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  • Buck's Coding Exam Review 2021

    The Physician and Facility Certification Step
    • 1st Edition
    • Elsevier
    • English
    Prepare to succeed on your coding certification exam with Buck’s Coding Exam Review 2021: The Physician and Facility Certification Step! This extensive exam review provides complete coverage of all topics included on the physician and facility coding certification exams — including anatomy, terminology, and pathophysiology for each body system; reimbursement issues; CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM/PCS coding; and more. Six full practice exams (with answers and rationales) simulate the testing experience and provide enough practice to reassure even the most insecure exam-taker. It’s the only coding exam review you need!
  • Pressure Injuries Among Critical Care Patients, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 32-4
    • Jenny G. Alderden
    • English
    Along with Consulting Editor, Dr. Cynthia Bautista, Dr. Jenny Alderden has assembled an expert author list to contribute clinical reviews on best practices for improving outcomes in and prevention of pressure injuries. Articles are specifically devoted to the following topics: Risk Factors for Pressure Injury Development among Critical Care Patients; Best Practice in Pressure Injury Prevention among Critical Care Patients; Best Practices in Pressure Injury Treatment; Pressure Injury Prevention and Treatment in Critically Ill Children; Medical Device-Related Pressure Injuries; Unstageable Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes among Critical Care Patients; Deep Tissue Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes among Critical Care Patients; The Role of Nutrition in Pressure Injury Prevention and Healing; and Heel Pressure Injuries in the Adult Critical Care Population; Pressure Injury Prevention Considerations for Older Adults. Readers will come away with best practices for improving pressure injury outcomes in critical care patients.
  • Noninvasive Ventilation, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15-4
    • Amen Sergew + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics, guest-edited by Drs. Amen Sergew and Lisa F. Wolfe, focuses on Noninvasive Ventilation and Sleep Medicine. This issue is one of four selected each year by series Consulting Editor, Dr. Teofilo Lee-Chiong. Articles include: Obesity hypoventilation - Traditional vs Non Traditional Populations; Spinal cord injury; Peri-Operative Care and Medication Related Hypoventilation; Lifetime Care of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; Management of Chronic Respiratory Failure in COPD - High and Low Intensity Ventilation; Management of Rare Causes Pediatric Chronic Respiratory Failure; Noninvasive Ventilator Management of ALS - Bulbar vs non Bulbar; Parsonage Turner; Noninvasive Ventilator Devices and Modes; Tailoring the Sleep Lab for Chronic Respiratory Failure; Long-Term Follow Up of Noninvasive Ventilation: Downloads and Troubleshooting; Extubating to Noninvasive Ventilation – NIV from ICU to Home; and From Tracheostomy to Noninvasive Ventilation – NIV from Long Term Acute Care to Home.
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Across the Lifespan Part I, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 43-4
    • Robert w Wisner Carlson + 3 more
    • English
    This issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Robert Wisner-Carlson, Thomas Flis, Scott Pekrul, and Robert Schloesser will discuss a number of important topics addressing Autism Disorders Across the lifespan. This issue is one of four each year selected by our series consulting editor, Dr. Harsh Trivedi of Sheppard Pratt Health System. Part II of this issue will be publishing subsequently. Articles in this issue include: Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Across the Lifespan; The Role of Diagnostic Instruments in Dual and Differential Diagnosis in Autism Spectrum Disorder Across the Lifespan; Current Approaches to the Pharmacologic Treatment of Core Symptoms Across the Lifespan of Autism Spectrum Disorder; Autism and Education; The Transition to Adulthood for Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorder; Social Skills Training in Autism Spectrum Disorder Across the Lifespan; Competitive Integrated Employment for Youth and Adults with Autism: Findings from a Scoping Review; Transitioning from Adolescence to Adulthood with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Overview of Planning and Legal Issues; Intersection of Eating Disorders and the Female Profile of Autism; and Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder in Autism Spectrum Disorder Across the Lifespan.
  • Robotics in Otolaryngology, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 53-6
    • Umamaheswar Duvvuri + 2 more
    • English
    This issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics, Guest Edited by Drs. Umamaheswar Duvvuri, Arun Sharma, and Erica Thaler, is devoted to Robotics in Otolaryngology. This issue is one of six selected each year by our series Consulting Editor, Sujana S. Chandrasekhar. Articles in this important issue include: Past, present and future of Robotic Surgical Systems; History and acceptance of TORS; Current indications for TORS in OP cancer; Role of TORS for workup of unknown primary SCCa; TORS and de-escalation of cancer treatment; Pediatric Applications of TORS; TORS for OSA; Robotic thyroidectomy; Robotic Neck Dissection; Robotic management of salivary glands; Robotic Ear Surgery; Robotic skull base surgery; Salvage Surgery for TORS; Complications of TORS; QOL implications after TORS for OP CA; and Cost Considerations for Robotic Surgery.
  • Advances in Anesthesia, 2020

