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  • PET/CT in Cancer: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Individualized Imaging

    • 1st Edition
    • May 25, 2017
    • Mohsen Beheshti + 2 more
    • English
    Edited, authored, and reviewed by an expert team of oncologists and nuclear physicians/radiologi... this one-of-a-kind title helps you make the most of the critical role PET/CT plays in cancer staging and therapeutic responses to individualized treatments. Drs. Mohsen Beheshti, Werner Langsteger, and Alireza Rezaee place an emphasis on cutting-edge research and evidence-based practice, ensuring that you’re up to date with every aspect of this fast-changing field. For each tumor entity, you’ll find authoritative discussions of background, pathology, common pattern of spread, TNM classification, clinical guidelines, discussion, evidence-based recommendations, key points, and pitfalls.

  • Contexts of Nursing

    An Introduction
    • 5th Edition
    • May 25, 2017
    • John Daly + 2 more
    • English
    Contexts of Nursing: An Introduction, 5th edition provides comprehensive coverage of the key ideas underpinning contemporary nursing practice in Australia and New Zealand. Each chapter introduces nursing students to the big issues in nursing and healthcare, highlighting the theory, language, research and debate in a way that will challenge the reader and encourage reflection and discussion.

  • Evidence-Based Practice Across the Health Professions

    • 3rd Edition
    • May 25, 2017
    • Tammy Hoffmann + 2 more
    • English
    Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions is a contemporary guide to modern evidence-based practice.Fully revised and updated, it continues to keep the focus on the knowledge and skills that clinicians and students really need to make evidence-based informed decisions. It provides a foundation to help you to better ponder what clinical questions to ask, know ways to efficiently find research that answers those questions, know how to decide whether the results of research are believable, important and applicable and use good evidence with patients to provide healthcare as responsibly, effectively and collaboratively as possible. Featuring a multi-disciplinary approach with contributions from international and national leaders in evidence-based practice, this new edition now includes 15 health disciplines, including:- Clinical exercise physiology - Optometry - Complementary and alternative medicine - Paramedicine - Human movement (exercise science) - Pharmacy - Medical imaging - Physiotherapy - Medicine - Podiatry - Nursing - Radiation Therapy - Nutrition and dietetics - Speech pathology - Medicine - Occupational Therapy

  • Liver Pathology, An Issue of Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 46-2
    • May 25, 2017
    • Jay H. Lefkowitch
    • English
    Dr. Lefkowitch has created a primer on liver pathology for the gastroenterologist that provides depth of clinical coverage in an area not typically covered in depth for gastroenterologists. This issue will provide state-of-the-art reviews in the areas of NAFLD, liver biopsy, liver pathology, hepatitis, and genomics. Articles are specifically devoted to IgG4-related disease and the liver; current concepts in pediatric NAFLD; evaluation of the pediatric liver biopsy; hepatocellular adenomas: morphology and genomics; drug-induced liver injury: the hepatic pathologist’s approach; liver pathology in alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency; immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma; HIV infection, antiretroviral therapy and liver pathology; autoimmune hepatitis overlap syndromes and liver pathology; current perspectives on the pathology of hepatocellular carcinoma and its variants; hepatitis E virus and the liver: clinical settings and liver pathology; hepatic progenitor cells; and cholangiocarcinoma: current genomics and pathology, to name a few.

  • Integrative Medicine, An Issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 44-2
    • May 25, 2017
    • Deborah S. Clements + 2 more
    • English
    This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, guest edited by Drs. Deborah Clements and Melinda Ring, is devoted to Integrative Medicine. Articles in this issue include: Introduction to Integrative Medicine; Phytotherapy; Lifestyle Medicine; Chronic Pain; GI Disorders; Mental Health; Endocrine Disorders; Oncology and Survivorship; Pediatrics; Cardiovascular Disorders; Women’s Health; Men's Health; and Ethical and Legal Considerations.

  • Current Updates in Total Ankle Arthroplasty, An Issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22-2
    • May 25, 2017
    • J. Chris Coetzee
    • English
    This issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics will include articles on the following: Ankle replacement vs, arthrodesis; Osteolysis; coronal plane malalignment in total ankle arthroplasty; salvage of failed total ankle arthroplasty with anterior translation of the talus; malalignment of the foot or leg; use of tendon transfers; management of the failed long-stemmed custom agility total ankle arthroplasty; and many more articles surrounding foot and ankle arthroplasty.

