This memoir of the experiences of a neurosurgery resident at a busy trauma center provides a rare window into the training of doctors who operate on patients' brains and spinal cords. Kaloostian's account describes the life-saving feats and tragic failures that are daily realities of twenty-first-century neurosurgery"--Provided by publisher.
Few understand the life that physicians and surgeons lead. They communicate with people that have no where else to go for help. They are brought face to face with challenging medical conditions and are required to be at their best all the time in order to heal the sick and suffering. I often talk with friends who are not in medicine about my hours and cases and they always seem to be unaware, and often times uninterested, in what we do for a living. We have been given a tremendous responsibility to enter the lives of other human beings in order to learn more about their problems in an attempt to alter their current path of health. We have taken an oath to constantly learn and provide the best care possible. It is a true joy and challenge to do this. And so I wanted to share this trip with you all. Each poem stems from a separate surgical case that I have encountered in my training in New Mexico. Each tells a story and hopefully sheds some light on what we do on a daily basis. Please enjoy!
Pocket-size, user-friendly roadmap outlines most common surgical procedures in neurosurgery! Surgery requires a combination of knowledge and skill acquired through years of direct observation, mentorship, and practice. The learning curve can be steep, frustrating, and intimidating for many medical students and junior residents. Too often, books and texts that attempt to translate the art of surgery are far too comprehensive for this audience and counterproductive to learning important basic skills to succeed. Neurosurgery Outlines by neurosurgeon Paul E. Kaloostian is the neuro-surgical volume in the Surgical Outlines series of textbooks that offer a simplified roadmap to surgery. This unique resource outlines key steps for common surgeries, laying a solid foundation of basic knowledge from which trainees can easily build and expand. The text serves as a starting point for learning neurosurgical techniques, with room for adding notes, details, and pearls collected during the journey. The chapters are systematically organized and formatted by subspecialty, encompassing spine, radiosurgery, brain tumors and vascular lesions, head trauma, functional neurosurgery, epilepsy, pain, and hydrocephalus. Each chapter includes symptoms and signs, surgical pathology, diagnostic modalities, differential diagnosis, treatment options, indications for surgical intervention, step-by-step procedures, pitfalls, prognosis, and references where applicable. Key Features Provides quick procedural outlines essential for understanding procedures and assisting attending neurosurgeons during rounds Spine procedures organized by cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx regions cover traumatic, elective, and tumor/vascular-related interventions Cranial topics include lesion resection for brain tumors and cerebrovascular disease and TBI treatment This is an ideal, easy-to-read resource for medical students and junior residents to utilize during the one-month neurosurgery rotations and for quick consultation during the early years of neurosurgical practice. It will also benefit operating room nurses who need a quick guide on core neurosurgical procedures.
The central nervous system is a fascinating anatomical specimen. The brain and spinal cord, and all related nervous tissue, are such delicate and critical structures that truly make us who we are as functioning human beings. Infection of the central and peripheral nervous systems are quite complex. There are a wide variety of infectious disease states that afflict this area and we have attempted to describe and teach many of these disease states in this textbook. We have written this textbook in the form of clinical vignettes of real-life patient cases that we have each taken care of during our training. We have learned so much from these patients and we wanted to share this teaching with the rest of the world. We hope that this textbook can enlighten readers of all specialties and fields about infectious diseases of the central nervous system and methods of diagnosis and management of these neurosurgically and neurologically impaired patients. Please enjoy!
What physicians see on a daily basis is profound. They see life and death. They also see everything in between. Though it is not always a rose garden, it can be one of the most wonderful and unique experiences that life has to offer. This collection of poetry is for those who wish to travel into the mind of a young physician and experience the long journey endured.
