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  • Unmanned Driving Systems for Smart Trains

    • 1st Edition
    • Hui Liu
    • English
    Unmanned Driving Systems for Smart Trains explores the core technologies involved in unmanned driving systems for smart railways and trains, from foundational theory to the latest advances. The volume introduces the key technologies, research results and frontiers of the field. Each chapter includes practical cases to ground theory in practice. Seven chapters cover key aspects of unmanned driving systems for smart trains, including performance evaluation, algorithm-based reasoning and learning strategy, main control parameters, data mining and processing, energy saving optimization and control, and intelligent algorithm simulation platforms. This book will help researchers find solutions in developing better unmanned driving systems.

  • Pediatric Liver Transplantation

    A Clinical Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • Nedim Hadzic + 2 more
    • English
    Written and edited by global leaders in the field, Pediatric Liver Transplantation: A Clinical Guide covers all aspects of treatment and management regarding this multifaceted procedure and unique patient population. This practical reference offers detailed, focused guidance in a highly templated, easy-to-consult format, covering everything from pre-transplantation preparation to surgical techniques to post-operative complications.

  • Urología práctica

    • 5th Edition
    • Enrique Broseta Rico + 3 more
    • Spanish
    Urología Práctica 5ª ed es un libro de consulta pensado para urólogos, médicos de otras especialidades y estudiantes de Medicina que quieran acceder a una información resumida, rigurosa y completamente actualizada sobre cualquier tema de la patología urogenital. Además, su carácter esquemático, con numerosos diagramas de muy fácil comprensión y tablas de fármacos (que incluyen el principio activo, la dosis y la duración del tratamiento), lo hace idóneo para ser revisado rápidamente en la propia consulta, en urgencias o a pie de cama del paciente ingresado. En definitiva, esta 5ª edición de Urología Práctica mantiene el formato eminentemente útil y actualizado de ediciones anteriores, pero va más allá incluyendo nuevos capítulos, más tablas, diagramas de flujo, dibujos, fotografías y códigos QR que permitirán al lector interesado obtener una información resumida, de rápido acceso y fácil comprensión.

  • Objective-Organized: Sherpath for Maternal Newborn 2.0 and Pediatric Nursing Combined (McKinney Version)

    • 5th Edition
    • Elsevier Inc
    • English
    For today’s healthcare students, Sherpath is the learning tool that takes primary course content and gives you what you need to know now, in the time you have available, to achieve success tomorrow. It then adapts based on your personal interactions and responds by building on the topics and concepts where you need help. Sherpath brings content to life by integrating the core content to a digital environment and complementing it with videos, images, case studies, and micro simulations on a single platform. This version of Sherpath fully incorporates ebook content.

  • The Cat

    Clinical Medicine and Management
    • 2nd Edition
    • Susan E. Little
    • English
    Comprehensive in scope and exclusively devoted to feline medical care, Dr. Susan Little's The Cat: Clinical Medicine and Management, 2nd Edition, is an essential resource for providing complete, state-of-the-art care to cats. Authoritative, clinically focused information is enhanced by full-color images, tables, boxes, algorithms, key points, and more — all in an easy-to-understand, quick-reference format. Dr. Little and her expert contributors address the unique concerns and challenges facing any practitioner providing care for cats, including the latest advances in feline medical diagnosis and management and the clinical applications to everyday practice. An eBook version, included with print purchase, provides access to all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. The eBook included with print purchase also offers Videos.

  • Pressure Injuries Among Critical Care Patients, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 32-4
    • Jenny G. Alderden
    • English
    Along with Consulting Editor, Dr. Cynthia Bautista, Dr. Jenny Alderden has assembled an expert author list to contribute clinical reviews on best practices for improving outcomes in and prevention of pressure injuries. Articles are specifically devoted to the following topics: Risk Factors for Pressure Injury Development among Critical Care Patients; Best Practice in Pressure Injury Prevention among Critical Care Patients; Best Practices in Pressure Injury Treatment; Pressure Injury Prevention and Treatment in Critically Ill Children; Medical Device-Related Pressure Injuries; Unstageable Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes among Critical Care Patients; Deep Tissue Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes among Critical Care Patients; The Role of Nutrition in Pressure Injury Prevention and Healing; and Heel Pressure Injuries in the Adult Critical Care Population; Pressure Injury Prevention Considerations for Older Adults. Readers will come away with best practices for improving pressure injury outcomes in critical care patients.

