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    • Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare

      • 1st Edition
      • November 2, 2023
      • Sumantra Ray + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Good nutrition is essential for health and the treatment of disease. This new handbook aims to provide students, doctors and healthcare professionals with essential information to apply medical nutrition theory in their everyday practice.Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare: A Practical Guide takes a systems-based approach to medical nutrition. It includes the pathophysiology of nutrition-related disease as well as the clinical application of nutrition theory in disease management and the role of nutrition in public health. It covers the basics of physiology and biochemistry, including relevant drug-nutrient interactions.This will be an invaluable asset for all those not already trained in clinical and public health nutrition who wish to understand more about nutrition and its role in the management and prevention of disease.

    • Guide d'imagerie pour les kinésithérapeutes

      • 1st Edition
      • May 8, 2023
      • Alexandre Hominal + 2 more
      • French
      • Paperback
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      La complexité de l’imagerie médicale, conjuguée aux nombreuses avancées technologiques, rend délicate la lecture de ces examens par les praticiens paramédicaux. Or, comprendre ces images peut s’avérer indispensable pour établir une démarche de soins efficace et pertinente.Grâce à une méthode didactique, réflexive et novatrice, fondée sur l’apposition de calques de couleurs sur les images sources et de rappels anatomiques, cet ouvrage a pour objectif de délivrer les clés nécessaires au praticien pour analyser l’imagerie médicale.Après un rappel des différentes bases de l’imagerie médicale, l’ouvrage aborde, en 30 chapitres, les pathologies les plus courantes.Pour chaque pathologie, un plan récurrent répond aux points suivants :• La réalisation de l’imagerie : connaître les examens d’imagerie les plus pertinents et la façon dont ils sont réalisés.• Les objectifs de l’imagerie : comprendre les objectifs d’interprétation de chaque examen.• La lecture de l’imagerie : interpréter une imagerie saine à l’aide de rappels anatomiques et de structures colorisées grâce à la technique de calques de couleurs. ; interpréter une imagerie pathologique à l’aide d’une méthode de lecture structurée en check-lists.• De nombreux liens cliniques : assurer la continuité entre l’imagerie médicale et la pratiquethérapeutiqu... Des synthèses de lecture : mémoriser les éléments clés d’interprétation de chaque pathologie.Cet ouvrage s’adresse aux étudiants en kinésithérapie, kinésithérapeutes, ostéopathes, manipulateurs en électroradiologie médicale et podologues.

    • Review of Dermatology

      • 2nd Edition
      • May 23, 2023
      • Ali Alikhan + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Comprehensive in scope, easy to use, and aligned to the texts you trust, Review of Dermatology 2nd edition, edited by Drs. Ali Alikhan and Thomas L.H. Hocker, is a highly effective study tool for your upcoming board or maintenance exam. Using a concise, bullet-point format and mnemonic devices throughout, this unique guide ensures rapid and efficient recall of the information you need to know for exam success!

    • Handbook of Perioperative and Procedural Patient Safety

      • 1st Edition
      • March 10, 2023
      • Juan A. Sanchez + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Perioperative**Offer... a concise yet comprehensive review of current practices in surgery and patient safety, Handbook of Perioperative and Procedural Patient Safety is an up-to date, practical resource for practicing surgeons, anesthesiologists, surgical nurses, hospital administrators, and surgical office staff. Edited by Drs. Juan A. Sanchez and Robert S. D. Higgins and authored by expert contributors from Johns Hopkins, it provides an expansive look at the scope of the problem, causes of error, minimizing errors, surgical suite and surgical team design, patient experience, and other related topics.

