Category: Miscellaneous Medical Books

Elsevier’s 2024 Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals (The Intravenous Medications) 40th Edition

Elsevier’s 2024 Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals (The Intravenous Medications) 40th Edition

Find the essential information you need to safely administer more than 400 intravenous drugs! For nearly 50 years, Elsevier’s Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals has been a trusted resource for complete, accurate drug information in a concise, quick-access format. New to the 2024 edition are 8 monographs of the most recent IV drugs to be approved by the FDA, in addition to updated drug uses, interactions, precautions, alerts, and patient teaching instructions for all current IV drugs. Known as the #1 IV drug handbook on the market, this annual publication is ideal for use in critical care areas, at the nursing station, in the office, and in public health and home care settings.

    • Detailed monographs on more than 400 IV drugs provide an impressive breadth of coverage that goes well beyond any comparable drug reference.
    • Individual monographs include the drug name, phonetic pronunciation, usual dose, dilution, compatibility, rate of administration, actions, indications and uses, contraindications, precautions, interactions, side effects, antidote, and more.
    • Additional drug monographs are provided on the Evolve website.
    • Highlighted Black Box Warningsmake it easy to locate information on medications with serious safety risks.
    • Blue-screened text calls attention to special circumstances not covered by Black Box Warnings.
    • Dosage and dilution charts within monographs provide quick summaries of essential clinical information.
    • Life-stage dosage variances are highlighted for geriatric, pediatric, infant, and neonatalpatients.
    • Convenient, A-to-Z format organizes all drug monographs by generic name, allowing you to find any drug in seconds.
    • Spiral binding allows the book to lie flat, leaving your hands free to perform other tasks.
    • NEW! Drug monographs for 8 newly approved drugs by the FDA include the most current information.
    • NEW! Updates on drug uses, interactions, precautions, alerts, and more are included throughout the guide to reflect changes to existing medications.
    • NEW! Information on preparation and administration of injectable drugs from the National Coalition for IV Push Safety

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Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking Twelfth, North American Edition

Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking Twelfth, North American Edition

Perform an accurate, efficient, and effective physical examination with confidence.

Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking provides authoritative, step-by-step guidance on performing the patient interview and physical examination, applying clinical reasoning, shared decision-making, and other core assessment skills—all based on a firm understanding of clinical evidence.
This highly regarded text includes fully illustrated, step-by-step techniques that outline the correct performance of the physical examination and an easy-to-follow two-column format featuring examination techniques on the left and abnormalities (clearly indicated in red) with differential diagnoses on the right. Bates’ also includes a unit on special populations, covering special stages in the life cycle—infancy through adolescence, pregnancy, and aging.
Clinical pearls, printed in blue, highlight key points throughout the text.
Text boxes help readers quickly find important summaries of clinical conditions and tips for challenging examination techniques.
Many New and updated photographs and illustrations support the text, and figures are now numbered for easy identification and reference.
Rewritten chapter on evaluating clinical evidence clarifies key concepts to ensure student understanding.
Revised and expanded chapter on the skin, hair, and nails includes New dermatology photographs and provides the framework for assessing common lesions and abnormalities.
Updated behavior and mental status chapter now references DSM-5 .
Significantly revised information on obesity and nutrition counseling; cardiovascular risk factor screening and New clinical guidelines; New screening guidelines for breast cancer, colon cancer, Papanicolau smears, and stroke risk factors; updated information on STIs; New geriatric assessment tools; and much more.
New life cycle content, including an increased emphasis on cardiovascular health promotion and child development; updated pregnancy topics such as weight gain, substance abuse, and intimate partner violence; and New information on the older adult, including frailty, immunizations, cancer screening, cognitive decline and dementia screening, and a New algorithm for falls prevention.
Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking is the #1 choice for complete, authoritative guidance on mastering every aspect of the all-important physical examination.

Don’t Miss These Additional Resources also Available for Purchase:

Bates’ Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, Eighth Edition
The Pocket Guide is an abbreviated version of the Bates’ twelfth edition textbook, designed for portability and convenience at the bedside.
Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Recently refilmed, these 18 volumes of examination videos (as well as 10 additional OSCEs) depict experienced clinicians conducting each of the regional examinations. The videos demonstrate visually the varying techniques of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation in the regional examinations and special populations. .

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Autologous Blood Concentrates, 2nd Edition

Autologous Blood Concentrates, 2nd Edition

This book details the science, biology, and clinical applications of autologous blood concentrates in dentistry. It covers the science of natural wound healing; controversies related to platelet-rich plasma; medical and surgical applications of these autologous blood concentrates; biologic growth factors, platelet-rich plasma, and bone morphogens in bone regeneration procedures; uses of autologous blood concentrates in dental implants, oral cavity soft and hard tissue healing, and facial cosmetics; the future of autologous blood concentrates; and the principles and practice of phlebotomy. This edition has been revised, updated, and expanded to reflect current understanding, applications, and protocols of platelet-rich plasma, including a new chapter on step-by-step formulas and processes for preparing eight configurations of autologous blood concentrates and the indications for using each. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Memmler’s the Human Body in Health and Disease Study Guide Edition

Memmler’s the Human Body in Health and Disease Study Guide Edition

Help your students maximize their study time, improve their performance on exams, and succeed in the course with this updated Study Guide to accompany Memmler’s The Human Body in Health and Disease, 13e. Filled with empowering self-study tools and learning activities for every learning style, this practical Study Guide follows the organization of the main text chapter by chapter, helping students every step of the way toward content mastery.

