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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.

    • Hip Dysplasia Surgery: Birth to Adulthood, An Issue of Orthopedic Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 43-3
      • August 8, 2012
      • George J. Haidukewych + 1 more
      • English
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      This issue will cover hip dysplasia from birth to geriatrics. Also included will be articles on pelvic fractures, revisions a few on pediatrics, European hip surgeons, the young adult, pathology and the natural history.
    • Year Book of Pediatrics 2012

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 2012
      • January 1, 2012
      • James A. Stockman III
      • English
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      The Year Book of Pediatrics brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in pediatrics, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! This annual covers all aspects of pediatric care from infectious diseases and immunology, adolescent medicine, therapeutics and toxicology, child development, dentistry and otolaryngology and neurology and psychiatry. The Year Book of Pediatrics publishes annually in December of the preceding year.
    • Patient Safety, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 92-1
      • February 28, 2012
      • Juan A. Sanchez
      • English
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      Guest Editor Juan Sanchez reviews articles in Safe Surgery for the general surgeon. Articles include iatrogenesis: the nature, frequency, and science of medical errors, risk management and the regulatory framework for safer surgery medication, lab, and blood banking errors, surgeons' non-technical skills, creating safe and effective surgical teams, human factors and operating room safety, systemic analysis of adverse events: identifying root causes and latent errors, information technologies and patient safety, patient safety and the surgical workforce, measuring and preventing healthcare associated infections, the surgeon's four-phase reaction to error, universal protocols and wrong-site/wrong-pat... events, unconscious biases and patient safety, and much more!
    • Glucolipotoxicity and the Heart, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 8-4
      • October 2, 2012
      • Peter P. Toth + 1 more
      • English
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      Chronic overconsumption of sugar and fat elevates plasma levels of insulin and free fatty acids, a process referred to as glucolipotoxicity. This phenomenon may lead to heart failure. This issue explores in depth the relationship between glucolipotoxicity and heart failure.
    • Emerging Concepts in Upper Extremity Trauma, An Issue of Orthopedic Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 44-1
      • December 3, 2012
      • Michael P. Leslie + 1 more
      • English
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      “Emerging Concepts in Upper Extremity Trauma” will appeal to orthopaedic surgeons inundated with care of orthopaedic upper extremity injuries. Since many dedicated hand panels in the United States have disappeared, care of upper extremity trauma is now a required part of care for any orthopaedic patient.
    • Addiction, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 35-2
      • June 8, 2012
      • Itai Danovitch + 1 more
      • English
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      This completely new and updated issue takes a focused look at addiction psychiatry in three sections: Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and New Directions. Dr. Danovitch, from Cedars-Sinai and Dr. Mariani from Columbia hone in on the most rapidly advancing and relevant areas of addiction for practitioners today, from defining addiction (implications of DSM-V), to genetics and neurobiology, to specific treatment options for a variety of patient populations: for pregnant women, adolescents, and patients suffering from chronic pain, for example. A variety of addiction types are discussed (ie, opioid, stimulant, and cannabis). The issue closes with discussions of emerging trends, systems of care, investigational therapeutics and the role of the criminal justice system.
    • Thyroid Disorders and Diseases, An Issue of Medical Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 96-2
      • March 28, 2012
      • Kenneth Burman
      • English
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      This issue of Medical Clinics of North America provides the latest essential updates on thyroid disorders and diseases. Topics covered include the following: thyroid synthesis and physiology; hyperthyroidism; hypothyroidism; thyroid nodules; goiter; differentiated thyroid cancer; subacute, silent, and postpartum thyroiditis; thyroid and pregnancy; thyroid and the elderly; medications and thyroid hormones; thyroid and the heart; thyroid and lipids; and Graves’ ophthalmology.
    • Foot and Ankle Innovations in Latin America, An Issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 17-3
      • September 18, 2012
      • Christian Ortiz + 1 more
      • English
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      This issue of the Foot & Ankle Clinics focuses exclusively on advances being made in Latin America, in an effort to include more surgeons from Latin America who are major contributors to the literature, and give them an opportunity to share ideas. The issue will cover new techniques and advances from major doctors, academics, and institutions in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.
    • Advances in Pediatrics, 2012

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 2012
      • July 18, 2012
      • Michael S. Kappy
      • English
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      Each year, Advances in Pediatrics brings you the best current thinking from the preeminent practitioners in your field. A distinguished editorial board identifies current areas of major progress and controversy and invites specialists to contribute original articles on these topics. These insightful overviews bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care. Among the topics included in this year’s edition are Neuroblastoma, Cochlear Implants, Pediatric Epilepsy, Pediatric Intestinal Failure, Immunization Update, and Nurtional Recommendations, to name a few. Each edition has a tradition of honoring those who contributed greatly to pediatrics in the "Foundations of Pediatrics" segment; this edition features Waldo Nelson, MD, a giant in the field, as the annual honoree.
    • Regenerative Endodontics, An Issue of Dental Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 56-3
      • July 28, 2012
      • Sami M. Chogle + 1 more
      • English
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      Regenerative endodontics is the generation and replacement of diseased, damaged or absent pulp. This issue of Dental Clinics of North America provides a clinical view of regenerative endodontics and its aims, methods and techniques.