Clinical Recognition of Congenital Heart Disease: Expert Consult – Online and Print 5th Edition

Clinical Recognition of Congenital Heart Disease: Expert Consult – Online and Print 5th Edition

Advances in diagnosing and treating congenital heart disease, through cardiac medicine as well as surgery, have allowed many children, who formerly would have died, to survive through childhood and in many cases into adulthood. As a result, cardiologists are spending an increasing amount of time treating such patients, both children and adults, and consequently there is a real need for up-to-date and comprehensive information on this rapidly evolving area.

The extensively revised and fully-updated new edition of this classic text continues to provide unparalleled guidance on all of the clinical features of unoperated congenital heart disease, from birth through to adulthood. Written by a world-renowned authority on congenital heart disease, it offers complete coverage of the signs, symptoms and clinical manifestations of malpositioned, malformed or absent cardiovascular chambers, vessels and valves – using traditional as well as state-of-the-art technology.

  • Discusses the history, anatomic features, and physiologic consequences of unoperated congenital heart disease in each chapter.
  • Features the expertise of world-renowned authority on congenital heart disease, Dr. Joseph K. Perloff.
  • New chapter on Congenital Abnormalities of the Pericardium
  • Expanded material on genetics and developmental biology
  • Discussion of hot topics such as Ebstein’s Anomoly of the Tricuspid Valve
  • Over 1,200 illustrations – all either new or reworked – enabling clear visualization and recognition of malformations

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Handbook of Obstetric Medicine 5th Edition

Handbook of Obstetric Medicine 5th Edition

Medical professionals are often involved in the management of the pregnant patient without necessarily being experts on all the complications surrounding pregnancy. The Handbook of Obstetric Medicine addresses the most common and serious medical conditions encountered in pregnancy, including heart disease, thromboembolism, diabetes, skin problems, gastrointestinal disease, neurological problems, hormonal diseases, hypertension and pre-eclampsia, and more.

For each condition, the handbook includes a description of incidence, clinical features, pathogenesis, diagnosis, the effect of pregnancy, and management of the condition. The book also includes a detailed section focusing on the differential diagnosis of common symptoms including hypertension, chest pain, palpitations, breathlessness, headaches, dizziness, abdominal pain, and more.

The symptoms and differential diagnoses are presented in an easy-to-read tabular format and include a description of important clinical features and potential areas of investigation. For those clinicians understandably reluctant to prescribe drugs during pregnancy, a useful appendix includes a list of contraindicated drugs. In addition, to assist in the interpretation of laboratory tests, a second appendix lists normal laboratory values in pregnancy, broken down by trimester.

The handbook uses a pragmatic and easy-to-use design by including tables, bullets, and “Points to remember” boxes for ease of reference. It is an essential on-the-spot guide for obstetricians, physicians, general practitioners, and midwives in both practice and training.

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The Asian Diet: Simple Secrets for Eating Right, Losing Weight, and Being Well

The Asian Diet: Simple Secrets for Eating Right, Losing Weight, and Being Well 

In this era of fad diets, detox programs, and “superfoods,” this examination of the relationship between diet and lifestyle looks to the Far East to claim that the simple principles to live by are balance and moderation. By rebuilding the connections between what is put into the body and how it functions, the diet outlined in this book teaches the daily effects that particular food choices will have–on bodyweight, energy, mood, and the quality and duration of life–and that ultimately all foods are good in the right proportion. All major food groups are covered, with additional sections on dietary supplements, lifestyle, and attitude, plus a handful of recipes to demonstrate the principles of the diet.

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Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines 1st Edition

Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines 1st Edition

Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines fills the demand for a handbook discussing the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of diseases and conditions encountered by health care professionals.

The title was first published in Finland by the Finnish Medical Society, where it is now considered to be the single most important support tool for the physicians’ decision making in their daily work.

What sets EBM Guidelines apart from competing books?

  • Provides physicians with fast and easy access to practice guidelines based on the best available research evidence
  • Covers practically all medical conditions encountered in general practice
  • Developed by over 300 experienced general practitioners and specialists worldwide
  • Includes both diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, and recommendations on diagnostic tests and drug dosage
  • Presented in a user-friendly format with self contained chapters based on clinical subjects
  • Clear and concise explanations of all available evidence results in the guideline for treatment
  • The strength of evidence is graded from A-D making this title a quick and easy reference whenever and wherever you need it!
  • Assumes no prior knowledge of EBM or statistics – all the work of searching and appraisal has been done for you!
  • Seeks to include guidelines where clinical evidence is incomplete or unavailable
  • Contains full-colour photographs and tables throughout


Easy-to-read and fast support at the point of care – EBM Guidelines:

  1. Summarises the best available evidence – Cochrane reviews – DARE abstracts – Clinical Evidence topics – original articles in medical journals – abstracts in the Health Technology Assessment Database – NHS Economic Evaluation
  2. Evaluates and grades the strength of all individual evidence from A (Strong research-based evidence) to D (No scientific evidence)
  3. Suggests guidelines based on clinical evidence. If clinical evidence is inadequate or missing, an expert panel evaluate all other available information and suggests the appropriate guideline

With over 1000 problem-orientated or disease-specific guidelines including reference to evidence summaries for all guidelines, this title is the most extensive collection of guidelines for primary care today.

