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Manual of Nerve Conduction Study and Surface Anatomy for Needle Electromyography
Hang J. Lee , Joel A. DeLisa
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 400
This manual is a practical, illustrated how-to guide to the proper techniques and electrode placements for common nerve conduction studies. The first section describes each nerve conduction study, including placement of electrodes, typical electromyography equipment settings, normal values, and pearls and pitfalls. The second section provides detailed coverage of surface anatomy for needle electromyography and shows where to place the needles for each muscle. More than 200 clear photographs demonstrate correct placement of needle electrodes. Chapters in each section follow a consistent sequence and are written in outline format to help readers find information quickly
Essential Pediatric Cardiology
Frank Zimmerman
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Peter Koenig
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editore: McGraw-Hill Medical
pagine: 599
Written and designed especially for use by the practitioner in general practice, "Essential Pediatric Cardiology" is a concise and practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disorders in the neonate, child, and adolescent. An effective combination of concise text and useful summary features allows you to quickly assess and interpret presenting signs and symptoms, and formulate an effective plan for management. A wealth of sample cardiac test results and tips on normal and abnormal findings help to further hone your diagnostic skills.This book provides a concise, yet thorough review for the non-specialist. Standardized, disease-specific chapters guide you systematically through evaluation, diagnosis, and management. Summaries, lists, tables, and charts effectively summarize information for ease of reference. It includes a handy drug formulary for common prescriptions. It provides helpful advice on indications for consultation or referral. It includes sample interpreted test results such as EKGs and provides guidance on their interpretation. It utilizes up-to-date, evidence-based recommendations. It reviews common diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
CS Checklists
Portable Review for the USMLE Step 2 CS
Jennifer K. Rooney
editore: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
pagine: 200
This title presents a portable, pocket-sized outline of 45 frequently-tested case studies on the USMLE Step 2 CS (Clinical Skills Exam). Each case includes a short clinical scenario, patient history checklist, physical examination checklist, differential diagnosis, and follow-up recommendations/diagnostic workup plans. This title features a format that mirrors the actual exam.
Arthroscopic Knot Tying
An Instruction Manual
Keith M. Baumgarten , Rick W. Wright
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 180
Featuring more than 260 photographs and easy-to-follow outlined instructions, this manual is the first step-by-step "how-to" guide to arthroscopic knot tying. The authors explain the key concepts behind arthroscopic knot tying, show how to hold the suture and use the various knot-tying devices, and demonstrate all the steps necessary to tie a biomechanically sound arthroscopic knot. The book covers 30 arthroscopic knots that are appropriate for repairing injuries of the shoulder, elbow, knee, and ankle. Detailed instructions for tying each knot are presented side by side with clear photographs depicting each step.
Glaucoma Diagnosis and Management
Deepak Gupta
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 320
Inside this expertly written resource, you'll discover what every optometrist must know to ensure the accurate diagnosis and optimal management of glaucoma. Complete diagnostic coverage hones your skills with current information on risk factors, genetic factors, gonioscopy, visual field analysis, IOP measurement, corneal thickness evaluation, and optic nerve imaging. You'll also find essential material on medical management including overviews of the latest drugs used in managing glaucoma to help you choose the best approach for each patient. There's even guidance on co-management that will help you work effectively with ophthalmologists in charting the right therapeutic course. Put the essentials of glaucoma management into focus...Order your copy today!
Comprehensive Atlas of Transplantation
Donald C. Dafoe
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Paul C. Kuo
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editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 288
Featuring more than 400 full-color digital intraoperative photographs, this atlas is a comprehensive 'how-to' guide to heart, lung, liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation. It presents photographs and succinct descriptions of every step of each operation - including patient positioning, dissection and exposure, retraction, anatomic details, anatomoses, completion, and drain placement. Photographs have been taken from multiple angles, including directly overhead wherever possible. Anatomic and technical variations are illustrated by drawings. Coverage includes procurement and transplantation of cadaver organs, operations to obtain organs from living donors, and transplantation of living donor organs. The liver and kidney sections include pediatric transplantation.
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
Brian D. Kavanagh , Robert D. Timmerman
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 160
This text provides oncology professionals with a practical understanding of the basic science, technical aspects, and clinical indications of stereotactic body radiation therapy, including radiosurgery, radiotherapy, and radioablation. The coverage includes discussions of relevant classical and molecular radiobiological principles, critical evaluations of currently used techniques, and background clinical oncology information plus summaries of reported outcomes for patients treated in the lung, liver, and spine.
