Spinal Cord Medicine, 3rd Edition

ISBN: 9780826137746
ISBN-10: 0826137741
Copyright: 2019
Edition: 3rd
Editor: Kirshblum, Steven, Lin, Vernon W., Benzel, Edward C., Burns, Stephen P., Field-Fote, Edelle C., Gorman, Peter H.,
Doody's Expert Review    Score: 98
Reviewer: Alan Anschel,  MD  (Shirley Ryan AbilityLab)
Description
This comprehensive, clinically focused reference in spinal cord medicine merges the most important aspects of two previous books, Spinal Cord Medicine, 2nd edition, Campagnolo, Kirshblum et. al (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011) and Spinal Cord Medicine: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition, Lin (Demos Medical Publishing, 2010). This edition includes access to an online version of the book.
Purpose
This much-needed tome is well overdue, as it combines the two leading books in the field of spinal cord injury medicine into one comprehensive volume. This edition consists of seven section and 60 chapters with hundreds of figures and tables.
Audience
This book provides practitioners, researchers, and students with a clinically focused reference on spinal cord medicine. Both the authors and contributors are leaders in their respected fields of medicine.
Features
This third edition merges the most important aspects of the previous books, including both traumatic and nontraumatic disorders affecting the spinal cord. It covers the entire continuum of spinal cord injury care from the acute injury to medical management that occurs in a rehabilitation hospital to advances in spinal cord research.
Assessment
This book is outstanding and will surely replace the prior two leading books that are currently used.
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