Here are just a few examples of the raving reviews for Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines:

“An excellent resource… quick to use, even during consultations…very helpful to check whether our preferred diagnostic and therapeutic methods are adequate…competent suggestions based on real evidence…”
―Heinz Bhend, PRIMARY CARE

“clinically useful answers…easy-to-read …this resource is worth using…”
―Carl Heneghan, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK, EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE Journal

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Age Estimation in the Living: The Practitioner’s Guide 1st Edition

Age Estimation in the Living: The Practitioner’s Guide 1st Edition

This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations. This text ensures that practitioners recognize when an assessment is beyond their area of expertise or beyond verification depending upon the clinical data available. Each key approach to age evaluation has been allotted a single chapter, written by an international leader in the particular field. The book also includes summary chapters that relay readily accessible data for use by the practitioner, and includes important “ageing milestones.”

This book is indispensable where problems of immigration and legal standing, juvenile vs. adult criminal status, and responsibilities of law enforcement to protect vulnerable persons are key issues on a daily basis.  Medical practitioners, forensic practitioners such as pathology, odontology, anthropology and nursing, lawyers, and police would find this book incredibly useful.

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Skandalakis’ Surgical Anatomy: The Embryologic and Anatomic Basis of Modern Surgery First Edition, First ed.

Skandalakis’ Surgical Anatomy: The Embryologic and Anatomic Basis of Modern Surgery First Edition, First ed.

Brief facts of embryogenesis are included in this book because embryology leads the student to a more thorough understanding of human anatomy. Applied, surgically oriented anatomy emphasizing both surgical applications and ways to avoid anatomic complications have been included. Because minimally invasive and robotic surgery is definitely the surgery of today and tomorrow, the modern surgeon must now know this other type of anatomy, the “”non-touch, non-see”” anatomy. In other words, the surgeon must know anatomy very thoroughly indeed.

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Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination: An Interprofessional Approach (Mosby’s Guide to Physical Examination) 8th Edition

Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination: An Interprofessional Approach (Mosby’s Guide to Physical Examination) 8th Edition

Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination is a comprehensive textbook of physical examination, history-taking, and health assessment with a unique emphasis on differential diagnosis and variations across the lifespan. The book conveys a uniquely compassionate, patient-centered approach to physical examination with a strong evidence-based foundation.

  • Evidence-Based Practice in Physical Examination boxes supply you with current data on the most effective techniques for delivering quality patient care.
  • Clinical Pearls lend insights and clinical expertise to help you develop clinical judgment skills.
    • Functional Assessment boxes present a more holistic approach to patient care that extends beyond the physical exam to patients’ functional ability.
    • Staying Well boxes focus you on patient wellness and health promotion.
      • Risk Factor boxes provide opportunities for patient teaching or genetic testing for a variety of conditions.
      • Differential diagnosis content offers you an understanding of how disease presentations vary and specific information for how to make diagnoses from similar abnormal findings.
      • Abnormal Findings tables equip you with a quick, illustrated reference that allows for comparisons of various abnormalities along with key symptoms and underlying pathophysiology.
      • Sample Documentation boxes clarify appropriate professional language for the process of recording patient assessment data.
      • NEW! Advance Practice Skills highlighted throughout text makes identification and reference easier for students.
      • NEW! Updated content throughout provides you with cutting-edge research and a strong evidence-based approach to care.
      • NEW! Vital Signs and Pain Assessment Chapter groups important, foundational tasks together for easy reference in one location.
      • NEW! Improve readability ensures content remains clear, straightforward, and easy to understand.
      • NEW! Updated illustrations and photographs enhances visual appeal and clarifies anatomic concepts and exam techniques.

       

     

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Resident On Call: A Doctor’s Reflections On His First Years At Mass General

Resident On Call: A Doctor’s Reflections On His First Years At Mass General 

In turn heartbreaking, irreverent, moving—and at times raucously humorous—one of the nation’s leading pediatric researchers recounts his first years as a newly minted, stuggling, and insecure doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. A graduate of a state university medical school, Scott Rivkees was competing with elite students from some of the most prestigious schools in the country. Nervous and uncertain, he worked unholy hours with patients ranging from indigent street people to celebrity guests drawn to the reputation and care offered by Mass General.

Along the way he learned what medical school textbooks don’t teach: how to deal with immense pressure, exhaustion, unruly patients, mysterious conditions, the joy of saving a life, and the wrenching suddenness of losing a patient, more often than not a young child. His resident education did not prevent him from losing his sense of irony and humor as he recounts bleary nights on the town, the allure of young nurses, substandard housing, and the value of pricking an inflated ego.

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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years

Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years

When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins’ success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents Collins feels inadequate and unprepared. All too soon, the euphoria of beginning his career as an orthopedic resident gives way to the feeling he is a counterfeit, an imposter who has infiltrated a society of brilliant surgeons.

This story of Collins’ four-year surgical residency traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident to accomplished Chief Resident in his final year. With unparalleled humor, he recounts the disparity between people’s perceptions of a doctor’s glamorous life and the real thing: a succession of run down cars that are towed to the junk yard, long weekends moonlighting at rural hospitals, a family that grows larger every year, and a laughable income.

Collins’ good nature helps him over some of the rough spots but cannot spare him the harsh reality of a doctor’s life. Every day he is confronted with decisions that will change people’s lives-or end them-forever. A young boy’s leg is mangled by a tractor: risk the boy’s life to save his leg, or amputate immediately? A woman diagnosed with bone cancer injures her hip: go through a painful hip operation even though she has only months to live? Like a jolt to the system, he is faced with the reality of suffering and death as he struggles to reconcile his idealism and aspiration to heal with the recognition of his own limitations and imperfections.

Unflinching and deeply engaging, Hot Lights, Cold Steel is a humane and passionate reminder that doctors are people too. This is a gripping memoir, at times devastating, others triumphant, but always compulsively readable.

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