Dolce (neurology, Institute S. Anna for Intensive Care and Rehabilitation, Crotone, Italy) and Sazbon (Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv U.) note that post-traumatic disabilities are escalating as deaths due to traumatic brain injury decline. Combining theoretical and practical approaches, this handbook of a dozen contributed chapters shares expertise on medical, neurological, ethical, and care facility policy aspects; differential diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis; and communicating with patients' families. Includes a foreword by B. Jennett (emeritus, neurosurgery, U. of Glasgow, Scotland), who first proposed the term "vegetative state" in 1972. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Written by authors with over 20 years of experience in the rehabilitation of patients in a persistent vegetative state, this practical text bridges a gap in the specialized literature by providing neurologists, emergency physicians, physiatrists, and internists, as well as therapists, with a new set of tools to make rapid progress in the treatment of these patients whose improvement is wholly dependent upon them. A second equally relevant aspect covered in this book is the relationship of the care-giving physician with the patient's family. Particular attention is given to the approach the physician must take towards family members of the patient lacking mental activity. A third section illustrates the structural and instrumental devices useful in planning and operating a unit specialized in the treatment of patients in the persistent vegetative state, with particular attention given to the rules governing the unit.
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