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    • ACLS Study Guide

      • 6th Edition
      • August 5, 2021
      • Barbara J Aehlert
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Build the knowledge and skills you need to provide emergency cardiovascular care! ACLS Study Guide, 6th Edition provides a comprehensive, easy-to-understand overview of advanced cardiovascular life support. With case studies and hundreds of full-color photos and illustrations, this guide covers everything from airway management to cardiac arrest rhythms and electrophysiology, tachycardias and bradycardias, acute coronary syndromes, and acute ischemic stroke. Discussions of the newest ECC guidelines and ACLS treatment algorithms help you manage common cardiac conditions. Written by noted EMS educator Barbara Aehlert, ACLS Study Guide is ideal for use with the American Safety & Health Institute ACLS certification course.

    • Covid-19: A Critical Care Textbook

      • 1st Edition
      • August 11, 2021
      • Chris Carter + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      With the major redeployment of staff during the Covid-19 pandemic, this authoritative textbook provides a practical resource for healthcare professionals who may be new to acute and critical care settings. Written by nurses for nurses, the book will help readers master patient assessment, non-invasive ventilation, the use of high flow nasal oxygenation and renal care. You will learn about the challenges of resuscitation, leadership and responding to a public health emergency, and effective personal protection and hygiene practices. Covid-19: Critical Care textbook has been written by experts with frontline experience of working in hospitals during the pandemic and will remain relevant for those responding to future infectious disease outbreaks or waves of Covid-19.

    • Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology

      • 15th Edition
      • February 4, 2021
      • Patricia M. Tille
      • English
      • Hardback
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      **Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Textbook Excellence Award Winner, 2024****Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Laboratory Technology**Perfect your lab skills with the essential text for diagnostic microbiology! Bailey & Scott’s Diagnostic Microbiology, 15th Edition Is known as the #1 bench reference for practicing microbiologists and as the preeminent text for students in clinical laboratory science programs. With hundreds of full-color illustrations and step-by-step methods for procedures, this text provides a solid, basic understanding of diagnostic microbiology and also covers more advanced techniques such as matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Written by noted CLS educator Dr. Patricia Tille, Diagnostic Microbiology has everything you need to get accurate lab test results in class and in clinical practice.

    • Fascia: The Tensional Network of the Human Body

      • 2nd Edition
      • December 8, 2021
      • Carla Stecco + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The role of the fascia in musculoskeletal conditions and as a body-wide communication system is now well established. Fascia: The Tensional Network of the Human Body constitutes the most comprehensive foundational textbook available that also provides the latest research theory and science around fascia and their function. This book is unique in offering consensus from scientists and clinicians from across the world and brings together the work of the group behind the international Fascia Research Congress. It is ideal for advanced sports physiotherapists /physical therapists, musculoskeletal/orth... medicine practitioners, as well as all professionals with an interest in fascia and human movement. The comprehensive contents lay the foundations of understanding about fascia, covering current scientific understanding of physiology and anatomy, fascial-related disorders and associated therapies, and recently developed research techniques.

    • Gymnastik für Senioren

      • 2nd Edition
      • August 27, 2021
      • Gabriele Dreher-Edelmann
      • German
      • Spiral-bound
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      Gymnastik-Übungen schnell und unkompliziert in den Alltag einbauen – dieses Buch macht es Ihnen besonders leicht. Es enthält Übungen, die Sie gleich morgens im Bett machen können und Übungen für den Nachmittag, die Sie am besten im Stehen oder sitzend auf einem Hocker ausführen. Mit der Belastung vorsichtig aufbauend sowie für alle Gelenke (von Kopf bis Fuß) in einem 4-Wochen-Übungsplan ist das Buch ideal für alle, die ihren Körper auch im Alter fit halten möchten. Dazu Informationen über physiologische Veränderungen, warum Bewegung so wichtig ist und worauf Sie achten müssen z.B. bei Schmerzen, Arthrose, Schwindel. Das alles mit praktischer Spiralbindung und in größerer Schrift. Neu in der 2. Auflage: Ein kleines Hand- und Fingertraining für zwischendurch, um Beweglichkeit und Geschicklichkeit zu erhalten.

    • Cavus Foot Deformity, An Issue of Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 38-3
      • June 8, 2021
      • H. John Visser
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Guest edited by Dr. H. John Visser, this issue of Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery will cover several key areas of interest related to Cavus Foot Deformity. This issue is one of four selected each year by our series Consulting Editor, Dr. Thomas Chang. Articles in this issue include but are not limited to: Radiographic Evaluation and Classification of Pes Cavus Foot and Ankle Deformity,Neurologic... Conditions Associated with Cavus Foot Deformity,Hallux and Lesser Digits Deformities Associated with Cavus Foot, The Subtle Cavovarus Foot Deformity: The Non-neurologic form of Cavus Foot Deformity, Use of Calcaneal Osteotomies in the Correction of Infra-Malleolar Cavovarus Deformity, Midfoot Osteotomies involving the Cavus Deformity, Principles of Triple and Limited Arthrodesis in the Cavus Foot, Tendon Transfer and It’s Role in Cavus Foot Deformity, The Cavovarus Ankle: Approaches to Instability and Inframalleolar Deformity, Ankle and Pantalar Arthrodesis: End-Stage Salvage in Cavus Foot, and Total Ankle Replacement in the Varus and Cavus Foot, among others.

    • The Knee

      • 1st Edition
      • July 20, 2021
      • Steven D. Waldman
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Linking theory to practice through the use of authentic clinical cases, Dr. Steven D. Waldman’s Pain Medicine: A Case-Based Learning Series helps readers acquire the valuable skill of effective diagnostic thinking in daily practice. The Knee volume uses an in-depth case format, preparing you to correctly analyze clinical vignettes and formulate a clinically sound, evidence-based approach to realistic patient scenarios. This highly effective leaning and assessment tool provides practical clinical insights into the best methods for diagnosis and treatment for the successful management of patients with knee-related pain.

    • Leitfaden Lymphologie

      • 2nd Edition
      • March 5, 2021
      • Hellmuth Zöltzer + 2 more
      • German
      • Paperback
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      Der Leitfaden Lymphologie beschreibt für jedes lymphangiologische Krankheitsbild die komplette Versorgungskette – übersichtlich, strukturiert und vor allem patientenzentriert - mit Definition, pathophysiologischen Grundlagen, Klinik, Diagnostik, ärztlicher Therapie, Komplexer physikalischer Entstauungstherapie (KPE) wie auch medizinischer Strumpfversorgung und Behandlungsaufbauten in der manuellen Lymphdrainage. Umfassende Informationen zur unterstützenden Selbstbehandlung sind wertvolle Hilfen für Patientinnen und Patienten, ein Kapitel zu Arzneimittelinduzier... Ödemen gibt besonders Klinikern wichtige Hinweise. Anatomische, physiologische und pathophysiologische Grundlagen sowie alles Wichtige zu diagnostischen Maßnahmen und zur konservativen Therapie runden das Werk ab. Neu in der 2. Auflage: - Vollständig überarbeitet und erweitert - lymphostatische Ödeme der Peripheren Arteriellen Verschlusskrankheit - Ödeme bei Diabetes mellitus und bei operativen Interventionen des Lymphödems - Adipositas-assoziier... Lymphödeme - Leitlinienorientiert... Einsatz der Intermittierenden Pneumatischen Kompression (IPK) Das Buch eignet sich für Physiotherapeutinnen und Physiotherapeuten sowie Ärztinnen und Ärzte, ebenso wie für Masseurinnen und Masseure und Mitarbeitende in Sanitätshäusern.

    • Survey Methods for Medical and Health Professions Education

      • 1st Edition
      • April 10, 2021
      • Andrew W. Phillips + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Offering a practical, six-step approach to effective survey design, delivery, and analysis, Survey Methods for Medical and Health Professions Education provides a real-world framework for successful research and evaluation using surveys. Focused on medical and other health professional education research, this unique text features quick-reference checklists, high-yield explanations, and case examples throughout, making it both a foundational reference and a go-to resource for all health professions educators and researchers who use surveys.

    • Leitfaden Physikalische Therapie

      • 1st Edition
      • October 5, 2021
      • Frank-Peter Bossert + 2 more
      • German
      • Hardback
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      Elektro- und Hydrotherapie, Lymphdrainage und Massagetechniken – mit dem Leitfaden bekommen Sie erstmals einen Gesamtüberblick über die Techniken und Maßnahmen der Physikalischen Therapie. Dabei sind auch klinische Studien sowie Fallberichte und konkrete Praxistipps berücksichtigt. Im klinischen Abschnitt werden die Maßnahmen quer durch die verschiedenen Bereiche zu relevanten Krankheitsbildern beschrieben: von Chirurgie, Orthopädie, Neurologie, Innere Medizin über Urologie, Gynäkologe, Pädiatrie und Geriatrie bis zu Dermatologie, HNO und Psychiatrie – jeweils mit: Definition Symptomen den verschiedenen physikalischen Behandlungsmöglichke... Therapiezielen Kontraindikationen Das Buch eignet sich für: Physiotherapeuten in Ausbildung und Praxis medizinische Bademeister

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