Handbook of Urology 1st Edition

Handbook of Urology 1st Edition

Are you a urologist, trainee, or medical student managing patients with conditions like BPH, urinary stones or priapism?

Do you require a rapid-reference guide to clinical management?

If so, this full colour, practical handbook is the ideal resource, providing rapid-access information on the clinical management of all major urologic disorders and problems likely to be encountered daily. 

With a strong emphasis on user-friendliness and point-of-care accessibility, sections are divided according to the major areas of urology, with each chapter containing the following features:

•     case histories

•     multiple choice questions

•     key points box

•     key weblinks box

•     common errors in diagnosis/treatment boxes

An experienced contributor team outlines the skills required to provide appropriate assessment and management of patients; in particular identifying the correct diagnostic and management options for each disorder, and how to perform basic urological procedures safely and effectively.  Information corresponds to relevant American Urological Association (AUA) and European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines for clinical management.
 
Perfect for quick browsing prior to performing a consultation, preparing for ward rounds, or when brushing up for the Boards, Handbook of Urology is the ideal quick-stop manual for urologists of all levels involved in day to day management of patients.

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Prostate Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis and Management (Current Multidisciplinary Oncology) 1st Edition

Prostate Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis and Management (Current Multidisciplinary Oncology) 1st Edition

“This book admirably covers prostate cancer. It is written in an easily digestible manner for non-experts and emphasizes the importance of a team approach to treatment of patients with this disease.”–Doody’s Reviews

With an emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration and decision-making, this practical resource reflects the extraordinary advances in the treatment of prostate cancer during the past five years. Approximately thirty international, leading-edge investigators describe the most current evidence-based approaches to prostate cancer treatment. The book provides a comprehensive view of the entire spectrum of prostate cancer management from initial screening through novel and experimental treatments that have the potential for a major impact on practice.

The book first reviews fundamental issues including epidemiology, screening, risk reduction, diagnosis and pathologic characterization, staging, and imaging. This includes strategies for improving the accuracy of PSA screening and an update on controversies surrounding the ISUP Modified Gleason Score. The book covers novel molecular and genotype profiling in prostate cancer, including morphometric and systems pathology. Detailed information is provided on radiographic imaging for diagnosis and staging. The treatment sections of the book correspond to the staging of disease. The treatment of localized disease addresses the range of multidisciplinary management options including a discussion of prostate cancer’s impact on the quality of life. A detailed review of multimodal therapies (medical, surgical, and radiologic) addresses the treatment of localized advanced disease, and coverage of advanced metastatic prostate cancer reviews current management options including a range of promising novel and experimental agents. The book also discusses counseling the high-risk patient. Several chapters incorporate models of care delivery, patient navigation for multidisciplinary care, genomic and risk assessment, and comparative effects of research in treatment decision-making. The book is designed as a management text for all health care professionals who provide care for prostate cancer patients as well as patients, families, and advocates. Extensive references offer opportunities for additional study.

Key Features:

  • Delineates a practical, concise approach to multidisciplinary management of prostate cancer
  • Provides a wide range of perspectives and expertise
  • Written and edited by an international, multidisciplinary team of prostate cancer specialists
  • Focuses on such key issues as special populations, screening controversies, patient counseling, and quality of life
  • Includes discussion of important emerging topics such as gene profiling and targeted therapies and comparative effectiveness data

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Handbook of Cardiac Critical Care and Anaesthesia 1st Edition

Handbook of Cardiac Critical Care and Anaesthesia 1st Edition

This book provides clinical tips on the management of common emergencies that are regularly faced by critical care and acute care cardiologists in resource-limited settings. Based on the current guidelines, it explores the evaluation of the patient, followed by its treatment methodology. It highlights the beneficial effects of the use of cardiac drugs during an emergency. There is also a special section on preoperative evaluation and postoperative management of cardiac patients of different subsets. Medicolegal/documentation points are also discussed where relevant. It is useful as a ready reference for physicians, anaesthetists and cardiologists.

