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  • Practice Management, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 25-3
    • Reynolds Cowles Jr
    • English
    A complete primer on practice management for the equine practitioner! Topics include current economic trends, transitioning from veterinary school to private practice, customer service, gender shifts, design of an ambulatory practice, equine practice evaluations and sale transactions, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, employee issues, medical record keeping, ethics in equine practice, hospital design, and much more!

  • Sialendoscopy and Lithotripsy, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 42-6
    • Michael H. Fritsch
    • English
    Salivary endoscopy and lithotripsy are completely new, and rapidly emerging medical fields for the United States and North America. Salivary endoscopy is now mainly known in Europe, having been utilized there since the early 1990s. Sialendoscopy can be either a diagnostic or interventional procedure. As a treatment, sialendoscopy is used for blocked salivary glands and is branching out for diagnosis in terms of ductal pathology and treatment of other conditions as well. Diagnostic sialendoscopy can replace most of the radiological examinations of the salivary ductal system. Lithotripsy is used therapeutically for salivary stones. Topics include: Causes, Incidence, and Natural History of Salivary Gland Duct Stones and Obstructions; Radiologic Diagnosis of Salivary Gland and Duct Obstructions; Technology of Sialendoscopy; Basic Sialendoscopy Technique for Salivary Stones; Treatment of Juvenile Recurrent Parotitis and Sjogren's Disease among others.

  • Challenges in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 94-1
    • Miguel Regueiro + 1 more
    • English
    The Guest Editors for this issue have assembled top experts to discuss only those most challenging aspects of diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Emphasis is on comparing treatment paradigms, current and future biologics agents, safety profile of therapeutics, and novel diagnostic and prognostic tools for IBD. Articles are also devoted to pregnancy and IBD, IBD in children, and post-operative management of IBD.

  • Neuroscience, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21-4
    • Anne Alexandrov
    • English
    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.

  • Pain, Analgesia and Anesthesia, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4-4
    • Valerie Girard-Powell
    • English
    This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, titled Pain, Analgesia and Anesthesia, which was Guest Edited by Valerie Girard-Powell, RN, will include the following topics: Behavioral Approaches to Pain Management; The Diagnostic Workup of Patients with Neuropathic Pain; Interventional Approaches to Pain Management; Myofascial Pain Trigger Points; Nonopioid Analgesics; Topical Analgesics; Documentation and Potential Tools in Long Term Opioid Therapy for Pain; Critical Monitoring Issues for Surgery Performed in a Non-hospital Setting; Anesthesia for Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures; Anesthesiology and Gastroenterology; Interventional Radiology and Anesthesia; and Fee for Service Payments: Affect on Patient Care, Operating Room Procedures and Anesthesia Services.

  • Challenging Issues in Women's Health Care, An Issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36-4
    • Kathleen Kennedy
    • English
    This issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, guest edited by Drs. William Rayburn and Kathleen Kennedy, addresses some of the most challenging issues Obstetrician-Gynecol... face in their practice. It includes articles on psychological and behavioral issues influencing women’s health including depression, sexual function, intimate partner violence, and substance dependence.

  • Intensive Care of the Cancer Patient, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 26-1
    • Stephen M. Pastores + 1 more
    • English
    A comprehensive review of cancer patient treatment methods in the Intensive Care Unit. Articles include: Admission Criteria and Prognostication in Cancer Patients Admitted to the ICU; Diagnostic Strategies and Management of Acute Respiratory Failure in Cancer Patients Requiring Intensive Care; Mechanical Ventilation in Cancer Patients: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes; Critical Care of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient; Critical Issues in Oncological Surgery Patients; and Diagnosis and Management of Infectious Complications in Critically Ill Patients with Cancer.

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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 40-1
    • William B. Thomas
    • English
    Topics include: Neurological Examination; Hearing Loss; Hydrocephalus; Idiopathic Epilepsy; MRI of Brain Disease; Vestibular Disease; Inflammatory Brain Disease; Caudal Occipital Malformation Syndrome; Brain Neoplasia; Cerebrovascular Disease; and Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation.

  • Orofacial Trauma and Emergency Care, An Issue of Dental Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 53-4
    • Sami M. Chogle + 1 more
    • English
    An important review on trauma and emergency care for the general dentist! Topics will include medical and oro-facial evaluation, epidemiology of trauma to oro-facial structures, minor traumatic injuries to the primary and permanent dentition, major trauma to the oral and maxillofacial structures, developing and maintaining a “dental trauma kit”, management of trauma to supporting dental structures, psychological aspects of dental injuries, preventive strategies for traumatic injuries, medico-legal issues in traumatic injuries, and more!

  • Neurology of the Newborn Infant, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36-4
    • Adre J du Plessis
    • English
    Guest Editor Adre du Plessis addresses Neonatal Neurology in this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, a companion to his September 2009 issue on Fetal Neurology. Mechanisms and management of acute brain injury is reviewed, including articles on Systemic and cerebral transitional hemodynamics in premature infants, Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in the term infant, Neuroprotection in the newborn infant, Intracranial hemorrhage in the premature and term newborn, Infection-inflammato... mechanisms of brain injury in the newborn, Neonatal stroke, and Neonatal seizures. Next, Neurodiagnostic advances for the newborn infant is explored, with articles covering, Advanced brain MRI techniques, Advances in Near Infrared Spectroscopy, and Bedside electrocortical monitoring. The issue closes with a section devoted to Longterm neurologic outcome: Mechanisms of dysfunction and recovery, with articles on Longterm outcome in premature infants, Mechanisms of Cerebral Plasticity, The longterm effects of neonatal seizures, Constraint-induced therapy: Plasticity in practice, and Neonatal brain injury and autistic spectrum disorders in survivors.

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