Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment and Management 2nd Edition

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provides an excellent road map to the many topics relevant in the diagnosis, treatment, and long-term management of individuals with TBI. As such, the book can serve either as a fine introduction for the uninitiated or as a valued reference for seasoned clinicians. I highly recommend [it]‚

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

This is a stellar quality book that will be beneficial for every member of the multidisciplinary team that is required to treat patients with TBI. It offers a concise but broad and informative view of the disorder, and can serve as an easy-to-read and access primary text. 4 Stars!

Doody’s Reviews

Now completely revised and updated, Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment and Management, Second Edition is a comprehensive evidence-based guide to brain injury diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, delivered in a succinct format designed for targeted access to essential content.

This concise text, featuring internationally known contributors drawn from leading TBI programs, is organized into five sections. Part I discusses fundamental concepts needed to provide a context for clinical decision-making. Part II covers mild TBI, from natural history to sportrelated concussion, postconcussion syndrome, and more. Part III focuses on moderate to severe TBI and contains chapters on prehospital, emergency and ICU care, rehabilitation, community reintegration, management of associated impairments, and postinjury outcomes. Part IV covers the complications and long-term sequelae that may arise in patients with TBI, including spasticity, movement disorders, posttraumatic seizures, hydrocephalus, behavioral and sleep disturbances, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Part V focuses on special considerations and resources, including issues specific to selected populations or injury environments (military, pediatric, workers’ compensation and older patients), as well as return to work and medicolegal issues in TBI.

Comprehensively updated to reflect the current state of the art in this rapidly evolving field, this book is a must-have for neurologists, physiatrists, primary care physicians, mental health professionals, social workers, and other health care providers who treat TBI patients.

New to the Second Edition:

  • Key Points section in each chapter crystallizes important clinical pearls
  • New chapters cover anoxia complicating TBI, screening for emotional distress in TBI patients, management of chronic behavioral disturbances, andassistive technology
  • Every chapter has been updated to reflect current evidence-based practice

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Neurology Secrets, 6e 6th Edition

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Part of the bestselling Secrets Series, the updated sixth edition of Neurology Secrets continues to provide an up-to-date, concise overview of the most important topics in neurology today. It serves as a comprehensive introduction for medical students, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, and is also a handy reference and refresher for residents and practitioners. Lists, tables, and clear illustrations throughout expedite review, while the engaging Secrets Series format makes the text both enjoyable and readable. New lead editors, Drs. Kass and Mizrahi, join this publication from a leading neurology program to lend a fresh perspective and expert knowledge.

  • Expedites reference and review with a question-and-answer format, bulleted lists, and practical tipsfrom the authors.
  • Covers the full range of essential topics in understanding the practice of neurology.
  • Features a two-color page layout and “Key Points” boxes to further enhance your reference power.
  • Presents a chapter containing “Top 100 Secrets” for an overview of essential material for last-minute study or self-assessment.
  • Fits comfortably in the pocket of your lab coat to allow quick access to essential information.

 

  • NEW! Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experienceallows you to search all of the text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
  • Completely revised content covers all of today’s most common neurologic conditions and their treatments.
  • New lead editors offer a fresh perspective and expert knowledge.

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World Clinics Orthopedics: Current Controversies in Joint Replacement 1st Edition

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This book is the first volume in the World Clinics: Orthopedics series, providing orthopaedic surgeons with the most recent advances and controversies in joint replacement. Presented as a series of articles, each chapter provides both basic and advanced insights into hip and knee replacement surgeries. Advances in total joint arthroplasty are discussed in depth, with separate chapters dedicated to European and Asian perspectives. Each article is followed by a comment from the editors highlighting the key points of the chapter. New techniques are also covered including advances in robotic technology in the operating theatre. Edited by internationally recognised experts from the Rothman Institute, Philadelphia, and Hackensack University Medical Centre, New Jersey, this useful guide includes numerous images, figures and tables, as well as extensive referencing throughout. Key points * Provides orthopaedic surgeons with latest advances and controversies in joint replacement * Covers new techniques including advances in robotic technology * Numerous images and illustrations and extensive referencing * Internationally recognised editor and author team.

