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Ventricular Function and Blood Flow in Congenital Heart Disease
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Infants, children and adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD) are a challenge to manage and an ever-increasing number are reaching adulthood. CHD is one of the most important topics in cardiology today, yet this book is the only...
Bayesian Methods and Ethics in a Clinical Trial Design
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How to conduct clinical trials in an ethical and scientifically responsible manner This book presents a methodology for clinical trials that produces improved health outcomes for patients while obtaining sound and unambiguous scientific data. It...
Essential Guide to Educational Supervision in Postgraduate Medical Education
Nicola Cooper
The world of postgraduate medical education is changing, and educational supervisors need the knowledge and skills to be able to do their job effectively. Many of those who want to do this job well feel unprepared for the task. Essential Guide...
Complementary Therapies and the Management of Diabetes and Vascular Disease
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This book brings together important information about complementary therapies and how they are used in diabetes care. It addresses the benefits and risks of complementary therapies and takes an evidence-based approach. Complementary Therapies...
Comprehensive Atlas of High Resolution Endoscopy and Narrowband Imaging
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Won First Prize in the Gastroenterology category of the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition To help you accelerate your learning curve, Dr. Cohen offers this helpful new atlas with over 900 endoscopic images. Emphasizing conditions for which NBI...
Growth Factors as Drugs for Neurological and Sensory Disorders
Gregory Bock R.
Degeneration of sensory receptors or of the nerves innervating them leads to a sensory deficit. Various strategies have been tried for promoting regrowth of sensory receptors, particularly in the eye and ear. The latest data from experimental...
The Effects of Genetic Hearing Impairment in the Family
Lesley Jones
There has been an explosion of studies in the field of genetic hearing impairment in the past decade, associated with major advances in our understanding of the mechanisms and conditions involved. However, a recent review has highlighted the...
Greene and Mathieson's the Voice and its Disorders
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This edition has been extensively rewritten in order to reflect the changes in clinical practice and learning methods which have taken place since the 5th edition was published. The seventeen chapters are divided into three sections: normal...
Transoesophageal Echocardiography in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
Jan Poelaert
Transoesophageal Echocardiography (TOE) has a major impact on patient management during the perioperative period. It is an evolving tool in diagnosis of cardiovascular disease and haemodynamic assessment. The knowledge required for the...
The 12 Lead ECG in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Miquel Fiol-Sala
This guide to the proper use of the ECG in diagnosing acute myocardial infarction puts the combined experience of international authorities at your fingertips for immediate use. In The 12 Lead ECG in ST Elevation MI: A Practical Approach for...
Head, Face, and Neck Pain Science, Evaluation, and Management
Noshir Mehta
The most comprehensive guide ever created for head, face, and neck (HFN) pain, this multi-author book offers the very latest research and therapeutic information on this important and hugely interdisciplinary topic. A unique professional...
Visual Diagnosis in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
William Brady J.
Containing high quality images, this book presents the common visual diagnoses that are either pathognomonic or suggestive of specific illnesses. Organized randomly as a patient would present their 'chief complaint' rather than neatly into...
Training Manual for Health Care Central Service Technicians
ASHCSP (American Society for Healthcare Central Services Professionals)
The Training Manual is the premier reference and review publication for individuals preparing for examinations given by The Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution. It is a concise, applicable tool that can be used for...
Psychological Well Being and Acquired Communication Impairment
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Psychological Well-being and Acquired Communication Impairments is an essential resource for all health professionals working with this complex client group. It offers a unique multi-disciplinary approach to the subject, looking at the evidence...
Current Endovascular Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
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Rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is one of the leading causes of death. The risk of rupture has been a controversial topic for years and only recently have population-based studies provided better evidence for clinical management. This...
Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics for the Cardiologist
Choong-Chin Liew
Until recently, a modest knowledge of genetics was more than adequate for the daily practice of clinical cardiology, but advances in genetics and genomics are changing cardiovascular medicine in fundamental ways. The identification of the...
