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  • Guía práctica de la consulta en geriatría

    • 4th Edition
    • Laurence Hugonot-Diener
    • Spanish
    El progresivo envejecimiento de la población hace que cada vez sean más los profesionales médicos dedicados a la atención del paciente geriátrico. En este contexto, los médicos deben integrar la exploración clínica tradicional con la evaluación gerontológica estandarizada (EGE), que permite evaluar el conjunto de las funciones cognitivas y sociales del paciente, así como su autonomía funcional. La presente obra incluye una amplia gama de herramientas diagnósticas para facilitar el seguimiento de la evolución física y psíquica de las personas mayores, evaluar su grado de dependencia y responder los interrogantes que se plantean, además de ofrecer orientación al profesional para mantener una comunicación más eficaz con el paciente. Esta 4.ª edición incorpora los últimos protocolos y herramientas diagnósticas, en particular en el campo de la psiquiatría. También se han actualizado las referencias bibliográficas, los acuerdos de consenso y las recomendaciones de las distintas sociedades especializadas. Por todo ello, Guía práctica de la consulta en geriatría constituye un recurso imprescindible para la práctica clínica y el seguimiento del paciente geriátrico.

  • Murray y Nadel. Tratado de medicina respiratoria, 2 Vols

    • 7th Edition
    • V. Courtney Broaddus
    • Spanish
    Conocido por su claridad, exhaustiva cobertura y rigor, Murray y Nadel. Tratado de medicina respiratoria sigue siendo el texto de referencia en el campo de la neumología. Esta 7.ª edición le permitirá ponerse totalmente al día gracias a su contenido ampliado y reorganizado, numerosos capítulos nuevos y minuciosas actualizaciones. La obra cubre todo el espectro de la especialidad y constituye un recurso ideal para neumólogos, residentes y otros profesionales relacionados con la neumología.

  • Introduction to Dental Materials

    • 5th Edition
    • Richard van Noort + 1 more
    • English
    Introduction to Dental Materials discusses and explains the science of clinical and laboratory dental materials. It will help you understand the properties, limitations and safe usage of different materials, and how to navigate this rapidly changing field to choose the most appropriate materials for your patients. Written in an engaging and accessible way, and featuring updated images and photographs as well as "clinical relevance" highlights, this book is perfectly tailored to the needs of the busy student of dentistry or dental therapy.

  • Negative Emissions Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation

    • 1st Edition
    • Steve A. Rackley + 11 more
    • English
    Negative Emissions Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of technologies that are being researched, developed and deployed in order to transition from our current energy system, dominated by fossil fuels, to a negative-carbon emissions system. After an introduction to the challenge of climate change, the technical fundamentals of natural and engineered carbon dioxide removal and storage processes and technologies are described. Each NET is then discussed in detail, including the key elements of the technology, enablers and constraints, governance issues, and global potential and cost estimates.This book offers a complete overview of the field, thus enabling the community to gain a full appreciation of NETs without the need to seek out and refer to a multitude of sources.

  • Manson's Tropical Diseases

    • 24th Edition
    • Jeremy Farrar + 6 more
    • English
    **Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles 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.

  • State Estimation Strategies in Lithium-ion Battery Management Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Kailong Liu + 5 more
    • English
    State Estimation Strategies in Lithium-ion Battery Management Systems presents key technologies and methodologies in modeling and monitoring charge, energy, power and health of lithium-ion batteries. Sections introduce core state parameters of the lithium-ion battery, reviewing existing research and the significance of the prediction of core state parameters of the lithium-ion battery and analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of prediction methods of core state parameters. Characteristic analysis and aging characteristics are then discussed. Subsequent chapters elaborate, in detail, on modeling and parameter identification methods and advanced estimation techniques in different application scenarios. Offering a systematic approach supported by examples, process diagrams, flowcharts, algorithms, and other visual elements, this book is of interest to researchers, advanced students and scientists in energy storage, control, automation, electrical engineering, power systems, materials science and chemical engineering, as well as to engineers, R&D professionals, and other industry personnel.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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