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Data Mining Techniques in Grid Computing Environments
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Based around eleven international real life case studies and including contributions from leading experts in the field this groundbreaking book explores the need for the grid-enabling of data mining applications and provides a comprehensive...
Rossi's Principles of Transfusion Medicine
Marian Petrides
Rossi's Principles of Transfusion Medicine is the most comprehensive and practical reference on transfusion science and medicine available. It features brand new chapters on the measurement of cell kinetics, obstetric transfusion practice, cord...
Health Care Errors and Patient Safety
Aziz Sheikh
The detection, reporting, measurement, and minimization of medical errors and harms is now a core requirement in clinical organizations throughout developed societies. This book focuses on this major new area in health care. It explores the...
Research Handbook for Health Care Professionals
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The Research Handbook for Health Care Professionals is the essential guide to the entire research process for students and practitioners alike. From conceiving an idea for a project to writing up the findings for publication, the book offers an...
Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy
Maureen Paul
Access to high quality abortion care is essential to women’s health, as evidenced by the dramatic decrease in pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality since the legalization of abortion in the United States, and by high rates of maternal death...
Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Gynecology
Albert Altchek
The young ob/gyn patient presents unique problems different from the mature woman but which training often neglects. This user-friendly, practical book provides generous coverage of all aspects of pre-womanhood gynecology. Ranging from the...
Mechanisms of Alcohol Damage in Utero
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...
Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Prateek Sharma
The leading reference text entirely devoted to this increasingly significant condition This text is dedicated to Barrett’s esophagus and provides recent evidence and current approaches to patient management. It has been completely revised,...
Pathophysiology of the Enteric Nervous System
Robin Spiller
Over the last few years there have been huge advances made in our understanding of the interactions between the brain and the gut – the enteric nervous system. This book is particularly relevant in the understanding, diagnosis and management of...
Morson and Dawson's Gastrointestinal Pathology
Nicholas Talbot J.
Morson and Dawson's Gastrointestinal Pathology is one of the 'Gold Standards' of pathology textbooks. It has been completely revised to incorporate the latest advances in this rapidly evolving field including the developments in gastric cancer...
Clinical Dilemmas in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Fergus Shanahan
Evidence-based guidance to answer more than 60 controversial clinical questions on inflammatory bowel disease Clinical Dilemmas in Inflammatory Bowel Disease is a practical handbook providing quick but detailed answers to the questions and...
Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations
Peter Fos J.
A new edition of the comprehensive and practical introduction to managerial epidemiology and population health Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations has introduced the science of epidemiology and population health to students and...
Interpretation and Uses of Medical Statistics
Leslie Daly
In 1969 the first edition of this book introduced the concepts of statistics and their medical application to readers with no formal training in this area. While retaining this basic aim, the authors have expanded the coverage in each subsequent...
A Practical Manual of Diabetic Retinopathy Management
David Matthews
Another title in the award winning ‘Practical Manual’ series from Wiley-Blackwell, following on from Edmonds, Foster and Sanders‘ A Practical Manual of Diabetic Foot Care – winner of the British Medical Association’s Medical Book of the Year...
Practical Endocrinology and Diabetes in Children
Malcolm Donaldson D.C.
The practical manual for pediatricians and endocrinologists Practical Endocrinology and Diabetes in Children, Second Edition, continues to provide a very practical overview of managing endocrine problems in children. Coverage of each disorder...
Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children
Peter Kopelman G.
Highly Commended in the 2006 British Medical Association Book Awards (Endocrinology) This Second Edition brings together more than 20 internationally recognized experts in the field to provide a timely review of current knowledge. The text...
Pregnancy Metabolism, Diabetes and the Fetus
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...
A Practical Manual of Diabetic Foot Care
Lee Sanders
A practical clinical manual for the diagnosis, treatment – both medical and surgical – and the long-term care of foot problems in people with diabetes. The authors are world-renowned experts in this subject and they present the internationally...
Clinical Diabetes Research: Methods and Techniques
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A practical «how to» guide for multiple methods in metabolism, with a critical and objective discussion of strengths, limitations, and appropriate applications of the described methods. Edited by the winner of the Oskar-Minkowski Prize of the...
Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes
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This book, a successor to the highly popular Practical Guide to Polaroid Retinal Photography, describes the essential components of a retinopathy screening programme, including the criteria for referral to an ophthalmologist, drawing upon the...