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Practical Orthopedics Biological Options and Simpler Techniques for Common Disorders

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This book contains collective expertise of the author regarding the care and treatment of common orthopedic disorders. Written keeping in mind the infrastructure facility available in most hospitals in Indian Subcontinent. Discusses basic pathology, clinical features, diagnostic Methodologies and treatment options. Enriched with illustrations for better understanding. Affordable and effective treatment options are described keeping in view the societal preconditions.

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The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2017 (The 5-Minute Consult Series) Twenty-Fifth Edition

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Make quick and accurate diagnoses and treatment decisions at the point of care with this bestselling guide! The 5-Minute Clinical Consult Standard 2017 is a practical and useful resource for primary care clinicians, as well as those in family medicine, emergency medicine, nursing, and pediatrics. Using a three-column, bulleted format, the print edition provides rapid access to diagnosis, treatment, medications, follow-up, and associated factors for more than 570 diseases and conditions, plus over 110 diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms.

The 5-Minute Clinical Consult Standard 2017, 25th Edition, includes:

  • Succinct information on more than 570 commonly encountered diseases and disorders and 110 treatment and diagnostic algorithms (20 are new!)
  • ICD-10 codes
  • Evidence-based medicine content, fully updated and easily accessible for quick reference.
  • Accurate drug dosing information carefully reviewed by a PharmD

Written by esteemed internal medicine and family medicine practitioners and published by the leading publisher in medical content, The 5-Minute Clinical Consult Standard 2017, 25th Edition includes a Free Trial to 5MinuteConsult.com

5MinuteConsult.com is a quicker, more valuable, evidence-based, online workflow tool easily integrated at the point of care. 5MinuteConsult.com provides online-exclusive content, including:

  •  Differential diagnosis support from an expanded collection of algorithms
  • Current evidence-based designations highlighted in each topic
  • 570+ commonly encountered diseases in print, with an additional 1,400 online topics, including content fromThe 5-Minute Pediatric Consult and Rosen & Barkin’s 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult
  • Thousands of images to help support visual diagnosis of all conditions
  • Video library of procedures, treatment, and physical therapy
  • A-to-Z Drug Database from Facts & Comparisons®
  • Laboratory test interpretation from Wallach’s Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests
  • More than 3,000 patient handouts in English and Spanish
  • ICD-10 codes, DSM-5 criteria, and SNOMED codes
  • Quick-access link to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force calculator
  • Point-of-care CME/CE:  .5 credits while you search the site to find the best treatment for your patients. This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 20 prescribed credits by the AAFP and the ANCC

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The Washington Manual of Dermatology Diagnostics (Lippincott Manual Series)

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Master the nuances of dermatologic diagnosis, Washington Manual style! The Washington Manual family of references are universally respected as focused, user-friendly, clinically relevant handbooks that provide essential, “in-the-trenches” know how for physicians of all experience levels. The Washington Manual of Dermatology Diagnostics carries on this tradition, equipping you to efficiently evaluate the complete spectrum of skin disorders so you can manage them appropriately.

  • Accurately diagnose a full range of skin diseases and disorders, from inflammatory conditions through infections and infestations, reactive disorders and drug eruptions, disorders of pigmentation, benign and malignant lesions, and disorders of the hair and nails, to cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease.
  • Master dermatologic surgery techniques including biopsies, electrosurgery, cryotherapy, photodynamic therapy, Mohs micrographic surgery, laser surgery, and wound healing.
  • Effectively assess pediatric and geriatric conditions with complete, separate chapters on these important areas.
  • Find the information you need quickly thanks to a compact, quick-reference format.
  • Approach clinical challenges from any direction with appendices that organize differential diagnoses by primary lesion, morphological groups, and anatomical region, as well as pediatric differential diagnoses.
Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like:
  • Complete content with enhanced navigation
  • A powerful search that pulls results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web
  • Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation
  • Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text
  • Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues
  • Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

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The Washington Manual of Pediatrics Second Edition

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Concise, portable, and user-friendly, The Washington Manual® of Pediatrics, 2nd Edition, focuses on the essential information you need to know when caring for children in the hospital, ICU, emergency department, and subspecialty outpatient clinics.  This practical reference presents brief, logical approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of common inpatient pediatric problems, as well as evidence-based references where they are available.  Thoroughly updated throughout, the 2nd Edition provides a clear view of the challenges faced by residents, interns, and medical students, plus offers practical solutions, and expert guidance – all in one convenient and easily accessible source.