    • BASICS Onkologie

      • 6th Edition
      • August 31, 2023
      • Hannes Leischner
      • German
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Gut – besser – BASICS! Mit der BASICS-Reihe gewinnen Sie den Überblick! Das BASICS Onkologie bietet den kompletten Überblick über das Thema. Gut: Umfassender Einblick – das Buch vermittelt die klausur- und prüfungsrelevanten Grundlagen des Fachs, ohne sich zu tief in detailliertem Wissen zu verlieren. Alle Therapien sind auf dem neuesten Stand, die aktuellen Leitlinien sind eingearbeitet. Zusätzlich wurde sichergestellt, dass alle relevanten IMPP-Inhalte abgedeckt sind. Besser: Fallbeispiele bringen den direkten Bezug zur Praxis. BASICS: Ein Thema auf zwei Seiten: Das BASICS-Doppelseitenp... hilft Ihnen beim Lernen und schnellem Nachschlagen! Das Autorenteam, ein erfahrener Kliniker und junge Assistenzärzte, garantiert bestes Wissen auf Augenhöhe. Neu in der 6. Auflage:Neuer Abschnitt Follikuläres LymphomNeues Unterkapitel „Polycythaemia vera“Aktualisierte Bilder und Tabellen zur Klassifikation und Therapieregime der einzelnen KrebsartenDas Buch eignet sich für:Medizinstudieren... im klnischen Studienabschnitt

    • Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology

      • 7th Edition
      • March 15, 2023
      • Richard J. Johnson + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      • eBook
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      **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Nephrology**Written for fellows, practicing nephrologists, and internists who treat patients with disorders affecting the renal system, Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, 7th Edition, offers a practical approach to this complex field, supported by underlying scientific facts and pathophysiology. World leaders in nephrology provide current information on clinical procedures and conditions, covering everything from fluid and electrolyte disorders to hypertension, diabetes, dialysis, transplantation, and more—all in a single, convenient volume.

    • Medicina de urgencias y emergencias

      • 7th Edition
      • July 21, 2023
      • F. Javier Montero Pérez + 1 more
      • Spanish
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Medicina de urgencias y emergencias. Guía diagnóstica y protocolos de actuación, dirigida por los doctores F. Javier Montero Pérez y Luis Jiménez Murillo, facilita un ágil acceso a la información esencial necesaria para abordar las principales urgencias y emergencias, y constituye una hoja de ruta esencial para los profesionales que trabajan en esta área. La obra consta de 218 capítulos, que abordan procesos urgentes y emergentes, incluidos los obstétrico-ginecológ... y pediátricos, y ofrecen una guía minuciosa para interpretar las principales exploraciones complementarias utilizadas en urgencias (radiología simple, electrocardiograma, analítica sanguínea, ecografía, etc.), así como para realizar una gran variedad de técnicas diagnóstico-terapéut... (canalización de vías venosas, paracentesis, toracocentesis, punción lumbar, y sondajes vesical y nasogástrico, entre otras). Además, se describen pormenorizadamente las dosis y las diluciones farmacológicas, y los protocolos de actuación en urgencias, de ingreso y de alta a domicilio.

    • Otologic and Lateral Skull Base Trauma

      • 1st Edition
      • October 24, 2023
      • Elliott D. Kozin
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      The first book of its kind to explore this timely topic in depth, Otologic and Lateral Skull Base Trauma addresses the many facets of temporal bone trauma, including its epidemiology, diagnosis, and medical and surgical management, and contemporary research. Ideal for both trainees and more advanced general practitioners and specialists, this text is a valuable resource for otolaryngologists and pediatric otolaryngologists, otologists and neurotologists, and audiologists, as well as neurosurgeons, neurologists, physical medicine and rehabilitation providers, and occupational and physical therapists.

    • Current Topics in Critical Care for the Anesthesiologist, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 41-1
      • March 6, 2023
      • Athanasios Chalkias + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      In this issue of Anesthesiology Clinics, guest editors Drs. Athanasios Chalkias, Mary Jarzebowski, and Kathryn Rosenblatt bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Current Topics in Critical Care for the Anesthesiologist. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as perioperative management of the acute stroke patient; traumatic brain injury: intraoperative management and ICU multimodality monitoring; update on mechanical circulatory devices; management of intraoperative cardiac arrest; intraoperative ventilator management of the critically ill patient; and more.

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