Jerome B. Posner - Plum and Posner’s Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma

Facing patients with impaired consciousness or coma is among the most urgent and difficult medical emergencies. The 1966 first edition of the Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma by Plum and Posner illuminated medical science with an orderly approach in dealing with the comatose patient. In this fifth edition, Saper and colleagues provide a concise state of the art update of this topic necessary for patient care and is a must read for all health care providers who wish to acquire or hone their knowledge to care for these patients.

David A. Hafler, MD, William S. and Lois Stiles Edgerly Professor of Neurology and Immunobiology, Chairman, Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, Neurologist-in-Chief, Yale New Haven Hospital, CT

Plum and Posners Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma has long provided the best description of both the pathophysiology and the diagnostic approach to disorders of consciousness. Remarkably, this edition was able to integrate the many new diagnostic and therapeutic tools that have become available while still maintaining the clarity and logic that made the book so useful. Every neurologist should read it!

John Kessler, MD, Davee Professor, Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

This new 5th Edition of the seminal Plum and Posners Stupor and Coma contributed by a brilliant, and partly renewed, band associating Posner, Saper, Schiff, and Claassen is not a USA dormant cop (anagram of the title), but a worldwide must-read for all those interested by the neurology, physiology and anatomy of consciousness, and by its disorders. Keeping with the very insightful and hitherto unseen tone of the 1972 first edition, this new opus covers almost exhaustively the rich and fast-growing relevant literature, and it can be read at different levels of expertise ranging from fresh college students to emeritus professors, including active neurologists, intensivists, and medical practitioners.

Prof. Lionel Naccache, Sorbonne University, Piti-Salptrire Hospital, Paris, France

As both the authoritative text on the subject, and compulsory reading for all neurologists, neurosurgeons, intensivists and ER physicians, the 5th edition of Plum and Posners Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma is as indelible a contribution as its four prior editions. Continuing in the tradition of the first editions 1966 grounding in brain structure-function relationships as they apply to disorders of consciousness, this edition is a welcome update to 2007s 4th edition capturing important advances in knowledge in the field. It is a comprehensive, yet succinct, well referenced, scholarly summary of our present day understanding of the molecular basis of consciousness as much as it is a practical clinicians guide to evaluation, treatment, and prognosis. A triumphindeed! A wonderful and necessary addition to the bookshelf of a wide audience whose interests include the brains role in modulating normal and disturbed states of consciousness.

David B. Rye, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

This new edition provides a comprehensive update of a classic and essential text. It preserves the best elements of the originalthe succinct formulation of the pathophysiology of coma, the approach to examining a comatose patientbut brings the book solidly into the 21st Century with inclusion of modern technologies and methods. The expanded discussion of the treatment of comatose patients is most welcome, delivering a wealth of information in a concise format. This remains a remarkable book: at once both comprehensive and accessible, equally suitable for extended study and as a quick bedside reference. It deserves a place in the library of every practicing neurologist.

David G. Standaert, MD, PhD, John N. Whitaker Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL

SERIES EDITOR

Eva Feldman, MD, PhD, FAAN, FANA

Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology

University of Michigan

Contemporary Neurology Series

PRINCIPLES OF DRUG THERAPY IN NEUROLOGY

Second Edition

Michael V. Johnston, MD, and Robert A. Gross, MD, PhD, Editors

NEUROLOGIC COMPLICATIONS OF CANCER

Second Edition

Lisa M. DeAngelis, MD, and Jerome B. Posner, MD

NEUROLOGIC COMPLICATIONS OF CRITICAL ILLNESS

Third Edition

Eelco F.M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD, FACP

CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Third Edition

Jasper R. Daube, MD, and Devon I. Rubin, MD, Editors

PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Steven Herskovitz, MD, Stephen N. Scelsa, MD, and Herbert H. Schaumburg, MD

CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLIOGY OF THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM

Fourth Edition

Robert W. Baloh, MD, FAAN, and Kevin A. Kerber, MD

THE NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSES (BATTEN DISEASE)

Second Edition

Sara E. Mole, PhD, Ruth D. Williams, MD, and Hans H. Goebel, MD, Editors

PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES

Robert B. Darnell, MD, PhD, and Jerome B. Posner, MD

JASPERS BASIC MECHANISMS OF THE EPILEPSIES

Jeffrey L. Noebels, MD, PhD, Massimo Avoli, MD, PhD, Michael A. Rogawski, MD, PhD, Richard W. Olsen, PhD, and Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta, MD

MYASTHENIA GRAVIS AND MYASTHENIC DISORDERS

Second Edition

Andrew G. Engel, MD

MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

Gary A. Rosenberg, MD

SEIZURES AND EPILEPSY

Second Edition

Jerome Engel, Jr., MD, PhD

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Moses Rodriguez, MD, Orhun H. Kantarci, MD, and Istvan Pirko, MD

FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA

Bruce L. Miller, MD

AUTONOMIC NEUROLOGY

Eduardo E. Benarroch, MD

EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF MYOPATHIES

Second Edition

Emma Ciafaloni, MD, Patrick F. Chinnery, FRCP, FMedSci, and Robert C. Griggs, MD, Editors

MOTOR NEURON DISEASE IN ADULTS

Mark Bromberg, MD

HYPERKINETIC MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Roger M. Kurlan, MD, Paul E. Green, MD, and Kevin M. Biglan, MD, MPH

THE NEUROLOGY OF EYE MOVEMENTS

Fifth Edition

R. John Leigh, MD, FRCP, and David S. Zee, MD

MIGRAINE

Third Edition

David W. Dodick, MD, and Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, FACP, FAHS, FAAN

CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Fourth Edition

Devon Rubin and Jasper Daube, Editors

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