Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians 3rd Edition
The Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians, 3rd Edition, is the definitive resource on breastfeeding initiation, maintenance, support, and advocacy. Jointly developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), this must-have handbook features the most important and up-to-date developments in breastfeeding practice, research, policies, and outreach guidance, assembled by an expert physician panel.
All health professionals in your practice will refer to this convenient handbook again and again for easily accessible answers, solutions, and teaching and learning aids.
The third edition contains a wealth of practice-focused advice based on frontline clinical experience and the latest evidence for breastfeeding.
Topics include:
- Cleft lip and cleft palate in breastfeeding infants
- Risk reductions in breastfeeding infants
- Neurodevelopmental outcomes of breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding in preterm infants
- Health benefits of breastfeeding for mothers
- Recommended breastfeeding strategies for health professionals
- Breastfeeding education
- Recommended breastfeeding practices
- Risk factors for lactation problems
- Human milk microbiota and bioactive factors
- Breast development stages and lactogenesis
- Supporting early breastfeeding before and after delivery
- Breastfeeding assessment tools
- Ankyloglossia and breastfeeding
- Insufficient milk
- Vitamin and mineral supplementation
- Breastfeeding guidance during preventive health care visits
- Management of breastfeeding complications
- Elements of a breastfeeding-friendly office environment
- National breastfeeding initiatives
- Feeding human milk without birthing
- Relactation
- Supplemental feeding methods
- Drugs and breastfeeding
- Contraception When Breastfeeding
- And more!
New in the 3rd Edition
- The latest AAP and ACOG breastfeeding policies
- An all-new chapter on the Non-nutritive Components in Human Milk, including bioactive factors and host defense mechanisms
- New guidance on breastfeeding and substance use, including electronic cigarettes and alcohol
- Updated life-saving breastfeeding support strategies for inclusion in disaster preparedness plans
- Current evidence on infant and maternal outcomes from breastfeeding
- Updated guidance on vitamin D, vitamin K, and iron supplementation in newborns
- Updated discussion of breastfeeding and environmental agents, including sunscreen
- New guidance for COVID-19 and breastfeeding
- Updated discussion of legislative protections for mothers in the workplace
Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination: An Interprofessional Approach (Mosby’s Guide to Physical Examination) 10th Edition
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Diagnosis/Assessment** Learn how to conduct a patient-centered health history and physical examination! Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination: An Interprofessional Approach, 10th Edition takes a uniquely interprofessional collaborative approach to health assessment, with a strong emphasis on lifespan considerations and differential diagnosis of unexpected findings. Each core chapter is organized into four sections ― Anatomy and Physiology, Review of Related History, Examination and Findings, and Abnormalities ― with lifespan content integrated into each area. Written by a team of nurse practitioners and physicians, this one-of-a-kind textbook uses evidence-based guidelines to help you master hands-on exam techniques as well as communication skills that build rapport and trust with the patient.
- UNIQUE! Interprofessional collaborative approach is written by two advanced practice nurses and three physicians, providing balanced expertise in both pediatric and adult-geriatric health.
- UNIQUE! Integrated lifespan content provides separate sections in each chapter for Infants and Children, Adolescents, Pregnant Patients, and Older Adults.
- UNIQUE! Compassionate, patient-centered approach emphasizes developing good communication skills, use of effective hands-on examination techniques, and reliance on clinical reasoning and clinical decision-making skills.
- UNIQUE! Strong emphasis on social inclusiveness and patient-centeredness incorporates LGBTQ+ patients and providers, with special emphasis on cultural competency, history taking, and special considerations for examination of the breasts, female and male genitalia, reproductive health, thyroid, and the anus/rectum/prostate.
- UNIQUE! Cross-references to Dains’ Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Carehelp you take the next step in clinical reasoning and also develop diagnostic reasoning skills.
- Differential Diagnosis tables are provided throughout the text.
- Clinical Pearls offer insights and practical, real-world expertise.
- Evolve website includes assessment video clips, animations, review questions, performance checklists, and more.
- NEW! 60 new illustrations and new videos include 30 drawings and 30 photos in the textbook, along with 15 new health assessment videos (including The Head-to-Toe Exam and Navigating the EMR) provided free on the Evolve website with every new copy of the textbook.
- NEW! Updated content includes human trafficking screening, genetics and genomics, Healthy People 2030 guidelines, and a new mnemonics quick reference inside the back cover.
- NEW! Thoroughly revised The Patient Record chapter is refocused to reflect the EMR’s benefits (such as order entry, clinical decision support, and linkages to lab results) and how to overcome challenges (such as poor patient experience and the need to be careful about what is written in the record).
- NEW! Updated LGBTQ+ considerations (e.g., health screening considerations) and cultural content throughout reflect a current understanding of and greater sensitivity to these often underserved patient populations.
- NEW Think About… boxes direct you to next steps when you see particular clusters of findings.
- NEW Unexpected Findings icon helps beginning practitioners differentiate common normal variations from abnormalities that might warrant follow-up.
Anatomic Basis of Neurologic Diagnosis 2nd Edition
Anatomic Basis of Neurologic Diagnosis 2nd Edition
Parikh’s Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine and Taxicology Eight Edition
Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology for Classrooms and Courtrooms is the thoroughly revised edition of a unique text which is very popular among both the
undergraduate and postgraduate medical students, lawyers and judges, for its lucid
and succinct presentation in the form of questions and answers. All efforts in the present
edition have been made to retain the original flavour of Parikh, including the style of
writing and expression.