Key Features

• Reinforces certain teachings and recalls certain overlooked clinical points to address emergency situations in a busy, resource limited setting
• Explains lucidly what the acute cardiac care/anaesthesia registrar or cardiology fellows ought to do in the intensive care and postoperative wards
• Emphasizes the importance of clinical acumen and observation

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Advanced Paediatric Life Support: A Practical Approach to Emergencies (Advanced Life Support Group) 7th Edition

Advanced Paediatric Life Support: A Practical Approach to Emergencies (Advanced Life Support Group) 7th Edition

ADVANCED PAEDIATRIC LIFE SUPPORT
A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO EMERGENCIES

The gold standard for treating paediatric emergencies

Advanced Paediatric Life Support: A Practical Approach to Emergencies is the internationally renowned manual on emergency paediatric care. Written to support the course run by the Advanced Life Support Group, the book uses their structured approach: a tried and tested practical method of treating children during the crucial first few hours of a life-threatening illness or injury. Advanced Paediatric Life Support is used by doctors, nurses and allied health professionals dealing with emergencies in children. Its clear layout and straightforward style make it a highly practical tool both for training and in the event of an emergency.

In the seventh edition you will find descriptions of both common and uncommon paediatric emergencies which you may encounter in clinical practice, their causes, and how to best treat them during the first hours after presentation.

This book offers a thoroughly evidence-based approach to its subject, which includes:

  • The latest International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) 2021 guidelines
  • A thorough introduction to the structured approach to paediatric emergencies, including important non-technical skills and communication
  • Comprehensive explorations of the seriously ill child, including airway and breathing, circulation, decreased consciousness, seizures and exposure
  • Practical discussions of the seriously injured child, including examinations of chest, abdominal, brain and spinal injuries
  • Evidence-based life support treatment and the practical application of the Advanced Paediatric Life Support structured management

Perfect for emergency care physicians, nurses and other allied health professionals, Advanced Paediatric Life Support: A Practical Approach to Emergencies will also benefit paediatric clinicians, doctors-in-training and anyone else with an interest in the team management and treatment of paediatric emergencies.

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Bedside Cardiology 2nd Edition

Bedside Cardiology 2nd Edition

All the chapters have been updated in the second edition.Each chapter describes how to interpret and formulate a bedside diagnosis, from symptom and sign in cardiology.Approach is unique because it is lucid and simple, pragmatic, and unbiased.All the information provided in this book are evidence based with optimum references.

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Color Atlas of Pharmacology 5th Edition

Color Atlas of Pharmacology 5th Edition

The Fifth Edition of Luellmann’s Color Atlas of Pharmacology has been extensively revised to include all recent advances and new drugs, and the illustrations have been optimized and updated. Each two-page spread presents concise text on the left complemented by detailed full-color illustrations on the right to help users quickly digest important facts and concepts.

Color-coded sections provide readers with a helpful framework with which to approach the latest developments in pharmacology.

  • Part 1, General Pharmacology, explains basic aspects, such as drug absorption, distribution, and elimination, along with the molecular mechanisms of drug actions
  • Part 2, Systems Pharmacology, presents the different groups of drugs, emphasizing their functional and therapeutic aspects
  • Part 3, Therapy of Selected Diseases, provides all the relevant information regarding the pharmacological treatment of a large number of conditions

Key features:

  • User-friendly format ideal for study and review, self-assessment, and quick reference
  • Completely revised and updated, with 174 color plates
  • New glossary of important and interesting pharmacological terms
  • Updated detailed drug indexes containing current information on drugs listed by both generic and brand names

The Fifth Edition of Color Atlas of Pharmacology is an essential study guide and reference for every student, nurse, and practicing physician needing to keep up to date with recent advances in the field.

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Nursing School Entrance Exams Prep: Your All-in-One Guide to the Kaplan and HESI Exams (Kaplan Test Prep) Tenth Edition

Nursing School Entrance Exams Prep: Your All-in-One Guide to the Kaplan and HESI Exams (Kaplan Test Prep) Tenth Edition

Now with a new, easy-to-read page design, Kaplan’s Nursing School Entrance Exams Prep is a focused review of the HESI A2 and the Kaplan Nursing Admission Test—two major nursing school entrance assessments. Exam-specific practice, concise content review, and proven test-taking strategies will prepare you to face the first test of your nursing career with confidence.

