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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.

  • Child Health & Development

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2012
    • Kerryn Phelps + 1 more
    • English
    Child health and development - General Practice: The Integrative Approach. While not an extensive overview of paediatric ill health, this chapter addresses a range of common problems presenting in a primary care setting including Screening, Growth monitoring, Atopy, Allergic rhinitis, Asthma, Iron deficiency, Screening for hearing loss, Screening for eye and vision problems, Infantile colic, Enuresis, Dyslexia, Developmental disorders and disabilities, Langauge development, Behaviour and psychological problems, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Autism and Autism-Spectrum Disorders, Obesity and Immunisation to illustrate the role of an integrative approach to children and their families that will support family cohesion and rally mutual physical, psychological and social supports underpinning a healthy approach to living.

  • Weight Problems & Eating Disorders

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2012
    • Kerryn Phelps + 1 more
    • English
    Weight Problems and Eating Disorders - General Practice: The Integrative Approach. This chapter discusses anorexia and bulimia-like disorders. These eating disorders are characterised by the use of inappropriate behaviours to control body weight and feelings, as evidenced by low body weight, high body weight, extreme weight-control behaviours such as vomiting and starvation, excessive exercise and binge eating. Obesity - General Practice: The Integrative Approach. General Practitioners in primary care are uniquely placed to help in the management of patients in all stages of overweight and obesity, and are able to maintain a therapeutic relationship with patients over many years. General practitioners should take a long-term view of weight problems, which can mean avoiding goals for weight management that are unlikely to be achieved.

  • Bones

    General Practice - The Integrative Approach Series
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2012
    • Kerryn Phelps + 1 more
    • English
    Bones - General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Bones are complex organs with many important functions, the most obvious being structural. They provide support for the body and the means by which muscles can insert into fixed structures in order to allow movement. They are also important in hearing, through the transduction of sound via the ear’s ossicles, and they protect other soft organs that are easily damaged, such as the brain, eyes, kidneys, lungs and spleen. Bone marrow, which is largely within the medulla of the long bones, is the centre for production of blood cells (haematopoesis) and an important site for storage of fatty acids. Bones also have important metabolic functions. This chapter describes the following conditions affecting bones: osteoporosis, rickets, osteomalacia, Paget’s disease and bone cancer.

  • Men's Health

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2012
    • Kerryn Phelps + 1 more
    • English
    Men's Health - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. This chapter discusses men’s health including erectile dysfunction, testicular cancer, prostate disease and also deals with the difficulty faced by GPs of getting male patients to present for a regular check-up.

  • Cancer

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2012
    • Kerryn Phelps + 1 more
    • English
    Cancer - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. Integrative cancer care requires a comprehensive and well-coordinated team or virtual team approach. The general practitioner with an integrative philosophy is well placed to coordinate appropriate screening, prevention, case finding and treatment services for patients at all stages of their journey. The cancer journey begins with awareness of risk factors and preventive strategies, and continues through diagnosis of the type and stage of cancer, decisions about conventional treatment and adjunctive therapies. Ideally, the integrative approach to cancer management improves a patient’s sense of self-control, reduces anxiety and aims to maximise the body’s potential to heal.

  • Urology

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2012
    • Kerryn Phelps + 1 more
    • English
    Urology - General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Symptoms suggesting urological pathology are common presentations in primary care. These include recurrent urinary tract infections, frequency and urgency of micturition, nocturia and urinary incontinence. Acute presentations to general practitioners or hospital emergency departments often involve pain: acute loin pain, testicular pain and the pain of urinary retention. Some signs may be suspicious for malignancy (e.g. haematuria). In addition, lumps in the scrotum and testes are a frequent cause for patient concern. A systematic approach to these presentations is easily followed, and history and examination will provide the diagnosis in the majority of cases.

  • Immune System

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2012
    • Kerryn Phelps + 1 more
    • English
    Immune System - General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. The human immune system is extremely complex, with intricate multidirectional connections between our gastrointestinal, psychological, endocrinological and other systems, and communication via various neuro transmitters, cytokines and other immune system messengers. This chapter presents a simplified view of the principles of immunology, with specific focus on some of the most recently researched complementary therapies known to improve immune system health. A comprehensive listing of further resources and references is listed at the end of the chapter.

  • Genetic Conditions

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2012
    • Kerryn Phelps + 1 more
    • English
    Genetic Conditions - General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Genetic conditions are those that are directly or indirectly due to a pathogenic variation in a person’s genome that is present at birth. The variant may be inherited from a parent, or occur for the fi rst time in the family in that person in the production of the egg or sperm or at conception (spontaneous mutation or chromosomal change). This chapter covers Epigenetics, Genetic counselling and genetic services, Genetic testing, Chromosomal conditions, Single gene conditions and Inherited genetic susceptibility.

  • Sleep Disorders

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2012
    • Kerryn Phelps + 1 more
    • English
    Sleep Disorders - General Practice: The Integrative Approach. There are many types of sleep disorders, with different aetiologies, presentations and treatments. Generally, sleep disorders can be classified into one of four groups: hypersomnias, parasomnias, insomnia and sleep–wake schedule disorders. Some sleep disorders need to be referred to a specialised sleep disorders clinic for diagnosis and treatment. Other sleep problems can be diagnosed and managed within general practice and will be emphasised in this chapter. In the first part of this chapter we provide a brief introduction to the sleep process. In the second part, we outline sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnoea, narcolepsy and sleep-related movement disorders, bruxism and the parasomnias, which require referral to a specialised sleep centre. In the final part we describe the diagnosis and management of the more common but heterogenous sleep disorders of insomnia and sleep–wake schedule disorders.

  • Blood

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2012
    • Kerryn Phelps + 1 more
    • English
    Blood - General Practice: The Integrative Approach. This chapter examines the management of patients with haematological disorders likely to be encountered in general practice. Haematology in general practice involves the care and monitoring of a very broad and disparate group of medical conditions and syndromes, ranging from investigation of anaemia and iron disorders, bleeding diatheses, venous thromboembolism and thrombophilias,to blood-product administration, and the initial diagnosis and comanagement of patients with haematological malignancy.

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