Pocket Neurology (Pocket Notebook Series) Third Edition
Pocket Neurology, a bestseller in the Pocket Notebook series, delivers highly relevant neurologic clinical information in an easily portable source. Drs. Marcelo Matiello, Michael P. Bowley, Sahar F. Zafar, and M. Brandon Westover edit this book by overseeing the work of current neurology residents, fellows and neurology attendings at Harvard Medical School who provide must-know information on hospital- and clinic-based neurologic workup, diagnosis, and management. This thoroughly revised third edition puts key clinical information about a broad range of issues in neurology at your fingertips in seconds.
- Contains up-to-date content in outline format, with bulleted lists, tables, and algorithms for quick reference.
- Includes a new chapter on multiple sclerosis, expanded coverage of key topics such as lesion localization, neuroimaging, EEG, EMG. Also, the book has chapters dedicated to all sub-specialties of neurology, including neuro immunological disorders, neurologic infectious disease, neuro-oncology. Many additional figures, tables, and references are new in this edition.
- Each chapter progresses logically from neurologic signs and symptoms to differential diagnosis, workup and diagnosis, assessment of risks and benefits of available treatments, to treatment and prognosis.
- Consult this high-yield handbook by clinical presentation, such as coma, stroke, headaches, and seizures, or by special topic, such as neurologic emergencies, neurocritical care, neuro-ophthalmology, behavioral neurology, and sleep medicine.
- An invaluable tool for neurology residents as well as rotating psychiatry, PM&R, neurosurgery, medicine interns, medical students and others who are interested in neurology. Given content and easy access, serves as an excellent reference for ED, ICU, inpatient floors, clinic visits and teleneurology consults.
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Pediatric Nutrition 8th Edition
The new eighth edition of this bestselling AAP policy manual on pediatric nutrition has been significantly updated and includes many new contributing authors. This valuable reference covers how nutrients influence and direct growth and development, as well as immediate and long-term health, from birth through adolescence. This evidence-based manual reflects the current policies and practices recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition.
New in the eighth edition:
- New chapter on Pediatric Global Nutrition
- Other chapters have been completely reorganized, based on new information from publications in nutritional science and new evidence based guidelines recommending changes in practice.
- New policy statement on sugary drinks, and new clinical reports on food insecurity, fruit juice consumption, non-nutritive sweeteners, fish and shellfish consumption, and use of donor human milk for the preterm infant
- Updated growth charts for preterm infants after birth including BMI.
Dacie and Lewis Practical Haematology: Expert Consult: Online and Print 12th Edition
For more than 65 years, this best-selling text by Drs. Barbara J. Bain, Imelda Bates, and Mike A. Laffan has been the worldwide standard in laboratory haematology. The 12th Edition of Dacie and Lewis Practical Haematology continues the tradition of excellence with thorough coverage of all of the techniques used in the investigation of patients with blood disorders, including the latest technologies as well as traditional manual methods of measurement. You’ll find expert discussions of the principles of each test, possible causes of error, and the interpretation and clinical significance of the findings.
- A unique section on haematology in under-resourced laboratories.
- Ideal as a laboratory reference or as a comprehensive exam study tool.
- Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
- diagnosis, molecular testing, blood transfusion- and much more.
- Complete coverage of the latest advances in the field.
- An expanded section on coagulation now covers testing for new anticoagulants and includes clinical applications of the tests.
Pediatric Nutrition in Practice (World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics Book 113) 2nd, revised edition
2nd, revised edition
There is no other time in life when the provision of adequate and balanced nutrition is of greater importance than during infancy and childhood. During this dynamic phase characterized by rapid growth, development and developmental plasticity, a sufficient amount and appropriate composition of nutrients both in health and disease are of key importance for growth, functional outcomes such as cognition and immune response, and the metabolic programming of long-term health and well-being. This compact reference text provides concise information to readers who seek quick guidance on practical issues in the nutrition of infants, children and adolescents. After the success of the first edition, which sold more than 50’000 copies in several languages, the editors prepared this thoroughly revised and updated second edition which focuses again on nutritional challenges in both affluent and poor populations around the world. Serving as a practical reference guide, this book will contribute to further improving the quality of feeding of healthy infants and children, as well as enhancing the standards of nutritional care in sick children.
Pediatric Nutrition Handbook: An Algorithmic Approach 1st Edition
The last decade has seen an explosion of medical information in regards to the nutrition care and management of children. While nutritional therapies have expanded, the treatment choices have become increasingly complex.
This exciting title addresses the extensive amount of information available to practitioners in a concise, accessible fashion via a series of algorithms. It focuses on the normal growing healthy child from birth through adolescence, covering common pediatric diseases and disorders through a series of flows charts which outline step-by-step nutritional processes for pediatric patients. The highly visual format of the book allows the practitioner to make rapid, evidence based choices.
Features:
- Unique algorithm approach to the largest dietetic specialism
- Highly visual approach allows quick decision making
- All algorithms and text built on evidence-based research
- Covers the pediatric phase from birth to adolescence
- Includes common childhood diseases and disorders