Semiologia neurológica moderna em 10 passos (Baseados em pacientes reais)

Educative, organized, modern and realistic. This book is different because it took 10 years to write and has a completely original system to teach how to care for patients with neurological, psychiatric and/or neuropsychiatric disorders. It is educative and organized since, after a review of the modern medical interview and the presentation of a proposal for a general physical examination – the physical approach examination (PAE) –, with its main trunk and branches (extra maneuvers, linked according to context), we structured the approach to the neurological patient in ten steps (chapters 3 to 12). Each step is developed using several clinical vignettes of real routine patients, the majority of whom were attended by the author. The idea is that the reader can be proficient in the elaboration of syndromic diagnoses and become able to correctly solve or direct the real cases. After each chapter, an overview of the key points is made. It is modern and realistic since, whenever possible and available, we inform the statistical performance of the interview and of the neurological physical examination maneuvers according to the precepts of evidence-based medicine. Only what should be used in daily practice is emphasized, excluding useless tests and maneuvers. The book can serve mainly as a guide to neurological (and psychiatric) semiology in undergraduate courses, but also as an introductory reading for medical residents in family medicine, psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery or neuropediatrics. It can also be useful for the continuing education of practicing physicians, especially those in Family Health Strategy.