Surgery, Family & General Practice, Diagnosis

Evidence-Based Neurosurgery: An Introduction

Name: Evidence-Based Neurosurgery: An Introduction
Author: Stephen Haines
ISBN: 9781604065053

by Stephen Haines, Beverly Walters

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Overview

Evidence-Based Neurosurgery provides examples of the use of critical analysis and methodologically rigorous evidence synthesis techniques in neurosurgery. This book is specifically designed to teach the neurosurgeon how to approach the questions and complications that arise in the daily practice. The first section of the text describes the basic concepts and techniques of evidence-based medicine as applied to neurosurgery. The second part provides examples of common clinical questions, for example, What is the likely course of the patient's disease? The text’s useful review of the methods of evidence-based medicine will offer you the opportunity to become as scientific in the practice of neurosurgery as in the fundamental knowledge that underlies it.

About the Author, Stephen Haines

Professor and Head, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery, New York University Medical School, New York, NY, USA; and Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

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Editorials

From the Publisher

This unique book...provides an objective and systematic method for the assessment of evidence in relation to particular neurosurgical questions and will be of interest to practicing neurosurgeons and trainees...This is a well-presented, carefully edited and easily digested book...recommend[ed] that it should be read by all neurosurgery trainees and should be an important acquisition for neurosurgical libraries.—ANZ Journal of Surgery...A good buy, in particular for apprentice neurosurgeons who are eager to develop their school of thought. ...An excellent, easy to read, small book.—Doody's Book Review

From The Critics

Reviewer: Celso Agner, MD, MS, MSc(Michigan Neurology Partners)
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.