Neuromuscular Urgencies and Emergencies, 1st ed. 2020

This book functions as a practical reference for recognizing various patient presentations, signs, and symptoms that must be considered when treating  neuromuscular disorders (NMD). It emphasizes the importance of recognizing these preexisting conditions as this can be crucial to treating patients properly with appropriate medications and procedures.

Concise yet comprehensive, this 10-chapter guide analyses various neuromuscular weaknesses including respiratory and progressive muscle weakness. Chapters address the involvement of multiple organ systems in NMD, with specific attention to cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrhythmias, and dystrophinopathies. Discussions also address the challenges practitioners face when treating vulnerable demographics such as pregnant women and those with hyper metabolic conditions.

Written by experts in the field, Neuromuscular Urgencies and Emergencies is an invaluable resource for neurologists, emergency medicine physicians, physician assistants, and the interventional neurologist. ?

1. Introduction

2. What are neuromuscular emergent diseases

3. Detailed Anatomy and Physiology:

                Motor unit

                Neuromuscular Junction

                Sensory and Autonomic Systems

                Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems

4. Detailed Review with incidence and prevalence and pathogenesis involved:

                Major Disorders

                                Level of motor Unit                        

                                                                ALS

                Muscle

                                Acquired:  Dermato- and polymyositis, Myoglobinuric myopathy, Hypokalemic paralysis, Toxic myopathy, Acute myopathy of intensive care

                NMJ                      

                Peripheral nerve             

                                Guillain Barre, Shellfish poisoning, porphyric and arsenic neuropathy, tick paralysis

                                Infectious motor neuropathies, inflammatory polyradiculopathies

5. Approach: Etiology, History, Physical Examination, Signs and Symptoms, Findings, Diagnostic Criteria’s, Laboratory studies, Management and its complications, Prognosis/Morbidity and Variants of each of the above diseases separately.

7. Flowchart on how to approach common NM emergencies

8. Conclusion     

Provides a concise review of neuromuscular medicine

Covers all disease entities from core basics, to its presentation, and diagnostic approach

Practical guide for clinicians, allied health care professionals, and trainees