Heart Sounds Made Incredibly Easy
editore: Springhouse Publishing Co ,U.S.
pagine: 224
Heart Sounds Made Incredibly Easy! is an entertaining, easy to read, practical, and informative reference that includes an audio CD of heart sounds for those who must accurately interpret heart sounds and understand their implications, diagnosis, and treatments. Revealing the importance of accurate heart sound interpretation, this Incredibly Easy! title walks the reader through more than 65 heart sounds. The book includes an audio index and cues to the CD throughout the text for each sound, which allows the reader to listen to the sounds sequentially with the book or review them out of sequence
Practical Manual of Haemoglobinopathies
Iheanyi Okpala
editore: Blackwell Science Ltd
pagine: 256
Presents a comprehensive picture of care, including diagnostic, therapeutic, and psychosocial aspects. The contributors cover basic science and epidemiological aspects of the public health challenge, but maintain a focus on the day to day issues encountered in dealing with affected people. Containing clear, practical advice, this text is an essential, practical resource to bridge the gap between expensive reference texts and smaller manuals. "Practical Management of Haemoglobinopathies" is ideal for trainees and residents in haematology, hematologists in practice, and healthcare professionals treating those with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia. Why buy this book? It deals with practical problems encountered in the comprehensive care of affected individuals. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field. It offers a comprehensive coverage of basic science, laboratory diagnosis, psychosocial support and community care.
A Clinical Guide to Pediatric Infectious Disease
Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Donald Janner
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 250
The ideal time-saver for the busy clinician at the front lines of pediatric care, this handy guide delivers a practical 'how-to' perspective on diagnosis and treatment for a range of commonly encountered infections. Broad-based material helps you meet the challenges of a range of infectious disease states--from otitis media, sinusitis, and urinary tract infection...to hepatitis, cervical adenitis, pediatric tuberculosis, pneumonia, catheter infection, and more. Let these dynamic features guide your diagnostic and treatment choices: clinically essential material on specific drugs and dosages helps you select the best treatment for each patient, and alerts you to potentially hazardous dosing errors and drug interactions; section on accurate interpretation of laboratory tests outlines proper interpretive technique for a range of common tests and helps hone your diagnostic skills; consistent chapter template allows you to locate needed information quickly; and coverage of infection control in organ transplant recipients helps you meet the special needs of this patient population. Convenient size makes this an ideal quick-consult at the bedside, in the lab, or in the office.
Myoclonic Epilepsies
Understanding Its Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment
Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta
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Charlotte Dravet
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editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 347
This volume is the first comprehensive text and clinical reference on idiopathic myoclonic epilepsies of infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The world's foremost experts describe the phenotypes and subtypes of myoclonic epilepsies and the underlying molecular defects and summarize cutting-edge advances in molecular genetics that shed new light on the etiologies of these syndromes. The book offers clinicians much-needed assistance in recognizing and diagnosing idiopathic myoclonic epilepsies and selecting appropriate treatment. Each chapter includes diagnostic and treatment algorithms to guide practitioners in clinical decision making.
Pharmacology for Massage Therapy
Procedures and Quick Reference
Jean M. Wible
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 320
Written specifically for massage therapists, this excellent text makes the basics of pharmacology easy to understand. It explains the biochemical and physical effects and actions of a wide variety of drug classes, explores how they move throughout the body, and addresses the use of drugs to prevent and treat diseases. This cutting-edge text also introduces a deductive reasoning process that can be used to develop safe individualized bodywork protocols for clients receiving drug therapy. Readers will learn a practical method for assessing the effects of drug therapies on their clients and the implications for massage therapy.
Stedman's Alternative and Complementary Medicine Words
Stedman's
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 514
Stedman's Alternative & Complementary Medicine Words, Second Edition includes over 40,000 cutting-edge, up-to-date alternative and complementary medicine terms, in addition to drugs/herbal remedies and equipment used in treatment. This new edition also features an expanded appendix section with Images and Sample Reports. Veteran medical transcriptionists, students, court reporters, medical language specialists, and other related professionals will value this comprehensive reference for accurate medical documentation. Stedman's Alternative & Complementary Medicine Words, Second Edition is also available on CD-ROM.
