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  • Casos clínicos de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias

    100 casos razonados
    • 1st Edition
    • F. Javier Montero Pérez + 1 more
    • Spanish
    Casos clínicos de medicina de urgencias y emergencias. 100 casos razonados acompaña la séptima edición de Medicina de urgencias y emergencias. Guía diagnóstica y protocolos de actuación para ayudar a profesionales de urgencias y estudiantes del grado de Medicina a actualizar y comprobar sus conocimientos. La obra va dirigida a médicos de urgencias, estudiantes de Medicina, u otros especialistas que realicen guardias de urgencias generales. Puede ser utilizada para la consulta clínica o el estudio, y constituye una herramienta muy útil para el desarrollo del razonamiento clínico en urgencias y la obtención de conocimientos esenciales para el ejercicio de esta especialidad. F. Javier Montero Pérez y Luis Jiménez Murillo han sido directores y coautores de Medicina de urgencias y emergencias. Guía diagnóstica y protocolos de actuación desde su primera edición, en 1994. Su amplia experiencia en medicina de urgencias en sus diversos aspectos (asistencia, gestión, docencia e investigación) avala esta obra de referencia desde hace tres décadas, así como sus nuevas obras hermanas: Casos clínicos de medicina de urgencias y emergencias. 100 casos razonados y Medicina de urgencias y emergencias a examen. 1.500 preguntas test con respuestas razonadas.
  • Endocrinología del envejecimiento

    Aspectos clínicos en esquemas e imágenes
    • 1st Edition
    • Emiliano Corpas
    • Spanish
    La Organización de las Naciones Unidas prevé que la población mundial de 60 años o más será de 1.400 millones en 2030 y de 2.100 millones en 2050. A medida que la población mundial envejece, aumenta la necesidad de una comprensión más profunda de la patología geriátrica y, con ello, la exigencia de acceder a recursos educativos que permitan comprender mejor la endocrinología y el metabolismo del envejecimiento, pues tanto endocrinólogos como médicos generalistas se enfrentarán al desafío de cuidar de la salud de personas de edad cada vez más avanzada, para lo que necesitarán incorporar los principios geriátricos a su práctica clínica. Endocrinología del envejecimiento. Aspectos clínicos en esquemas e imágenes presenta el contenido de una forma que permite asimilar los conceptos y los conocimientos fundamentales sobre temas endocrinos complejos de una manera esquemática y visual. Dirigida especialmente a educadores y especialistas relacionados con la endocrinología y la geriatría, también será de interés para los profesionales de la medicina interna y la medicina familiar.
  • Manson's Tropical Diseases

    • 24th Edition
    • Jeremy Farrar + 6 more
    • English
    **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Infectious Disease**For 125 years, physicians have relied on Manson's Tropical Diseases for a comprehensive clinical overview of this complex and fast-changing field. In the fully revised 24th Edition, Dr. Jeremy Farrar, along with an internationally recognized editorial team, global contributors, and expert authors, deliver the latest coverage on parasitic and infectious diseases from around the world. From the difficult to diagnose to the difficult to treat, this highly readable, award-winning reference prepares you to effectively handle whatever your patients may have contracted.
  • Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries

    Disasters and Environmental Challenges
    • 1st Edition
    • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
    • English
    Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries: Disasters and Environmental Challenges provides an overview of both natural and manmade disasters occurring in oil, gas and petrochemical industries while also covering special solutions based on their types. This volume includes the effects of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes as well as manmade incidents including fire events, explosions and the release of dust and toxic substances on various related units and plants. In addition, the long-term side effects on both humans and the environment resulted from these industries are presented. Problems such as releasing wastes and venting gases into the environment and challenges from overusing the natural resources and producing noise pollutants are also discussed in detail.
  • Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries

    Loss Prevention and Disaster Management
    • 1st Edition
    • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
    • English
    Crises in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries: Loss Prevention and Disaster Management, Volume Two provides an overview of both natural and manmade disasters occurring in oil, gas and petrochemical industries and prepares special solutions based on their types. The book focuses on loss prevention and disaster management in petrochemical industries from different points-of-view. Sections review methods for making the apparatus safer and continue with discussions on the process of facing and managing disasters during the occurrence. Final sections cover loss and economic analysis after disasters and methods of reversibility are presented with case studies from around the world.
  • Advances in Pediatrics, 2023

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 70-1
    • Carol Berkowitz + 4 more
    • English
    Advances in Pediatrics reviews the year’s most important findings and updates within the field in order to provide pediatricians and primary care providers with the current clinical information they need to improve patient outcomes. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Carol Berkowitz, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites preeminent specialists to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews in pediatrics inform and enhance clinical practice by bringing concepts to a clinical level and exploring their everyday impact on patient care.
  • Safety in the Chemical Laboratory and Industry

    A Practical Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • Muhammad Raza Shah
    • English
    Safety in the Chemical Laboratory and Industry: A Practical Guide provides an authoritative reference on chemical safety procedures and the handling and disposal of chemicals at both the laboratory and industrial level. The book serves as a practical guide for laboratory workers and offers prudent guidelines for the development of regulatory policy for academic and non-academic organizations. The book stresses that all accidental injuries can be minimized if systems and attitudes are in place to prevent them and that to fully materialize a safety culture, even with improved technology, everyone should be mindful of maintaining a safe environment. This handbook will assist faculty, researchers, staff and students to provide a safe and healthy laboratory environment to teach, learn and conduct research.
  • Child Health Equity, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 70-4
    • Robert S. Kahn + 2 more
    • English
    In this issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Robert S. Kahn, Monica Mitchell, and Tina L. Cheng bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Achieving Child Health Equity. Health equity requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care. In this issue, top experts provide up-to-date information to healthcare practitioners with the goal of implementing programs and policies to identify and address health care inequality for children.
  • Core Topics in General and Emergency Surgery

    A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice
    • 7th Edition
    • Hugh M. Paterson + 1 more
    • English
    Core Topics in General & Emergency Surgery provides a short, up-to-date and practical reference guide for surgical trainees and established consultants needing a refresher.The seventh edition has been edited and fully revised by respected experts in their fields, and provides a full list of current references and relevant resources. It covers a range of topics relevant to all areas of surgical practice – beyond surgical knowledge – that are essential for enhanced patient outcomes. These include quality improvement in emergency surgery, evaluation of new technology, evaluation of surgical literature, and human factors.This volume is part of the Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice series, the pre-eminent reference for trainees in general surgery and those preparing for the FRCS examinations. Each volume summarises key issues within each surgical sub-specialty and provides evidence-based recommendations to support practice.
  • Demystifying Integrated Care

    A Handbook for Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • Kirsty Marshall + 3 more
    • English
    Integrated care aims to address inequality through removing fragmented health and social care. It is being adopted worldwide, including in the UK, where the NHS is undergoing significant transformation as it introduces integrated care for all providers.This new book aims to equip students and practitioners to take the lead in this new model of care delivery. It will help them understand the key principles of integrated care and then apply these to the design, implementation and practice of integrated care in their own work.Written by academics and operational healthcare leaders, this book is ideal for final year students of nursing, allied health and social care, postgraduates, and all nursing and allied health professionals who will be required to work within the UK’s new integrated care systems.