Paediatric and Neonatal Safe Transfer and Retrieval
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With over ten thousand inter-hospital transfers of children and neonates now taking place every year in the UK, this book, and the associated training course run by the Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) have been developed to provide an...
Major Incident Medical Management and Support
Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG)
This is the course book for a new ALSG course on preparation for and medical management of major incidents within the hospital. It will be a companion volume to MIMMS, which deals with the prehospital situation, and will meet an ever increasing...
The Hands-on Guide for Junior Doctors
Anna Donald
Part of the Blackwell foundation programme collection The Hands-on Guide for Junior Doctors is a practical book for junior doctors and medical students making the transition from medical school to life on the wards. It contains new material to...
How to Teach Continuing Medical Education
Mike Davis
This new volume in the concise «How To» series explores the foundations and principles of continuing education of professionals and then relates these to the practice of teaching the various modalities used in CME. The areas covered include...
Combating the Threat of Pandemic Influenza
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Drug discovery for influenza antivirals Priorities for combating pandemic influenza include rapid detection and identification, the quick administration of available drugs to treat the infection, the development of new antivirals, and the...
Implant and Regenerative Therapy in Dentistry
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Implant and Regenerative Therapy in Dentistry provides a uniquely clear, precise guide to decision making in a variety of clinical situations, from the treatment planning phases to the actual execution of the procedure. It offers concrete and...
Pathology of the Hard Dental Tissues
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This is a seminal text uniquely dedicated to oral hard tissue pathology, presenting the growth of clinical knowledge and advancement in the field in recent years. Starting with a discussion of numerical and formative anomalies and unusual...
Bone Grafting Techniques for Maxillary Implants
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This book explores the potential of bone grafting techniques to rehabilitate the maxilla through the placement of dental implants. As implant dentistry becomes increasingly well established and sophisticated, this book will help experienced...
Textbook and Color Atlas of Traumatic Injuries to the Teeth
Lars Andersson
Textbook and Color Atlas of Traumatic Injuries to the Teeth encompasses the full scope of acute dental trauma, including all aspects of inter-disciplinary treatment. This fourth edition captures the significant advances which have been made in...
Questions and Answers for Dental Nurses
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This second edition of Questions and Answers for Dental Nurses reflects the major changes that have taken place in dental nursing over recent years. A valuable self-assessment guide for dental nurses, this edition covers the topics featured on...
Protocols for Predictable Aesthetic Dental Restorations
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Aesthetic dentistry has become increasingly important to dentists and their patients. This book is designed as a springboard to assist clinicians in developing the aesthetic potential of restorative procedures. The book marries evidence-based...
Practical Handbook of Advanced Interventional Cardiology
Antonio Colombo
Continued advances in cardiology have led to unprecedented scientific progress in recent years. However, no matter how advanced the science, the successful application of interventional cardiology relies upon a practitioner’s ability to approach...
Pacing to Support the Failing Heart
Angelo Auricchio
This new title in the American Heart Association Clinical Series offers an up-to-date overview of the causes and damage related to dyssynchronopathy – a new pathophysiological entity related to spontaneous or pacing-induced mechanical...
Novel Techniques for Imaging the Heart
Marcelo Carli F.Di
This book brings the recent dramatic changes in the field of cardiovascular imaging into the clinical setting to enable the clinician to best use the technology at hand. Novel Techniques for Imaging the Heart opens with three chapters reviewing...
Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death
Paul Wang
Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year throughout the world. Covering the most recent developments in this field, this leading text serves as a guide to this area of increasing...
ECG in the Child and Adolescent
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Compiled from electrocardiographic data on more than 1,800 normal newborns, infants, children, and adolescents, this convenient reference gives you fast access to the limits of normality so that data from an individual patient can be quickly...
Diagnosis and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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Diagnosis and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is a unique, multi-authored compendium of information regarding the complexities of clinical and genetic diagnosis, natural history, and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)—the...
Profiles in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology
Berndt L?deritz, MD
Profiles in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology is a collection of short biographies of scientists and physicians who have played (or still play) a significant role in improving diagnosis and therapy of heart rhythm disturbances including...
Advanced Endovascular Therapy of Aortic Disease
Changyi Chen
At last, years of clinical experience and the latest clinical evidence comes together in one comprehensive collection by world-renown experts at the Baylor College of Medicine. A complete and focused examination of all aspects of endovascular...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
