The Diagnosis of Coma and Stupor (Contemporary Neurology)

By Jerome B. PosnerFred PlumNicholas Schiff, et al.

Book Overview

Delirium, stupor and coma are common clinical states that confront clinicians in almost every medical specialty. With appropriate diagnosis and treatment, coma can often be treated successfully.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803669925
• ISBN13: 9780803669925
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: F. A. Davis Company
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Classic and contemporary

Firstly, I was just glad that this book made it to the second edition.The classics get quoted so much that sometimes most of the material is in other books anyway.This book is such a nice read,not dull or dreary for a non neurologist. Buy and keep reading!!

Plum and Posner

I am an anesthesiologist, to use the American neologism coined in referring to that branch of the medical profession that regularly induces coma in the populace. This renewal of a classic in the field has been rendered up to date - for of course imaging has transformed the neurosciences. But as I do not regularly seek medical images of the neural elements of my anesthetized subjects, this book stands as a beacon in the organized clinical interpretation of the widely varying presentation of my unconscious and emerging patients.

there is no way around

If you are working in the field of acute neurology you will finally need this book telling you what you could or should know in unconscious patients. Its a clear "eye-opener" for doctors.