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  • Surgical Instruments

    A Pocket Guide
    • 4th Edition
    • Maryann Papanier Wells
    • English
    Make sure you can identify the many different types of surgical instruments! Surgical Instruments: A Pocket Guide, 4th Edition is a quick "go-to" source for information on over 160 of the most commonly used surgical instruments. Each two-page spread features full-color photos of an instrument and its tip (if applicable), and then describes how it is used, its common variations, and any alternative names. Written by Maryann Papanier Wells, this compact, durable reference is easy to keep with you at all times. With instruments alphabetized within each major instrument class, locating specific information has never been easier!

  • Operative Techniques: Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

    • 1st Edition
    • Mininder Kocher + 1 more
    • English
    Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery—a title in the Operative Techniques series—offers you the step-by-step guidance you need—on femoral lengthening, sofield procedure, distal radius fracture, and more—from experts Mininder Kocher and Michael B. Millis. Perform all of the latest and best techniques in this specialty thanks to large, full-color intraoperative photos, diagrammable illustrations, and a state-of-the-art companion website, which includes procedural videos.

  • Sterilization and Disinfection for the Perioperative Nurse, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5-3
    • Terrie Goodman-Kent
    • English
    This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Terri Goodman-Kent, features subject topics such as: high temperature, low temperature sterilization; flash sterilization; Environmental Management; Monitoring, Packaging, Education in Sterilization and Disinfection; Reprocessing of Single Use Devices.

  • Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, An Issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21-3
    • Nelson Hager
    • English
    Articles in this issue include: “Basic Appearance of US Structures and Pitfalls”, “US of the Shoulder”, “US of the Elbow and Wrist”, “Prolotherapy and PRP Applications – Evidenced Based Discussion”, “US of the Hip & Lower Extremity”, “US Guided Injections in MSK Medicine”, “Physiatric Perspectives of MSK US”, “Orthopedic Perspectives of MSK US”, “Rheumatologic Perspectives of MSK US”, “Radiology Perspectives of MSK US”, “European Perspectives on MSK US”, “Sports Medicine Applications for MSK US”, “MSK US in Pain Medicine”, “US of Nerve Entrapments”, “US Guided BOTOX Therapy”, “Foot and Ankle.”

  • Otolaryngology for the Internist, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 94-5
    • Matt Ryan
    • English
    This issue of the Medical Clinics of North America covers all the latest approaches to treating patients with the most common diseases, disorders, and symptoms relating to the ear, nose, and throat. Symptoms such as: sinus infection allergy nosebleed post-nasal drip sore throat hoarseness tinnitus hearing loss dizziness thyroid nodule earache upper aerodigestive tract cancer neck mass snoring sleep apnea

  • Palliative and End of Life Care, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 45-3
    • Mimi Mahon
    • English
    This issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Mimi Mahon, features subject topics such as: Understanding Children's Involvment in Medical Decision Making; Symptom Management at End of Life; Assessing respiratory distress when the patient can’t self-report; Barriers to Palliative Care, Legislative Issues; End Stage Liver Disease: Symptoms & Practice Implications; Dying children: Creating opportunities out of a “Last Chance”; Decision making in palliative care; Discussing a family member's serious illness: children's and families' perspectives; Living with cognitive impairments in Long Term Care: Palliative Care & End of Life implications; Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy; The patient and family perspectives: Living with cancer; Palliative care concepts in the sickle cell population.

  • Healthcare Associated Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 37-3
    • Karen D. Fairchild + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of Clinics in Perinatology reviews Healthcare Associated Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Guest Editors Drs. Karen Fairchild and Richard Polin have assembled a panel of expert contributors to pen articles on: Epidemiology and Risk Factors for NICU HAI: Genes and Environment Strategies to Reduce NICU HAI: Line, Tube, and Hand Hygiene Candida in the NICU: Pros and Cons of Prophylaxis; MRSA in the NICU New Concepts of Microbial Translocation in the Neonatal Intestine: Mechanisms and Prevention Antibiotic Resistance in NICU Pathogens: Mechanisms, Clinical Impact, and Prevention Biomarkers for LONS: Cytokines and Beyond Heart Rate Variability: A Novel Physiomarker for Sepsis Detection in the NICU Ventilator-Associate... Pneumonia Perinatal Infection and Prematurity Meningitis in Neonates: Bench to Bedside

  • Genetic Predisposition to Cancer, An Issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24-5
    • Ken Offit + 1 more
    • English
    This issue serves as a timely review of both the genetic and genomic factors resulting in a predisposition to human cancer. There is now strong evidence to support the use of genetic testing for cancer predisposition in the practice of preventive medicine, and at the same time, there is emerging new literature defining the role of genomic approaches to assessment of cancer predisposition. Articles address predisposition syndromes in the areas of breast cancer, lower GI cancer, genitourinary cancer, pediatric cancer, endocrine cancer, and hematologic malignancy.

  • Spinal Diseases, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 40-5
    • Ronaldo C. da Costa
    • English
    A current review of spinal disorders for the small animal practitioner! Topics will include clinical approach and lesion localization in patients with spinal disorders, differential diagnosis of spinal disorders, advanced imaging of the spine, degenerative myelopathy, acute spinal cord injury, inflammatory diseases of the spine, spinal neoplasia, cervical spondylomyelopathy, fibrocartilaginous embolic myelopathy, feline spinal cord diseases, vertebral fractures and luxations, intervertebral disk disease, congenital diseases of the spine, lumbosacral stenosis, and more!

  • Breast Imaging, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 48-5
    • Robyn L. Birdwell
    • English
    Imaging of the breast can be one of the most challenging tasks in all of radiology. This issue not only covers all of the modalities (plain film, multislice CT, MRI, US, and nuclear medicine and molecular imaging it also provides discussions on the controversy regarding when women should be screened, the costs involved in breast imaging, and the appropriate use of screening.

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