6: Theoretical Reflections -- Introduction -- Managed Care -- The Problem: Who Is Responsible For What? -- Justice As Appropriation -- A Template For Responsible Healthcare Distribution -- Chapter 7: Implementation In U.S. Health Care System: Challenges And Opportunities -- Introduction -- Changing The Views on Business And Profits -- Individual Entitlement And Social Justice -- The Role of Government -- Health Care Planning -- Health Care Budgeting -- Special Interest Groups And Policy Making -- The Minimum Health Care Benefit Package -- The Contribution of Evidence-Based Medicine.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Psychotherapy : A Practical Guide
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Jeffery Smith.
--Cham:
Springer
, 2017.
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- Cape Breton Regional: 2005 - 2007; 2010 - 2011.
- Nova Scotia Hospital: v. 19, 1982 - v. 29, 1992; v. 32, 1995 - v. 48, 2011.
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- Online
This title combines the many schools of thought on psychotherapy into one reader-friendly guide that coaches psychotherapists through the various techniques needed as the field expands. Unlike any other book on the market, this text considers all of the simultaneous advances in the field, including the neurobiology of emotions, the importance of the therapeutic relationship, mindfulness meditation, and the role of the body in healing. Written with genuine respect for all traditions from CBT to …
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- Author
- Smith, Jeffery
- Responsibility
- Jeffery Smith
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Holdings
- Cape Breton Regional: 2005 - 2007; 2010 - 2011.
- Nova Scotia Hospital: v. 19, 1982 - v. 29, 1992; v. 32, 1995 - v. 48, 2011.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 272 pages) : 13 illus., 6 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319494609
- 9783319494593 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 0033-3204
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Mental Disorders
- Physician-Patient Relations
- Psychotherapy - methods
- Abstract
- This title combines the many schools of thought on psychotherapy into one reader-friendly guide that coaches psychotherapists through the various techniques needed as the field expands. Unlike any other book on the market, this text considers all of the simultaneous advances in the field, including the neurobiology of emotions, the importance of the therapeutic relationship, mindfulness meditation, and the role of the body in healing. Written with genuine respect for all traditions from CBT to psychodynamics, the book unifies views of psychopathology and cure based on the notion of the mind-brain as an organ of affect regulation. The book accounts for the tasks that characterize psychotherapist activity in all therapies, how they are performed, and how they result in therapeutic change. The book also reviews the various pathologies seen in general practice and guides the reader to the specific therapist-patient interactions needed for their resolution. With its big-picture focus on clinical practice, Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide is a concise resource for students, psychotherapists, psychologists, residents, and all who seek to integrate what is new in psychotherapy.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- Part I: How Therapy Works -- 2. Layers of Pathology -- 3. The Affect Avoidance Model -- 4. Avoidance Patterns and Mechanisms -- 5. How Affects Are Healed -- 6. A Context of Connection -- 7. Motivation, Internal and External -- 8. A Developmental Primer -- Part II: What Therapists Do -- 9. Conducting an Initial Assessment -- 10. Conducting Generic Talk Therapy -- 11. Building and Maintaining the Therapeutic Relationship -- 12. Working with the Inner Child -- 13. Adjustments -- Part III: A Catalog of EDPs -- 14. Behavioral EDPs -- 15. Addictions -- 16. The First Helper: Emotion -- 17. The Second Helper: Conscience-Based Emotion -- 18. The Third Helper: Thoughts -- 19. Involuntary Symptoms: Grief and Depression -- 20. Involuntary Symptoms: Anxiety-Related Problems -- 21. Involuntary Symptoms: Trauma and Dissociation -- 22. Going Forward.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Urodynamics Evaluation
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/chpams37917
IWK. Adult Surgery and Women's Ambulatory Clinics, IWK. Family Newborn Adult Surgery Unit, IWK. Women's Health Community Clinics, IWK. Women's Health Specialty Clinic, IWK. Reproductive Ambulatory Care, IWK. Gynaecology Unit - Inpatient, IWK. Urogynaecology / General Gynaecology, IWK. Preadmission Clinic (WNHP), IWK. Reproductive Endocrine Centre.
Halifax, NS:
IWK Health Centre
, 2017.
- Pamphlet Number
- PL-0991
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Patients with lower urinary tract symptoms may have one or more of several conditions which can cause these complaints, including: urinary tract infection, urethral syndrome, unstable bladder, or a loss of support at the bladder base with urinary incontinence (a condition we call "genuine stress incontinence"). Urodynamics testing is useful to assess patients before any surgery or other treatment is carried out.
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- IWK. Adult Surgery and Women's Ambulatory Clinics
- IWK. Family Newborn Adult Surgery Unit
- IWK. Women's Health Community Clinics
- IWK. Women's Health Specialty Clinic
- IWK. Reproductive Ambulatory Care
- IWK. Gynaecology Unit - Inpatient
- IWK. Urogynaecology / General Gynaecology
- IWK. Preadmission Clinic (WNHP)
- IWK. Reproductive Endocrine Centre
- Alternate Title
- a patient guide
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, NS
- Publisher
- IWK Health Centre
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Format
- Pamphlet
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic document : digital, PDF file
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Urodynamics
- Urologic Diseases - diagnosis
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Urodynamics
- Urinary organs--Diseases--Diagnosis
- Abstract
- Patients with lower urinary tract symptoms may have one or more of several conditions which can cause these complaints, including: urinary tract infection, urethral syndrome, unstable bladder, or a loss of support at the bladder base with urinary incontinence (a condition we call "genuine stress incontinence"). Urodynamics testing is useful to assess patients before any surgery or other treatment is carried out.
- Responsibility
- IWK Family Newborn Adult Surgery Unit, Halifax, NS
- Pamphlet Number
- PL-0991
Vascular Neurosurgery : In Multiple-Choice Questions
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41616
Samer S. Hoz.
--Cham:
Springer
, 2017.
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This book is a guide dedicated to vascular pathologies affecting the central nervous system. It uses a multiple-choice format with more than 340 genuine MCQs in a convenient format that is ideal for self-study. Seven chapters provide comprehensive coverage of core concepts in vascular neurosurgery. The questions are structured and organized so as to offer a step-by-step description of each disease, from the definition, related anatomy, pathology, clinical features, radiology to surgical decisio…
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- Author
- Hoz, Samer S.
- Responsibility
- Samer S. Hoz
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 209 pages) : 6 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319491875
- 9783319491868 (print ed.)
- Abstract
- This book is a guide dedicated to vascular pathologies affecting the central nervous system. It uses a multiple-choice format with more than 340 genuine MCQs in a convenient format that is ideal for self-study. Seven chapters provide comprehensive coverage of core concepts in vascular neurosurgery. The questions are structured and organized so as to offer a step-by-step description of each disease, from the definition, related anatomy, pathology, clinical features, radiology to surgical decisions and operative tricks. Answers and explanations appear directly below the questions to make reading easy. This book is essential for residents across neurosurgical disciplines as it includes most of the neurovascular information neurosurgical residents need to prepare for their certification exam. It is also beneficial for those seeking a refresher or for those preparing for certification maintenance.
- Contents
- Intracranial Aneurysm -- Arterio-Venous Malformations -- Dural Arteriovenous Fistula and Carotid-Cavernous Fistula -- Cavernoma and other Malformations -- Vein of Galen Aneurysmal Malformations -- Moyamoya Disease -- Spinal Vascular Malformations.
- Format
- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Examination Questions
- Location
- Online
