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  • Clinical Psychiatry: Recent Advances and Future Directions, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38-3
    • David Baron
    • English
    Recent advances in clinical psychiatry are presented by David Baron and Lawrence Gross in this issue of Psychiatric Clinics. Psychiatrists will find here disorders they deal with daily in patients and topics include Advances in: Addictive disorders; Geriatric and healthy aging; Trauma and violence; PTSD; Schizophrenia; Intellectual disabilities; Neuropsychiatry, Psychopharmacology; Integrated care - psychiatry and primary care; Global and cultural psychiatry; Mood disorders. Also presented are the Future role of psychotherapy in psychiatry; Public mental health in the Affordable Care Act era; Genetics; and Diagnostic classification (DSM criteria) how they are transitioning in future - DSM V and beyond.

  • Palliative Care in Critical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 27-3
    • Tonja Hartjes
    • English
    Intensive care units (ICUs) provide comprehensive, advanced care to patients with serious or life-threatening conditions and consequently, a significant amount of end-of-life care (EOLC). Indeed, approximately 20% of deaths in the U.S. are associated with an ICU stay, and nearly half of U.S. patients who die in hospitals experience an ICU stay during the last 3 days of life. Despite the commonality of the ICU experience, ICU patients typically suffer from a range of distressing symptoms such as pain, fatigue, anxiety, and dyspnea, causing families significant distress on their behalf. Thus, there is a growing imperative for better provision of palliative care (PC) in the ICU, which may prevent and relieve suffering for patients with life threatening illnesses. Effective palliative care is accomplished through aggressive symptom management, communication about the patient and family’s physical, psychosocial and spiritual concerns, and aligning treatments with each patient’s goals, values, and preferences. PC is also patient-centered and uses a multidisciplinary, team-based approach that can be provided in conjunction with other life-sustaining treatments, or as a primary treatment approach. Failure to align treatment goals with individual and family preferences can create distress for patients, families, and providers. If implemented appropriately, palliative care may significantly reduce the health care costs associated with intensive hospital care, and help patients avoid the common, non-person centered treatment that is wasteful, distressing, and potentially harmful. Due to the success of many PC programs, administrators, providers, and accrediting bodies are beginning to understand that palliative care in the ICU is vital to optimal patient outcomes.

  • Comprehensive Care of the Patient with Chronic Illness, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 99-5
    • Douglas Paauw
    • English
    This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by Douglas S. Paauw, MD is devoted to Comprehensive Care of the Patient with Chronic Illness. Dr. Paauw has assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Primary Care of the Homeless Patient; Primary Care of the Patient with Chronic Liver Disease; Primary Care of the Transplant Patient; Primary Care of the Patient with CRI; Primary Care of the Patient with Alcoholism; Primary Care of the Childhood Cancer Survivor; Primary Care of the Immigrant Patient; Primary Care of the HIV Patient; Primary Care of the Patient with Chronic Lung Disease; Primary Care of the Patient with Sarcoid; and Primary Care of the Patient with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

  • Pediatric Infectious Disease: Part I, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29-3
    • Mary Anne Jackson
    • English
    This issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by Mary Anne Jackson, MD and Angela Myers, MD, is Part I of a 2-part issue devoted to Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Drs. Jackson and Myers have assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Diagnosis and Management of Kawasaki Disease; Neonatal HSV Infection; Use of Newer Diagnostics for Pediatric Tuberculosis; Recognition and Prompt Treatment for Tick Borne Infections; Prevention of Recurrent Staphylococcal Skin Infections; Evaluation and Management of the Febrile Young Infant; New Horizons for Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship; Pitfalls in Diagnosis of Pediatric Clostridium Difficile Diarrhea; The Changing Epidemiology of Pediatric Endocarditis; Neonatal Parechovirus Infection; Osteoarticular infections in Children; and Pediatric CMV Disease.

