Physician-informed medical book reviews and clinical education resources.
The following is a comprehensive differential diagnosis and workup for seizures. The workup is (obviously!) not something that you have to do for every patient. You can, however, use the information below for standardized test preparation and to guide your thought process as you work up patients with seizures. Please let me know if there’s anything that you … Read more
Brain CT Scans in Clinical Practice by Usiakimi Igbaseimokumo MD is concise, sharp, brilliantly written, practice changing, and full ofnumerous helpful clinical pearls. In places, the advice is extremely straightforward: blood clots or tumours in the brain deep to the pia mater are called intraaxial and those outside the pia are called extra axial. (P. 26-27) … Read more
Introduction Syncope is an abrupt, transient, spontaneously-resolving loss of consciousness and postural tone caused by a transient drop in cerebral perfusion. It is a descriptive and an interim diagnosis which requires further clarification. The first step Syncope should be distinguished from alternative causes of loss of consciousness and postural tone. Syncope mimics include seizures, concussions, sleep (both normal … Read more