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    • Gastrointestinal Tract Imaging

      • 1st Edition
      • November 23, 2009
      • Julie Nightingale + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      This book offers a unique insight into the rapidly changing radiology service, and offers introductory chapters which provide the fundamental underpinning knowledge required for safe and effective GI practice. Subsequent chapters discuss the evidence base related to a range of imaging procedures suitable for investigation of upper and lower GI symptoms, supported by key pathology chapters. The book also explores the range of treatments available for the more common GI tract pathology.

    • Maitland's Clinical Companion

      • 1st Edition
      • October 14, 2009
      • Kevin Banks + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 4 2 5 7 7
      This reference is ideal for students who need support during their neuromusculoskeletal clinical practice in areas such as communication, clinical reasoning, examination and assessment. It is a vital source for understanding the role of mobilization and manipulation in helping to maximize the recovery, rehabilitation and functioning of patients with movement-related disorders. The principles of the Maitland Concept of Manipulative Physiotherapy are applied to each body region so as to guide the student through to the appropriate selection, application and progression of mobilization and manipulation techniques within the context of contemporary physiotherapeutic rehabilitation. A vital companion to the classic texts – Maitland's Vertebral Manipulation and Maitland's Peripheral Manipulation – which promotes a patient-centred approach to neuromusculoskeletal disorders.

    • Midwifery Essentials: Postnatal

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 4
      • September 2, 2009
      • Helen Baston + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 4 2 5 6 0
      'Postnatal' is the fourth title in the Midwifery Essentials series and explores contemporary postnatal care for women and their families, exploring the role of the midwife as a member of the multi-professional team. This book thoroughly prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred postnatal care for mothers and their babies. The postnatal examination of the woman, and the baby check Care of the baby in the immediate postnatal period The features of the normal neonate The newborn clinical examination Hospital postnatal care and caesarean section The role of the community midwife and emotional wellbeing Postnatal fertility control Issues involved in supporting the woman to feed her baby.

    • A-Z of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • May 28, 2009
      • Fiona Mantle + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 4 9 9 9 6
      A-Z of Complementary and Alternative Medicine provides a pocket-size quick reference of CAM, allowing conventional and complementary health practitioners to ascertain: - what the CAM intervention is - what it does - contraindications, precautions and interactions. With entries grouped under therapies, the guide provides easy access to many unfamiliar terms therefore providing an excellent resource for improving communication about CAM with patients.

    • A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care

      • 1st Edition
      • September 22, 2009
      • Sharon L. Edwards + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 3 3 0 9 4
      This small, pocket-sized book provides a solid introduction to aspects of care and management in critical care. The book contains not only information on patient assessment, ventilation, haemodynamic monitoring, emergencies, critical care interventions, common conditions and pharmacology, all clearly relating to critical care, but also psychological, professional practice issues, palliative care and caring for relatives. It provides the factual information needed to assist nurses in providing holistic care in the critical care environment, in an accessible format.

    • Illustrated Dictionary of Podiatry and Foot Science

      • 1st Edition
      • July 20, 2009
      • Jean Mooney
      • English
      • eBook
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 7 8 8 7 3
      More than just a collection of simple definitions, the Illustrated Dictionary of Podiatry is a pocket-reference guide for students and practitioners which covers anatomy, pathology, systemic disease, clinical diagnostic tests, treatment and management of foot problems and much more. Along with its handy size, a cross-referencing system helps make the Dictionary as user friendly as possible and draws the content together, while the many tips, tables, line drawings and photographs (including a colour section) expand on entries and summarize information on essential points.

    • Research Methods for Clinical Therapists

      • 5th Edition
      • August 7, 2009
      • Carolyn M. Hicks
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 4 1 8 8 4
      Struggling to do a project or dissertation, evaluate published research or conduct your own research? Help is at hand with this 5th edition of Research Methods for Clinical Therapists, which explains, in a clear and simple manner, how to evaluate existing research and how to conduct your own research. Aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as the practising health care professional, the focus of the text is the design and analysis of experimental studies. These are vital to the effectiveness studies that are central to the work of the healthcare professional. Specific examples from different areas of healthcare are used to explain the core research concepts and relate them to clinical situations. Statistical theory and jargon are kept to a minimum.

    • Midwifery Essentials: Labour

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 3
      • September 3, 2009
      • Helen Baston + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 4 2 5 5 3
      'Labour' is the third title in the Midwifery Essentials series and is about the provision of safe and effective care during labour and birth. This book prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred intrapartum care.

    • Intellectual Disability and Social Inclusion

      • 1st Edition
      • January 27, 2009
      • Martin Richard Bollard
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 0 4 1 8 3
      This book provides a unique insight into the challenges faced by people with learning disabilities trying to access mainstream health and social services and by the professionals who are trying to provide them. The combination of professional perspectives and viewpoints of people with learning disabilities themselves creates an authoritative explanation of why this group of people face the barriers they do. The contributors critique these barriers and also offer potential solutions to overcoming them.

    • Ultrasound Physics and Technology

      • 1st Edition
      • June 2, 2009
      • Vivien Gibbs + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 3 0 4 1 3
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 4 9 9 2 7
      Written for health practitioners and students new to medical ultrasound, this book provides all the basic physics and technological knowledge they need in order to practise ultrasound effectively, including safety aspects of ultrasound, quality assurance and the latest techniques and developments.

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