Principles and practice of child neurology in infancy [E-Book]

Management of neurological disorders presenting in infancy poses many challenges for clinicians. Using a symptom-based approach, and covering a wide range of scenarios, the latest edition of this comprehensive practical guide provides authoritative advice from distinguished experts. It now includes revised coverage of disease prevention, clinical assessment, and promotion of neurodevelopment.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Terms, definitions, and concepts -- Interprofessional working:user and carer involvement -- Clinical epidemiology andevidence-based medicine -- Promoting child development -- The neonatal examination and neurodevelopmentalassessment -- Neurological examinationbeyond the neonatal period -- Prevention, vaccination, andscreening -- Cranial imaging -- Neurophysiology -- Biochemical and haematological testing -- Genetic testing -- Drug treatments: drugs,vitamins, and minerals -- Nonpharmacological treatment -- Birth asphyxia and other acute encephalopathies in thenewborn infant -- Inherited metabolicencephalopathies of infancy -- Neonatal seizures -- Acute encephalopathy andtraumatic brain injury -- Stroke -- Acute neurological illness with fever: meningitis, encephalitis, and infective space-occupying lesions -- Postneonatal epileptic seizures -- Nonepileptic paroxysmaldisorders in infancy -- Microcephaly, includingcongenital infections -- Macrocephaly, includinghydrocephalus andbrain tumours -- The floppy infant -- Infant sleep and behaviour -- Early developmental impairment and neurological abnormalitiesat birth -- Cerebral palsy -- Central nervous systemdisorders of movement other than cerebral palsy -- Progressive loss of skills.

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