Interpretation of Emergency Head CT
A Practical Handbook

Using diagrams and CT images, this easy-to-read Handbook offers clinicians a practical system for interpreting an emergency cranial CT scan.

Erskine J. Holmes (Author), Rakesh R. Misra (Author)

9781107495937, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 May 2017

148 pages, 139 colour illus. 11 tables
23.5 x 15.7 x 0.9 cm, 0.28 kg

This easy-to-read Handbook offers clinicians a practical system for interpreting emergency head CT. This image driven book covers a wide spectrum of conditions likely to be encountered in everyday clinical practice. Practical tips for recognizing subtle pathology, through to the more obvious, are supplemented by easy-to-interpret diagrams. New topics have been added since the first edition, including trauma CT cervical spine interpretation, and an up-to-date section on acute stroke. In addition to the clinical chapters, this Handbook provides simplified technical details, and a brief historical background, making it an excellent reference manual and learning aide for all clinicians with an interest in emergency CT head interpretation.

Section 1. Fundamentals of Computer Tomography Imaging: Important anatomical considerations
Section 2. Reviewing a CT Scan: 1. Acute stroke
2. Subdural haematoma (SDH)
3. Extradural/epidural haematoma
4. Subarachnoid haemorrhage
5. Traumatic parenchyma brain injury
6. Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
7. Hypoxic-ischaemic injury
8. Skull fractures
9. Raised intracranial pressure
10. Hydrocephalus
11. Meningitis
12. Cerebral abscess
13. Arteriovenous malformation
14. Solitary lesions
15. Multiple lesions
16. Neck vessel dissection
Section 3. Cervical Spine: 'ABCS' approach to interpreting multiplanar reformats of the CT cervical spine
Types of spine fracture
Section 4. Self-Assessment Section: Self assessment - answers
Appendix 1. ABCD2 scoring system
Appendix 2. ROSIER score
Appendix 3. NICE acute stroke flow pathway
Appendix 4. Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) assessment
Appendix 5. NICE guideline for adult CT head
Appendix 6. NICE guideline for adult CT neck
Appendix 7. NICE guideline for paediatric CT head
Appendix 8. NICE guideline for paediatric CT neck
Appendix 9. Information required prior to neurosurgical transfer
Appendix 10. Differential diagnosis for intracerebral lesions.

Subject Areas: Neurosurgery [MNN], Critical care surgery [MNL], General surgery [MNC], Medical imaging [MMP], Accident & emergency medicine [MMK], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN]