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    • Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia

      • 8th Edition
      • June 9, 2023
      • Joel A. Kaplan
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine**Current, comprehensive, and evidence-based, Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia: Perioperative and Critical Care Management, 8th Edition, offers practical guidance from today’s international leaders in cardiac anesthesiology, helping you to optimize perioperative outcomes, avoid complications, and ensure maximum patient safety. Dr. Joel A. Kaplan, along with an expert team of associate editors, guides you through today’s clinical challenges, including expanded coverage of critical care, the newest approaches to perioperative assessment and management, state-of-the art diagnostic techniques, and cardiovascular and coronary physiology.

    • Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine

      • 4th Edition
      • April 4, 2023
      • Peter Cameron + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      This leading text is essential reading for all those working in the paediatric emergency medicine setting who require concise, highly practical guidance that incorporates the latest best practice and evidence-based guidelines.The Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine provides clear, concise and comprehensive information to support clinicians in what can be a challenging area to provide care. It not only covers diagnosis and management of all common presentations, but it also includes practical tips on communicating with both patients and their families.As a companion book to Cameron’s Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine, this volume is specifically tailored to the educational needs of emergency medicine trainees, but is also expected to benefit others working in the emergency setting including paramedics and emergency nurse specialists.

    • Patient Transport

      • 6th Edition
      • December 18, 2023
      • Air & Surface Transport Nurses Associati + 3 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      **American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 2nd Place in Critical Care-Emergency Nursing, 2024**Prepare for certification as a flight and ground transport nurse! ASTNA: Patient Transport: Principles & Practice, 6th Edition addresses the scenarios and injuries commonly encountered in transport nursing, and provides a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind study tool for taking certification exams including the CFRN®, CTRN®, FP-C®, and CCP-C®. Coverage includes the role of air and ground transport personnel, along with topics such as transport physiology, communications, teamwork, safety, airway management, shock, and the different types of trauma. New to this edition is an Aviation for Medical Personnel chapter. Written by the Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association, this resource helps you gain the knowledge and skills you need to succeed on your exam and to transport patients safely.

    • Acute and Chronic Wounds

      • 6th Edition
      • May 18, 2023
      • Ruth Bryant + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Acute & Chronic Wounds, 6th Edition provides the latest diagnostic and treatment guidelines to help novice to expert clinicians provide evidence-based, high-quality care for patients with wounds. This textbook presents an interprofessional approach to maintaining skin integrity and managing the numerous types of skin damage, including topics that range from the physiology of wound healing, general principles of wound management, special patient populations, management of percutaneous tubes, and specific care instructions to program development. Written by respected wound experts Ruth Bryant and Denise Nix, this bestselling reference also provides excellent preparation for all wound certification exams.

    • Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals

      • 3rd Edition
      • April 3, 2023
      • C. C. Sheldon + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Master proven techniques for the handling and restraint of common animals! Providing clear guidelines to each procedure, Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals, 3rd Edition includes photos showing the exact steps needed to achieve safe restraint of animals seen in the veterinary clinic and visited on farm calls. Separate chapters are devoted to each domestic animal species, including cats, dogs, cattle, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, rodents, ferrets, and birds. This edition adds descriptions of new restraint techniques for cats, dogs, and other species. Written by expert veterinary technician instructors C.C. Sheldon, and James A. Topel, this practical guide also includes a chapter on knot tying!

    • Wound Care - E-Book

      • 2nd Edition
      • October 1, 2023
      • Kerrie Coleman + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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    • Klinikleitfaden OP-Pflege

      • 8th Edition
      • August 24, 2023
      • Gertraud Luce-Wunderle
      • German
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Aktuelles und praxisorientiertes Fachwissen im Kitteltaschenformat für die tägliche Arbeit im OP, damit Sie sicher und effektiv arbeiten können:OP-Organisati... OP-Planung, Mitarbeiteranleitung... rechtliche AspekteRoutine-Arbei... steriles Arbeiten, Lagern und AbdeckenHandhabung, Pflege, Verpackung und Aufbewahrung von Instrumenten und GerätenDetaillierte OP-Verläufe, jeweils mit Lagerung und zu richtenden Materialien und InstrumentenNeu in der 8. Auflage unter anderem:Netzplastike... der Bauchdecke bei Hernien mit verschiedenen OP-TechnikenRoboter-... Chirurgie (DaVinci) am Beispiel einer RektumresektionInter... Verfahren/endovaskul... OPs an den Gefäßen (Angioplastie/Ballon... Aortenklappenrekonst... Unterstützungssystem... des Herzens, ECMOFemoral Neck SystemLaparoskopisch... Pyloromyotomie, Nierenbeckenabgangss... akutes AbdomenExterne Ventrikeldrainage (EVD)Beuge- und Strecksehnenverletzu... von Hand und FingernAktuelles zur Organspende in DeutschlandDas Buch eignet sich für:Pflegende im OPPflegende in der Weiterbildung OP-Pflege

    • Conceptos de salud pública y estrategias preventivas

      • 3rd Edition
      • July 14, 2023
      • Miguel Ángel Martínez González
      • Spanish
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      El objetivo de esta obra es facilitar a los estudiantes de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública de todas las facultades de medicina en universidades de habla española un texto sintético, actualizado, científico y completo. También sirve como material de texto para otros grados que contengan la asignatura Salud Pública. Asimismo, ayuda a profesionales sanitarios en aspectos cruciales de la prevención de la enfermedad y la promoción de la salud incluyendo los conocimientos más actualizados que se poseen para la indispensable labor de prevención En su tercera edición se ha incluido un nuevo capítulo sobre COVID-19, también se ha añadido otro específico sobre el suicidio y su prevención, se han ampliado los temas de gestión sanitaria y evaluación económica y se ha profundizado en nuevos aspectos de la metodología, lo que ha obligado a retirar algunos capítulos que se incluían en la segunda edición. Es de destacar el carácter multiautor de la obra, ya que si bien el autor principal pertenece a la Universidad de Navarra, cuenta con la colaboración de un nutrido grupo de colaboradores tanto de España como de Latinoamérica.

    • Gray's Anatomy for Students Flash Cards

      • 5th Edition
      • March 9, 2023
      • Richard L. Drake + 2 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Based on the acclaimed artwork found in Gray's Anatomy for Students and Gray’s Atlas of Anatomy, this set of over 400 flashcards is the perfect review companion to help you test your anatomical knowledge for course exams or the USMLE Step 1. Updates to this edition reflect the latest medical imaging, including ultrasound; new content throughout, including neuroanatomy; and a new alternative table of contents and card numbering system that make it easier to navigate the cards from a body systems perspective.

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