Evidence-Based Neurosurgery: An Introduction will teach the practitioner to employ evidence-based approaches to common problems in neurosurgery. The book begins with a review of the concepts and techniques involved in the practice of evidence-based medicine, including the basics of critical analysis using methodologically rigorous evidence-synthesis techniques. The second part of the text provides useful examples of the use of this critical analysis for common clinical situations, such as stent placement, managing infection, metastases, craniocerebral trauma, cervical spine trauma, and more.//This book covers all phases of clinical practice, from patient assessment, to diagnosis, to prognosis, and treatment, helping you address such questions as://How do you reliably determine the characteristics of the individual patient's condition?//What is the likely course of the disease?//How do you determine what interventions are likely to have a positive impact?//Does the intervention work under certain specified circumstances?//Evidence-Based Neurosurgery is an invitation to apply the rigorous methods of evidence-based medicine to improve your practice of neurosurgery.//This unique book...provides an objective and systematic method for the assessment of evidence in relation to particular neurosurgical questions and will be of interest to practicing neurosurgeons and trainees...This is a well-presented, carefully edited and easily digested book...recommend[ed] that it should be read by all neurosurgery trainees and should be an important acquisition for neurosurgical libraries.--ANZ Journal of Surgery...A good buy, in particular for apprentice neurosurgeons who are eager to develop their school of thought. ...An excellent, easy to read, small book.--Doody's Book Review