Interpretation of Emergency Head CT

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.

FEATURES

    Covers a wide range of conditions relating to emergency head CT, allowing the variety of specialist groups needing to interpret these conditions to develop these skills
    Includes a large number of heightened resolution CT plates showing subtle and obvious anomalies, with the accompanying text limited to precise details
    Cervical spine CT interpretation and an extended review of normal anatomy have been added to this second edition

Table of Contents

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.

Erskine J. Holmes is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Craigavon Area Hospital, Northern Ireland.

Rakesh R. Misra is a Consultant Radiologist at Wycombe Hospital, Buckinghamshire