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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.

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    • Infection Prevention and Control in the Hospital, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 25-1
      • March 14, 2011
      • Keith S. Kaye
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Over the past several decades, “infection control” has become a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field of incredible importance with regard to the safety of patients and healthcare workers, regulation and accreditation of healthcare facilities, and finances. The focus of this field has increasingly turned to prevention rather than control of hospital-acquired infections. This issue will bring the infectious disease specialist up to date on important topics such as hand hygiene, sterilization, methicillin-resistan... Staphylococcus aureus, antibiotic stewardship, and specific infections of particular concern.

    • Foundations of Developmental Care, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 38-4
      • December 28, 2011
      • Joy Browne + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The guest editors thoroughly examine prematurity for the perinatologist by supplying state-of-the art reviews on this topic. Articles include: The integrated development of sensory organization; The normal sequence of sensory development in the fetus and newborn; The role of the limbic system in early development; The role of the olfactory system in early maternal orientation and feeding outcomes; Olfactory contributions to attachment and learning; The gustatory system in the newborn: implications for development of eating; The role of auditory development in early communication and attachment; The role of vision and state organization in early development; Epigenetic contributions to early developmental care; Supporting successful eating and growth; The scientific foundations for Kangaroo care;The practice of individualized developmental care; and Designing environments for developmental care.

    • Autoimmune Blistering Diseases, Part II - Diagnosis and Management, An Issue of Dermatologic Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 29-4
      • October 28, 2011
      • Dédée F. Murrell
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Part II of Dr. Murrell’s issue devoted to Autoimmune Blistering Diseases focuses on the management of these conditions along with drug treatment, complications, and the treatment of AIBD around the world. Articles include corticosteroid use in AIBD, AIBD management in pregnancy, prevention of opportunistic infections, and therapeutic approaches to patients with mucous membrane pemphigoid, as well as AIBD management in France, Iran, the United States and other countries.

    • Myopathies, An Issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 37-2
      • April 27, 2011
      • Robert L. Wortmann
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics provides important updates in myopathies. The following essential topics are covered: clinical features, pathophysiology, and treatment of polymyositis and dermatomyositis; inclusion body myositis; metabolic myopathies; drug-induced myopathies; muscular dystrophies and neurologic diseases; laboratory testing and imaging; electrophysiological studies; metabolic and genetic testing; and pathology.

    • Current Management Guidelines in Thoracic Surgery, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 22-1
      • December 28, 2011
      • M. Blair Marshall
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue highlights management issues surrounding specific subjects within the clinical practice of thoracic surgery. The articles represent areas of thoracic surgery where there may be controversy, lack of consensus, or evolution. Each author summarizes the available literature with the addition of his or her own personal expertise.

    • Thoracic Anatomy, Part II, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 21-2
      • April 28, 2011
      • Jean Deslauriers
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics includes well-illustrated articles on surface anatomy, the pleura and pleural spaces (including the anatomy of the parietal and visceral pleura, the pleural reflections and recesses, and microscopic anatomy of the pleura), anatomy of the mediastinum (including mediastinal divisions and compartments, the thymus, the superior vena cava and brachiocephalic veins, the heart and pericardium, the thoracic aorta and its branches, the thoracic duct, and the nerves of the thorax) and the anatomy of the diaphragm and the esophagus (including vascular supply, lymphatic pathways, innvervation).

    • Skin: Discourse on Emerging Science and Techniques, An Issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 39-1
      • December 15, 2011
      • Elsevier Clinics
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Information is presented from international authors in the realm of Biology, Physiology, Basic Science, and Clinical Medicine on aspects of skin of interest to the Plastic Surgeon. Topics range from Skin grafting and the Physiology of aging skin, through Dermal substitutes and Skin tissue engineering.

    • Tendon Transfers In the Foot and Ankle, An Issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 16-3
      • September 28, 2011
      • Chris Chiodo + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Principles of Balancing the Foot with Tendon Transfers, Basic Science of Tendon Transfers, Tendon Transfer for Ankle Equinus and Equinovarus, The Bridle Procedure, The Uses of Tendon Transfers to Correct the Cavus Foot and Ankle, Tendon Transfers About the Hallux (Jones, FHB, Hallux Varus), Forefoot Tendon Transfers, Tendon Transfers in Polio, Management of Equinovalgus Deformity, The Management of Spastic Equinovarus Deformity Following Stroke and Head Injury

    • Clinical Notes for the FRCA

      • 3rd Edition
      • March 29, 2011
      • Charles Deakin
      • English
      • Paperback
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      New edition of a successful book of concise notes on clinical aspects of the examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaethetists. It has been fully updated to reflect changes in the examination syllabus. This will be an ideal revision guide for trainee anaesthetists sitting the FRCA and similar examinations.

    • Surgical Oncology in the Community Cancer Center, An Issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 20-3
      • June 21, 2011
      • Frederick L. Greene
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. Frederick Greene, focuses on Surgical Oncology in the Community Cancer Center. An array of experts have come together to explore topics on Sarcoma Management, Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy, Multidisciplinary Clinics and the Surgeon's Role in the Hospital Cancer Program, Breast Cancer Care in the Community Cancer Center, Lumpectomy versus Mastectomy Rates in the Community Setting, American College of Surgeons Oncology Group trials and the Community Surgeon, Quality Surgical Oncology Care in the Community: Training versus Hospital Volume, The Impact of Dedicated Tumor Boards in Clinical Trials, The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers: Quality Improvement Through Standard Setting, and much more.

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