Clinical Guides

Short books for one problem at a time.

Each guide takes a single clinical area and works it through from mechanism to bedside decision, with tables, original figures, worked cases and references. Read them online or download the printed edition. Free, as everything here.

Cover of Headache Decoded
No. 1 · version 2.1

Headache Decoded

ICHD-3 made usable at the bedside: red flags (SNNOOP10), the duration ladder, migraine, tension-type headache, the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, cranial neuralgias and the secondary headaches that must not be missed — updated to the 2026 AAN/AHS prevention guideline.

22 pagesRead online or as PDF
Cover of Intracranial Haemorrhage & Neuroanatomy
No. 2 · version 6.1

Intracranial Haemorrhage & Neuroanatomy

Why an epidural kills faster than a subdural, what subarachnoid blood does to CSF, how to run the first hour of intracerebral haemorrhage, and how Monro–Kellie, compliance and herniation tie the four together. With MMA embolisation, INTERACT3, ANNEXA-I, ENRICH and SWITCH.

20 pagesRead online or as PDF
Cover of Classical Stroke Syndromes
No. 3 · version 1.0

Classical Stroke Syndromes

From the artery to the deficit and back: the territories of the anterior and posterior circulation, the cortical, lacunar, thalamic, brainstem and cerebellar syndromes, the posterior-circulation traps, and twelve localisation cases with worked answers.

22 pagesRead online or as PDF
Cover of The Mental Status Examination
No. 4 · version 2.0

The Mental Status Examination

How to examine cognition at the bedside and turn the findings into a localisation: exact scripts, normal limits, what each failure points to, the aphasia matrix, screening tools, delirium, and testing in Arabic.

16 pagesRead online or as PDF