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

    • 1st Edition
    • 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.

  • Evidence-Based Practice Across the Health Professions

    • 3rd Edition
    • 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

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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22-2
    • 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.

  • Fisiología médica

    • 3rd Edition
    • 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.

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

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38-2
    • 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.

  • Sleep and the Heart, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 12-2
    • Rami N. Khayat
    • English
    This issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics is edited by Dr. Rami Khayat and focuses on Sleep and the Heart. Article topics include: Mechanisms of SDB and respiratory control instability in heart failure; Rehabilitation of cardiovascular disorders and sleep apnea; Device therapy for SDB in patients with CVD and heart failure; Non-mask based therapies for CSA in patients with heart failure; Movement disorders and non- respiratory sleep disorders in patients with CVD; A practical approach to the identification and management of SDB in heart failure patients.

  • Fluids and Electrolytes, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 52-2
    • Joshua Squiers
    • English
    Dr. Squiers has assembled the leading nurses in the country on the management of fluids and electrolytes to write state-of-the-art reviews on this important topic. Readers will come away with current knowledge and management strategies to improve patient outcomes in the following areas: Colloids vs crystalloids in trauma resuscitation; Colloids vs crystalloids in post cardiopulmonary bypass patients; Potassium and magnesium serum levels in Aifb prophalxysis; Review of outcomes in hypernatremia in ICP management; Does evidence drive fluid volume restriction in chronic HF; Assessment of volume status in patients with mechanical cardiac support devices; Assessment of volume status utilizing ultrasounds examination; Managing electrolyte disturbances in tumor lysis syndrome; Post-cystectomy electrolyte issues with neobladder hypophosphatemia effects on weaning mechanical ventilation; and Does fluid resuscitation affect long-term cognitive function in sepsis?

  • Pharmacology, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35-2
    • 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.

  • Pharmacologie à l'officine

    Pour la délivrance éclairée de l'ordonnance
    • 2nd Edition
    • Patrick Poucheret + 1 more
    • French
    Vademecum indispensable à la délivrance des médicaments et à l'exercice de la profession officinale, cette nouvelle édition, actualisée et enrichie, offre au pharmacien, au praticien hospitalier, à l’étudiant et l’interne en pharmacie, une synthèse des connaissances et des compétences pharmacothérapeutiqu... avec : - une orientation inédite, centrée sur le médicament et les interrelations entre physiopathologie, pharmacologie et toxicologie ; - des tableaux didactiques, facilitant l’accès à l'information nécessaire à la délivrance du médicament ; - une lecture critique de l'ordonnance, des éléments de pharmacocinétique pratique, 46 fiches pharmacothérapeutiqu... et 10 ordonnances analysées et commentées.

  • Ortopedia, traumatología y reumatología

    • 2nd Edition
    • 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.

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