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Lippincott's Primary Care Rheumatology
Dennis W. Boulware , Gustavo R. Heudebert
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 400
This volume of "Lippincott's Primary Care Series" will help family practitioners, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants understand, diagnose, and treat the most common rheumatologic problems seen in the primary care setting. Emphasis on day-to-day practical outpatient office practice distinguishes this from the many existing rheumatology textbooks and it contains numerous images to aid in diagnosis and treatment. Whenever possible, chapters follow a consistent format with headings of Clinical Presentation, Examination, Studies, Treatment, Clinical Course, and Conclusions and box elements such as Introductory Case, Clinical Points/Highlights, Patient Assessment, Not to Be Missed, and When to Refer. Key points are provided for those topics that don't fit this format.
Cook County Manual of Emergency Procedures
Christopher Ross
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Pierre E. Wakim
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editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 608
Written by senior faculty at Cook County Hospital, "Cook County Manual of Emergency Procedures" presents over 100 procedures performed in the emergency department in a templated, bulleted format. This text is an invaluable guide for the clinician who may confront a wide range of emergencies, both common and less common. It offers key illustrations that guide the reader through topics ranging from airway management to nerve blocks, suturing, splinting, dental emergencies, and ultrasound-guided procedures. This text is supplemented with step-by-step videos of select techniques, which are available on the companion website.
The Hand
Anatomy, Examination, and Diagnosis
Ed Akelman , Ghazi Rayan
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 243
Effective management of the human hand depends on accurate diagnosis. To perform a successful examination, medical personnel need a sound knowledge of the anatomical principles relevant to this complex structure. The Hand: Anatomy, Examination, and Diagnosis, Fourth Edition provides that vital information.Published in partnership with the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, this concise, pocket-size manual is a practical guide to evaluating a wide variety of common hand injuries and diseases. This clearly written, thoroughly researched, full-color book will be invaluable to orthopaedic, plastic, hand, and general surgeons, as well as emergency room physicians, family physicians, physical therapists, medical students, and nurses.
Step-by-step Massage Therapy Protocols for Common Conditions
Charlotte Michael Versagi
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 352
"Step-by-Step Massage Therapy Protocols for Common Conditions" is intended to give massage therapy students and practitioners the knowledge and confidence to work safely with clients who have medical conditions. The text provides practical, thorough protocols to help therapists support their clients while steering them away from doing any harm.
Nuclear Medicine Physics: The Basics
Ramesh Chandra
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 224
For decades this classic reference has been the book to review to master the complexities of nuclear-medicine physics. Part of the renowned "The Basics series of medical physics books", "Nuclear Medicine Physics" has become an essential resource for radiology residents and practitioners, nuclear cardiologists, medical physicists, and radiologic technologists. This thoroughly revised Seventh Edition retains all the features that have made "The Basics series" a reliable and trusted partner for board review and reference. Inside this new edition you'll find: more than 100 new and revised illustrations that underscore difficult concepts; expanded review questions at the end of each chapter - with detailed answers at the end of the book - to help you master the material; key points at the end of each chapter that serve as helpful reminders of the principal points; concise text that clearly explains all the pertinent concepts in nuclear medicine physics; essential mathematical equations that shed further light on key concepts; and, five appendices that elaborate on specific topics, such as physical characteristics of radionuclides and CGS and SI Units.
Macular Surgery
D. Virgil Alfaro
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Hugo Quiroz-Mercado
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editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 552
"Macular Surgery, Second Edition" serves as a comprehensive and contemporary review of macular diseases and their management. An exhaustive review of the latest proven surgical techniques and therapies for treatment of macular disorders is provided, with emphasis on proven techniques from extensive reviews of controlled clinical trials. Specific chapters of the book are devoted to age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, macular holes, epiretinal membranes, subretinal hemorrhage, and choroidal neovascularization. An entire section is devoted to prevention of complications from macular surgery. All chapters are written by leading experts within the field.
Pediatrics for Medical Students
Daniel Bernstein , Steven P. Shelov
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 736
Endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, this text is designed for third-year medical students in their pediatric clerkships or studying for pediatric shelf exams. The book is divided into two sections. Section One focuses on the general practice of pediatrics, including normal preventive visits. Section Two offers more traditional systems-oriented chapters that focus on a systematic approach to developing a differential diagnosis. This text is a nice hybrid - part pediatrics textbook, part review guide for shelf exams or board preparation. A new arsenal of ancillary materials, including full text online, student testbank, and image bank accompanies the book. This title includes authoritative content fully endorsed by the prestigious American Academy of Pediatrics. AAP's thorough review of the text ensures compliance with the latest in policies and treatment guidelines.
