The only review book currently available in this complex field, Brain Injury Medicine: Board Review focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of individuals with varying severity levels of brain injury. Focused, high-yield content prepares you for success on exams and in practice, with up-to-date coverage of traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, CNS neoplasms, anoxic brain injury, and other brain disorders. This unique review tool is ideal for residents, fellows, and practitioners studying or working in the field and preparing to take the brain injury medicine exam.

• Supports self-assessment and review with ۲۰۰ board-style questions and explanations.
• Covers the information you need to know on traumatic brain injury by severity and pattern, neurologic disorders, systemic manifestations, rehabilitation problems and outcomes, and basic science.
• Includes questions on patient management including patient evaluation and diagnosis, prognosis/risk factors, and applied science.
• Discusses key topics such as neurodegeneration and dementia; proteomic, genetic, and epigenetic biomarkers in TBI; neuromodulation and neuroprosthetics; and assistive technology.
• Reviews must-know procedures including acute emergency management and critical care; post-concussion syndrome assessment, management and treatment; diagnostic procedures and electrophysiology; neuroimaging, and brain death criteria.
• Ensures efficient, effective review with content written by experts in physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, and psychiatry and a format that mirrors the board exam outline.

Review

Review

Focused, high-yield content for effective review in brain injury medicine

Contents

۱. Neuroanatomy correlates
۲. Basic brain neuroscience and pathophysiology
۳. Mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury
۴. TBI by pattern: Penetrating, nonpenetrating, and blast injury
۵. Brain death criteria
۶. Epidemiology and public health and prevention
۷. Proteomic, genetic, and epigenetic biomarkers in traumatic brain injury
۸. Prognosis and recovery patterns
۹. Prehospital care of traumatic brain injury
۱۰. Acute emergency management of traumatic brain injury
۱۱. Critical care management in traumatic brain injury
۱۲. Complications of traumatic brain injury
۱۳. Physical examination, signs, and symptoms
۱۴. Diagnostic procedures and electrophysiology
۱۵. Neuroimaging (structural and functional)
۱۶. Functional evaluation
۱۷. Intensity of services, specialized rehabilitation therapies, and interdisciplinary team management
۱۸. Cardiovascular and pulmonary
۱۹. Gi and nutrition
۲۰. Genitourinary
۲۱. Soft tissue and orthopedic conditions
۲۲. Pain
۲۳. Neuroendocrine, metabolic and hormonal conditions
۲۴. Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity
۲۵. Spasticity and contractures
۲۶. Post-traumatic hydrocephalus
۲۷. Cranial nerve disorders
۲۸. Posttraumatic seizure and epilepsy
۲۹. Motor control
۳۰. Pressure injuries, bed rest, and deconditioning
۳۱. Dysphagia and aspiration
۳۲. Speech and language
۳۳. Cognitive functioning after traumatic brain injury
۳۴. Neurosensory dysfunction
۳۵. Emotional dyscontrol
۳۶. Agitation and restlessness
۳۷. Sleep dysfunction and fatigue
۳۸. Mood and anxiety disorders
۳۹. Posttraumatic stress disorder
۴۰. Behavioral dyscontrol
۴۱. Substance abuse
۴۲. Sexuality and intimacy
۴۳. Therapeutic exercise/rehabilitation
۴۴. Assistive technology
۴۵. Community reentry
۴۶. Involving family in rehabilitation: Role of physiatry
۴۷. Pediatric traumatic brain injury
۴۸. Geriatric traumatic brain injury
۴۹. Military traumatic brain injury
۵۰. Sport concussion
۵۱. Gender-specific issues in traumatic brain injury
۵۲. Postconcussion syndrome assessment, management, and treatment
۵۳. Nontraumatic brain injury
۵۴. Dual diagnosis of traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury
۵۵. Anoxic brain injury
۵۶. Disorders of consciousness
۵۷. Complementary and alternative medicine
۵۸. Neuromodulation and neuroprosthetics
۵۹. Neuropharmacology
۶۰. Neurodegeneration and dementia
۶۱. Basic statistics and research methods
۶۲. Ethics and law