The Best Review

  • Four sample practice tests: two for HESI A2, two for the Kaplan exam.
  • Diagnostic test to identify the topics where you need the most review
  • Test-specific icons showing which content to review for the Kaplan vs. the HESI
  • Science chapters broken out by topic: anatomy & physiology, biology, organ systems, and chemistry
  • Grammar and writing sections specifically geared to the Kaplan test
  • Quick-reference resources with frequently used math formulas and commonly misspelled words to remember


Expert Guidance

  • Kaplan’s expert nursing faculty reviews and updates content regularly
  • Practical advice for the career-change nursing student
  • We invented test prep—Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for 80 years, and our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams

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100 Cases in Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 2nd Edition

100 Cases in Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 2nd Edition

A 77-year-old man phones ‘999’ after experiencing severe backache. The paramedics arrive to find him in severe pain, and cold and clammy. While at his house, they note that he smokes and also elicit a history of hypertension. He is tachycardic and hypotensive en route to hospital, and intravenous fluids are started. You have been assigned his initial assessment …

100 Cases in Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine presents 100 clinical scenarios commonly seen by medical students and junior doctors in the emergency department, outpatient clinic, operating theatre or in general practice. A succinct summary of the patient’s history, examination and initial investigations is followed by questions on each case, with particular emphasis on the interpretation of the results and in which an understanding of the underlying clinical pathology is central to arriving at the correct diagnosis. The answer includes a detailed discussion on each topic, providing an essential revision aid as well as a practical guide for students and junior doctors, especially those preparing for undergraduate and postgraduate examinations.

Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action to take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a doctor. Fully revised and updated for this second edition, these true-to-life cases will teach students and junior doctors to recognize important clinical conditions, to request the appropriate pathological investigation and correctly interpret those results, and, as a result, to develop their diagnostic and management skills.

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Kline’s Neuro-Ophthalmology Review Manual 8th Edition

Kline’s Neuro-Ophthalmology Review Manual 8th Edition

For over 35 years, Kline’s Neuro-Ophthalmology Review Manual has presented a unique and user-friendly approach to address clinical neuro-ophthalmology principles used in everyday practice. This Eighth Edition continues that tradition, providing a timely update, while also maintaining the same user-friendly and concise format.

Dr. Rod Foroozan and Dr. Michael Vaphiades have taken the mantle of updating this respected manual from Dr. Lanning Kline and continue his tradition of a simple summary of the most important clinical aspects of neuro-ophthalmology with schematic illustrations and material relevant to everyday practice. They are joined by their contributing authors, all seasoned neuro-ophthalmologists, and have organized the book to provide the essential key information on neuro-ophthalmic disorders.

The Eighth Edition provides a comprehensive update to the latest information, adds many new effective exercises for case study, and is a complete update on neuro-ophthalmic conditions, including results of recent clinical trials and emerging literature. Also new is the inclusion of a table of neuro-ophthalmic emergencies which serves as a quick guide so that these potentially life-threatening and blinding conditions can be accessed easily.

Chapters include:

  • Nystagmus and Related Ocular Oscillations
  • Myasthenia and Ocular Myopathies
  • Nonorganic Visual Disorders
  • Disorders of Higher Visual Function
  • Neuroimaging

Kline’s Neuro-Ophthalmology Review Manual, Eighth Edition has all the fundamentals presented logically for all practitioners and residents in ophthalmology, neurology, and neurosurgery. A popular choice among colleagues for more than 35 years, this a must-have resource in neuro-ophthalmology.

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100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine (100 Cases) 2nd Edition

100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine (100 Cases) 2nd Edition

A 57-year-old man presented to the emergency department complaining of a worsening cough. The cough had been present for approximately two weeks and was productive of green sputum. The patient had seen his general practitioner one week earlier and taken a course of amoxicillin for a presumed lower respiratory tract infection with no improvement of symptoms. He was febrile, experiencing frequent headaches and a feeling of general malaise, and had been unable to eat solid food for the last 48 hours due to facial pain on chewing. You have been asked to assess him and devise a management plan…

100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine presents 100 real-life scenarios seen in the hospital and community setting. A succinct summary of the patient’s history, examination and any initial investigations is followed by a detailed consideration of the diagnosis and management of each case, in the short, medium and, where appropriate, long term.

Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action to take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a doctor. These extended true-to-life cases will teach students and junior doctors to recognize important medical conditions and to develop their diagnostic and management skills.

Key features:

  • Extended case studies presented in an easy-to-read format, presenting patient history, examination, investigations and differential diagnosis

  • Readers are guided through the clinician’s sequence of thoughts and actions as they consider how to manage the case appropriately in the short, medium and, if necessary, long term

  • Plentiful illustrations supplement the text
  • A broad range of conditions is covered, from acquired haemophilia to intestinal tuberculosis

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