It links students and instructors to additional resources via thePoint, including the full text online, image bank, student test bank (also available in a convenient mobile format) with 200 USMLE-style clinical vignette questions, and access to the AAP's Bright Futures website for superior coverage of children's healthcare in the context of family and community needs. It features a full-color interior design to better highlight the visual elements of teaching and learning pediatrics. It is organized around those aspects essential to the pediatrics rotation, each chapter covers clinical and lab evaluation, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, patient management, and Pediatric Pearls to help students make immediate clinical connections.
Manual of Vascular Diseases
Debabrata Mukherjee
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Emile R. Mohler
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editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 640
Knowledge and understanding of vascular disease, particularly atherosclerosis, continue to expand across disciplines, as do diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for treatment of vascular disorders. This manual offers a consistent 'how to' approach that places specific emphasis on management. Each chapter provides the reader with a highly practical approach so that he or she comes away with a reasonable amount of familiarity as to be able to manage the patient independently. Since the first edition, a certification in vascular medicine has become available. Some of the key features include: practical information such as drug doses, protocols for managing disorders, and algorithms; guidance on diagnostic assessment and treatment strategies for the majority of vascular disorders encountered in clinical practice; and, assimilation of information from areas outside cardiology, i.e., vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists, into a reader-friendly format geared toward the average practicing internist or cardiologist.
Neuroscience
Claudia Krebs
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Elizabeth J. Akesson
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editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 528
This new title in the best-selling "Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews" series presents essential coverage of neuroscience focusing on topics related to human health and disease. "Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Neuroscience" includes the popular features of the series: abundance of full-color, annotated illustrations; chapter overviews; expanded outline format; chapter summaries; and, review questions that link basic science to real-life clinical situations. This book can be used as a text for a stand-alone neuroscience/neuroanatomy course in medical, health professions, and upper-level undergraduate programs or as a review for boards. It offers a companion website that features the fully searchable online text, an interactive Question Bank for students, an Image Bank for instructors to use to create PowerPoint presentations, and animations created at the authors' school.
Comprehensive Review in Clinical Neurology: A Multiple Choice Question Book for the Wards and Boards
Alexander Rae-Grant
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Eric P. Baron
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editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 730
This new review textbook, written by residents and an experienced faculty member from Cleveland Clinic, is designed to ensure success on all sorts of standardized neurology examinations. Presented in a comprehensive question-and-answer format, with detailed rationales, "Comprehensive Review in Clinical Neurology" is a must-have for both aspiring and practicing neurologists and psychiatrists preparation to take the RITE, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology written exams, and various recertification exams.
VisualDx: Essential Dermatology in Pigmented Skin
Art Papier , Lowell A. Goldsmith
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 720
VisualDx: Essential Dermatology in Pigmented Skin combines a desk reference and a powerful online decision support system to give you point-of-care assistance in diagnosing and managing skin diseases in darkly pigmented skin. The book is written and edited by clinicians with extensive experience caring for patients with pigmented skin, including Hispanics, African-Americans, and diverse patients from many countries. It features over 700 full-color illustrations depicting the distinctive presentations of skin diseases in adults and children with darkly pigmented skin. These illustrations are valuable aids to both diagnosis and patient teaching because they show patients how the disease appears in skin types resembling their own pigmentation. The text is organized by skin lesion morphology to assist the differential diagnostic process. It covers 195 skin disorders, with illustrations and succinct text on visual signs and symptoms, diagnostic pearls, best laboratory tests, differential diagnosis, and treatment. An additional chapter covers dermatologic therapy. The online clinical decision support system can be accessed on a desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or mobile device.
It enables you to search by patient findings, such as visual clues, signs and symptoms, medications, medical history, and travel history, to build a custom differential diagnosis. Thousands of images show both typical and variant disease presentations. Patient information sheets are also included.
Atlas of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
A Multimedia Reference
Carol B. Benson , Peter M. Doubilet
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 512
Now in its second edition, "Atlas of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology"is ideal as a visually-oriented reference and comprehensive tutorial for expanding your knowledge of ultrasound.Developed from one of the best and broadest sonographic collections in the field, this powerful atlas provides images and authoritative commentary covering all aspects of obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound. The text is integrated with over 200 video clips available online to enhance diagnostic skills and learn about ultrasound-guided procedures.Whether you're a radiologist, obstetrician, gynecologist or sonographer this exciting visual resource is a valuable tool for achieving diagnostic accuracy for your patients. Inside you'll find: "Large, clear illustrations - more than 110 0, most new to this edition - and informative text" highlighting normal anatomy and pathological conditions, interventional procedures, and much more."Fully searchable website" with access to the complete content of the book and integrated video clips. "Over 200 real-time clips on the companion website" that add another dimension to illustrate many sonographic abnormalities."Guidance from two well-known experts" lets you benefit from the experience of Drs. Doubilet and Benson - both known for their research in obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound.