Key Features:

  • Thoroughly revised chapters with up-to-date, clinically applicable content that is easy for providers at all levels.
  • New chapters on Development Milestones, Child Maltreatment, and Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
  • Coverage includes growth and nutrition, emergencies, poisonings, newborn medicine, critical care, surgery, adolescent medicine, child maltreatment, allergy and immunology, radiology, sedation, genetic diseases, and much more.
  • Numerous tables, algorithms, and evidence-based references keep you up to date.
  • Written by interns, residents, chief residents, subspecialty fellows, and faculty at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis.

Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like:

  • Complete content with enhanced navigation
  • Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web
  • Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation
  • Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text
  • Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues
  • Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

The Washington Manual® is a registered mark belonging to Washington University in St. Louis to which international legal protection applies. The mark is used in this publication by Wolters Kluwer under license from Washington University.

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The Washington Manual of Surgery (Lippincott Manual Series) Seventh Edition

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Concise, portable, and user-friendly, The Washington Manual of Surgery, 7th Edition, focuses on the essential information you need to know for successful care of patients with surgical disease.  This bestselling reference presents brief, logical approaches to the management of patients with comprehensive surgical problems. Throughout the manual, content has been completely updated, including new review questions, new chapters, and new treatment algorithms. This 7th Edition provides a clear view of the challenges surgical residents face, practical solutions, and expert guidance – all in one convenient and easily accessible source.

Key Features:

  • Thoroughly revised with information on the latest advances in surgical technique, instrumentation, and standards of practice.
  • New chapters on Biostatistics for the General Surgeon, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, and Fundamentals of Endoscopic, Laparoscopic, and Robotic Surgery.
  • Reorganized content emphasizes clarity and consistency, so you can find what you need more quickly.
  • Comprehensive coverage addresses all areas taught in general surgical residencies, including pediatric surgery.
  • Concise guidelines and algorithms assist in the diagnosis and management of surgical diseases.
  • Updated references are provided for readers who would like additional information on a particular topic.
  • Written by faculty and residents from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, one of the world’s top surgical training programs.

Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like:

  • Complete content with enhanced navigation
  • Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web
  • Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation
  • Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text
  • Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues
  • Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

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Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, Third Edition (Uses Guides to Medical Literature) 3rd Edition

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The streamlined companion to the classic Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature–fully updated and revised

This compact guide condenses the most clinically relevant content of the landmark Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature to help you incorporate evidence-based medicine into your practice.

You will learn the principles of evidence-based medicine, how your practice can benefit from the constant stream of new medical literature, and how to differentiate good medical evidence from that which is inadequate or misleading.

This edition includes numerous updates, several new chapters, and a greater emphasis on the role of patient preferences and preappraised resources.

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Emergency Medical Responder: A Skills Approach, Third Canadian Edition (3rd Edition) 3rd Edition

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Emergency Medical Responder: A Skills Approach is the essential guide for students preparing to enter the paramedic profession. Thoroughly Canadian, it incorporates case studies drawn from the authors’ experience, as well as perspectives, legislation, and procedures that are particular to Canada. A variety of enrichment materials are included throughout the book, as is expanded coverage on working with other members of the health care team and the importance of written reports and accurate documentation.

 

The third Canadian edition features updated CPR standards, review questions, and visuals. As well, the authors have worked significantly on expanding the section on diseases of concern, the glossary, pertinent medications, and corresponding NOCPs (National Occupational Competency Profiles of the Paramedic Association of Canada). Their dedication to creating a current and thorough textbook is clearly reflected in the fact that it has been a student favourite for more than a decade.

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