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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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    • Advances in Ultrasound, An Issue of Ultrasound Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 4-3
      • March 9, 2010
      • Vikram S. Dogra
      • English
      • Hardback
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      While other modalities such as MRI, PET/CT, and MDCT have achieved importance in the field of diagnostic radiology, ultrasound has not stood still. This issue reviews the latest advances in ultrasound technology and provides a basis for its importance in clinical practice.

    • Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 37-2
      • June 30, 2010
      • Richard Polin + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis is covered in this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest edited by Drs. Karen Fairchild and Richard Polin. Authorities in the field have come together to pen articles on Innate host defenses and risk for EONS, Group B streptococcus, Diagnosis and management of clinical chorioamnionitis, Molecular diagnostics of sepsis, Use of proteomics in the diagnosis of chorioamnionitis and neonatal sepsis, Adjunct laboratory tests in the diagnosis of EONS, Ureaplasma: role in diseases of prematurity, Meningitis in neonates, Adjunct immunologic therapies in neonatal sepsis, Pathophysiology and treatment of septic shock in neonates, and International perspective on EONS.

    • Cycles de la vie et grandes fonctions

      • 1st Edition
      • December 3, 2010
      • Léon Perlemuter + 16 more
      • French
      • Paperback
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      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      L'objectif des Cahiers des Sciences Infirmières est d'offrir aux étudiants en IFSI des ouvrages complets et détaillés couvrant l'ensemble des savoirs définis dans les Unités d'Enseignement (UE) du nouveau référentiel. Ce cahier, consacré à l'UE 2.2 Cycles de la vie et grandes fonctions (semestre 1) du nouveau référentiel, présente pour chaque UE les concepts fondamentaux à connaître. Il aborde : - les concepts : rythmes de vie et chronobiologie, nutriments et métabolisme, régulation de la température corporelle (thermogénèse, thermolyse) ; - l'homéostasie : interaction et interdépendance des systèmes, équilibre acido-basique… ; - la biologie intégrative et l'organisation du vivant à travers les systèmes endocrinien, immunitaire et nerveux ; - les grandes fonctions (aspects anatomiques et physiologiques) : respiratoire, digestive, cardiaque, élimination, reproduction, motrice et sensorielle ; - les étapes de la vie, de la naissance à la mort. Ces thématiques sont illustrées par de nombreux schémas et photographies en couleurs. Tout au long de l'ouvrage, des encadrés « Points clés » mettent en valeur les connaissances incontournables. Et en fin d'ouvrage, un Cahier d'entraînement permet à l'étudiant de tester ses connaissances et d'exercer sa réflexion. NB. Les notions suivantes de l'UE 2.2 sont traitées dans l'ouvrage Biologie fondamentale et génétique (Cahiers des sciences infirmières, n° 4) : - les bases moléculaires de l'organisation du génome humain ; - les bases essentielles de la notion d'hérédité ; - l'information génétique, sa conservation, sa transmission et la synthèse des protéines.

    • Practice Management for Facial Plastic Surgery, An Issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 18-4
      • November 19, 2010
      • S. Randolph Waldman
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      This publication deals with practice issues in Facial Plastic Surgery. Top consultants to cosmetic surgeons present topics of absolute value in the current economy. Topics include: Creating a Culture of Accountability in the Office Office Managers’ Forum The Art of the Successful Consultation Electronic Medical Record - Something to Consider Establishing a Profitable Skin Care Practice in a Plastic Surgery Office 9 Worst Advertising Mistakes The Value of One Patient 5 Secrets to Leveraging Maximum Buying Power with Your Media Project Auditing your practice: Non-financial variables to survive, or thrive Showcase your service: Social Media and Marketing Basics in a Dynamic, Over-Populated, Mixed-Message, and Highly Competitive World Retailicine, Somewhere Between Retail and Medicine Shifts Happened - Time to Optimize your Practice Essential Marketing Tips: Build Your Own Brand one Step at a Time Being a Responsible Leader; Tips to Get You Busy; Internet Marketing