  • Atlas of Surface Palpation

    Anatomy of the Neck, Trunk, Upper and Lower Limbs
    • 3rd Edition
    • Serge Tixa
    • English
    Serge Tixa presents in this highly popular book a method of palpatory anatomy called Manual Exploration of Surface Anatomy (MESA). MESA locates anatomical structures important to clinical examination allowing careful selection of the most appropriate manual therapy technique or manoeuvre. The new edition presents precisely and visually the various anatomical structures with the help of more than 130 colour illustrations and close to 900 black and white photographs. For every photograph showing an anatomical structure accessible to palpation, a model whose physique shows the structure clearly has been chosen. Each chapter has up to four subsections, treating the various aspects of each body region. These cover osteology, myology (musculotendinous structures), arthrology (joints and ligaments) and lastly nerves and blood vessels. Each photograph is carefully presented and accompanied by a section of text describing the method of approach to finding the structure concerned. Whenever necessary, reminders, essential for the proper use of the methods of approach (attachments, actions and innervations) are included. Clinical notes highlight the link between palpation and clinical diagnoses. Atlas of Surface Palpation: Anatomy of the Neck, Trunk, Upper and Lower Limbs is aimed at students and practitioners who need a method of applied anatomy in their practice.

  • Protected Metal Clusters: From Fundamentals to Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 9
    • English
    Protected Metal Clusters: From Fundamentals to Applications surveys the fundamental concepts and potential applications of atomically precise metal clusters protected by organic ligands. As this class of materials is now emerging as a result of breakthroughs in synthesis and characterization that have taken place over the last few years, the book provides the first reference with a focus on these exciting novel nanomaterials, explaining their formation, and how, and why, they play an important role in the future of molecular electronics, catalysis, sensing, biological imaging, and medical diagnosis and therapy.

  • Adjuncts for Care of the Surgical Patient, An Issue of Atlas of the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 23-2
    • Sidney L. Bourgeois Jr
    • English
    This issue of the Atlas of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics focuses on Adjuncts for Care of the Surgical Patient. Articles will feature PEG and J-tube Placement; Percutaneous Tracheostomy; Transcutaneous Bladder Catheterization; Central Line Catheterization; Intracranial Pressure Monitor Placement; Tube Thoracostomy; Lumbar Puncture/Lumbar Drain; FAST Ultrasound for Abdominal Evaluation; Radial and Femoral Artery Catheterization; Tracheostomy, and more!

  • Management of Helicobacter pylori–Related Diseases, An Issue of Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 44-3
    • Akiko Shiotani
    • English
    Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is a worldwide disease with a significant morbidity and mortality; it is the leading cause of non-ulcer dyspepsia, peptic ulcers and gastric tumors, including low-grade mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue-lymphoma and adenocarcinoma. In addition, it has also been recognized that the interaction between H. pylori and non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs is damaging to the gastroduodenal mucosa. H. pylori treatment still remains a challenge for physicians, since no current first-line therapy is able to cure the infection in all treated patients. This issue will serve to update gastroenterologists on current therapies, evaluation and management of disease progression, and the future of management of H. pylori infection.

  • Advances and Challenges in Critical Care, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36-3
    • Shyoko Honiden
    • English
    Drs. Honiden and Siner have put together a comprehensive issue on Critical Care as it relates to Chest Medicine. Articles include:Recent advances in management of Acute respiratory distress syndrome, Simulation training for critical care, Telemedicine (E-ICU issues), Adverse event reporting/quality improvement in the ICU, ICU Mobility, Hospital-acquired infections/resistant organisms/emerging pathogens, Circadian rhythm disturbance and sleep in the ICU environment, Advances in Sepsis Research, Controversies in ICU nutrition, and more!

  • Endoscopy, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18-3
    • Stephen J. Divers
    • English
    Drs. Stephen Divers and Laila Proença have assembled an expert team of authors focused on Endoscopy and Exotic Animals. Articles include: Definitive diagnosis in exotic animal practice: the essential value of endoscopy, Guinea pig cystoscopy and urolith removal, Flexible endoscopy including gastroscopy in ferrets with a section on Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tube Placement and Use, Endoscopic rabbit sterilization, Endoscopy of small NH primates, Pulmonoscopy of snakes, and more!

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