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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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    • The Sectional Anatomy Learning System

      • 3rd Edition
      • February 25, 2009
      • Edith Applegate
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 1 4 1 6 0 5 0 1 3 1
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 2 7 7 5 4 9
      Designed to provide a thorough understanding of sectional anatomy, this unique, two-volume set is a complete, easy-to-use learning package. Volume 1, “Concepts,” presents detailed, readable descriptions of sectional anatomy of the entire body broken down into body systems. It focuses on how different structures within a system are related, so you can form a clear picture of how everything fits together. The text is highlighted with many new labeled diagnostic images, including radiographs, CT, MR, and sonograms. Volume 2, “Applications,” is an interactive workbook with coloring, labeling, and other exercises designed to help you identify the structures most commonly encountered in various imaging techniques.

    • Fetal Neurology, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 36-3
      • October 2, 2009
      • Adre J du Plessis
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 1 2 5 9 9
      Fetal Neurology is covered in this issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest edited by Dr. Adre du Plessis. The genetic basis of normal brain development and its disorders is explored, including reviews on the prosencephalon, the cerebral cortex, and the cerebellum. Next, normal and abnormal circulatory support of the fetal brain is covered, with articles on normal fetal cerebral substrate supply, disorders of placental circulation and the fetal brain, and disorders of fetal circulation and the fetal brain. Toxic-metabolic causes of disturbed brain development is reviewed, including articles on primary disorders of metabolism and disturbed fetal brain development and maternal drug abuse and impaired fetal brain development. Next, a section on infectious-inflammat... causes of disturbed brain development includes articles on fetal viral infections and impaired brain development and fetal inflammation and impaired brain development. A section on disorders of labor and delivery covers fetal hypoxia insults and patterns of brain injury, the fetal heart rate response to hypoxia, and non-asphyxial hypoxic-ischemic brain injury during prolonged labor. The issue closes with a section on advances in fetal neurodiagnostic testing, including reviews on imaging the fetal brain, quantitative fetal heart rate techniques, and fetal magnetoencephalograp... for assessment of fetal neurologic function.

    • Medical Issues in Boxing, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 28-4
      • October 30, 2009
      • Gerard P. Varlotta + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 1 2 7 6 6
      For this issue on the medical aspects of the increasingly-popular sport of boxing, Dr. Barry Jordan, Director of the Brain Injury Program and Memory Evaluation and Treatment Service at the Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in New York, has teamed up with Dr. Gerard Varlotta, Professor and specialist in pain management and injury prevention for NYU's departments of Joint Diseases and Rehabilitation Medicine. The Guest Editors have gathered a panel of leading experts on the subject, to cover topics such as medical safety in boxing, the role of the ringside physician, doping and drug use in boxing, facial and hand injuries in boxing, infectious disease in boxing, and more.

    • Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 27-1
      • May 1, 2009
      • Wendy L. Gross + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 0 4 5 3 2
      This issue of the Anesthesiology Clinics provides essential updates for the anesthesiologist who performs procedures outside the operating room. All-important financial considerations are covered, including Medicare payments; and full costing versus differential costing, or “smoothing.” Practice parameters are covered. Each specialty is addressed from the point of view of both a specialist and an anesthesiologist, including cardiology (EP and catheterization), gastroenterology (Endoscopy), and radiology (interventional). Transitional priorities are also covered, including consultation, pre-procedure patient assessment, patient safety, monitoring, and new ICU practices.

    • Fordney's Medical Insurance Dictionary for Billers and Coders

      • 1st Edition
      • July 23, 2009
      • Marilyn Fordney
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 0 0 2 6 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 2 2 4 3 7
      Over 7,500 terms, definitions, and acronyms for medical insurance, billing and coding (MIBC) make this the perfect pocket dictionary for both students and practitioners in the MIBC professions! With its small size and concise definitions, this dictionary is ideal for use in class and in the medical office.

    • Mandibular Trauma, An Issue of Atlas of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 17-1
      • March 20, 2009
      • Vincent B. Ziccardi
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 0 4 5 5 6
      Guest Editor Vincent Ziccardi has assembled a comprehensive review of mandibular trauma and possible treatments. Articles will include condylar fractures, pediatric mandible fractures, intraoral locking plate, closed reductions, monocortical intraoral plating, bicortical extraoral plating, external pin fixation, edentulous/atrophic fractures, teeth in the line of fracture, and complications of mandibular fractures.

    • Sports Neurology, An Issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 20-1
      • February 3, 2009
      • Cory Toth
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 0 7 4 3 4
      This collection of concise yet comprehensive reviews is a great resource for all health care givers: sports medicine specialists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, occupational medicine specialists, orthopedic surgeons, emergency medicine specialists, neuropsychologists, general practitioners, kinesiologists, physical therapists, sports trainers, and occupational therapists. Find articles on sport-specific problems: concussion in hockey and football, spinal cord problems within winter sports, excessive pediatric injury associated with trampoline usage, weightlifting and running injuries. Specialized chapters on sleep deprivation, utilization of drugs of abuse, fatigue for the athlete’s well being and physiological functioning. Injury specific chapters include: biomechanics of head injury, pathophysiology of spinal cord injuries, and peripheral nerve injuries due to any activities of sports and recreation.

    • Obesity Management, An Issue of Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 36-2
      • June 26, 2009
      • Vanessa Diaz + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 0 5 3 3 1
      The prevalence of obesity has increased markedly in recent years, and obesity is now considered an epidemic in the US. Obesity and its related metabolic abnormalities contribute significantly to cardiovascular disease, and excess weight is a risk factor for multiple disease outcomes, including cancer. The purpose of this issue is to heighten the awareness of primary care physicians regarding the obesity epidemic and its long-term effects on health and on minorities and children, and to present prevention strategies and interventions.

    • Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, An Issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 36-1
      • April 22, 2009
      • S. Paige Hertweck
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 0 5 1 0 2
      Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology is reviewed in this issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. S. Paige Hertweck. Authorities in the field have come together to pen articles on Genital Trauma, Urologic Issues, Endometriosis in the Adolescent, Adolescent STIs, Intersex Disorders, Mullerian Anomalies, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome in the Adolescent, Bleeding Disorders in Adolescents, Thrombophilial Conditions in the Adolescent, Adolescent Contraception, Management of Abnormal Cervical Cytology in the Adolescent, and Premature Ovarian Failure/Turner Syndrome in the Adolescent.

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