In every chapter of the guide, all-new illustrations, chapter overviews, writing exercises, coloring and labeling exercises, concept maps, practical application scenarios, and matching exercises, as well as short-essay questions, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true-false questions, provide opportunities for students to assess their understanding of key concepts and build their knowledge of all aspects of anatomy, physiology, and the effects of disease.

Answers to Study Guide questions are provided in the Instructor’s Manual that accompanies the text, as well as on thePoint site for the main text.

Oxford Handbook of Pre-hospital Care (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 2nd Edition

Oxford Handbook of Pre-hospital Care (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 2nd Edition

Fully updated for a second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Pre-hospital Care is the invaluable guide to providing high-quality care in a pre-hospital environment. Evidence-based and reflecting new developments in regulation and practice, this second edition is designed to provide key information for all immediate care practitioners, including doctors, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and community responders. The text has been cross-referenced with the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC) handbook to ensure full clinical relevance.

Reflecting the major advances in delivery of pre-hospital care, including the greater survival benefits for heart attacks and major trauma when delivering patients directly to higher levels of care, the evolution of the paramedic role into critical care paramedics, roadside rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia, and the introduction of mechanical chest compression devices, this new edition is the ideal companion for those involved in delivering pre-hospital care. It also links to relevant online databases and mobile apps that can assist with calculations, and contains key algorithms and formulae to ensure good care.

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-hospital Care is the comprehensive quick-reference guide to all medical and trauma conditions regularly encountered in the immediate care setting.

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Oxford Handbook of Operative Surgery (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 3rd Edition

Oxford Handbook of Operative Surgery (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 3rd Edition

For its third edition, this handbook has been fully revised and rewritten for the renowned Oxford Medical Handbook series. Including comprehensive coverage of all common surgical specialties and operations, it fully integrates practical advice on pre-operative procedure, equipment, step-by step surgical procedures, common techniques, and tips and tricks from over thirty experienced specialist surgeons.

With over three hundred detailed practical diagrams and images to assist your understanding and packed with step-by-step, concise, and clear expert advice, you can be confident that this handbook will be your essential guide to all aspects of operative surgery.

Providing an overview of modern operative surgical practice the Oxford Handbook of Operative Surgery will enable all surgeons, whether they are just starting out or posessing many years’ experience, to prepare fully and be confident in observing, assisting or performing across the wide variety of surgical operations. Fully up to date and reflecting current practice and guidelines, it provides an essential complement to the highly successful Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery.

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Oxford Handbook of Key Clinical Evidence (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 2nd Edition

Oxford Handbook of Key Clinical Evidence (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 2nd Edition

This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Key Clinical Evidence provides an alternative to the growing volumes of trial data for students, trainees and researchers looking for the key evidence affecting medical practice.

Written by a team of leading figures across the major specialities, the Oxford Handbook of Key Clinical Evidence carefully selects and brings together key information on some of the most important trials currently impacting clinical practice. With introductory chapters on the history and importance of evidence based medicine complemented by in-depth analysis of the impact of each trial and its practical implications, this text is a definitive quick-reference guide in this increasingly
important field. Highlighted boxes identify the study type and evidence-level attained, while analysis of the key message and impacts of the trial firmly place the evidence into a practical setting for the reader.

This extensively revised Handbook presents the key data, facts, and evidence informing both medical and surgical specialties. This second edition includes a brand new chapter on paediatrics. It incorporates new landmark trials which are changing clinical practice, and re-reviews previously included trials to ensure consistency with current practice. It is essential reading for everyone with an interest in getting to grasps with the fundamental evidence underpinning modern practice.

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Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 11th Edition

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 11th Edition

For over thirty years, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties has guided students and junior doctors through their clinical placements, renowned for providing all the information needed for both practice and revision in a deceptively small package. Now in its eleventh edition, the Handbook has been revitalized by an expanded team of specialty experts and junior doctors to guide readers through each of the specialties encountered through medical school and Foundation Programme rotations, while remaining true to the humanity and patient focus of the original edition.

Updated with the latest advice and clinical guidelines, packed full of high-quality illustrations, boxes, tables, and classifications, and with a brand new chapter on how to survive your junior doctor years and beyond, this handbook is ideal for both study and use at direct point of care. Each chapter is clear and concise and filled with medical gems, with features including ribbons to mark your most-used pages and mnemonics to help you memorize and retain key facts. With reassuring and friendly advice throughout, this is the ultimate guide and revision tool for every medical student and junior doctor for each clinical specialty placement.

This well-loved Handbook remains the perfect companion to the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, together encompassing the entire spectrum of clinical medicine and unmatched by any competitor in their class, helping you become the doctor you want to be.

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 2nd Edition

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 2nd Edition

Fully updated and revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills is the only truly comprehensive pocket guide to all aspects of history taking, physical examination, practical procedures, data interpretation, and communication skills. Packed with expert knowledge and practical guidance it gives realistic advice on coping with common situations.

The handbook is structured to allow rapid reference of key information, and to aid understanding with concise and practical clinical guidance. Full colour throughout, it includes over 140 detailed photographs and diagrams of all common examination skills to show you exactly what you need to do and the theory, practice and complications for each. More photos have been included, with over half completely new and specially produced for this edition. Each system chapter covers applied anatomy, history, examination, and the presentation of common and important disorders. Data interpretation covers the basics of x-rays, ECGs and other key areas. A new chapter on the eyes is included along with the sections on body language and non-verbal communication, and the section on practical procedures has been expanded. This handbook will help to ensure you have the confidence and skill to carry out an ‘A’ grade examination every time.

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