Cancer of the Nervous System
Jay S. Loeffler , Peter M. Black
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 900
Thoroughly revised to reflect the latest advances in neurosurgery, radiation oncology, chemotherapy, biological therapy, and the basic sciences, the Second Edition of this highly acclaimed volume is the most comprehensive, current reference on tumors of the central and peripheral nervous system. More than 100 of the foremost authorities present multimodality treatment strategies for specific tumor types and examine the mechanisms of tumorigenesis. Coverage includes state-of-the-art information on image-guided surgery, local delivery systems, intraoperative imaging, proton beam therapy, conformal systems, radiosurgery, new drugs and biological agents, and cell cycle deregulation and chromosomal abnormalities in tumorigenesis. This edition contains over 400 illustrations.
AIDS 2003
A Year in Review
Jay A. Levy
editore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
pagine: 160
With the rapid nature of progress in the field of AIDS and HIV, "AIDS 2003: A Year in Review" provides an essential summary of all major advances during the previous year. The entire field is divided into subspecialties - Virology, Vaccines & Immunology, Clinical Treatment, and Epidemiology and Social Issues. This year's publication features a novel format. Two new sections have been added to complement the state-of-the-art topical review papers that we have had in years past. There is now a 'news' feature and 'best of AIDS' feature. Some of the world's leading researchers and writers look back at the year's research progress and other important matters to provide a coherent synthesis of all our recent work, and its implications for future investigations. "AIDS 2003: A Year in Review" will be cited in "Index Medicus/Medline", "Current Contents (Life Sciences)", "Science Citation Index", and "Excerpta Medica".
Genetic Predisposition to Cancer
B. A. J. Ponder
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Charis Eng
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editore: Hodder Arnold
pagine: 466
Over the last 20 years it has become increasingly apparent that the occurrence of many cancers can have an inherited basis. This book examines the principles underlying genetic predisposition to cancer and will be relevant to practising oncologists, geneticists and other professionals interested in this rapidly expanding field. Coverage is comprehensive, taking the reader from an introduction to genetic predisposition, through a discussion of the molecular biology and statistical techniques involved in the identification and characterisation of predisposition genes, to a consideration of heritable cancer syndromes, and encompasses both rare and common cancers. The text also features a discussion of cancer risk assessment, genetic counselling issues, genetic screening and cancer management options, and a consideration of the associated ethical and psychological issues. Building on the reputation of the previous edition, and to reflect the rapid advances in the field since its publication, the contents of the second edition have been thoroughly updated and include discussion of many newly identified cancer genes.
In particular, the book features new chapters added on the biological basis of cancer predisposition, population-based studies of susceptibility, and evaluation of management strategies for individuals at increased cancer risk.
Pilates per persone che hanno troppo da fare. Esercizi semplici da fare in casa, in ufficio e in viaggio
Alan Herdman , Jo G. Wood
editore: Corbaccio
pagine: 144
Una serie di esercizi che si possono fare ovunque e in ogni circostanza
Complications in Laser Cutaneous Surgery
Goldberg , David J. Goldberg
editore: Informa Healthcare
pagine: 192
The concept of selective photothermolysis revolutionized cutaneous therapy and continues to be the basis of low-risk laser treatment of photoaged skin, benign pigmented lesions and tattoos, unwanted hair, and cutaneous vascular lesions. However, all practitioners are aware that problems can arise, and with the increasing availability of more powerful lasers and light sources, more complications are inevitably going to be seen Complications in Laser Cutaneous Surgery provides, chapter by chapter, several key points followed by discussion of the lasers used to treat the various entities described, how to pre-empt problems and how to deal with them if they occur.
Atlas of Gynecologic Cytology
Grace T. McKee
editore: Informa Healthcare
pagine: 123
This atlas is an invaluable aid for pathologists and trainees who have worked with conventional smear cytology but need to familiarize themselves with the appearance seen in liquid-based cytology, which has largely replaced conventional smears for cervical screening. It includes state of the art information on normal Pap smears, normal glandular constituents, smear patterns, and inflammation, reactive changes, and repair; it also covers pathological changes, such as typical and atypical squamous cell abnormalities, high-grade intraepithelial lesions, and glandular cell abnormalities. It will be a useful guide for practitioners who need a quick reference on cytological specimens.
Crash Course: Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Archana Shailendra
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Audrey Ryan
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editore: Mosby
pagine: 344
"Crash Course!" is a revision series for students on system based and integrated courses. An illustrated outline format in bite-sized chunks makes the content easy to absorb. Hints and Tips and Comprehension Check boxes are built-in features designed to make the series student-friendly. A practice exam at the end enables students to assess their level of understanding. The Clinical titles are written by a senior consultant, and a junior doctor who has recent experience of being a student - making the books as relevant as possible for current medical students.