Immune Dysfunction and Immunotherapy in Heart Disease
Ronald Watson Ross
Current heart failure therapeutics affects symptoms without appreciably reducing the mortality rate of 50% in five years – suggesting a failure in treating the underlying mechanism. This book proposes a new mechanism for heart failure; immune...
Current Indications for the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
Gunter Breithardt
In this book, well-known physicians, Bocker, Eckardt and Breithardt have put together a succinct and focused book that compliments the CATA Series well. Implantation of defibrillators has evolved dramatically since its introduction by Mirowski...
Clinical and Laboratory Manual of Implant Overdentures
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Dr. Hamid Shafie’s Clinical and Laboratory Manual of Implant Overdentures is a ground-breaking guide to this popular and effective treatment modality, which is increasingly seen as the standard of care for the fully edentulous patient. This...
Essentials of Traumatic Injuries to the Teeth
Frances Andreasen M.
This is a readily accessible, fully illustrated guide to the initial treatment of acute dental injuries. The clinician is guided through the initial examination of the traumatized patient to the design of a rational, individualized treatment...
Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions
Mervyn Shear
Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions is a seminal text for those working in oral pathology, oral medicine, oral & maxillofacial surgery and radiology. This fourth edition reflects advances in immunohistochemistry, molecular biology and...
How to Succeed at the Medical Interview
Крис Смит
Doctors are likely to undergo several interviews of different types during their career, and this new title in the popular 'How to' series aims to guide the medical professional through the steps necessary to thoroughly prepare for this...
Safe Transfer and Retrieval of Patients (STAR)
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The safe transfer of all hospital patients, especially those who are critically ill, is of crucial importance, demanding organisational, as well as clinical skills. Safe Transfer and Retrieval of Patients (STaR) is aimed at all health care...
Bioassay of Anterior Pituitary and Adrenocortical Hormones, Volume 5
CIBA Foundation Symposium
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Regulation and Mode ofAction of Thyroid Hormones, Volume 10
CIBA Foundation Symposium
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Aetiology of Diabetes Mellitus and its Complications, Volume 15
CIBA Foundation Symposium
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care
Nick Bosanquet
Obesity is undoubtedly the major nutritional disorder of the western world. It has such a major impact on mortality, morbidity and the quality of life that it most certainly merits consideration as a disease in its own right and should be...
Fatty Acid and Lipotoxicity in Obesity and Diabetes
Gregory Bock R.
The potential lipotoxic effect of accumulation of fatty acids in non-adipose tissues is thought to be a major component in the development of insulin resistance. Chronic exposure to high concentrations of free fatty acids in the blood affects...
Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient
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Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient looks at monitoring and maintaining the health of organ recipients and donors, pre, during and post-operatively. There are twenty-nine chapters containing practical advice on total patient management....
Diseases of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts
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An interdisciplinary reference book for the diagnosis and treatment of gallbladder and bile duct diseases With recent developments in the management of hepatobiliary diseases including liver transplantation, this new edition aids all members of...
Ascites and Renal Dysfunction in Liver Disease
Vicente Arroyo
There has been very little written on the interaction of the liver and kidney. This book addresses the increasing incidence and significance of diseases, such as ascites, renal dysfunction, cirrhosis and hypertension where both organs are...
Dewhurst's Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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This time honoured classic has been re-built completely: after six editions the editor has decided that a radical revision is necessary. The new edition has been developed as a result of intensive consultation with trainees in OB/GYN as to what...
Mollison's Blood Transfusion in Clinical Medicine
David Anstee J.
“Both authors have dealt in an authoritative way with the still rapidly expanding specialty and the eleventh edition of the book will be of the greatest value to all who are interested in the scientific and practical aspects of blood transfusion...
