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    • Myles Professional Studies for Midwifery Education and Practice

      • 1st Edition
      • April 15, 2019
      • Jayne E. Marshall
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Myles Professional Studies for Midwifery Education and Practice Concepts and Challenges explores the non-clinical areas of the midwifery curriculum (e.g. law, ethics, leadership, employer-led supervision and professional development) in a helpful, user-friendly format brought to readers by a team of experts under the guidance of Jayne Marshall, editor of Myles Textbook for Midwives. The volume will be suitable for all student midwives, whether undertaking pre-registration education programmes or post-graduate studies, as well as practising midwives preparing for revalidation and/or undertaking CPD. Whilst prepared predominantly by contributors from the UK, Myles Professional Studies for Midwifery Education and Practice Concepts and Challenges will be suitable for an international readership.

    • Current Anesthesia Practice

      • 1st Edition
      • December 17, 2019
      • Sass Elisha + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      This is the exam review nurse anesthetists have been waiting for! Expertly written by the leading author team of Elisha, Nagelhout, and Heiner, Current Anesthesia Practice: Evaluate Your Knowledge, 1st Edition helps prepare nurse anesthetists for the NCE and CPC exam. It is the ONLY certification review text for nurse anesthetists, making it an invaluable study tool while prepping for the NCE or the new CPC exam. Four comprehensive chapters cover foundational concepts: Airway Management; Applied Pharmacology; Applied Human Physiology, Pathophysiology and Anesthesia Case Management; and Anesthesia Equipment and Technology. Answers to review questions throughout the book are found in the appendix.

    • Wheeler's Dental Anatomy, Physiology and Occlusion

      • 11th Edition
      • November 9, 2019
      • Stanley J. Nelson
      • English
      • Hardback
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      **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Dentistry**Successfu... learn to apply dental anatomy to the practice of dentistry with Wheeler’s Dental Anatomy, Physiology, and Occlusion, 11th Edition. Updated and visually enhanced, the 11th edition of this market-leading dental text expands its focus on clinical applications. Dozens of online 360-degree and 3-D tooth animations to give you an unparalleled view of dentitions, pulp formation, the sequence of eruptions, and countless clinical considerations. Every text purchase also comes with access to the companion Expert Consult website — where you can reference the entire text electronically, as well as engage with a wealth of learning activities, animations, and hands-on resources to better understand and retain the information covered in the text. In all, this proven learning package offers all the up-to-date information, best practices, and tools to prepare you for the dental anatomy and occlusion section of the exams and ensure long-term clinical success.

    • Darby and Walsh Dental Hygiene

      • 5th Edition
      • March 4, 2019
      • Jennifer A Pieren + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Back and better than ever, Darby and Walsh’s Dental Hygiene: Theory and Practice, 5th Edition offers everything you need to succeed in your coursework, at certification, and in clinical practice. No other dental hygiene text incorporates the clinical skills, theory, and evidence-based practice in such an approachable way. All discussions — from foundational concepts to diagnosis to pain management — are presented within the context of a unique patient-centered model that takes the entire person into consideration. New to this fifth edition is a much more streamlined approach — one that stays focused on need-to-know information, yet also houses expanded content on things like alternative practice settings, pediatric care, risk assessment, and dental hygiene diagnosis to give you added context when needed. This edition is also filled with new modern illustrations and new clinical photos to augment your learning. If you want a better grasp of all the dental hygienist’s roles and responsibilities in today’s practice, they Darby and Walsh’s renowned text is a must-have.

    • Middleton's Allergy 2-Volume Set

      • 9th Edition
      • December 11, 2019
      • A. Wesley Burks + 6 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Through eight outstanding editions, Middleton’s Allergy: Principles and Practice has been the reference of choice for both clinicians and researchers as both a practical reference and an effective self-assessment tool for board preparation. The 9th Edition continues the tradition of excellence with comprehensive coverage of all basic science and clinical applications regarding allergy practice and disease mechanisms. It brings you fully up to date with recent innovations in the diagnosis, prevention, and management of allergic disorders, including emerging global issues, the advent of precision medicine, and new immunologic therapies.

