Neurologic Emergencies: How to Do a Fast, Focused Evaluation of Any Neurologic Emergency

When deciding on my specialty 20-plus years ago in medical school, if anyone had told me, "The most exciting specialty 20 years in the future is going to be…neurology!" I would have assumed he or she was pulling my leg. Neurology's reputation as the most "diagnose and adios" of specialties was at that time historically solid. In a complete reversal, Ganti and Goldstein's Neurologic Emergencies: How to Do a Fast, Focused Evaluation of Any Neurologic Emergency comes at a time when acute and chronic neurologic conditions have significantly successful new treatments (with the DAWN, DEFUSE-3, and, most recently, ATTEST trials for stroke, monoclonal antibodies, and disease modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis) and research is giving new understanding of previously black-box conditions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and pointing new directions for treatment.

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