Emergencies in Neuromuscular Disease (Emergency Management in Neurology)

This book offers a practical tool for handling neuromuscular emergencies, and is divided by the main neuromuscular diseases on the basis of their anatomical and clinical location: diseases affecting the anterior horn of the spinal cord (tetanus), those that affect the nerve roots and nerves (SGB, multiple mononeuritis, porphyria), the neuromuscular junction (MG and botulism) and, lastly, muscle pathologies (rhabdomyolysis, malignant hyperthermia, periodic paralysis). It provides updated diagnostic/therapeutic protocols and decision-making algorithms for each pathology, and examines a range of scenarios on the basis of clinical cases. Emergencies in Neuromuscular Disease will be of interests for a wide variety of specialists including neurologist, neurophysiologists and anesthesiologists. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Neuromuscular Disease: An Overview (S. Jann)....Pages 3-7 Tetanus (S. Jann, D. Facchetti, I. Costi)....Pages 9-10 Guillain-Barré Syndrome (S. Jann, D. Facchetti, I. Costi)....Pages 11-25 Porphyria (S. Jann, D. Facchetti, I. Costi)....Pages 27-29 Vasculitis (S. Jann, D. Facchetti, I. Costi)....Pages 31-37 Myasthenia Gravis (A. Rigamonti)....Pages 39-75 Botulism (A. Rigamonti)....Pages 77-88 Malignant Hyperthermia (E. P. Verrengia)....Pages 89-98 Rhabdomyolysis (E. P. Verrengia)....Pages 99-109 Periodic Paralysis (E. P. Verrengia)....Pages 111-116 Front Matter ....Pages 117-117 Case Study: Atypical GBS (Elena Pinuccia Verrengia, Stefano Jann, Andrea Rigamonti)....Pages 119-128 Front Matter ....Pages 129-129 Differentiated Decisional Algorithms Based on the Technical and Organizational Characteristics of the Hospital Receiving the Clinical Case (Elena Pinuccia Verrengia, Stefano Jann, Andrea Rigamonti)....Pages 131-134 A practical tool for handling neuromuscular emergencies, this book divides the main neuromuscular diseases by physical and clinical location, eg the anterior horn of the spinal cord (tetanus). It gives updated diagnostic/therapeutic protocols and decision-making algorithms for each pathology, and examines scenarios on the basis of clinical cases.