Pocket-size, user-friendly roadmap outlines most common surgical procedures in neurosurgery! Surgery requires a combination of knowledge and skill acquired through years of direct observation, mentorship, and practice. The learning curve can be steep, frustrating, and intimidating for many medical students and junior residents. Too often, books and texts that attempt to translate the art of surgery are far too comprehensive for this audience and counterproductive to learning important basic skills to succeed. Neurosurgery Outlines by neurosurgeon Paul E. Kaloostian is the neuro-surgical volume in the Surgical Outlines series of textbooks that offer a simplified roadmap to surgery. This unique resource outlines key steps for common surgeries, laying a solid foundation of basic knowledge from which trainees can easily build and expand. The text serves as a starting point for learning neurosurgical techniques, with room for adding notes, details, and pearls collected during the journey. The chapters are systematically organized and formatted by subspecialty, encompassing spine, radiosurgery, brain tumors and vascular lesions, head trauma, functional neurosurgery, epilepsy, pain, and hydrocephalus. Each chapter includes symptoms and signs, surgical pathology, diagnostic modalities, differential diagnosis, treatment options, indications for surgical intervention, step-by-step procedures, pitfalls, prognosis, and references where applicable. Key Features Provides quick procedural outlines essential for understanding procedures and assisting attending neurosurgeons during rounds Spine procedures organized by cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx regions cover traumatic, elective, and tumor/vascular-related interventions Cranial topics include lesion resection for brain tumors and cerebrovascular disease and TBI treatment This is an ideal, easy-to-read resource for medical students and junior residents to utilize during the one-month neurosurgery rotations and for quick consultation during the early years of neurosurgical practice. It will also benefit operating room nurses who need a quick guide on core neurosurgical procedures.
Neuropathology is a fascinating field, full of a variety of different neurological disorders. Meticulous understanding of neuropathology is critical to the growing student and physician, in order to provide the most accurate and appropriate clinical diagnosis for the patient. With this text, we embark on an adventure to provide case scenarios encompassing a multitude of neurological conditions, with associated neuropathological slides, with the goal of simplifying a typically complex subspecialty of neuropathology. The text is designed for students at all stages, as well as physicians in residency and beyond. Please enjoy!
Neurosurgical trauma is quite common, especially at high volume level 1 trauma centers around the world. The brain and spine often absorb a significant amount of the forces and thus are subject to enormous injury. Neurosurgical trauma is extremely diverse ranging from the most minor of intracranial bleeds to the significant anoxic brain injury and quadriplegia. Many of these cases are considered neurosurgical emergencies and so immediate diagnosis and management are key. In this textbook, we have tried to illustrate many unique cases we have encountered in our training. These cases have taught us a great deal about management and surgical treatment options for a variety of different neurosurgical trauma cases. We hope that the readers will learn valuable methods of diagnosis and management of their patients after reading this text. This text can be used by anyone interested in learning more about neurological trauma.
NeuroOncology is a fascinating subspecialization in Neurosurgery. Much research is being conducted worldwide trying to understand more about cancer. While we have improved much in our delivery of care, our patients still often succumb to the cancer. As a neurosurgery resident, I have had the privilege of working with the masters in this field and I have had the pleasure of learning about the lives of many patients both pre-operatively and post-operatively. They each seem to have such strong stories to tell and I sit there listening in awe. Thus, we decided to document all the cases we have encountered in residency, noting certain aspects of each case we felt were critical toward attempting to treat them. And so we ended up authoring this text with the goal of simplifying the immense data in NeuroOncology so that the student and junior residents may have a text to use that would guide them in treating various pathology.
This is the first edition of the Pediatric Neurology Clinical Vignettes Textbook. This topic is truly fascinating. The cases described are real life cases experienced by the authors and each tells a different tale about pediatric neurological disorders. We present cases and detail questions that highlight unique aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of the case. Each of these stories has provided insight for the authors in their journey through medicine and we wanted to share these stories with you. We hope that as you read through this text you will come to learn more about diagnosing and treating a variety of pediatric neurological disorders. This material can be useful not only to residents in neurology and neurosurgery in preparation for the board examinations, but also residents in pediatrics and medicine, as well as medical students and nurses at all stages. Please enjoy!
Pediatric Neurosurgery is a complex subspecialty. The pathology is so diverse and the patients so fragile. We have tried to illustrate common as well as the more rare pathological conditions that afflict the pediatric population. I learned much from my attendings and senior residents, but each case was yet again so different that I wished there was some text that would describe the thought processes and management for these patients. This way I would be more prepared to understand the patient's disease and speak to the patient and family with more experience and specifics. Thus, we have decided to write this text for the senior and junior residents as well as the medical students. We delve into defining the differential diagnoses for a variety of intracranial and spinal pathology. We go through the thought processes in treating and managing such patients. We have real cases with full high definition pictures. This is a culmination of over 6 years of patient care in pediatric neurosurgery.
Vascular Neurosurgery is an exciting yet complex field. Surgeons are able to enter into the human brain and dissect out blood vessels that supply important functions. However putting too much distortion on blood vessels causes them to go into spasm which may cause a stroke. Pathology in vascular neurosurgery, as in any field of neurosurgery, is extremely diverse. Diseases range from unruptured intracranial aneurysms to massive hemorrhagic arteriovenous malformations to congenital vascular anomalies. But dangers lurk at every corner. We put together this textbook of vascular neurosurgical vignettes to help teach students and residents in all fields about a variety of clinical scenarios that they may be presented with in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or in the operating room. This text utilizes over 7 years of vascular clinical vignettes and displays the neurointerventional aspects of neurosurgery as well which has become more popular over the last few decades.
