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    • Toxicology Testing, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 32-3
      • September 18, 2012
      • Michael G. Bissell
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, titled Toxicology Testing, includes the following topics; Progress in Clinical Toxicology Testing, The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic, Substance Abuse Among Healthcare Professionals, Pain Management Drug Testing, Ethanol Biomarkers, Newly-emerging Drugs of Abuse, Synthetic Cannabinoids, Synthetic Cathenones, Immunoassay Methodology in Drugs-of-abuse Testing, Toxicology Testing in Alternative Specimen Matrices, Principles and Procedures in Postmortem Toxicology, and Pharmacogenetics and the Future of Toxicology Testing. Advances in toxicology testing are paving the way for major improvements in the way scientists evaluate health risks posed by toxic chemicals. Toxicity tests help scientists better understand how the human body carries out normal functions that are key to maintaining health. Therefore, this topic is important to the field of Laboratory Medicine.

    • Heart Failure, An Issue of Medical Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 96-5
      • September 18, 2012
      • Prakash C. Deedwania
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This important issue of Medical Clinics provides essential updates in heart failure. The following topics are covered: epidemiology, pathophysiology, and general approach for heart failure; symptoms, signs, diagnostic studies, and prognostic significance of systolic versus diastolic heart failure; the appropriate use of biomarkers; oral versus intravenous diuretic therapy; guideline-based therapy including RAAS blockade, beta-blockade, and aldosterone antagonist, appropriate use of AICD and biventricular pacing; role of ventricular assist device; pathophysiological consideration and management approaches in acute decompensated heart failure; pathophysiology and current approaches to cardiorenal syndrome; heart failure with other comorbidities including diabetes, obesity, anemia, and cancer; heart failure and atrial fibrillation; and the role of disease management strategies in heart failure.

    • Foot and Ankle Innovations in Latin America, An Issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 17-3
      • September 18, 2012
      • Christian Ortiz + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of the Foot & Ankle Clinics focuses exclusively on advances being made in Latin America, in an effort to include more surgeons from Latin America who are major contributors to the literature, and give them an opportunity to share ideas. The issue will cover new techniques and advances from major doctors, academics, and institutions in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.

    • Imaging of Lung Cancer, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 50-5
      • September 18, 2012
      • Ella A. Kazerooni + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue gives the general radiologist a solid overview of lung cancer imaging techniques. CT screening for lung cancer is discussed, and the evaluation and management of indeterminate pulmonary nodules is reviewed. Revised TNM lung cancer staging, as well as the optimal imaging protocols for lung cancer staging (CT, MR and PET) are thoroughly examined. A multidisciplinary approach to tissue sampling and updated histopathologic classification of lung cancer are discussed. Image-guided ablative therapies for lung cancer are reviewed. Finally, future trends in lung cancer diagnosis and staging and genetics are reviewed, as well as novel biomarkers for lung cancer detection.

    • Handbook for Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease

      • 4th Edition
      • September 18, 2012
      • Roberta L. Hines + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Handbook for Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease, 4th Edition gives you the peerless authority you trust, ideal for on-the-go reference! Dr. Roberta L. Hines and Dr. Katherine E. Marschall discuss all of the most critical, clinically relevant topics from Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease, 6th Edition in a concise, compact, portable format. You'll have convenient access to dependable guidance on a full range of pre-existing conditions that may impact the perioperative management of surgical patients.

    • Contemporary Debates and Controversies in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Part II, An Issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 4-3
      • September 18, 2012
      • Ranjan K. Thakur + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Debates and controversies about how to treat difficult problems or conditions abound in cardiac electrophysiology. This issue attempts to bring together a variety of controversial subjects and to present differing views on how to resolve these questions so clinicians will have a handy guide to the most current thinking about these difficult subjects.

