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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.

  • 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
    • July 10, 2007
    • 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
    • July 9, 2007
    • 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
    • July 6, 2007
    • 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.

  • Cirugía otológica y otoneurológica

    • 1st Edition
    • July 1, 2007
    • Philippe Bordure
    • Spanish
    Obra dirigida a los ORL, tanto profesionales como en formación, que deseen actualizar sus conocimientos quirúrgicos. El libro contempla la cirugía de las cavidades posteriores, las miringoplastias, las osiculoplastias, la cirugía del estribo, la implantación coclear, las prótesis, etc. Se describen en profundidad las diferentes vías de abordaje de otoneurocirugía: translaberíntica, retrolaberíntica y retrosigmoide, así como la conducta ante los neurinomas, los colesteatomos, los paragangliomas, etc. También recoge la cirugía del pabellón auditivo.

  • A Colour Atlas of Foot and Ankle Disorders

    • 1st Edition
    • June 28, 2007
    • Alethea VM Foster + 1 more
    • English
    This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Lavishly illustrated with over 500 superb colour photographs, practical and extensive in its coverage, it gives a clear pictorial account of all the major foot and ankle presentations. The accompanying text highlights the salient diagnostic features and treatment options. The logical structure and many useful tips throughout the Colour Atlas make it a highly accessible, attractive and uniquely relevant companion to both practice and study.

  • AACN Certification and Core Review for High Acuity and Critical Care

    • 6th Edition
    • June 25, 2007
    • AACN + 1 more
    • English
    The new 6th edition of Core Review for Critical Care Nursing helps readers assess and build their knowledge of critical care nursing as they prepare for the certification exam. The book consists of three 200-question sample examinations that provide extensive practice and review key content. An in-depth rationale, complete with references, is included for each question. Written under the authority of the American Association for Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), this book is an ideal study tool to facilitate preparation for critical care nursing certification.

  • Trisomie et handicaps génétiques associés

    Potentialités, compétences, devenir
    • 5th Edition
    • June 22, 2007
    • French
    Destiné aux professionnels de santé médicaux et paramédicaux, cet ouvrage aborde de manière concrète et pragmatique tous les aspects de la prise en charge d'un patient atteint de trisomie ou d'un handicap génétique associé. Avec une symptomatologie actualisée, un suivi médical étape par étape et des conseils validés, le lecteur trouvera ici un outil indispensable et à jour pour le suivi de son patient et pour apporter toute l'aide nécessaire à la famille. L'auteur a particulièrement développé dans ce nouvel ouvrage tous les aspects pratiques de l'aide à apporter aux patients atteints de trisomies pour améliorer leur qualité de vie ainsi que des réponses précises aux questions que se posent les parents tout au long des étapes de vie de l'enfant et de la personne concernée (prise en charge précoce, scolarisation, développement affectif et sexuel, activités sportives, relations avec les adolescents et la fratrie, formation professionnelle, loisirs, tabac, alcool, liberté de déplacement, permis de conduire, relation avec l'argent, protection juridique, revenus, habitat, vie en couple, contraception, vieillissement …). En réponse à une forte demande, cet ouvrage, 5e édition totalement renouvelée, étudie notamment la prise en charge des oro praxies, le vieillissement et introduit la notion nouvelle de « périodes phares ou charnières » qui déterminent l'avenir du patient atteint de trisomie.

  • AACN's Quick Reference to Critical Care Nursing Procedures

    • 1st Edition
    • June 22, 2007
    • American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)
    • English
    AACN's Quick Reference to Critical Care Nursing Procedures is a quick reference handbook that provides busy critical care nurses with a fast access to commonly used procedures in the ICU. The pocket-sized, wire-bound format makes the book easily portable; in addition it lays flat for easy reference. This quick-reference to critical care procedures provides both new graduates, anxious about performing skills for the first time on real patients in the clinical setting, and experienced nurses, who may not have performed a particular procedure for a while, a reference to lean on.

  • Radiologie in Frage und Antwort

    Fragen und Fallgeschichten zur Vorbereitung auf mündliche Prüfungen während des Semesters und im Examen
    • 2nd Edition
    • June 20, 2007
    • Roland Mühlbauer + 1 more
    • German
    Mit Radiologie In Frage und Antwort aus der gleichnamigen Reihe kann man sich optimal auf die mündliche Prüfung vorbereiten. Die 2. Auflage bietet außerdem zahlreiche neue Fallbeispiele, ein neues Farblayout, viele neue Schemazeichnungen und Fotos sowie eine Checkliste für die Tage vor der Prüfung. Wie alle In Frage und Antwort-Titel basiert dieser Band auf der Analyse von Prüfungsprotokollen und beinhaltet zahlreiche Originalfragen aus der Radiologie.Radiologi... In Frage und Antwort bietet:Prüfungsfrage... wie im richtigen Lebenausführliche Kommentare zu den einzelnen Fragestellungenbeson... geeignet zur Simulation der Prüfungssituation, z. B. in der LerngruppeFallbeispi... an denen Denkabläufe in der Klinik geübt werden könnenMerksätze,Tipp... und Tricks zur Bewältigung der PrüfungssituationZus... in der Randspalte zur Vertiefung des ThemengebietesOhne Nervenflattern in die mündliche Prüfung!

  • Dermatologische Therapie

    • 2nd Edition
    • June 14, 2007
    • Claus Oster-Schmidt + 1 more
    • German
    Dieses Buch bietet Ihnen:Kompakte Darstellung der aktuellen dermatologischen TherapieSteckbriefe zu den wichtigsten dermatologischen ErkrankungenKlinik und Therapie in vielen übersichtlichen TabellenTherapieprin... und MedikationPraxisbezo... Tipps für Patienten oder Häufige BehandlungsfehlerEig... Kapitel zu Allgemeinen Therapieverfahren und Notfallmaßnahmen

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