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  • Patient Safety, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 92-1
    • Juan A. Sanchez
    • English
    Guest Editor Juan Sanchez reviews articles in Safe Surgery for the general surgeon. Articles include iatrogenesis: the nature, frequency, and science of medical errors, risk management and the regulatory framework for safer surgery medication, lab, and blood banking errors, surgeons' non-technical skills, creating safe and effective surgical teams, human factors and operating room safety, systemic analysis of adverse events: identifying root causes and latent errors, information technologies and patient safety, patient safety and the surgical workforce, measuring and preventing healthcare associated infections, the surgeon's four-phase reaction to error, universal protocols and wrong-site/wrong-pat... events, unconscious biases and patient safety, and much more!

  • Hepatic Encephalopathy: An Update, An Issue of Clinics in Liver Disease

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 16-1
    • Ravi Prakash + 1 more
    • English
    A very hot topic at the 2010 AASLD meeting, hepatic encephalopathy is being brought to the Clinics in Liver Disease for the very first time by top experts, Dr. Mullen and Dr. Prakash. Authors have written articles that fully discuss the clinical aspects of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Articles presented include History, Nomenclature and Classification; Theories involved in the pathogenesis of HE; Clinical Assessment and utility of clinical scales for semi-quantification of Overt HE; Assessment of Minimal HE( with emphasis on computerized psychometric tests); Brain Imaging and HE; Management of Overt HE; Management of Minimal HE; Nutritional Interventions for HE; TIPS and HE; Liver Transplantation and Reversibility of HE; Minimal HE and Driving; and HE and Quality of Life.

  • Geriatric Oncology, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28-1
    • Richard Rosenbluth
    • English
    This issue serves as a comprehensive review and update in the management of the geriatric cancer patient. Topics covered include: Cancer and Aging, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, Breast Cancer in the Elderly, Solid Tumors in the Elderly, Radiation Therapy with the Elderly, Liquid Tumors in the Elderly, Nursing and Palliation of Elderly Cancer Patients, Ethics and Religion in Care of the Elderly, and Surgery in the Elderly.

  • Food Allergy, An Issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 32-1
    • Anna H. Nowak-Wegrzyn
    • English
    This issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics provides the latest essential updates in food allergies. Topics include the following: mechanisms of allergic sensitization to foods—bypassing immune tolerance pathways; determinants of food allergenicity; epidemiology of food allergy; prevention of food allergy through manipulating the timing of food exposure; diagnosis and management of eosinophilic esophagitis; the burden of food allergies and mental health issues; state-of-the-art and new horizons in food allergy diagnostic testing; food-induced anaphylaxis; oral tolerance; immunotherapy for food allergy; complementary and alternative medicine for food allergy; paradigm shift in management of milk and egg allergy—baked milk and egg diet.

  • Computed Tomography Imaging in 2012, An Issue of Cardiology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 30-1
    • Jagat Narula + 2 more
    • English
    Cardiac CT obtains information about coronary arteries, great arteries and veins, and heart valves. It shows the location and extent of calcified plaque in the coronary arteries and helps detect coronary artery disease at an early stage, which neither traditional imaging techniques nor cardiac testing can do. Over the last decade technologic advances in CT angiography have been made at a rapid rate, and the new applications and refinements of existing technology continue to be made. This issue will help practicing cardiologists to keep up with the latest technology in this important and swiftly moving field.

  • Atlas of Clinical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy E-Book

    • 3rd Edition
    • Charles Melbern Wilcox + 2 more
    • English
    Atlas of Clinical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - by Charles Melbern Wilcox, Miguel Munoz-Navas, and Joseph Jy Sung - provides more high-quality images than any other atlas to help you accurately interpret endoscopic images and diagnose gastrointestinal disorders. This new edition has been updated to cover new radiographic imaging and endoscopic evaluation methods and features an expanded image collection that includes more pathology and radiology images. You’ll also have access to the full text and all the images online at www.expertconsult.co... making this comprehensive atlas more convenient than ever.