The USMLE Step 3 examination is a large stepping stone that one must pass in the long journey to become a knowledgeable and capable physician. The majority of questions are based on a clinical story that is presented and aims to test one's ability to perform critical thinking and to predict the next step in management and treatment. And so with this in mind, we have embarked on this mission to find a way to document and present this complex information in a manner that would be most beneficial for our students. We hope that as you read these books you will not only be able to memorize and relearn a bunch of clinical facts, but also to apply this information in clinical scenarios that we have written in the Qbook. Written by three physicians currently in residency, this text is highly clinically relevant as a variety of cases are actual patient scenarios experienced by the authors themselves. Please enjoy!
We hope that after studying and testing oneself in this textbook that one has learned the information we feel is commonly tested on the USMLE Step 2 board examination. We have included the most high yield pathological conditions and have used the information presented in the text book to prepare appropriate USMLE 2 style questions. We remember the process of going through USMLE 1 to 3, and then continuing with our Specialty board examinations. After much attention and review, we feel that we have come to a better understanding of how to approach these examinations and how best to study the immense amount of material that is expected to be understood. This is the perspective we have used when writing these texts. It is with this in mind that we hope these textbooks can be utilized to effectively do well on USMLE examinations. Good luck on your boards and in the future. Please feel free to contact any of us with any questions or concerns. Thank you.
The medical literature is enormous. It is filled with information that is growing as you are reading this sentence. Having entered the realm of medical school and residency, it is very difficult to gather and master the information that is most critical. After much review of current USMLE Board preparation texts, we have attempted to create a more concise and focused text that addresses the heart of the major issues that are not only commonly tested but also encountered as one is taking care of sick patients. We have put much thought and effort into providing a text that can be used by pre-medical and medical students, as well as physicians and those in all scientific fields. Our goal is to provide an avenue of knowledge that can be used to heal that which is most important to us: Our Patients! Enjoy!
This is a USMLE Step 2 Board Review Textbook written by three physicians currently in residency. They share insights into learning the immense material required to be a knowledgeable and dedicated physician.
The medical literature is enormous. It is filled with information that is growing as you are reading this sentence. Having entered the realm of medical school and residency, it is very difficult to gather and master the information that is most critical. After much review of current USMLE Board preparation texts, we have attempted to create a more concise and focused text that addresses the heart of the major issues that are not only commonly tested but also encountered as one is taking care of sick patients. We have put much thought and effort into providing a text that can be used by pre-medical and medical students, as well as physicians and those in all scientific fields. Our goal is to provide an avenue of knowledge that can be used to heal that which is most important to us: Our Patients! Enjoy!
This is a USMLE Step 2 Board Review Textbook written by three physicians currently in residency. They share insights into learning the immense material required to be a knowledgeable and dedicated physician.
We hope that after studying and testing oneself in this textbook that one has learned the information we feel is commonly tested on the USMLE Step 2 board examination. We have included the most high yield pathological conditions and have used the information presented in the text book to prepare appropriate USMLE 2 style questions. We remember the process of going through USMLE 1 to 3, and then continuing with our Specialty board examinations. After much attention and review, we feel that we have come to a better understanding of how to approach these examinations and how best to study the immense amount of material that is expected to be understood. This is the perspective we have used when writing these texts. It is with this in mind that we hope these textbooks can be utilized to effectively do well on USMLE examinations. Good luck on your boards and in the future. Please feel free to contact any of us with any questions or concerns. Thank you.
NeuroOncology is a fascinating subspecialization in Neurosurgery. Much research is being conducted worldwide trying to understand more about cancer. While we have improved much in our delivery of care, our patients still often succumb to the cancer. As a neurosurgery resident, I have had the privilege of working with the masters in this field and I have had the pleasure of learning about the lives of many patients both pre-operatively and post-operatively. They each seem to have such strong stories to tell and I sit there listening in awe. Thus, we decided to document all the cases we have encountered in residency, noting certain aspects of each case we felt were critical toward attempting to treat them. And so we ended up authoring this text with the goal of simplifying the immense data in NeuroOncology so that the student and junior residents may have a text to use that would guide them in treating various pathology.