Genomics and Proteomics Engineering in Medicine and Biology
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Current applications and recent advances in genomics and proteomics Genomics and Proteomics Engineering in Medicine and Biology presents a well-rounded, interdisciplinary discussion of a topic that is at the cutting edge of both molecular...
Decoding the Genomic Control of Immune Reactions
Gregory Bock R.
This book explores existing and potential strategies for using the genome sequences of human, mouse, other vertebrates and human pathogens to solve key problems in the treatment of immunological diseases and chronic infections. The assembled...
IgE, Mast Cells and the Allergic Response
David Evered
Reviews recent basic research into IgE, mast cells, and the allergic response and the relevance of this work to human pathophysiology, and discusses new methods of treatment. This symposium is unique in the IgE field for its breadth of coverage...
ABC of Tubes, Drains, Lines and Frames
Adam Brooks
Surgical patients are increasingly undergoing operative procedures that require complex post-operative care followed by prolonged rehabilitation in the community, and few leave surgery without a wound, tube, line or drain. The care of these...
Law and Ethics of AID and Embryo Transfer
CIBA Foundation Symposium
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Medical Treatment
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An authoritative book on one of the most fundamental and contentious issues for health care professionals Fully updated to include provisions of the Mental Capacity Act (April 2007); the latest policy on advance directives and the impact of the...
Understanding and Treating Psychogenic Voice Disorder
Peter Butcher
This book provides a step-by-step guide to understanding and treating psychogenic voice disorder by combining speech and language therapy with skills drawn from the field of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). Beginning with a new classification...
Compendium of Auditory and Speech Tasks
Michelle Pascoe
The book summarises research findings from a range of projects using a set of auditory and speech procedures designed for the psycholinguistic framework developed by Stackhouse and Wells (1997). These procedures have been used with children and...
Language Disorders in Children and Adults
Shula Chiat
Each chapter is written by a speech and language therapist specialising in psycholinguistic approaches to investigation and intervention. Authors were invited to present a single case in one of four given areas ??? speech processing, lexical...
Syncope and Transient Loss of Consciousness
Antonio Raviele
Syncope is one of the most important causes of transient loss of consciousness, and is such a common event that it may be encountered by practitioners in virtually any field of medicine. As such, a broad spectrum of healthcare professionals may...
Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure
Simon Stewart
Heart failure is a condition that often results in chronic tiredness and shortness of breath. It also requires complex nursing and medical treatment, especially after a hospital admission, which is all too frequent for persons with heart...
The Road to Successful CRT System Implantation
Daniel Gras
Cardiac resynchronization therapy is a new therapy for advanced heart failure patients. This therapy has been shown to improve quality of life, exercise capacity, NYHA classification, and even reverse the detrimental «reverse remodeling» that...
Resynchronization and Defibrillation for Heart Failure
Paul Wang
Resynchronization and Defibrillation for Heart Failure: A Practical Approach is one of the first texts to provide caregivers with information about the background and application of this new and rapidly expanding discipline. Its four authors are...
Renin Angiotensin System and the Heart
Walmor C. De Mello
Recent studies have shown that the heart possesses an intrinsic renin angiotensin system that is controlled by tissue-specific parameters that are activated by biomechanical stress. This book reviews the latest information on the way in which...
Development of the Cardiac Conduction System
Jamie Goode A.
The pacemaking and conduction system (PCS) is vital for generating and synchronizing the heart beat. Dysfunction of this system can be a direct cause of cardiac conduction disturbance, arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. A wealth of...
Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease
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The rapidly growing population of adults surviving with congenital heart lesions along with the success of interventional cardiology in the child and adolescent has spawned an incredible interest in adapting the technology for the adult...
Cardiovascular Regeneration and Stem Cell Therapy
Annarosa Leri
This book is the definitive reference on two of the most exciting areas of cardiovascular research – myocardial regeneration and stem cell therapy – for the treatment of disease. Edited by pioneers in the area, with contributions from every...
