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Book review
Neurological emergencies, 3rd edition
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Neurological emergencies, 3rd edition. Edited by rac hughes. (Pp 399, £35.00.) Published by BMJ Books, London, 2000. ISBN 0 7279 1405 7
This is the third edition of a book which stems from an original series of 12 articles on Neurological Emergencies, published by thisJournal in 1993. In this current edition there are 13 chapters; the “new addition” is the short final chapter by Dr O'Brien on criteria for diagnosing brain stem death. The titles of the other chapters have remained the same as they were in 1993 and cover a broad range of neurological, psychiatric, and neurosurgical emergencies. The authorship has changed remarkably little; but why change a winning team? The …