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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.

    • 2012 ICD-10-PCS Draft Standard Edition

      • 1st Edition
      • March 23, 2012
      • Carol J. Buck
      • English
      • eBook
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      Build procedure codes accurately and efficiently with Carol J. Buck's 2012 ICD-10-PCS Draft Standard Edition. Using Netter's Anatomy illustrations along with tables listing possible codes, this handy reference simplifies the procedure coding system to ensure accurate billing and optimal reimbursement for medical services.
    • ECG Workbook

      • 1st Edition
      • March 23, 2012
      • Rohan Jayasinghe
      • English
      • eBook
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      An easy-to-use workbook offering a logical, systematic approach to ECG (electrocardiogram) diagnosis ECG Workbook is a practical Australian medical book approaching the ECG from a clinical diagnosis perspective. The book covers ECG diagnoses – normal and abnormal – commonly encountered in local clinical practice. Real case studies are used throughout, along with local medical content. This makes it an ideal university book for clinical year medical students in Australia and New Zealand. JMOs, nurses, paramedics and hospital-based GP trainees will also find ECG Workbook extremely useful. Each ECG in this excellent Elsevier publication is presented with a brief clinical synopsis. The reader answers structured key questions for each, creating a systematic process for ECG interpretation. ECG Workbook’s in-depth coverage and logical, systematic approach enhances students’ and clinicians’ ability to interpret ECGs in a busy clinical setting.
    • 2012 ICD-10-CM Draft Standard Edition

      • 1st Edition
      • March 22, 2012
      • Carol J. Buck
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 5 5 7 7 4 9 9 9
      Code accurately and efficiently with Carol J. Buck's 2012 ICD-10-CM Draft Standard Edition. Using Netter's Anatomy illustrations and the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (OGCR) with a format designed by coders for coders, this handy reference simplifies diagnosis coding to ensure accurate billing and optimal reimbursement for outpatient medical services. Illustrations and explanations of A&P, pathology, and medical terminology make it easier to develop the knowledge needed to assign the appropriate codes.
    • Texto ilustrado e interactivo de biología molecular e ingeniería genética

      • 2nd Edition
      • March 22, 2012
      • Ángel Herráez Sánchez
      • Spanish
      • eBook
        9 7 8 8 4 8 1 7 4 4 8 1 1
      Se trata de una obra con un planteamiento muy novedoso, escrita con el objetivo de responder a las necesidades reales del alumno. Es lo que se conoce como "libro dialogante", que estimula al estudiante y le hace reflexionar. El doctor Herráez continúa en la presente edición con la filosofía de recoger, de forma conjunta y concisa, los conceptos básicos de la biología molecular e ingeniería genética, para, posteriormente, establecer sobre estas bases sus cada vez mayores aplicaciones tecnológicas y la terapéutica del futuro. La presente edición no renuncia a estos aspectos básicos, pero también incluye otros más novedosos. Incorpora un nuevo capítulo de clonación y células madre. Destaca la integración de la información y el enfoque gráfico-visual seguido en la exposición de la misma, con predominio de esquemas y figuras sobre texto escrito. Para facilitar esta explicación visual, todo el libro es a cuatro colores, con un diseño novedoso, atractivo y didáctico y unas figuras espectaculares. Como novedad en esta edición, la obra se encuentra en dos soportes complementarios, soporte impreso y soporte electrónico. La página web incluye multitud de recursos interactivos y desde el texto se hacen llamadas a la web con el objetivo de que el alumno aprenda de una forma más entretenida.
    • Wounds and Lacerations

      • 4th Edition
      • March 21, 2012
      • Alexander T. Trott
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 0 7 4 1 8 6
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 0 9 1 3 2 9
      • eBook
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      With Wounds and Lacerations: Emergency Care and Closure, you'll get clear, concise guidance on the latest techniques and strategies for treating lacerations, wounds, and burns. This medical reference book will help you optimize every aspect of patient care based on current literature and guidelines.
    • NanoOncology, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 32-1
      • March 17, 2012
      • Kewal Jain
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 5 5 7 3 8 8 3 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 5 5 7 4 2 8 9 9
      This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine includes the following topics: Detection of cancer biomarkers by cerium oxide nanoparticles; Quantum dot-based assays for cancer biomarkers; Monoclonal antibody conjugated fluorescent magnetic nanoparticles for in vivo diagnosis of cancer; RNA quantification with gold nanoprobes for cancer diagnostics; Nanostructured silica materials for imaging in cancer; and Nanoparticle-based cancer cell sorting.
    • Sarcomas, An Issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 21-2
      • March 17, 2012
      • John M. Kane III
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 5 5 7 3 9 4 1 7
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 5 5 7 4 4 4 1 1
      This issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by John M. Kane III, MD, is devoted to Sarcomas. Articles in this issue include: Prognostic Factors and Staging for Soft Tissue Sarcomas; Margin Status and Local Recurrence: Correlation or Causation?; Systemic Chemotherapy in the Adjuvant and Clinical Metastatic Setting; Pulmonary Metastasectomy; Regional Therapy for Advanced Extremity Sarcomas; Current Approaches to Retroperitoneal Sarcomas; Updates on the Management of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST); Soft Tissue Sarcoma: Immunologic Implications; Atypical Lipomatous Tumor/Well Differentiated Liposarcoma: What is it?; Modern Surgical Therapy: Limb Salvage and the Role of Amputation; Adjuvant Radiation Therapy: and Preoperative, Postoperative, or Not at All.
    • Critical Care of Patients with Mental Health Issues, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 24-1
      • March 17, 2012
      • Susan Mace Weeks
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics will include articles on the following topics: Aggression and suicide risk; Bariatric patients; Alcohol abuse; Consultation for mental health and addiction issues; Delirium; Domestic violence and Hospice referral.
    • Interstitial Lung Disease, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 33-1
      • March 17, 2012
      • Talmadge E King + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      The guest editors for this issue, Talmadge King, Harold Collard, celebrated pulmonary specialists from UCSF, and Luca Richeldi, renowned visiting professor to UCSF from University of Modena, Italy, bring together a state-of-the-art issue on the important topic of Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD). This comprehensive issue reviews the approach to diagnosis of ILD, radiology if ILD, pathology of ILD. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is discussed, including phenotypes and comorbidities, acute exacerbation and accelerated decline, management, and pathobiology of novel approaches to therapy. Connective Tissue ILD, Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, familial ILD and smoking-related ILD, and non-specific interstitial pneumonia are reviewed. In the final article, lung transplantation is discussed.