  • Vitamin D, An Issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38-1
    • Sol Epstein
    • English
    This issue features internationally renowned experts who have provided their expertise on a variety of topics related to the importance of vitamin D. It was not until feed back loops were identified between Vitamin D production and parathyroid hormone, phosphate that it earned its place as a true endocrine hormone. Current social and economic conditions have brought it back into the limelight with outbreaks of rickets and osteomalacia even in developed countries. However its complex regulation, together with the identification and characterization of the vitamin D receptor and its role in influencing multiple genetic pathways and function has heralded a new era highlighting its importance in health and disease. This includes its role in auto immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes mellitus, cancer especially breast and prostate, skin, neurological and cognitive disorders and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis. We now know that adequate levels of vitamin D it is important in preventing falls and fracture. The need for supplementation and the amount recommended has also changed considerably from what we previously considered sufficient. The ongoing development of selective active analogs of vitamin D targeted to specific organs and function leads to the exciting possibility of improving outcomes of diseases associated with vitamin D regulation.

  • Heidelberger Elterntraining zur Kommunikations- und Sprachanbahnung bei Kindern mit globaler Entwicklungsstörung

    Trainermanual
    • 1st Edition
    • Anke Buschmann + 1 more
    • German
    Die Therapie-Erfolge sind wissenschaftlich belegt: Alltägliche Sprachförderung bei komplexen Störungsbildern funktioniert besser, wenn die Eltern entsprechend geschult sind. Hier greift das Heidelberger Elterntraining, dessen theoretische und wissenschaftliche Hintergründe sowie auch die Konzeption und Evaluation ausführlich beschrieben werden, bevor dann die einzelnen Trainingstermine ganz praxisorientiert vorgestellt werden. Grundsätzlich werden die Eltern bei diesem Programm – als wichtigste Bezugspersonen und Kommunikationspartne... der Kinder – in Gruppen angeleitet ein optimales sprachliches Umfeld für ihr Kind zu schaffen und Möglichkeiten zu sprachförderlicher Interaktion und Kommunikation im Alltag zu erkennen und zu nutzen. Außerdem wird das gemeinsame Buchanschauen gezielt sprachförderlich gestaltet. Das Elterntraining kann von Sprachtherapeuten, Psychologen, Pädagogen und Ärzten durchgeführt werden, die die zertifizierte Trainerausbildung absolviert haben.

  • The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Urinary System

    Volume 5
    • 2nd Edition
    • Volume 5
    • Christopher R Kelly + 1 more
    • English
    The Urinary System, 2nd Edition provides a concise and highly visual approach to the basic sciences and clinical pathology of the kidney, bladder, and ureters. This volume in The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations (the CIBA "Green Books") has been expanded and revised by Drs. Christopher Rehbeck Kelly and Jaime Landman to capture current clinical perspectives in nephrology and urology - from normal anatomy, histology, physiology, and development to glomerular and tubular diseases, infections, urological surgeries, and cancers. It also features hundreds of radiologic and pathologic images to supplement the classic Netter illustrations, as well as new illustrations created

  • The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Integumentary System

    Volume 4
    • 2nd Edition
    • Bryan E. Anderson
    • English
    The Integumentary System, by Bryan E. Anderson, MD, takes a concise and highly visual approach to illustrate the basic sciences and clinical pathology of the skin, hair and nails. This newly added, never-before-publish... volume in The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations (formerly the CIBA "Green Books") captures current clinical perspectives on the integumentary system - from normal anatomy and histology to pathology, dermatology, and common issues in plastic surgery and wound healing. Using classic Netter illustrations and new illustrations created in the Netter tradition, as well as a great many cutting-edge histologic micrographs and diagnostic images, it provides a vivid, illuminating, and clinically indispensable view of this body system.

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