  • The Ongoing Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 34-4
    • Richard R. Watkins + 1 more
    • English
    Together with Consulting Editor Dr. Helen Boucher, Drs. Watkins and Bonomo have put together an issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America that provides the most current information on antibiotic resistance. Top experts have contributed clinical review articles that address the types of resistance based on drug class as well as emerging therapies and the future of telemedicine in the management of infections. The following topics are covered in this issue: The changing role of the clinical microbiology laboratory in defining resistance in gram-negatives; Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producin... Enterobacteriaceae infections; Multidrug-resistant bacteria in the community; Resistance to polymyxins; Resistance in Vancomycin-resistant enterococci; Resistance to newer β-lactamase inhibitors; Antibiotic-resistant infections in the immunocompromised host; Emerging therapies for MRSA infections; Drug-resistant tuberculosis; Aminoglycoside resistance; The role of antibiotic stewardship and telemedicine in the management of MDR infections; and Emerging issues in antifungal resistance. Readers will have the current information they need to better manage antibiotic-resistant infections in patients.

  • Challenges After Treatment for Childhood Cancer, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 67-6
    • Max J. Coppes + 1 more
    • English
    In collaboration with Consulting Editor, Dr. Bonita Stanton, Drs. Max J. Coppes and Leontien Kremer have created a comprehensive issue devoted to Challenges After treatment for Childhood Cancer. They have selected top experts to provide current clinical reviews for clinicians. Articles are specifically devoted to the following topics: Stories from survivors and introduction to survivorship; What we know about survivors and how we know this: Early studies, early cohorts, registries and current cohorts of survivors; Radiotherapy and late effects; Guidelines for survivorship care after childhood cancer; Lifestyle, fatigue, social integration in survivors; Psychological & neurocognitive health; Second cancer risk: Risk, exposures, genetics; Cardiovascular and pulmonary disease; Fertility and reproductive complications; Endocrine health conditions; Renal and hepatic health after childhood cancer; Hearing and other neurologic problems; and The future of survivorship. Pediatricians will come away with clinical updates that they need to improve patient outcomes.

  • Noninvasive Ventilation, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15-4
    • Amen Sergew + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics, guest-edited by Drs. Amen Sergew and Lisa F. Wolfe, focuses on Noninvasive Ventilation and Sleep Medicine. This issue is one of four selected each year by series Consulting Editor, Dr. Teofilo Lee-Chiong. Articles include: Obesity hypoventilation - Traditional vs Non Traditional Populations; Spinal cord injury; Peri-Operative Care and Medication Related Hypoventilation; Lifetime Care of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; Management of Chronic Respiratory Failure in COPD - High and Low Intensity Ventilation; Management of Rare Causes Pediatric Chronic Respiratory Failure; Noninvasive Ventilator Management of ALS - Bulbar vs non Bulbar; Parsonage Turner; Noninvasive Ventilator Devices and Modes; Tailoring the Sleep Lab for Chronic Respiratory Failure; Long-Term Follow Up of Noninvasive Ventilation: Downloads and Troubleshooting; Extubating to Noninvasive Ventilation – NIV from ICU to Home; and From Tracheostomy to Noninvasive Ventilation – NIV from Long Term Acute Care to Home.

  • Advances in Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 41-4
    • Carrie A. Redlich + 2 more
    • English
    This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest-edited by Drs. Carrie A. Redlich, Kristin J. Cummings, and Peggy Lai, is focused on Advances in Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases. Topics discussed in this issue include but are not limited to: Master Clinician – selected occupational and environmental pulmonary cases; Chest imaging in the Diagnosis of Occupational Lung Diseases; Harnessing electronic medical records to enhance the diagnosis of work-related lung diseases; The impact of health disparities on lung disease; Respiratory health effects of exposure to cleaning products; Occupational upper airways disorders, including laryngeal dysfunction; Occupational bronchiolitis – including flavoring-related lung disease, deployment; Coal workers pneumoconiosis and other mining-related lung disease: the re-emergence of an old disease (including COPD in miners); Occupational contributions to ILD (including asbestos, overlap HP and ILD); Silicosis – Persistence of an old disease, old and new exposure settings and prevention; Occupational respiratory cancer: Chest CT screening; Occupational respiratory Infections: pneumonia, healthcare workers; Update on climate change: its impact on respiratory health at work, home, and at play; The changing nature of wildfires: update on the respiratory health of first responders and communities; The microbiome and damp Indoor environments; The on-going impact of World Trade Center exposures on respiratory health; The impact of Electronic cigarettes and smoking cessation; The respiratory risks of ambient /outdoor air pollution; and Indoor air pollution and respiratory health.

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