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  • Radiology of Birds

    An Atlas of Normal Anatomy and Positioning
    • 1st Edition
    • Sam Silverman + 1 more
    • English
    Use this atlas to interpret radiographic images and make accurate diagnoses! Hundreds of high-quality images clearly demonstrate normal avian anatomic and radiographic features in a wide variety of species so that you can recognize abnormal features. This book includes detailed directions for patient positioning along with radiographic exposure guidelines, ensuring that you obtain the highest quality diagnostic images.

  • Pediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging, An Issue of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17-3
    • Sandra L. Wootton-Gorges
    • English
    Topics include: MR Imaging of the Pediatric Bone Marrow; The growing skeleton: MR appearances of developing cartilage; Infectious and Inflammatory Disorders; MRI of Pediatric Trauma; MRI of Pediatric Arthritis; MR Imaging of Primary Bone Tumors and Tumor-like Conditions in Children; MR Imaging of soft tissue masses in children; The hip: MR imaging of uniquely pediatric disorders; The knee: MR imaging of uniquely pediatric disorders; The foot and ankle: MR imaging of uniquely pediatric disorders; MRI in Congenital and Acquired Disorders of the Pediatric Upper Extremity.

  • Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4-2
    • Kenneth P. Wright Jr.
    • English
    Circadian rhythm sleep disorders are caused by a mismatch between the sleep - wake pattern and circadian phase. Sleep at the circadian high is impaired, while alertness is reduced during wakefulness. This issue discusses biological timekeeping, consequences of circadian disruption in animal models, influence of circadian system on disease severity, effect of light on circadian physiology, melatonin, non-24-hour disorder, irregular sleep-wake disorder, advanced sleep phase, delayed sleep phase, jet lag, shift work, circadian disruption and psychiatric disorders, and winter depression.

  • Saunders Nursing Survival Guide: Critical Care & Emergency Nursing

    • 2nd Edition
    • Lori Schumacher + 1 more
    • English
    Part of the popular Saunders Nursing Survival Guide series, this book prepares you to manage the most common health care problems you'll see in critical care, trauma, or emergency settings. Each chapter is organized from the most immediate and life-threatening conditions to less emergent critical care conditions. Its lighthearted, cartoon-filled approach simplifies difficult concepts, covering each body system in terms of current practice standards.

  • Aesthetic Facial Reconstruction, An Issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36-3
    • Stefan O.P. Hofer
    • English
    This issue discusses aesthetic reconstruction principles and techniques for the face that has been damaged by disease or trauma. It includes articles on reconstruction of scalp, forehead, eyelid, cheek, nose, and lip defects; endoscopic surgery for the lacrimal duct; prelamination and prefabrication applications; lipofilling; facial transplantation; surgical treatment and radiation therapy for facial skin cancer; and improving outcomes in aesthetic facial reconstruction.

  • Barrett's Esophagus and Cancer, An Issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18-3
    • Prateek Sharma
    • English
    Cellular mechanisms of BE development; Role of obesity and familial factors in BE and cancer; Histology of metaplasia and dysplasia; Molecular markers and genetics in cancer development; Improving screening practices for BE; Risk factors for BE cancer development; New technologies for BE imaging; Medical treatment and cancer prevention; Endoscopic therapy in BE; Surgical therapy for high grade dysplasia and early cancer; Role of neoadjuvant therapy for BE cancer; Surgical palliation for BE cancer

  • Update on Surgical and Endoscopic Management of Emphysema, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19-2
    • Cliff K.C. Choong
    • English
    The Epidemiology, Clinical features and Natural History of Emphysema; The National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT); 'Rationale and Experience for Staged Lung Volume Reduction Surgery' Rationale and Experience for Staged Lung Volume Reduction Surgery; Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for Non-Heterogenous Emphysema; Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for Alpha-1-Antripsin Emphysema; Concomitant Lung Cancer Resection and Lung Volume Reduction Surgery; Concomitant Cardiac Surgery and Lung Volume Reduction Surgery; Decision Making in the Management of Secondary Pneumothorax in Patients with Severe Emphysema; Intraoperative and Postoperative Management of Pulmonary Alveolar Air Leaks in Thoracic Surgery; Airway Bypass Treatment of Severe Homogenous Emphysema; Treatment of Heterogenous Emphysema Using The Spiration IBV Intrabronchial Valves; Treatment of Heterogenous Emphysema Using The Emphasys Zephyr EBV Endobronchial Valves; Update on Donor Assessment, Resuscitation and Acceptance Criteria; Update on Lung Transplantation for End Stage Emphysema

  • Obesity and Diabetes in Sports Medicine, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28-3
    • Susan E. Kirk + 1 more
    • English
    This issue explores the serious issue of childhood diabetes and obesity, as applied to sports medicine. Guest Editors Danny Mistry and Susan Kirk, both from the University of Virginia Health System, have selected a team of experts to cover the wide spectrum of this epidemic, including a close look at the socioeconomic factors in the development of childhood diabetes and obesity, the role of exercise as prevention of diabetes and obesity, and common injuries in young athletes who are diabetic or at risk of becoming so. It is a crucial issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine, as Drs. Mistry and Kirk explain in their preface: "Being able to recognize and treat both the collegiate athlete with Type 1 diabetes as well as the sedentary, obese adolescent at risk for Type 2 diabetes are skills that many will need in the immediate future."

  • Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18-3
    • Mary Margaret Gleason + 1 more
    • English
    First, Infant Development is discussed. Then there are two articles on assessment in early childhood psychiatry: Psychiatric assessment, and Assessment of the caregiver-child relationship in early childhood psychiatry. Early Childhood Mental Health Problems are discussed next, such as Internalizing, Trauma and PTSD, Preschool Disruptive Behavior and ADHD (as viewed through a developmental lens), Pervasive Developmental Disorders, and Parental Psychopathology. In the next section, Early Childhood Specific Treatment Modalities are reviewed: Interventions for Behavioral Problems, Interventions for trauma--exposed dyads: Infant – Parent Psychotherapy and Child – Parent Psychotherapy, Video feedback in parent-infant treatment, Psychosocial interventions with biological effects: Bucharest Early Intervention Project, and Psychopharmacologica... interventions in preschoolers. Finally, Models of Care are proposed.

  • Hepatology, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 39-3
    • P. Jane Armstrong + 1 more
    • English
    Current, important information on hepatology for all small animal practitioners! This issue will present articles on classification of liver disease, pathophysiology, diagnostic imaging, biopsy techniques, idiopathic hepatitis and cirrhosis in dogs, copper-associated hepatitis in dogs, congenital vascular disease, biliary diseases, hepatic lipidosis in cats, and more!

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