Khan's Lectures: Handbook of the Physics of Radiation Therapy
Faiz M. Khan
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 400
Handbook of the Physics of Radiation Therapy. The lecture book will provide a digest of the material contained in The Physics of Radiation Therapy. Lectures will be presented somewhat similar to a PowerPoint format, discussing key points of individual chapters. Selected diagrams from the textbook will be used to initiate the discussion. New illustrations will used, wherever needed, to enhance the understanding of important concepts. Discussion will be condensed and often bulleted. Theoretical details will be referred to the textbook and the cited literature. A problem set practice questions will be provided at the end
Essential Dermatopathology
Anthony Yung
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Sara Edward
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editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 512
"Essential Dermatopathology" is designed to assist pathology trainees, general pathologists, dermatology trainees, and dermatologists in understanding the basics of dermatopathology. It illustrates and defines common dermatopathology terms and descriptions, basic inflammatory patterns and their major differential diagnoses in the introductory chapters. The final chapters consist of a systematic overview of common dermatological conditions/lesions, logically described in separate chapters based on site of predominant involvement. The aim of the layout is to closely mimic the systematic method by which pathology slides are reported.
Pocket Pain Medicine
Nalini Vadivelu , Richard D. Urman
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 360
"Pocket Pain Medicine" is an invaluable tool for every resident and practicing physician who needs to understand the essentials of acute and chronic pain management, including all current guidelines and standards of care. This concise, up-to-date, evidence-based reference guide is written in the popular "Pocket Notebook Series" format that is ideal for today's fast-paced health care environment. Information is presented in a schematic, outline format, with diagrams and tables for quick, easy reference. The book contains all the practical information the resident or practitioner needs to quickly diagnose the pain disorder, safely prescribe the required medications, and arrange for advanced pain care if needed. "Pocket Pain Medicine" will appeal to physicians in every specialty in both academic and private practice throughout the world.
Principles and Practice of Geriatric Psychiatry
Gabe J. Maletta , Marc E. Agronin
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 800
Many elderly patients suffer from psychiatric conditions that result from - or are made worse by - existing medical conditions. This new edition integrates clinical expertise needed to evaluate and treat psychiatric, medical and neurologic disorders in the older patient. Both scientific foundations of and clinical approaches to psychiatric disease are discussed by a range of experts who rely on evidence-based clinical guidelines and outcomes data. Most chapters include case studies that illuminate the approaches to diagnosis and treatment. The book's five sections include basic principles of evaluation and treatment for specific disorders; appendices offer further insight into pharmacotherapy and neuroanatomic foundation of psychiatric diseases.
Essentials of Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Andres Martin , Fred R. Volkmar
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 432
This body of work draws on various, sometimes distinctive and sometimes overlapping, historical and professional traditions, including the expanding knowledge about both normative child development and developmental processes as well as about the origins, expression, and treatment of psychopathology.
Practical Guide for Clinical Neurophysiologic Testing
EP, LTM, IOM, PSG, and NCS
Elizabeth Meng , Thoru Yamada
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 400
This book provides advanced content that begins where the Practical Guide for Clinical Neurophysiologic Testing: EEG ends. This advanced guide, more geared to neurology fellows than to electroneurodiagnostic technologists, discusses evoked potentials, including visual, brainstem auditory, and somatosensory EPs. The author covers intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring, epilepsy monitoring, long-term bedside EEG monitoring, and sleep studies. Companion website contains videos and an interactive Q&A.
Handbook of Sleep Medicine
Alon Y. Avidan , Phyllis C. Zee
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 490
Expanded to include detailed information on pharmacologic and non- pharmacologic treatment, this handbook continues to offer a concise overview of the field for trainees and practitioners in the many disciplines that deal with sleep disorders. Chapters provide a broad introduction to sleep disturbances and associated comorbidities and discuss the major sleep disorders in terms of epidemiology, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, assessment tools, management, and follow-up. Of special value are algorithms that provide a logical approach to evaluating sleep- related complaints. All chapters adhere to the new International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD-2), which is outlined in an appendix with ICD-9 codes.
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer
Steven A. Rosenberg
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Theodore S. Lawrence
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editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 456
Drawn from the content of the new Ninth Edition of Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, this unique publication brings together the basic scientific information on the molecular biology of cancer. The format is designed to be useful both to research scientists interested in the study of cancer and to oncologists who need to understand these new developments that are having a profound impact on the care of patients with cancer. Leading scientists and clinicians in the field of molecular biology and clinical oncology have lent their expertise to this project. The text has been divided into two parts. Part I includes thirteen chapters that deal with the general principles of the molecular biology of cancer that provide the basic framework for an understanding of the behavior of cancer cells. Part II includes an up-to-date description of how this new information has affected the understanding of the biology of 19 of the most common cancers, with an emphasis on how these new findings have been translated to impact the management of cancer patients. This distinctive text provides a single concise source of information for scientists and clinicians in this rapidly developing field.
