Main description:

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.

Contents:

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

Muscle anatomy

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

Major Disorders

Level of motor Unit

Motor Neuron:

ALS

Poliomyelitis

Muscle

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

Genetic disorders: X-linked dystrophies, myotonic dystrophy, acid maltase deficiency, mitochondrial myopathy, duchenne and becker muscular dystrophy

NMJ

Myasthenia gravis, Botulism, Lambert-Eaten, Hypermagnesemia

Peripheral nerve

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

Disorders affecting multiple levels

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.

6. Review/Summary of commonly encountered cases and its management.

7. Flowchart on how to approach common NM emergencies

8. Conclusion