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38-1
    • Thomas M. McLoughlin
    • English
    Advances in Anesthesia highlights the year's significant medical advances, providing one source to review the essential information updates for the Anesthesiologist in that year. The distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Thomas McLoughlin, includes Drs. Richard Dutton, Laurence Torsher, and Francis Salinas. The board has assembled a first-rate volume for 2020, including topics on motor-sparing nerve blocks; whole blood; teaching airway management skills to non-anesthesiologist... endovascular procedures; regional anesthesia for cardiac surgery, ketamine; consent; medical cannabis; and more.
  • Management of Operating Room Critical Events, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38-4
    • Alex Hannenberg
    • English
    This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Alexander A. Hannenberg, focuses on Management of Critical Events. This is one of four issues each year selected by the series consulting editor, Dr. Lee Fleisher. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: Why We Fail to Rescue from Critical Events; High Fidelity Simulation Training; Alternatives to High Fidelity Simulation Training; Tools to Improve our Capacity to Rescue; Use of Cognitive Aids to Improve Management of Critical Events; Real-time debriefing after critical events: Exploring the Gap between Principle and Reality; Mass Casualty Events; Obstetrical Hemorrhage; Intraoperative cardiac arrest; The Lost Airway; The Septic Patient and Oxygen Supply Failure.
  • Guide de l'examen clinique et du diagnostic en dermatologie

    Livre + site internet
    • 2nd Edition
    • Dan Lipsker
    • French
    Construit pour guider le praticien dans sa démarche dermatologique, cet ouvrage est unique dans son approche. Du signe cutané à la richesse du diagnostic différentiel, il guide pas à pas le praticien et l’étudiant de l’analyse sémiologique au diagnostic. Il s’agit de donner au lecteur les clés d’un raisonnement dermatologique pertinent. La première partie de l’ouvrage est consacrée à l’examen clinique et à la reconnaissance des lésions élémentaires, véritable alphabet du praticien. Les pathologies à connaître sont ensuite décrites sous forme d’un atlas richement illustré. Chaque cliché a été choisi pour son exemplarité pédagogique. Le diagnostic différentiel est proposé dans la dernière partie : rédigé sous forme de nombreux tableaux, les causes des différents signes cutanés sont synthétisées, proposant ainsi au lecteur un aide-mémoire complet pour orienter son diagnostic. Cette 2e édition revue et corrigée permet notamment d’accéder à près de 1 500 fiches de diagnostics différentiels expliquant en quelques lignes les points clés de chaque maladie, et à plus de 1 000 images en ligne afin de faciliter l’identification d’un diagnostic et d’enrichir les connaissances des praticiens et des étudiants en dermatologie. Les dermatologistes en formation, médecins généralistes, pédiatres et internistes trouveront dans cet ouvrage les clés pour identifier les lésions élémentaires ainsi qu’un panorama complet et très illustré des différentes pathologies qu’ils sont susceptibles de rencontrer. Le dermatologiste chevronné utilisera cet ouvrage comme référence pour le diagnostic différentiel.
  • Revêtement cutané

    Enseignement intégré
    • 2nd Edition
    • CEDEF
    • French
    L’OUVRAGERédigé sous l’égide du Collège des Enseignants en Dermatologie de France (CEDEF), cet ouvrage présente l’intégralité du programme de DFGSM2-3 sur l’enseignement du revêtement cutané et constitue le référentiel national.Tout en couleurs, il reprend l’ensemble des items du programme à travers 24 chapitres richement illustrés. Entièrement revue et augmentée, cette nouvelle édition comprend désormais pour chaque chapitre, une fiche de synthèse permettant aux étudiants de s’attacher aux éléments les plus importants. Le cours est complété d’une centaine QCM corrigés qui permettent à l’étudiant de tester ses connaissances et de s’autoévaluer.Cet ouvrage s’inscrit dans la collection dédiée aux enseignements du programme de 2e et 3e années DFGSM2-3 Médecine, dont le format et la maquette en couleurs offrent une clarté de lecture et facilitent la compréhension et la mémorisation. LE PUBLICCe livre s’adresse tout particulièrement aux étudiants en médecine de DFGSM2-3 qui suivent les enseignements intégrés sur le revêtement cutané et qui souhaitent disposer de l’intégralité du programme. LES AUTEURSÉlaboré sous la direction du CEDEF, cet ouvrage est le fruit du travail collectif de professeurs des Universités, de maîtres de conférence et de praticiens. Les compétences de chacun ont permis d’aborder les multiples aspects de cette thématique.