    • Cooper's Fundamentals of Hand Therapy

      • 3rd Edition
      • November 3, 2019
      • Christine M. Wietlisbach
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Written for hand therapy specialists and non-specialists, Cooper's Fundamentals of Hand Therapy, 3rd Edition emphasizes treatment fundamentals, and provides tips and guidelines for hand therapy practice. This easy-to-use illustrated text and reference guide helps further develop your clinical reasoning skills by describing what goes into the evaluation process, highlighting the humanistic side of each encounter through case studies, and providing the wisdom the contributing authors have acquired through years of practice. This new edition also features additional chapters on the use of common physical agents and orthoses, plus added content on how to integrate evidence-based findings into daily hand practice.

    • Rang & Dale's Pharmacology Flash Cards

      • 2nd Edition
      • November 15, 2019
      • Yoon Kong Loke + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Organized in conjunction with Rang and Dale’s Pharmacology 9th edition, Rang & Dale's Pharmacology Flashcards helps you review what you learn in class and reinforce essential information. One side of each flashcard features a diagram of the pathophysiological processes including the drug class at the top of the card. The back of the card details essential information for that drug class including actions, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetic aspects, adverse effects, the names of related drugs and important aspects of clinical use.

    • Le syndrome du pied diabétique

      • 1st Edition
      • November 5, 2019
      • Kristien Van Acker + 1 more
      • French
      • Paperback
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      Le diabète affecte près d’un demi-milliard d’individus dans le monde entier, et l’une de ses complications les plus redoutables est l’atteinte des membres inférieurs avec son risque de complications sévères infectieuses, générales et d’amputation. Écrit par des professionnels de la prise en charge du pied diabétique (PDB) et coordonné par le Docteur Georges Ha Van, ce livre expose l’ensemble de la problématique du PDB, depuis la physiopathologie des plaies (dont les conséquences de la neuropathie et les anomalies biomécaniques secondaires) jusqu’aux complications infectieuses, osseuses ou vasculaires. Les aspects cliniques avec la sémiologie médicale des plaies et leur exploration clinique et paraclinique sont détaillés, de même que l’imagerie médicale avec tous ses pièges. Les différentes composantes du traitement médical sont largement décrites, dont les soins locaux, ainsi que la prise en charge chirurgicale, orthopédique et vasculaire. Enfin, la prévention par l’éducation thérapeutique, la prise en charge podologique et par les podo-orthésistes sont également abordées.Cet ouvrage, largement documenté et illustré, complété par des cas cliniques, s’adresse à tout professionnel de santé qui veut avoir à la fois une vision globale de la prise en charge du syndrome du pied diabétique et une réponse spécifique à sa spécialité :diabétologue, généraliste, médecin interniste, vasculaire, de médecine physique et de réadaptation, infectiologue, dermatologue, radiologue, mais aussi chirurgien orthopédique et vasculaire, infirmières, podologues, podo-orthésistes et urgentistes.

    • The Mulligan Concept of Manual Therapy

      • 2nd Edition
      • June 27, 2019
      • Wayne Hing + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Endorsed by the Mulligan Concept Teachers Association (MCTA) The MCTA is the accredited body of Mulligan Concept teachers. A comprehensive and easy-to-follow resource for the manual therapist seeking to improve patients’ movement using pain-free hands-on techniques. The Mulligan Concept of manual therapy was developed by Brian Mulligan in 1983 and is now used by health practitioners globally to assist individuals in improving movement restrictions, pain with movement and functional restrictions. Designed as a companion to Mulligan Concept training courses, the text is divided by body regions, with techniques highlighting key information to assist with clinical reasoning and assessment, patient and practitioner positioning, guidelines for application and further adjustments.

    • Sobotta Anatomy Coloring Book ENGLISCH/LATEIN

      • 1st Edition
      • June 12, 2019
      • Oliver Kretz + 1 more
      • English
      • Spiral-bound
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      The Sobotta Coloring Book – for understanding and learning anatomy The Sobotta Coloring Book offers another excellent way to study anatomy, perfectly suited to all those who are looking for an alternative to learning from textbooks. Dealing with the most important subjects in anatomy, the texts and the simple drawings designed to be colored-in help to understand and revise the most important aspects of human anatomy. This turns the book into something special: the pictures show the basic anatomical details and the accompanying texts explain the most important aspects of the structures. By actively interacting with the book through coloring-in, the content becomes deeply ingrained in the memory. The Sobotta Coloring Book provides: basic anatomical details in over 100 sections, using pictures and text concise accompanying texts for each picture, highlighting important details clinical references, pointing out their practical relevance sketches of sectional planes and perspectives which help with orientation English - Latin Nomenclature

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