Medical textbooks
Stroke - Your questions answered
Graeme J Hankey Churchill Livingstone, 2002 ISBN:0 443 07146 2
A new question and answer series. The book is mainly aimed at GPs and primary care health professionals in contact with stroke patients and families, but also answers many questions which will be raised by the stroke person/their family and carers.
Stroke: A practical guide to management
CP Warlow, MS Dennis, J van Gijn, GJ Hankey, PAG Sandercock, JM Bamford, Blackwell Science, 1996, 2001 ISBN:0-632054182 99.50
Guidance for all practitioners involved in the prevention and treatment of stroke. The aim of the book is to assist practitioners to make practical use of the rapidly expanding body of knowledge about stroke illness.
Distributors: Marston Book Services Ltd, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4YN. Orders: Tel: 01235 465 500, Fax: 01235 465 555.
Stroke Units: an evidence based approach
Langhorne, P. Dennis, M. BMJ Publishing ISBN:0727912119
Based on reviews carried out by the international Stroke Unit Trialists' Collaboration, this book discusses the place of the in-patient stroke unit in the present day management of stroke patients. The analysis discusses both their methodology and results in terms of effectiveness of the unit.
Stroke - Epidemiology, evidence, and clinical practice
Shah Ebrahim and Rowan Harwood Oxford University Press. 2nd edition, 1999 ISBN:0-19-263075-X
The first edition of this book ("Clinical epidemiology of stroke") was published in 1989 and since then there has been a huge increase in new research relating to all aspects of stroke illness. This new edition features an opening section entitled Epidemiology which gives an outline of the subject and reviews the purposes of health care for stroke patients. The remaining revised and updated sections, Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis, follow the format of the first edition.
Neurological Rehabilitation: optimising motor performance
Carr, J. Shepherd, R. Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN:0750609710
This work seeks to emphasise the need for those who work in movement rehabilitation to develop their knowledge base and utilize clinical methods, which are grounded in scientific understanding in order to enable individuals with neural lesions to optimize their functional effectiveness.
Stroke Rehabilitation - A Collaborative Approach
Edited by Robert Fawcus Blackwell Science, 2000 ISBN:0-632-04998-7
Stroke: Populations, Cohorts, and Clinical Trials
Whisnant, J.P. ed Butterworth Heinemann, 1993 ISBN:0-7506-0574-X 80.00
Stroke Rehabilitation; a function based approach
Gillen, G. & Burkhardt, A. Mosby 1998 ISBN:0-8151-3460-6 46.00
Neurology for the Non-Neurologist 4th. Ed.
Weiner, W.J. & Goetz, C.G.eds. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999 ISBN:0-7817-1707-8 34.00
Transient Ischaemic Attacks of the Brain and Eye
Hankey,G.J.& Warlow C.P. W.b.Saunders, 1994 ISBN:0-7020-1590-3 54.50
Stroke, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management, 3rd ed.
Barnett, H.J.M., Mohr,J.P., Stein, B.M. & Yatsu, F.M. Churchill Livingstone,1998 ISBN:0-443-07551-4 170.00
Handbook of Stroke
Wiebers,D.O., Feigin,V.L., & Brown, R.D. Lippincott-Raven, 1997 ISBN:0-316-94760-1 30.75
Stroke Syndromes, 2nd edition
Bogousslavsky, J & Caplan, L.R. eds. Cambridge University Press, 2001 ISBN:0-521-80258-X
(I of 2 volume set)
Uncommon Causes of Stroke
Bogousslavsky, J & Caplan, L.R. eds. Cambridge University Press, 2001 ISBN:0-521-80258-X
