Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

No member of the emergency room or trauma ward physician should be without this 4th edition of "The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery". Designed to be used as a quick reference, this multidisciplinary pocket guide addresses all areas of trauma and emergency surgery with a list of key points at the end of each chapter. In addition to a new section on the intensive care unit and an extended section on surgical emergencies, this manual also covers GI hemorrhage, hernias, bowel obstruction, pancreatitis, biliary tract disease, and other surgical challenges faced by trauma and emergency surgery personnel. Organized in a chronological fashion following the usual events and phases of care after injury or acute surgical illness, this user-friendly manual is one guide every trauma surgeon, surgical resident, surgical critical care specialist, emergency medicine physician, and emergency or trauma nurse, will want to keep close by. New to this edition: additional section on the intensive care unit; extended section on surgical emergencies; 5 new chapters covering: Acute respiratory failure; Cardiovascular disease and monitoring; Multiple organ dysfunction; Soft tissue infections; and The role of laparoscopy in emergency surgery.

This 4th edition of "The Washington Manual Internship Survival Guide" contains all the essential information needed for a successful internship. Designed to help residents improve their skills from their very first day on the wards, this pocket-size reference book offers practical medical advice for the top 10 workups and common calls and complaints residents will encounter during their rotations, including key history, what not to miss, and when to call for help. Features: includes a quick-reference detachable 12-panel pocket card with step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations of procedures; new sections offer valuable insights into patient safety and risk management; expanded coverage gives reader a better understanding of pain management and critical care; and thorough updates give residents the most current medical practices.

Now in its Fifth Edition, "Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials" is a comprehensive, concise, and clinically oriented introduction to the subject of epidemiology. Written by expert educators, this text introduces students to the principles of evidence-based medicine that will help them develop and apply methods of clinical observation in order to form accurate conclusions. The Fifth Edition includes more complete coverage of systematic reviews and knowledge management, as well as other key topics such as abnormality, diagnosis, frequency and risk, prognosis, treatment, prevention, chance, studying cases and cause.

This text integrates basic medical concepts and related scientific information to provide a strong foundation of general athletic training practices. Using a problem-solving approach to prevention, recognition, assessment, management, and disposition of sports-related injuries and diseases, this text provides athletic trainers and athletic training students with the most extensive, challenging content in a user-friendly format. New Content! This edition features a new chapter on Psychosocial Intervention Strategies.

Fully revised and streamlined to include the most recent information, Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach, 10e provides students with the theory and application knowledge necessary to fully prepare them for the highly specialized and complicated technical world of critical care nursing. These specially designed features assist students in providing competent and compassionate care to critically ill patients and their families: new! Evidence-Based Practice Highlights focus attention on the importance of research-based practice and include significant excerpts from AACN practice alerts as well as guidelines from other relevant organizations; new! Icons to identify drug therapy tables as well as laboratory and diagnostic tables focus attention on significant information; new! Spotlight on Genetics box, appearing in selected chapters, is key to understanding how genetic factors influence disorders; and new! Patient Safety boxes guide safe and effective practice by alerting the critical care nurse of risk factors, signs and symptoms, side effects, and complications. Considerations for the Older Patient boxes highlight the special needs of the fastest growing part of our population - older patients. Health History boxes summarize key areas that should be covered and relevant information that may be revealed during the health history. Collaborative Care Guides, presented in a tabular format containing outcomes and interventions, describe how the health care team works together to manage a patient's illness and minimize complications. Teaching Guides help the critical care nurse to prepare patients and family members for procedures, assist patients and family members with understanding the illness they are dealing with, explain post-procedure or postoperative activities, or prepare a patient for discharge from the hospital. Nursing Diagnoses boxes use current NANDA terminology to summarize common nursing diagnoses for particular conditions. Nursing Interventions tables and boxes highlight key information for the critical care nurse.

Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, "Fetal Monitoring Interpretation" describes and illustrates the full range of patterns revealed by fetal monitoring and explains their clinical significance. This book uses case studies and high-quality tracings accompanied by detailed teaching diagrams usually found only in anatomical and surgical atlases. This edition includes twenty new case illustrations with teaching diagrams and five added tracings that present rare and unique patterns. The text incorporates the changes in terminology recommended by the 2008 workshop jointly sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Five new sections have been added: Pattern Transitions - Emphasizing the dynamic process of bedside assessment of the fetus, this section focuses on changes occurring over time, influenced by factors such as maternal health, pre-existing fetal health, gestation, and medications/anesthesia; Antepartum Monitoring - The first edition focused on intrapartum monitoring. The second edition presents a new section on the unique interpretation in the antepartum setting; Patterns Associated with Disease States and Other Conditions - For the first time, a section is included that begins with a maternal or fetal condition or the fetal environment and addresses potential fetal heart rate patterns that might be associated; and, Technology Behind Fetal Monitoring and Adjuncts to Fetal Assessment - This new section reviews adjunctive methods of fetal assessment that might improve on the monitor heart rate data in inconclusive situations. It also includes Medico-Legal Considerations: This section examines the role of the monitor in predicting or retrospectively assisting with the analysis of adverse neonatal outcomes and the future of the monitor in obstetrics.

Fluids and electrolytes are key subjects in nursing education that contribute to the student nurse's ability to meet the Standards of Proficiency of Care Delivery and Care Management: a requirement for entry to the nursing register. Fluids & Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy! is an entertaining and informative book that reviews the fundamentals of fluids and electrolytes in a fun, interesting and easy-to-understand way. Organized into four parts, it provides comprehensive coverage of this challenging topic, including: fluid, electrolyte and acid-base basics; fluid and electrolyte imbalances; the importance and management of imbalances in major health problems; and treatments. This book is packed with numerous reader-friendly features including abundant charts, illustrations, cartoons, checklists, quick quizzes, memory joggers and chapter summaries. Drawing on current UK and European guidance, this book is an essential resource for nursing students.

Reflects the increasing body of knowledge linking the two concepts that explain the relationship between drug administration and drug response. This title also reflects the explosion in our understanding at the molecular and mechanistic levels of all the processes controlling the pharmacokinetics of drugs.