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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.

    • Crashkurs Pädiatrie

      • 2nd Edition
      • Björn Hoffmann
      • German
      Mit dem Crashkurs Pädiatrie haben Sie genau das richtige Buch, um den gesamten Prüfungsstoff der Pädiatrie kurz vor der Prüfung zu wiederholen. So funktionierts:Kleine... sinnvolle Lerneinheiten schaffen den ÜberblickZahlreiche Schlagwörter in den Randspalten rufen Gelernetes in ErinnerungÜber 30 Röntgenbilder und farbige Abbildungen klassischer Kinderkrankheiten mit Hautbeteiligung veranschaulichen den Stoff So füllen Sie Ihre Wissenslücken und geraten nicht in Panik!
    • Cardiac Nursing

      A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease
      • 1st Edition
      • Debra K. Moser + 1 more
      • English
      Cardiac Nursing: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease is the only comprehensive text available for cardiac nurses. This brand-new reference emphasizes both evidence-based practice and hands-on care in a high-tech, high-touch approach that meets the high-stakes needs of cardiac and critical care nurses. What's more, the book makes the material easily accessible by using clear language, straightforward text, and plenty of illustrations, lists, and tables. This book is the third in a series of companion texts for Braunwald's Heart Disease and the first specifically for nurses.
    • Emergency Nursing Core Curriculum

      • 6th Edition
      • Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)
      • English
      Whether you are a new or an experienced emergency nurse, you'll find that the Emergency Nursing Core Curriculum, 6th Edition is an essential tool for your practice. Authored by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), this highly-respected resource will help you build and verify your knowledge, develop practice standards, improve quality of care, and educate nursing staff as well as patients and families. The Emergency Nursing Core Curriculum, 6th Edition is also the ideal resource to help you prepare for the Certification for Emergency Nurses (CEN) exam.
    • Electromyography in Clinical Practice

      A Case Study Approach
      • 2nd Edition
      • Bashar Katirji
      • English
      The only case-based guide to electromyography—bac... in a fully revised and updated New Edition! This practical resource examines how to approach, diagnose, and manage the most commonly encoun-tered disorders in the EMG laboratory. Based on actual cases, it correlates patient history, physical exam, EMG findings, relevant anatomy, treatment, and follow-up to help readers sharpen their clinical problem-solving skills. New cases have been added, and every case includes the latest advances in knowledge and technique.
    • Physiotherapy for Children

      • 1st Edition
      • Teresa Pountney
      • English
      A comprehensive clinical manual and reference on paediatric physiotherapy, which examines all of the theoretical and clinical aspects of physiotherapy provision for children and young adults including: Neurology; Cardio-respiratory; Musculoskeletal; Oncology and palliative care; Mental health; Acquired brain injury.Dr Teresa Pountney heads up a team of experienced practitioners who cover a range of conditions from those experienced by the typically developing child to those with disabilities and diseases. The changing needs of children with long term conditionsis described, as well as methods of service delivery to enable children and families to benefit as much as possible from their treatment. The different settings in which physiotherapy is provided for children, school, home, and hospital is described in addition to strategies and legislation relating to this.
    • Nurse Practitioner Manual of Clinical Skills

      • 2nd Edition
      • Sue Cross + 1 more
      • English
      This is a comprehensive skills manual designed for students and qualified Nurse Prationers in health care who are learning to talk to patients, examine them, and to understand and assess their problems. It deals with the health history, common and important symptoms, and the assessment of mental status. In sections devoted to body regions and body systems, the book describes the sequence and techniques of physical examination, and helps the reader to identify selected abnormalities. It emphasizes common or important problems (rather than the infrequent or esoteric) found in both adult and childhood conditions. The sections are designed to help readers apply their knowledge to interpreting symptoms, examining the human body, and understanding physical signs. It is an invaluable resource written specifically for Nurse Practitioners by Nurse Practitioners.
    • Core Knowledge in Orthopaedics: Adult Reconstruction and Arthroplasty

      • 1st Edition
      • Jonathan Garino + 1 more
      • English
      This volume in the Core Knowledge in Orthopaedics Series equips you with the key concepts and clinical skills needed to excel in the subspecialty of adult reconstruction and arthroplasty. Inside you'll find concise, clinically focused coverage of the surgical techniques you need to know to obtain optimal patient management outcomes, along with relevant anatomy, biomechanics, limb salvage techniques, imaging, arthroscopy, and more. It's a perfect resource for training...board certification or recertification review...or everyday clinical reference!
    • Brain-Inspired IT III

      Invited and selected papers of the 3rd International Conference on Brain-Inspired Information Technology "BrainIT 2006" held in Hibikino, Kitakyushu, Japan between 27 and 29 September 2006
      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 1301
      • Kiyohisa Natsume + 2 more
      • English
      BRAIN-INSPIRED IT III is the third volume of the Brain-Inspired IT series intended for researchers and students who are involved or interested in the brain sciences, technology, and engineering. It includes 4 invited papers, 7 COE papers, 57 selected papers from the Third International Symposium BrainIT 2006, which was held in Kitakyushu, Japan, on September 27-29, 2006. The last two International symposiums BrainIT 2004 and 2005 were great success, and provided the participants with good opportunities to exchange valuable information and various ideas from multidisciplinary research area. We made a survey of the current state-of-the-art and explored the possibility to establish new research fields in the Brain-Inspired Information Technology. The first 4 invited papers are contributed by outstanding researchers in the area, Dr. M. Kawato (ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories), Prof. Ryohei Kanzaki (The University of Tokyo), Prof. Asla Pitkänen (University of Kuopio), Prof. Helge Ritter (Bielefeld University), who were presented in the special and invited sessions of BrainIT2006 to discuss how the brain processes the information and how we apply the processing to technology. Technical papers cover vision system, other sensory systems, cognition and languages, learning and memory, behavior and emotion, motor controls, dynamics, neural computation, neural networks, and brain-inspired intelligent machines.
    • Bennett and Rabbett's Clinical Visual Optics

      • 4th Edition
      • Ronald B. Rabbetts
      • English
      This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. The fourth edition of this classic textbook has been brought thoroughly up to date with revised chapters on Ocular Aberrations, Visual Examination of the Eye, and Distribution and Ocular Dioptics of Ametropia. New contributors have been added and the book has been completely redesigned using colour to offer a more accessible layout and enhance the many line illustrations. The new companion website has valuable additional resources including a simulation of subjective refraction, video clips showing clinical procedures and extra appendices to the book.
    • Prise en charge des cervicalgies aiguës et chroniques

      Une approche fondée sur les preuves
      • 1st Edition
      • Nicolai Bogduk + 2 more
      • French
      Prise en charge des cervicalgies aiguës et chroniques propose pour la première fois aux praticiens et aux étudiants une approche fondée sur les preuves dans la prise en charge des cervicalgies, du whiplash (coup du lapin) et de la céphalée cervicogène. La douleur cervicale est actuellement le principal centre d'intérêt de la recherche sur le rachis. Cet ouvrage présente les résultats des toutes dernières recherches dans ce domaine et des recommandations pour une meilleure prévention et prise en charge.