Care of the Neurological Patient
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Author(s): H. Iggulden
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 1405117168
Format: softback
309pp
Price: £16.99
Review Date: 12 May 2006
Review: It has been estimate that acute neurology patients account for 20 per cent of admissions to general medical wards where they are cared for by general nurses. This book is for such nurses. Guidance is given for the care of patients after acquired brain injury such as stroke or sub-arachnoid haemorrhage; traumatic injury or anoxic damage; seizure activity; dementia; multiple sclerosis; Parkinson’s disease; and motor neurone disease. The author focuses on the problems and discomforts that patients commonly experience in relation to one, some, or all of the following: altered sensation, altered movement or motor ability, altered perception, and altered cognition.