  • Pulmonary Complications of Non-Pulmonary Malignancy, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38-2
    • May 24, 2017
    • Guang-Shing Cheng + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine focuses on Pulmonary Complications of Non-Pulmonary Malignancy. Editors Guang-Shing Cheng and Jennifer Possick have assembled an expert team of authors on topics such as: Pulmonary manifestations of non-pulmonary solid malgnancies; Pulmonary manifestations of leukemia and lymphoma; Radiation pneumonitis; Toxicities from conventional chemotherapy; Toxicities from novel targeted therapies; Bacterial pneumonia; Fungal pneumonia; Viral pneumonia; IPS and other early onset non-infectious pulmonary syndromes; Pulmonary GVHD and other late-onset non-infectious pulmonary syndromes; Pulmonary function and pre-transplant risk assessment; Diagnostic Evaluation of Pulmonary Abnormalities in Hematologic Malignancy and HCT; Acute respiratory failure in patients with non-pulmonary malignancy; Critical care prognosis and outcomes in patients with non-pulmonary malignancy; and Palliative and end-of-life care.

  • Fisiología médica

    • 3rd Edition
    • May 24, 2017
    • Walter F. Boron + 1 more
    • Spanish
    Nueva edición que constituye un valioso recurso de aprendizaje para comprender exhaustivamente la fisiología humana, desde las moléculas hasta los sistemas. Texto completamente actualizado donde los conceptos más complejos se presentan con un formato claro, conciso y organizado de forma lógica para facilitar aún más su comprensión y retención. Se destacan los avances más novedosos en los procesos moleculares y celulares, como el papel de la epigenética, la necroptosis y los canales iónicos en los procesos fisiológicos, para proporcionar una panorámica del desarrollo, el crecimiento y las enfermedades del ser humano. Incluye la versión electrónica del libro donde podrá acceder al texto completo con hiperenlaces, imágenes, 10 animaciones e infinidad de notas y colaboraciones.

  • Ortopedia, traumatología y reumatología

    • 2nd Edition
    • May 24, 2017
    • Andrew D. Duckworth + 2 more
    • Spanish
    Guía práctica de las tres disciplinas relacionadas, en un formato de bolsillo fácil de usar e ideal para estudiantes de Medicina y médicos en formación. En esta segunda edición, los autores han actualizado el contenido para reflejar los cambios en la práctica quirúrgica y los avances terapéuticos, además del enfoque molecular de los trastornos genéticos e inflamatorios. Contiene capítulos sobre anatomía, pediatría y valoración de traumatismos, que incluyen la asistencia preoperatoria y postoperatoria, y las complicaciones, así como un capítulo exhaustivo sobre los fármacos utilizados con más frecuencia en las tres especialidades. Esta obra es perfecta para las aportaciones clínicas en cirugía ortopédica, medicina de urgencias, reumatología y medicina general, así como para los estudios sobre anatomía del aparato locomotor.

  • Pharmacology, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35-2
    • May 24, 2017
    • Alan D. Kaye
    • English
    This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics focuses on Pharmacology. Editor Alan Kaye has assembled an expert team of authors on topics such as: Ketorolac, Oxymorphone and Tapentadol; Anticoagulation and Neuraxial/Peripheral Anesthesia; Pharmacologic Update on Antiemetics: Total parenteral nutrition/enteral nutrition in the ICU, Evolving Concepts; Reversal of Anticoagulants and Anesthesia Considerations; Non-opioids Intravenous or Oral Analgesics for Perioperative Pain Management, Update; Uterotonic Medications and Anesthesia Considerations: oxytocin, misoprostol, methylergonovine, carboprost; Pulmonary Vascular Mediating Drugs, Evolving Concepts; Alpha 2 Modulators and Anesthesia Considerations; Pharmacologic Considerations of Anesthetic Agents in the Obese Patient; Pharmacologic Considerations of Anesthetic Agents in the Geriatric Patient; Pharmacologic Considerations of Anesthetic Agents in the Pediatric Patient; Anesthesia CV Drug Update; Pharmacogenomics: Anesthesia; Pharmacogenomics: Pain; Novel anticoagulants; Novel anesthetic agents; Novel opioids; Pharmacology of Newer Local anesthetics; Pharmacology of Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory and Steroid Medications. Implications for Anesthesia or Unique Associated Risks; Pharmacology of Octreotide. Implications for Anesthesia and Associated Risks.

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