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    • Ecocardiografía fácil

      • 4th Edition
      • May 15, 2025
      • Sam Kaddoura
      • Spanish
      • Paperback
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      Esta guía sencilla y muy accesible será de gran utilidad para todos aquellos que solicitan o realizan ecocardiogramas. Escrita por el cardiólogo Sam Kaddoura, Ecocardiografía fácil proporciona una introducción completa para utilizar la ecocardiografía con eficacia. Abarca los principios básicos de las técnicas utilizadas, las enfermedades y los tratamientos del corazón y de la aorta, y aporta consejos prácticos, como el modo de realizar e informar un ecocardiograma. Este elogiado libro, que ha sido totalmente actualizado en su cuarta edición, es una excelente herramienta de repaso para los profesionales con experiencia en ecocardiografía, pero también para médicos en formación y estudiantes de Medicina, cirujanos, médicos generales, fisiólogos, técnicos sanitarios, personal de enfermería y paramédicos.
    • Crash Course Pharmacology

      • 6th Edition
      • May 15, 2025
      • Catrin Page
      • Clive P. Page
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Crash Course – your effective every-day study companion PLUS the perfect antidote for exam stress! Save time and be assured you have the essential information you need in one place to excel on your course and achieve exam success.A winning formula now for over 25 years, having sold over 1 million copies and translated in over 8 languages, each series volume has been fine-tuned and fully updated to make your life easier. Especially written by senior students or junior doctors/residents – those who understand what is essential for exam success – with all information thoroughly checked and quality assured by expert Faculty Advisers, the result is books that exactly meet your needs and you know you can trust.Each chapter guides you succinctly through the full range of curriculum topics in the MLA syllabus, integrating clinical considerations with the relevant basic science and avoiding unnecessary or confusing detail. Text boxes help you get to the hints, tips and key points you need fast! A fully revised self-assessment section matching the latest exam formats is included to check your understanding and aid exam preparation. The accompanying enhanced, downloadable eBook completes this invaluable learning package.Series volumes have been honed to meet the requirements of today’s medical students, although the range of other health students and professionals who need rapid access to the essentials of pharmacology will also love the unique approach of Crash Course. Whether you need to get out of a fix or aim for a distinction Crash Course is for you!This updated edition provides comprehensive coverage of the latest updated guideline therapies across the full spectrum of clinical management. Featuring the latest treatment guidelines and drug developments, it offers in-depth insights into the basic sciences of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and therapeutic applications.
    • Urgencias en oftalmología

      • 5th Edition
      • May 15, 2025
      • Eric Tuil + 3 more
      • Spanish
      • Paperback
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      Completamente actualizada, la 5.ª edición de Urgencias en oftalmología incorpora los últimos avances en farmacología oftálmica, especialmente en lo referente a los colirios, y amplía los enfoques diagnósticos y terapéuticos. Se hace hincapié en el razonamiento clínico, la toma de decisiones y los pasos a seguir gracias a algoritmos de consulta fácil y rápida. A lo largo de sucesivas ediciones, este manual se ha convertido en la herramienta esencial para ayudar tanto a los principiantes como a los profesionales experimentados en el manejo de las urgencias oftalmológicas.
    • Bontrager. Manual de posiciones y técnicas radiológicas

      • 11th Edition
      • May 15, 2025
      • John Lampignano
      • Spanish
      • Spiral-bound
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      • eBook
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      Este práctico manual, que contiene una revisión de todas las técnicas de imagen habituales, ayuda a garantizar una colocación adecuada y una exposición correcta de los pacientes. Presenta descripciones y fotografías de la colocación de los pacientes para cada proyección/posición, junto con las localizaciones del RC, los grados de oblicuidad, los ángulos específicos del RC, las localizaciones de las celdas de CAE y los rangos de kVp propuestos. Contiene 220 proyecciones que resumen la información esencial en un formato práctico y manejable e incorpora nuevas proyecciones que incluyen el falso perfil y el falso perfil modificado de la cadera. Incluye radiografías basadas en los estándares de posicionamiento en las que se describen cada una de las posiciones. También se añade un breve resumen de los factores de calidad que se pueden utilizar como matriz para la evaluación de una imagen. La visualización de esta radiografía y su comparación con la lista de criterios de evaluación ayudarán al técnico a realizar una valoración crítica de la imagen que están viendo comparándola con estos estándares. Añade apéndices que incluyen prácticas para la reducción de la dosis de radiación, abreviaturas y siglas, y tablas de conversión.
    • Fisioterapia oncológica y cuidados paliativos