The USMLE Step 3 examination is a large stepping stone that one must pass in the long journey to become a knowledgeable and capable physician. The majority of questions are based on a clinical story that is presented and aims to test one's ability to perform critical thinking and to predict the next step in management and treatment. And so with this in mind, we have embarked on this mission to find a way to document and present this complex information in a manner that would be most beneficial for our students. We hope that as you read these books you will not only be able to memorize and relearn a bunch of clinical facts, but also to apply this information in clinical scenarios that we have written in the Qbook. Written by three physicians currently in residency, this text is highly clinically relevant as a variety of cases are actual patient scenarios experienced by the authors themselves. Please enjoy!
Neurosurgical trauma is quite common, especially at high volume level 1 trauma centers around the world. The brain and spine often absorb a significant amount of the forces and thus are subject to enormous injury. Neurosurgical trauma is extremely diverse ranging from the most minor of intracranial bleeds to the significant anoxic brain injury and quadriplegia. Many of these cases are considered neurosurgical emergencies and so immediate diagnosis and management are key. In this textbook, we have tried to illustrate many unique cases we have encountered in our training. These cases have taught us a great deal about management and surgical treatment options for a variety of different neurosurgical trauma cases. We hope that the readers will learn valuable methods of diagnosis and management of their patients after reading this text. This text can be used by anyone interested in learning more about neurological trauma.
In the ER, the OR, and in the waiting room where the doctors deliver heart stopping news to the families of their patients, a neurosurgeon’s apprenticeship is arduous. This memoir of the day-to-day experiences of a resident in neurosurgery at one of the nation’s busiest trauma centers provides a rare window into the training of the doctors who open patients’ skulls and operate on their brains and spinal cords. Paul Kaloostian’s intimate account describes both the lifesaving feats and tragic failures that are the daily ups and downs of twenty-firstcentury neurosurgery. Kaloostian shares the lessons of humility, faith, and compassion that were often more important than the surgical expertise he acquired in the operating room.
Vascular Neurosurgery is an exciting yet complex field. Surgeons are able to enter into the human brain and dissect out blood vessels that supply important functions. However putting too much distortion on blood vessels causes them to go into spasm which may cause a stroke. Pathology in vascular neurosurgery, as in any field of neurosurgery, is extremely diverse. Diseases range from unruptured intracranial aneurysms to massive hemorrhagic arteriovenous malformations to congenital vascular anomalies. But dangers lurk at every corner. We put together this textbook of vascular neurosurgical vignettes to help teach students and residents in all fields about a variety of clinical scenarios that they may be presented with in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or in the operating room. This text utilizes over 7 years of vascular clinical vignettes and displays the neurointerventional aspects of neurosurgery as well which has become more popular over the last few decades.
The central nervous system is a fascinating anatomical specimen. The brain and spinal cord, and all related nervous tissue, are such delicate and critical structures that truly make us who we are as functioning human beings. Infection of the central and peripheral nervous systems are quite complex. There are a wide variety of infectious disease states that afflict this area and we have attempted to describe and teach many of these disease states in this textbook. We have written this textbook in the form of clinical vignettes of real-life patient cases that we have each taken care of during our training. We have learned so much from these patients and we wanted to share this teaching with the rest of the world. We hope that this textbook can enlighten readers of all specialties and fields about infectious diseases of the central nervous system and methods of diagnosis and management of these neurosurgically and neurologically impaired patients. Please enjoy!
Pediatric Neurosurgery is a complex subspecialty. The pathology is so diverse and the patients so fragile. We have tried to illustrate common as well as the more rare pathological conditions that afflict the pediatric population. I learned much from my attendings and senior residents, but each case was yet again so different that I wished there was some text that would describe the thought processes and management for these patients. This way I would be more prepared to understand the patient's disease and speak to the patient and family with more experience and specifics. Thus, we have decided to write this text for the senior and junior residents as well as the medical students. We delve into defining the differential diagnoses for a variety of intracranial and spinal pathology. We go through the thought processes in treating and managing such patients. We have real cases with full high definition pictures. This is a culmination of over 6 years of patient care in pediatric neurosurgery.
Few understand the life that physicians and surgeons lead. They communicate with people that have no where else to go for help. They are brought face to face with challenging medical conditions and are required to be at their best all the time in order to heal the sick and suffering. I often talk with friends who are not in medicine about my hours and cases and they always seem to be unaware, and often times uninterested, in what we do for a living. We have been given a tremendous responsibility to enter the lives of other human beings in order to learn more about their problems in an attempt to alter their current path of health. We have taken an oath to constantly learn and provide the best care possible. It is a true joy and challenge to do this. And so I wanted to share this trip with you all. Each poem stems from a separate surgical case that I have encountered in my training in New Mexico. Each tells a story and hopefully sheds some light on what we do on a daily basis. Please enjoy!
