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Brain, Vol. 125, No. 11, 2579-2581, November 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Book Review

NEUROLOGIC COMPLICATIONS OF CRITICAL ILLNESS, 2ND EDITION

P. Enevoldson

Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK

NEUROLOGIC COMPLICATIONS OF CRITICAL ILLNESS, 2ND EDITION
By Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Price £79.50. pp. 435. ISBN 0195140796.

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This monograph is the latest in the Contemporary Neurology series and is written entirely by one author. Professor Wijdicks is the director of the neurological and neurosurgical intensive care unit (ICU) at the Mayo Clinic, and his great experience of neurology in the ICU is readily apparent throughout the book. He writes in a consistent and authoritative fashion on the acute neurology which finds its way to the ICU. In the UK at least such patients would usually be under the care of other doctors before neurologists are consulted, often quite late. The book is very comprehensive in its coverage, including something on virtually every critical illness with serious neurological complications (the only omission I could think of was . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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