    • Non-Polypoid (Flat and Depressed) Colorectal Neoplasms, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 20-3
      • August 24, 2010
      • Roy Soetikno + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Dr. Soetikno has organized a comprehensive issue devoted to the detection and diagnosis of non-polypoid colorectal neoplasms with special emphasis on sessile or flat colon adenoma. Top experts in the field have supplied the latest clinical information in the following areas: Non-Polypoid Colorectal Neoplasms in Ulcerative Colitis; Detection and Diagnosis of Non-Polypoid Colorectal Neoplasms; Image-Enhanced Endoscopy to Detect and Diagnose Non-Polypoid Colorectal Neoplasms; CT Colonography and Non-Polypoid Colorectal Neoplasms, as well as Endoscopic Mucosal Resection of Non-Polypoid Colorectal Neoplasms. This issue is an important one as there are not many references on the topics that are as comprehensive.

    • Interface Between Pediatrics and Children's Mental Health, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 19-2
      • June 14, 2010
      • Sandra L. Fritsch
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Child and Adolescent psychiatrists frequently see patients with medical disorders that impact their psychiatric care in various ways. This issue covers oncology, inflammatory bowel disease, siblings with chronic illnesses, obesity, genetic abnormalities, transplants, very premature infants through the lifespan, asthma, diabetes mellitus, HIV, palliative care, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, headaches, unexplained physical complaints, and epilepsy. Each article provides an overview of the medical disorder itself, as well as the special considerations required for the psychiatric care of that patient.

    • Immunotherapy, An Issue of Neurosurgery Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 21-1
      • January 5, 2010
      • Isaac Yang + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      For this issue, Dr. Michael Lim of Johns Hopkins and Dr. Isaac Yang of UCSF team up to deliver a packed issue on the latest developments in Immunotherapy. The issue covers hot topics such as immunostimulants, Passive Antibody Mediated Immunotherapy, Clinical Applications of A Peptide Based Vaccine, Challenges for Clinical Design of Immunotherapy Trials, The EGFRv3 Peptide Vaccine, Stem Cell Therapy and Dendritic Cell Vaccines, Dendritic Glioma Fusion Vaccine, Adoptive Cellular Immunotherapy, Virus Mediated Immunotherapy, and so much more.

    • Emerging Respiratory Infections in the 21st Century, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 24-3
      • August 31, 2010
      • Alimuddin Zumla + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Respiratory infections are among the most common causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. These infections present a special challenge to physicians for several reasons, including of the recent disasters caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and bird and swine influenza, the increase in viral and bacterial resistance to currently available anti-microbial drugs, the increased frequency of new viral lung infections in clinical practice, and the worldwide emergence of deadly drug-resistant forms of TB. For these reasons, it is important for infectious disease specialists to have an overview of emerging respiratory infections.

    • Cases in Interventional Cardiology

      • 1st Edition
      • September 1, 2010
      • Michael Ragosta
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      • eBook
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      Cases in Interventional Cardiology, by Dr. Michael Ragosta, offers practical, clinical guidance on coronary and peripheral interventional cardiology through 100 well-presented case histories. Brief clinical presentations, representative illustrations, and dynamic online videos of angiograms, aortograms, and intravascular echos optimize your understanding of these procedures and help you better recognize and manage a wide array of conditions. You'll find valuable advice on patient selection, complications, complex lesion subsets, management dilemma controversies, and much more. Through expertconsult.com you’ll have convenient access to the full text, illustrations, and videos online.

    • Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry

      • 2nd Edition
      • October 26, 2010
      • Theodore A. Stern + 3 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      • eBook
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      The Massachusetts General Hospital is widely respected as one of the world's premier psychiatric institutions. Now, preeminent authorities from MGH present the newly updated edition of Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, a unique medical reference book that continues to simplify your access to the current clinical knowledge you need — both in print and online! It provides practical approaches to a wide variety of clinical syndromes and settings, aided by stunning graphics and hundreds of questions and answers geared to each chapter. You’ll have convenient access to all the authoritative answers necessary to overcome any clinical challenge.

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