Emergency Neurology

This book aims to provide adequate and updated clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic references for the treatment of neurological emergencies. This volume describes the approach with decision-making algorithms that start from the symptom(s) for which the patient has accessed the emergency room.The volume provides practical tools for conducting a diagnostic and therapeutic path in urgent neurological conditions. Therefore, the volume clearly describes that a neurological emergency can be treated only after a clear-cut diagnosis has been carried out, and that this task is reserved to the neurologists.The book has also the important value to offer a complete overview on the most relevant advancement in the treatment of the neurological emergencies, contributing to the process of education of a modern neurologist that has the capacity to face the numerous and difficult problems of the diseases of the nervous system.