Pocket-size, user-friendly roadmap outlines most common surgical procedures in neurosurgery! Surgery requires a combination of knowledge and skill acquired through years of direct observation, mentorship, and practice. The learning curve can be steep, frustrating, and intimidating for many medical students and junior residents. Too often, books and texts that attempt to translate the art of surgery are far too comprehensive for this audience and counterproductive to learning important basic skills to succeed. Neurosurgery Outlines by neurosurgeon Paul E. Kaloostian is the neuro-surgical volume in the Surgical Outlines series of textbooks that offer a simplified roadmap to surgery. This unique resource outlines key steps for common surgeries, laying a solid foundation of basic knowledge from which trainees can easily build and expand. The text serves as a starting point for learning neurosurgical techniques, with room for adding notes, details, and pearls collected during the journey. The chapters are systematically organized and formatted by subspecialty, encompassing spine, radiosurgery, brain tumors and vascular lesions, head trauma, functional neurosurgery, epilepsy, pain, and hydrocephalus. Each chapter includes symptoms and signs, surgical pathology, diagnostic modalities, differential diagnosis, treatment options, indications for surgical intervention, step-by-step procedures, pitfalls, prognosis, and references where applicable. Key Features Provides quick procedural outlines essential for understanding procedures and assisting attending neurosurgeons during rounds Spine procedures organized by cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx regions cover traumatic, elective, and tumor/vascular-related interventions Cranial topics include lesion resection for brain tumors and cerebrovascular disease and TBI treatment This is an ideal, easy-to-read resource for medical students and junior residents to utilize during the one-month neurosurgery rotations and for quick consultation during the early years of neurosurgical practice. It will also benefit operating room nurses who need a quick guide on core neurosurgical procedures.
What physicians see on a daily basis is profound. They see life and death. They also see everything in between. Though it is not always a rose garden, it can be one of the most wonderful and unique experiences that life has to offer. This collection of poetry is for those who wish to travel into the mind of a young physician and experience the long journey endured.
This is the first edition of the Pediatric Neurology Clinical Vignettes Textbook. This topic is truly fascinating. The cases described are real life cases experienced by the authors and each tells a different tale about pediatric neurological disorders. We present cases and detail questions that highlight unique aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of the case. Each of these stories has provided insight for the authors in their journey through medicine and we wanted to share these stories with you. We hope that as you read through this text you will come to learn more about diagnosing and treating a variety of pediatric neurological disorders. This material can be useful not only to residents in neurology and neurosurgery in preparation for the board examinations, but also residents in pediatrics and medicine, as well as medical students and nurses at all stages. Please enjoy!
Neuropathology is a fascinating field, full of a variety of different neurological disorders. Meticulous understanding of neuropathology is critical to the growing student and physician, in order to provide the most accurate and appropriate clinical diagnosis for the patient. With this text, we embark on an adventure to provide case scenarios encompassing a multitude of neurological conditions, with associated neuropathological slides, with the goal of simplifying a typically complex subspecialty of neuropathology. The text is designed for students at all stages, as well as physicians in residency and beyond. Please enjoy!
A complete sourcebook of diagnostic imaging for the health care practitioner Imaging for the Health Care Practitioner offers authoritative, engagingly written coverage of common imaging modalities and their use in evaluating, monitoring, and treating the injuries most often encountered by health care professionals. The concise, clinically focused content focuses on what is most important to patient management and education. You will find a complete review of radiography, CT, MRI, and ultrasound, along with more than 360 state-of-the-art images that depict injuries and the healing process. The authors take you through both advantages and limitations of each modality in the rehabilitation setting as well as the screening and evaluation process. Armed with the expert insights found within this book, you will gain a meaningful frame of reference from which to discuss the results of these tests with patients. Features · The book opens with a valuable Primer on Imaging for the Health Care Practitioner which discusses essential topics such as how to order imaging and communicate the results, how to read images, and medico legal considerations · Each regional or systems chapter explains the special applications unique to that body part and how clinicians can select for optimal clinical decision making and includes case studies that demonstrate real-world application of concepts · Clinical pearls reinforce key points in each chapter · The text is supplemented by additional on-line information targeted specifically for instructors to assist in imaging education
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