      • 1st Edition
      • May 14, 2025
      • Marta Gómez Nicolás
      • Spanish
      • Paperback
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      Fisioterapia oncológica y cuidados paliativos es una guía diseñada para ofrecer a los fisioterapeutas recursos prácticos basados en la más reciente evidencia científica, con el objetivo de mejorar la calidad de vida de los pacientes con cáncer. Desde una perspectiva integral y actualizada de la fisioterapia oncológica y los cuidados paliativos, presenta las secuelas físicas más comunes derivadas tanto de la enfermedad como de sus tratamientos, incluyendo aquellas a menudo subestimadas en la práctica clínica, y proporciona estrategias eficaces para su manejo. Su combinación de amplitud temática, enfoque práctico y actualización científica convierten esta obra en un recurso esencial para fisioterapeutas, oncólogos y otros profesionales de la salud que buscan una comprensión completa y aplicada de la fisioterapia en oncología, y también para estudiantes de fisioterapia que deseen especializarse y profundizar en este campo.
    • Health and Genes: Expanding Foundational Nursing Knowledge, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 60-2
      • May 14, 2025
      • Sarah Dewell + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      In this issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, guest editors Sarah Dewell and Trina Walker bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Health and Genes: Expanding Foundational Nursing Knowledge. Genetics is now influencing assessment, diagnosis, and management across all areas of practice, and in this issue, top experts explore the connection between health, genes, and nursing care. Articles equip nurses with an understanding of basic genomic concepts and principles, how they are used in practice, and how they will shape future nursing care - including key topics such as pharmacogenomics.
    • Updates on Covid-19, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 39-2
      • May 14, 2025
      • Rajesh T. Gandhi + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Rajesh T. Gandhi and Michael R. Jordan bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Updates on COVID-19. Top experts provide updates on recent advances in diagnosis, treatment, viral protection, and vaccinations, offering infectious disease physicians state-of-the-art clinical and scientific information. With research ongoing and many unanswered questions, this content is key to help stay abreast of current research and clinical information on COVID-19.
    • Innovative Creep Analysis Methods

      • 1st Edition
      • May 14, 2025
      • Vahid Monfared
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Innovative Creep Analysis Methods: 101 Solved Problems provides analytical insight and solutions to commonly encountered problems involving creep deformation of materials. The book provides fundamental insight into the phenomenon of creep, methods for analyzing elasticity and plasticity problems, outlines the effects of atomic number and atomic weight on creep, as well as simulation techniques for elasto-plastic deformation in composites by flow-rule. Creep formulations and computational modeling techniques are provided throughout. Each problem presented is meticulously solved with detailed explanations and step-by-step instructions, ensuring that readers grasp the underlying concepts. Problems featured include predicting principal creep stress in fibrous composites, obtaining creep strain rate in nickel, obtaining creep-rupture life in alloy S-590, finding nonlinear isochronous curves with Ramberg-Osgood Form, finding the strain formulation in a viscoelastic model, obtaining maximum creep stress in beam and elastic deflection, deformation of creep plastically, calculating minimum creep strain rate, and much more.
    • Synoptic Analysis and Forecasting

      • 2nd Edition
      • May 14, 2025
      • Shawn Milrad
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Synoptic Analysis and Forecasting: An Introductory Toolkit, Second Edition provides a bridge between early meteorology courses and more advanced courses in synoptic-dynamic analysis. This valuable reference also imparts qualitative weather analysis and forecasting tools and techniques to researchers and practitioners who require deeper foundational knowledge of weather forecasting. Sections introduce readers to surface weather instrumentation, observations, and plots, radiosondes and upper-air charts, a process-based guide to understanding the motion and intensity of cyclones, anticyclones, fronts, and the diagnosis of vertical motion and associated large-scale weather conditions.After learning about the applications of modern satellite and radar imagery to synoptic analysis and forecasting, readers are provided a complete three-dimensional picture of the troposphere through thermodynamic diagram and sounding analysis techniques. This invaluable resource offers strong support for building qualitative weather observation, analysis, and forecasting skills.
    • Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia

      • 7th Edition
      • May 13, 2025
      • Cynthia A. Wong + 7 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Through six outstanding editions, Dr. David Chestnut’s Obstetric Anesthesia has earned its reputation as the leading reference in the field. The fully revised Seventh Edition continues this tradition of excellence, offering comprehensive, user-friendly, and authoritative clinical information you need to provide optimal care to your patients. From basic science to new research and improved anesthesia techniques to the management of complications, the expert editorial team and contributing authors offer complete coverage of the physiology and pharmacology of obstetric anesthesia for both healthy and high-risk pregnancies. This updated edition remains a must-have resource for obstetric anesthesiologists and obstetricians, nurse anesthetists and anesthesiology assistants, and anesthesiology and obstetric residents and students.