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Synopsis
This book will teach the practitioner to employ evidence-based approaches to common problems in neurosurgery. It begins with a review of the concepts and techniques involved in the practice of evidence-based medicine, including the basics of critical analysis using methodologically rigorous evidence-synthesis techniques. The second part of the text provides useful examples of the use of this critical analysis for common clinical situations, such as stent placement, managing infection, metastases, craniocerebral trauma, cervical spine trauma, and more.
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Reviewer:Celso Agner, MD, MSc(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description:Evidence-based medicine has led to the development of protocols to guide complex procedures. This is even more important in a field such as neurosurgery, where complexity determines its daily activities.
Purpose:The purpose of this book is to address the main neurosurgical procedures and controversies in a systematic manner. The book fully meets the authors' objectives.
Audience:Neurosurgeons are the main target audience for this book. The authors are well known academic neurosurgeons and credible experts in the field.
Features:Multiple contributors cooperate in writing the nine chapters of this book. The book is divided by topics and, within the topics, some of the more controversial aspects of the field are covered. My favorite section is the cerebrovascular, which mentions recent papers on carotid endarterectomy, prediction of aneurysm rupture, and influence of treatment on patients' prognoses. In every section, however, some of the more critical aspects in the analysis are mentioned, which is helpful for most practitioners who would read the paper thoroughly without the insight of the expertise of many years of practice. This is a good buy, in particular for apprentice neurosurgeons who are eager to develop their school of thought. I see no major drawbacks in this book except that it should contain a chapter on neuroendovascular, since it is a rapidly emerging neurosurgical subspecialty.
Assessment:This is an excellent, easy to read small book.