About This Book
Built specifically for nurse practitioners and physician assistants on neurosurgical services, this companion volume distills the same Fundamentals approach into the workflows APPs encounter day to day: pre-operative evaluation, intraoperative coordination, post-operative management, and inpatient and outpatient follow-up.
Chapters address the neurological exam, neurocritical care, brain and spinal cord injury, spine and cranial pathology, and the multidisciplinary handoffs that span neurology, orthopedics, physical medicine, pain management, and interventional radiology.
Key Features
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Top Hits
Focused, high-yield questions reinforce day-to-day decision making on the wards and in clinic.
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Real-Life Application
Workflows reflect how APPs actually move patients through pre-op, the OR, and recovery.
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Visual Reinforcement
Illustrations, photographs, and radiographs anchor the text to recognizable anatomy.
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Fundamentals
Diseases, tests, and operative approaches are summarized at a level pitched for clinical practice.
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Neurosurgical Pearls
Practical advice drawn from APPs and surgeons working alongside each other.
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Easy to Digest
Concise, scannable, and built to live on a workstation or in a coat pocket.
About the Editors
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Abigail Crum, MPAS, PA-C
Editor
Completed her academic training at Duquesne University in the five-year physician assistant program. Her practice centers on multidisciplinary care for patients with complex spinal conditions, collaborating with neurology, orthopedics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain management, and interventional radiology.
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Nitin Agarwal, MD, MBA, FACS
Editor
Acting Chief and Site Residency Program Director of Neurological Surgery at the Veteran Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and Director of the Spine Computational Outcomes Learning Institute (SCOLI). He is board-certified in neurological surgery with fellowship training in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery, and earned his MBA from The Wharton School. His work spans neurotrauma outcomes, spine surgery outcomes, socioeconomic research, and patient education, with over 350 publications and more than 350 presentations.