Medical Complications in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Description

This book is intended to provide physicians and residents training in physical medicine and rehabilitation with a concise description of common medical complications encountered on an in-patient medical rehabilitation unit or free-standing facility. It will focus on the major diagnostic categories of disabilities that are admitted for in-patient rehabilitation such as stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, amputation, multiple major trauma, neurological disorders, burns, and other diseases or disorders. Divided into two sections, the first half of the book is organized by diagnostic category and will provide an overview of the unique medical problems physiatrists are likely to encounter with each condition. The second part then breaks down the medical issues individually with more detailed chapters on the specific complications. Taking a collaborative approach, each chapter will pair a physiatrist with an internist or other medical specialist in each area. Currently, there is no similar text available that covers this material from a physical medicine and rehabilitation perspective.

Medical Complications in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation features:

• Focuses on medical complications within major rehabilitation diagnostic groups
• Organized in two parts to allow readers to access information by condition or complication
• Contains material not normally addressed in standard PM&R textbooks
• Multi-specialty authorship-each chapter pairs a physiatrist with an internist or other specialist

About the Authors

Diana Cardenas, MD
MD, MHA, Professor and Chair, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; Medical Director, Jackson Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital, Miami, FL;

Thomas Hooton, MD
MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL