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The Medicine portfolio strives to advance medicine by delivering superior evidence-based education, reference information and decision support tools to clinicians, trainees, and students. Specialties covered include Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Radiology & Imaging, Pathology, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Infectious Disease, Allergy & Immunology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Hematology & Oncology, Plastic Surgery, and many more. The Medicine portfolio includes world-renowned titles such as Gray's Anatomy and Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy, Braunwald's Heart Disease, Goldman-Cecil Medicine, Osborn's Brain, Dermatology (Bolognia), Diagnostic Ultrasound (Rumack), The Harriet Lane Handbook, Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Ferri's Clinical Advisor, Conn's Current Therapy, and more.

  • Central Nervous System Cancer Rehabilitation

    • 1st Edition
    • August 29, 2018
    • Adrian Cristian
    • English
    Offering a well-rounded overview of CNS cancers and best practices for rehabilitation of the cancer patient, Central Nervous System Cancer Rehabilitation provides succinct, easy-to-digest coverage for practicing and trainee physiatrists, as well as physical and occupational therapists. This concise resource by Dr. Adrian Cristian begins with an introduction to CNS cancers and progresses to rehabilitation practice, associated symptom management, and palliative care.

  • Antimicrobial Stewardship, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 102-5
    • August 29, 2018
    • Cheston B. Cunha
    • English
    This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Cheston B. Cunha, is devoted to Antimicrobial Stewardship. Articles in this issue include: Principles of Antimicrobial Stewardship; Antibiotic Resistance in Stewardship; Therapy of Resistant Organisms: A Stewardship Approach; Optimal Antibiotic Dosing Strategies; The Importance of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Antimicrobial Stewardship; Role of Education in Antimicrobial Stewardship; Role of the Hospital Epidemiologist in Antimicrobial Stewardship; Role of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory in Antimicrobial Stewardship; Role of New and Rapid Diagnostics In Antimicrobial Stewardship; Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Community Hospital; Antimicrobial Stewardship in Long-Term Care Facilities; Role of the Pharmacist in Antimicrobial Stewardship; Pharmacoeconomic Considerations of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs; Principles of IV-to-PO Switch and PO therapy; Role of Technology in Antimicrobial Stewardship; and Metrics of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs.

  • Pulmonary Embolism, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 39-3
    • August 29, 2018
    • Peter Marshall + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, edited by Drs. Peter Marshall and Wassim Fares, focuses on Pulmonary Embolism, with topics including: Clinical Probability Tools for DVT, PE, & Bleeding; Prevention of DVTs and Pulmonary Emboli: General Measures and High-Risk Populations; Diagnosis of DVTs and PEs: New Imaging Tools and Modalities; Perfusion Defects Misdiagnosed as Pulmonary Emboli; The Vicious Cycle of Hypercoagulability and Pulmonary Hypertension; VTE in Special Populations; Preganncy and Thrombo-embolic Disease; Challenges and Changes to the Management of PE in the Emergency Department; The Value of Bedside Echocardiogram in the Setting of Acute & Chronic Pulmonary Embolism; Management of Low-Risk PE; Update on the 'Novel' and Direct Oral Anticoagulants; Risk Stratification: Definitive/Aggressiv... Treatment of Hemodynamically Stable but Intermediate Risk Patients; Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT); Surgical and Other Interventions for DVTs; IVC Filters; Catheter-Based Therapies of Pulmonary Emboli; Surgical-Based Therapies for PEs; and Chronic Thrombo-embolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH).

  • Management of Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 32-3
    • August 29, 2018
    • Sherif Beniameen Mossad
    • English
    In consultation with Consulting Editor, Dr. Helen Boucher, Dr. Mossad has created an issue that provides a very current look at the prevention of infections in the solid organ transplant patient. Top authors in the field have contributed clinical reviews on the following topics: Is this organ donor safe; Immunization of solid organ transplant candidates & recipients; Safe living following solid organ transplantation; Strategies for Antimicrobial Stewardship in solid organ transplant recipients; Multi drug resistant bacterial infections in solid organ transplant candidates and recipients; Yeast infections in solid organ transplant recipients; Mold infections in solid organ transplant recipients; Endemic mycoses in solid organ transplant recipients; Prevention and treatment of cytomegalovirus infections in solid organ transplant recipients; Management of BK polyomavirus infection in kidney & pancreas transplant recipients; Prevention and treatment of clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in solid organ transplant recipients; Management of viral hepatitis in solid organ transplant recipients; Prevention and management of tuberculosis in solid organ transplant recipients; Management of mycobacteria other than tuberculosis in solid organ transplant recipients; Management of strongyloidiasis in solid organ transplant recipients; and Transplantation in HIV infected patients. Readers will come away with the clinical information and evidence they need to improve outcomes of the organ transplant patient.

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Media

    • 1st Edition
    • August 28, 2018
    • Eugene V. Beresin + 1 more
    • English
    Get a quick, expert overview of the increasingly important topic of technology and social media and its impact on children and adolescents. This practical resource presents a focused summary of today’s current knowledge on topics of interest to psychiatrists, pediatricians, and other health professionals working with children and adolescents. It provides current, relevant information on a wide variety of media-related topics as they relate to child and adolescent health and mental illness, making it a one-stop resource for staying up to date in this critical area.

  • Le couple en thérapie comportementale, cognitive et émotionnelle

    • 1st Edition
    • August 28, 2018
    • François ALLARD + 1 more
    • French
    Cet ouvrage offre un panorama détaillé des approches éprouvées en thérapie comportementale et cognitive de couple, actualisé dans le sens de la 3e vague des TCC. Il traite : • des conditions d’émergence des thérapies de couple ; • de quatre approches internationalement reconnues issues des principaux courants : – la thérapie comportementale et cognitive du couple (ECBCT), – la thérapie comportementale intégrative de couple (IBCT), – la thérapie de couple fondée sur des programmes d’entraînement à la gestion du stress (CCET), – la thérapie de couple axée sur les émotions (EFCT) ; • des approches complémentaires pour le couple, émergentes et originales ou ayant fait leurs preuves en thérapies individuelles : – la thérapie d’acceptation et d’engagement (ACT) ; – la pratique de la pleine conscience (Mindfulness) ; – la thérapie axée sur les liens entre bien-être individuel et satisfaction conjugale ; – la thérapie grégaire (PG : Positionnement Grégaire). Il aborde ensuite les enjeux classiques de la thérapie de couple exigeant un accompagnement spécifique (infidélité, addiction sexuelle, difficultés sexuelles et conjugales, etc.) et donne un aperçu de la méthodologie d’évaluation dans ce champ des TCC de couple. Les bases théoriques des approches majeures et complémentaires sont fournies et étayées de vignettes cliniques, avec des déroulements-type de thérapies, des exemples de techniques et d’outils utilisés. Il a été rédigé avec la contribution d’une quinzaine de cliniciens et préfacé par Andrew Christensen.

  • The Right Heart - Pulmonary Circulation Unit, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 14-3
    • August 23, 2018
    • Eduardo Bossone + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of Heart Failure Clinics--edited by Dr. Eduardo Bossone--will cover The Right Heart Pulmonary Circulation Unit. Topics include Pathophysiology, Increased Systemic versus Increased Pulmonary Pressures, Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Right Heart Pulmonary Circulation Unit in Connective Tissue Disease, Right Heart Pulmonary Circulation Unit in Congenital Heart Diseases, Pulmonary Hypertension and Heart Failure, Right Heart Pulmonary Circulation Unit in Cardiomyopathies and Storage Diseases, Pulmonary Hypertension, Right Heart Pulmonary Circulation Unit at High Altitude, Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension, Combining Invasive and Non-Invasive Evaluation for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension, Imaging the Right Heart Pulmonary Circulation Unit: The Role of Ultrasound, Imaging the Right Heart Pulmonary Circulation Unit: The Role of CT and MRI, Biomarkers in Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary Hypertension Related to Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease, Chronic Right Heart Failure, Exercise Training and Rehabilitation in Pulmonary Hypertension, and Right Heart Circulation Unit and Left Heart Valvular Diseases.

  • Sobotta Tables of Muscles, Joints and Nerves, English/Latin

    Tables to 16th ed. of the Sobotta Atlas
    • 2nd Edition
    • August 22, 2018
    • Jens Waschke + 1 more
    • English
    Sobotta Tables of Muscles, Joints and Nerves, enables it’s users to deepen and consolidate their muscle, joint and nerve knowledge quickly and systematically utilising the 60 tables in this practical study book: All of the muscles of the human body, including their origin, insertion, innervation and function Each muscle is accompanied by a small schematic Sobotta figure highlighting the relevant muscle in red Review branches and innervation areas of the Plexus cervicalis, brachialis and lumboscralis in detail A focus on joints and cranial nerves Each table refers back to the relevant anatomical figures in the 16th edition of the Sobotta - Atlas of Anatomy, thus making it the perfect study companion to the Atlas.

  • Prévenir et dénouer les conflits dans les relations soignants-soignés

    • 2nd Edition
    • August 22, 2018
    • Claude Curchod
    • French
    Les relations entre les professionnels de santé, les personnes soignées et leurs proches sont parfois délicates, voire conflictuelles. Au-delà des souffrances qui en découlent pour chacun, il en résulte de véritables risques pour la qualité des soins. Ce livre aborde ce sujet délicat et présent au quotidien dans de nombreuses structures de soins, grâce à une démarche originale : partir des situations conflictuelles, pour en identifier les origines les plus courantes et en évaluer les conséquences, avant de proposer des pistes concrètes d’action. Cette 2de édition, entièrement mise à jour, se structure autour de deux parties et propose, en plus des apports théoriques, des fiches pratiques offrant des compléments (piste d’analyse, outils d’intervention…) et de nombreux exemples pour approfondir et illustrer les propos. - La première partie, élaborée à partir des pièges à éviter, traite des causes et conséquences des situations relationnelles difficiles ; - La seconde partie s’axe sur le développement de nouvelles formes de relations entre soignants et soignés et propose différentes approches (projets de soins négociés, pratique soignante porteuse de sens…) pour mettre en place des changements significatifs. Cet ouvrage a pour objectif d’être un outil de réflexion et d’action, utile à tous ceux qui sont confrontés à ces situations, afin de prévenir et dénouer les conflits entre soignants et soignés.

  • Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Cancer

    • 1st Edition
    • August 22, 2018
    • Fumito Ito + 1 more
    • English
    Get a quick, expert overview of the latest clinical information and guidelines for cancer checkpoint inhibitors and their implications for specific types of cancers. This practical title by Drs. Fumito Ito and Marc Ernstoff synthesizes the most up-to-date research and clinical guidance available on immune checkpoint inhibitors and presents this information in a compact, easy-to-digest resource. It’s an ideal concise reference for trainee and practicing medical oncologists, as well as those in research.

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