Stroke Medicine (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Neurology) - Softcover

Markus, Hugh; Pereira, Anthony; Cloud, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199218773 ISBN 13: 9780199218776

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2010

Synopsis

Stroke is an enormous health problem. It is the third major cause of death, and the major cause of adult neurological disability. As many as a quarter of women in their 80s may suffer stroke. It represents a huge financial burden for the NHS, costing more than heart disease. Stroke care has historically been poor in many places but a revolution in care is taking place as a result of specific treatments such as stroke units and thrombolysis, which have been shown to markedly improve outcome. This has led to many countries reorganising the way they offer stroke care.

Stroke Medicine is a practical handbook for the practising physician. Written by a multidisciplinary team of three practising consultants from a leading UK stroke service, it provides an up-to-date and easily accessible source of information on all aspects of stroke care from acute care, through to rehabilitation and secondary prevention. Designed to be used both on the ward and in the outpatient room, it provides a practical approach to managing the stroke patient, and is an invaluable source of information for stroke physicians, neurologists, geriatricians and other specialists involved in the care of stroke patients. It will also prove to be a useful handbook for consultants and doctors in training. Designed to cover the curriculum of the UK Specialist Stroke training programme for clinicians in training, it is likely to provide similar levels of coverage for emerging stroke training programmes in other parts of the world.

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About the Author

Hugh Markus graduated from Cambridge and Oxford Universities before training in General Medicine at Oxford and Nottingham, and then in Neurology at the Middlesex and University College Hospitals London, and at St George's and Atkinson Morley Neuroscience Centre, London. He has been involved in a number of clinical trials in different aspects of stroke care. He is a member of many scientific committees including European Stroke Congress, International Symposium on Cerebral Haemodynamics, European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Haemodynamics, World Federation of Neurology Neurosonology Research Group, and British Association of Stroke Physicians. He is editor-in-chief of Stroke Review and is on the editorial board of other neurology and stroke journals. He has published over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and two books on stroke. Anthony Pereira qualified from Cambridge in 1989 with a BA in Neurophysiology and was awarded a MRCP(UK) in 1994 before working in a variety of trainee positions in London. He has written numerous journal articles, and is currently a consultant neurologist at St George's Hospital, London. Geoffrey Cloud qualified in London in 1992, and completed his MRCP in 1997. He has written numerous journal articles, and has been a consultant physician in geriatric medicine and stroke medicine at St George's Hospital in London since 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199218773
• ISBN 13: 9780199218776
• Binding: Flexibound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592