This easy-to-read Handbook offers clinicians a practical system for interpreting emergency head CT. This image driven book covers a wide spectrum of conditions likely to be encountered in everyday clinical practice. Practical tips for recognizing subtle pathology, through to the more obvious, are supplemented by easy-to-interpret diagrams. New topics have been added since the first edition, including trauma CT cervical spine interpretation, and an up-to-date section on acute stroke. In addition to the clinical chapters, this Handbook provides simplified technical details, and a brief historical background, making it an excellent reference manual and learning aide for all clinicians with an interest in emergency CT head interpretation.
Section 1. Fundamentals of Computer Tomography Imaging: Important anatomical considerations; Section 2. Reviewing a CT Scan: 1. Acute stroke; 2. Subdural haematoma (SDH); 3. Extradural/epidural haematoma; 4. Subarachnoid haemorrhage; 5. Traumatic parenchyma brain injury; 6. Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis; 7. Hypoxic-ischaemic injury; 8. Skull fractures; 9. Raised intracranial pressure; 10. Hydrocephalus; 11. Meningitis; 12. Cerebral abscess; 13. Arteriovenous malformation; 14. Solitary lesions; 15. Multiple lesions; 16. Neck vessel dissection; Section 3. Cervical Spine: 'ABCS' approach to interpreting multiplanar reformats of the CT cervical spine; Types of spine fracture; Section 4. Self-Assessment Section: Self assessment - answers; Appendix 1. ABCD2 scoring system; Appendix 2. ROSIER score; Appendix 3. NICE acute stroke flow pathway; Appendix 4. Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) assessment; Appendix 5. NICE guideline for adult CT head; Appendix 6. NICE guideline for adult CT neck; Appendix 7. NICE guideline for paediatric CT head; Appendix 8. NICE guideline for paediatric CT neck; Appendix 9. Information required prior to neurosurgical transfer; Appendix 10. Differential diagnosis for intracerebral lesions.
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