    • Stories in Mental Health

      • 1st Edition
      • September 17, 2012
      • Debra Nizette + 2 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      A collection of powerful first-hand stories to build empathy in students and complement Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 3e.Stories in Mental Health: Reflection, Inquiry, Action is an important new mental health resource. It features 27 video and audio interviews with a range of consumers, carers and clinicians that give a much-needed consumer voice to mental health care. Working from the premise that powerfully told stories can convey lessons remembered for life, the first-hand accounts build empathy and understanding in nursing students. They also provide examples of innovative approaches to recovery-focused mental health care. Mental health units are undertaken by all Bachelor of Nursing students in Australia and New Zealand, while mental health nursing is a specialist postgraduate area. Stories in Mental Health is therefore a valuable tool for undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students alike. Its usefulness extends to Diploma of Nursing, midwifery, community health and emergency nursing students, plus academics, mental health educators and teaching organisations.Teachi... and learning strategies are driven by the concepts of Reflection, Inquiry and Action. These strategies support each story and help nursing students develop the skills, attitudes and appropriate responses for working in a range of mental health settings. Stories in Mental Health is an excellent companion to Elder, Evans and Nizette’s Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 3e. These insightful videos are accessed online via the Elsevier Evolve platform.Each story in Stories in Mental Health features: An introduction Teaching and learning strategies – Reflection, Inquiry, Action Helpful internet links Text links – aligned to Part 3 of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 3e References for further reading A final word Transcripts of all interviews included in the back of the workbook

    • Concours ATSEM Annales corrigées

      • 2nd Edition
      • September 14, 2012
      • Jacqueline Gassier
      • French
      • eBook
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      La nouvelle édition des annales corrigées, entièrement composée des derniers sujets tombés, répond aux exigences des candidats soucieux de préparer efficacement l'ensemble des épreuves du nouveau concours des agents territoriaux spécialisés des écoles maternelles (ATSEM). Cet ouvrage propose une préparation complète en couvrant toutes les épreuves du concours interne, externe et 3e voie. Pour un entraînement optimal, l'ouvrage contient : - un descriptif détaillé des modalités du nouveau concours, et du recrutement des lauréats ; - 13 sujets d'annales corrigés et commentés (QCM, série de 3 à 5 questions à partir d'un dossier succinct) ; - une méthodologie complète et des conseils pour mieux aborder l'épreuve orale d'admission. Complet et actualisé, cet ouvrage s'impose comme l'outil indispensable pour préparer et réussir le concours ATSEM.

    • Leitfaden Physiotherapie

      • 6th Edition
      • September 14, 2012
      • Gisela Ebelt-Paprotny
      • German
      • eBook
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      Mit diesem beliebten Nachschlagewerk sind alle Physiotherapeuten in Ausbildung und Praxis immer auf der sicheren Seite. Denn der Leitfaden enthält alle Informationen zum Thema Physiotherapie: Umfassende Information helfen Ihnen, sich für die richtige Therapiemethode zu entscheiden:Methoden... Techniken und Konzepte aus zu allen Bereichen Physiotherapie und Physikalischen Therapie Sicherheit für Ihre Behandlung - so treffen Sie die richtige Entscheidung:Physiot... Befunde und Behandlungen von Störungsbildern des gesamten klinischen Spektrums - mit kurzem Überblick über die ärztliche Therapie Praxisnahe und alltagsorientiere Hilfestellungen machen Ihnen die tägliche Arbeit leicht: Grundlagen und Hintergrundinformati... z.B. zu den Arbeitsbereichen der Physiotherapie, zum Umgang mit Patienten oder zum physiotherapeutische... SelbstverständnisNeu in der 6. Auflage: Komplett überarbeitet, aktualisiert und erweitert Orientiert an der ICF: Therapieziele werden klar formuliert auf den Behandlungsebenen der Körperstruktur und -funktion, Aktivität und Partizipation des Patienten Dieses Buch hat mehrMit dem Code im Buch haben Sie ab Aktivierung Zugriff auf die Abbildungen.* *Angebot freibleibend

    • Travel Medicine, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 26-3
      • September 14, 2012
      • Alimuddin Zumla + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      It is extremely important that physicians be aware of the wide spectrum of tropical, infectious and parasitic diseases their patients may have been exposed to while traveling abroad. This volume of the ID Clinics is edited by 3 internationally renowned infectious disease physicians and provides an authoritative and comprehensive treatise on Travel Medicine.

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