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    • Rehabilitation from the Perspective of the Athletic Trainer/Physical Therapist, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 29-1
      • January 6, 2010
      • Jeff G. Konin
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Part one of a two-part series dedicated to Rehabilitation, this issue explores rehab from the perspective of the Athletic Trainer and Physical Trainer. Guest Editor Dr. Jeff Konin of the University of South Florida's Department of Orthopedic Surgery and his team of contributors discuss key subjects, such as the rehabilitation referral, return to play criteria, strength and conditioning, the future of rehab, concussion, and of course, rehabilitaion of specific areas of the body including the shoulder, elbow, knee, hip, and more.

    • Telepsychiatry and Telemental Health, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 20-1
      • December 20, 2010
      • Brian Grady + 1 more
      • English
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      This issue offers a practical, clinical, and evidence-based approach to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in children and adolescents. In addition to providing an historical perspective and overviews, the issue discusses CBT and its therapeutic use in Depression/Suicidali... Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, PTSD, Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Externalizing Disorders, Repetitive Behavior Disorders, and other treatment areas. Also discussed are Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

    • Infection Prevention in the Perioperative Setting: Zero Tolerance for Infections, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 5-4
      • December 9, 2010
      • George Allen
      • English
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      This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by George Allen, features subject topics such as: OR Attire's Potential for Infection Transmission; Strategies for Preventing Sharps Injuries; Managing Patients with MDROs – Implementing Isolation Procedures in the Perioperative Setting; Anesthesia Care Providers – Identifying/Mitigati... Potential for Infection Transmission; Urinary Catheter Insertion and Care in the Perioperative Setting; Hand Hygiene and the Surgical Team; Outlining Effective Strategies for Preventing SSI; Environmental Sanitation – Review of New Technologies; Reprocessing Instruments: Focus on Eye Surgery and TASS (Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome); Skin Prepping to Maximize Positive Outcomes; Improving the process of supplying instruments from central processing to the OR using the LEAN method; Using Performance Improvement Methodology in Finding the Cause of Increase Biological Cultures in the Operating Room and Solutions for Corrections.

    • Dreaming and Nightmares, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 5-2
      • May 5, 2010
      • J. F. Pagel
      • English
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      This issue reviews the current status of scientific dream study and offers the most up-to-date reviews on topics such as dream recall (including variables affecting dream recall, and the psychopathology of altered dream recall), dream content (including the assessment of dream content and variables affecting dream content), dreaming and cognitive functions (dreaming and emotional processing, personality and psychopathology, and learning and memory), disordered dreaming (such as nightmares in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, dreaming epiphenomena of narcolepsy, and parasomnias), medications altering dreaming, and the role of dreams in psychotherapy. Because sleep and dreams are inextricably linked, it is important for every sleep specialist to have an understanding of the current scientific understanding of normal and disordered dreaming.

    • Simulation and Surgical Competency, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 90-3
      • June 21, 2010
      • Neal Seymour + 1 more
      • English
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      This issue of the Surgical Clinics of North America will include articles devoted to the following topics: the growth of simulators in surgery; the science of proficiency and competency, running a skills lab; high intensity preparatory simulation training; assessment and feedback in the skills lab and OR, FLS & FES: comprehensive models of training and assessment; verification of proficiency: a prerequisite for clinical experience; team training: non-traditional surgical competencies; human factors and simulation training; virtual reality devices and environments; simulation in certification; and the future of surgical simulation.

    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 33-3
      • August 13, 2010
      • Bunmi Olatunji
      • English
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      As evidence mounts on the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), renowed expert Dr. Bunmi Olatunji offers this timely and comprehensive issue on performing CBT for a wide variety of psychiatric conditions. Article discuss how to effectively use CBT for anxiety disorders, personality disorder, eating disorders, schizophrenia, tic-related disorders, somatoform disorders, sleep disorders, substance use/dependence, sexual dysfunction, mood disorders and ADHD. Articles also discuss augmenting CBT with medication, and the empirical status of the "New Wave" of CBT.

    • Medications and Sleep, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 5-4
      • December 15, 2010
      • Timothy Roehrs
      • English
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      This issue comprises two parts. The first part examines pharmacology of drug classes and effects on the slee--wake processes. The second part focuses on therapeutics for various sleep disorders. In the first part, basic neuropharmacology of sleep-wake states is discussed. Other articles review hypnotics, allergy and cardiovascular drugs, anti-convulsant drugs, anti-depressant and anti-psychotic drugs, and stimulants. The second part focuses on pharmacology for specific sleep disorders: primary insomnia, co-morbid insomnia, sleep-related breathing disorders, narcolepsy and disorders of daytime sleepiness, movement disroders, parasomnias, and circadian rhythm disorders.

    • Health Care-Associated Transmission of Hepatitis B and C Viruses, An Issue of Clinics in Liver Disease

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 14-1
      • February 25, 2010
      • Bandar Al Knawy
      • English
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      This issue offers the latest information regarding the transmission of hepatitis viruses in various healthcare settings. It delves with a very timely and interesting patient safety subject that specifically targets healthcare professionals, gastroenterologists, hepatologists, oncologists, dentists and all healthcare workers to adopt and share a variety of best practices to prevent this adverse event. Well known faculty in liver disease, infection control as well as a medical practice in a legal setting have been assembled to produce a comprehensive and concise edition that highlights the latest information regarding hepatitis B and C transmission in healthcare. It aims to provide an overview on the molecular epidemiology, the outbreak reports, the transmission in hemodialysis, endoscopy, dental, oncology, management, legal aspects and the infection prevention measures to reduce the risk of needless exposure of patients to these blood borne pathogens.

    • Wrist Trauma, An Issue of Hand Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 26-1
      • January 15, 2010
      • Steven Papp
      • English
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      Articles in this issue include: Anatomy and Approaches of the Wrist; Chronic Scaphoid Nonunion; External Fixation of Distal Radius Fractures; Complications of Distal Radius Fractures; Perilunate Dislocations; Plate Fixation of Distal Radius Fractures; Post Traumatic Malunion of Distal Radius Fractures; Traumatic Problems of The Distal RadioUlnar Joint; Acute Scaphoid Fractures; Distal Radius Fractures; When should we Operate? What is the Evidence? Carpal Bone Fractures; Physical Exam of the Wrist; Closed Management of Distal Radius Fractures; Management of SL injuries.

    • Neuroscience, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 21-4
      • January 5, 2010
      • Anne Alexandrov
      • English
      • Paperback
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      This Neuroscience nursing issue, Guest Edited by Anne W. Alexandrov, focuses on: use of acute care Nurse Practitioners in neuroscience critical care; Post-graduate advances practice neurovascular fellowship education and training; NET SMART; management of Traumatic Brain Injury; management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; management of Hyperacute Ischemic Stroke; Telestroke Systems; Antiplatelet Therapy’ Migraine and Intracardiac Right to Left Shunt; Weight agreement in Ischemic Stroke Treatment; Inflammatory biomarkers for Ischemic Stroke; and glycemic control in neurovascular disease.

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