Challenging Concepts in Critical Care: Cases with Expert Commentary (Challenging Cases)

Challenging Concepts in Critical Care: Cases with Expert Commentary (Challenging Cases)

A case-based guide with expert commentary, Challenging Concepts in Critical Care shows how the experts approach and deal with real-life clinical scenarios. Each chapter presents a clinically challenging case complete with a case history, evidence based tips, and up-to-date learning points. To give further insight into the field, each chapter has commentary from an expert who identifies and explains the key points and controversies of the case.

Practical yet rich in detail, Challenging Concepts in Critical Care is a key title for anyone preparing for intensive care exams. For each case, key information is highlighted through the use of boxes to stimulate interest and facilitate learning: ‘Learning points’, ‘Clinical tips’, ‘Evidence base’, and ‘Expert commentary’. With new information on key trials, clinical practise, and evidence based research, this book is also an invaluable resource for experienced critical care
clinicians looking for a concise update on a wide range of challenging topics in the field. In addition, it is of high value to senior ICU nurses, allied health professionals, and anyone with an interest in intensive care medicine.

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Mastering the 12-Lead EKG 2nd Edition

Mastering the 12-Lead EKG 2nd Edition

“Flawless execution of concept…Takes clinical practice and experience and brings it into the classroom…This book is for the EKG novice to one who just needs a great review text.”

-Gwen Ferdinand-Jacob, DHSc, MPAS, PA-C

Executive Director, Director Physician Assistant Program, Kansas State University

Mastering the 12-Lead EKG, Second Edition is the only book to boil down the complexity of learning EKG interpretation into an engaging and approachable tool. This resource uses a step-by-step systematic method, real-world clinical applications, and abundant practice opportunities to teach everything students need to know to provide expert, quality care. The second edition is greatly enhanced with abundant exercises that apply and reinforce chapter concepts.

With a clear, approachable writing style, the book delivers extensive opportunities for learning, taking students from the beginning of their EKG journey through mastery of the 12 lead. Woven throughout each chapter is an algorithmic method for mastering EKG interpretation that fosters retention of the content. Hand-drawn illustrations will keep you engaged as you learn everything you need to know about EKGs, beginning with anatomy and physiology and closing with the latest important 12-lead EKG topics. You will have hundreds of opportunities to practice and apply your knowledge through interpreting sample EKG strips, case studies, and fill-in-the-blank questions.

New to the Second Edition:

  • Incorporates over 360 exercises that apply and reinforce chapter concepts
  • Offers hundreds of practice opportunities including EKG strip interpretation, case studies, and questions with detailed explanations

Key Features:

  • Utilizes a conversational writing style and abundant images, including more than 500 EKG strips and over 120 illustrations
  • Applies a step-by-step algorithmic method for interpreting 12-lead EKGs
  • Presents real-world examples to connect complex clinical concepts
  • Provides online answers with detailed explanations of important concepts
  • Delivers both the breadth and depth that health care professionals need to provide quality patient care

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Swanson’s Family Medicine Review 9th Edition

Swanson’s Family Medicine Review 9th Edition

Ideal for practicing physicians and residents who are preparing to take the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) initial or continuing exam, Swanson’s Family Medicine Review: A Problem-Oriented Approach, 9th Edition, provides more than 2,500 questions in a practical case study format. This bestselling review tool reflects the clinical disciplines as tested by the ABFM, and also serves as an excellent resource for residents’ case-based RISE exams. Fully updated and easy to use, it covers recent developments and current information in family medicine, providing the assistance you need to ensure success on the ABFM exam.

  • Uses realistic case problems as a basis for questions on diagnosis and management, with detailed answers that explain both correct and incorrect responses.
  • Prepares you for the ABFM’s Certificates of Added Qualifications (CAQs) in adolescent medicine, geriatric medicine, hospice and palliative medicine, pain medicine, sleep medicine, and sports medicine, as well as the upcoming CAQ in hospital medicine.
  • Reflects meticulous updating for accuracy and complete coverage, including more questions in key areas for newer CAQs.
  • Includes tips and tricks for passing the board exam, clinical algorithms throughout, summaries at the end of each case, and case management problems that suggest the ideal diagnostic work-up.
  • Allows you to earn up to 75 CME Credits online through Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices, as well as answer questions interactively and check your answers on any electronic platform.

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Crash Course Psychiatry 5th Edition

Crash Course Psychiatry 5th Edition

Crash Course – your effective every-day study companion PLUS the perfect antidote for exam stress! Save time and be assured you have the essential information you need in one place to excel on your course and achieve exam success.

A winning formula now for over 20 years, each series volume has been fine-tuned and fully updated – with an improved full-colour layout tailored to make your life easier. Especially written by senior students or junior doctors – those who understand what is essential for exam success – with all information thoroughly checked and quality assured by expert Faculty Advisers, the result are books which exactly meet your needs and you know you can trust.

Each chapter guides you succinctly through the full range of curriculum topics, integrating clinical considerations with the relevant basic science and avoiding unnecessary or confusing detail. A range of text boxes help you get to the hints, tips and key points you need fast! A fully revised self-assessment section matching the latest exam formats is included to check your understanding and aid exam preparation. The accompanying enhanced, downloadable eBook completes this invaluable learning package.

Series volumes have been honed to meet the requirements of today’s medical students, although the range of other health students and professionals who need rapid access to the essentials of psychiatry will also love the unique approach of Crash Course. Whether you need to get out of a fix or aim for a distinction Crash Course is for you!

  • Provides the exam syllabus in one place – saves valuable revision time

  • Written by senior students and recent graduates – those closest to what is essential for exam success

  • Quality assured by leading Faculty Advisors – ensures complete accuracy of information

  • Features the ever popular ‘Hints and Tips’ boxes and other useful aide-mémoires – distilled wisdom from those in the know

  • Updated self-assessment section matching the latest exam formats – confirm your understanding and improve exam technique fast

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Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine 10th Edition

Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine 10th Edition

Now in its tenth edition, Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine is fully updated and revised under a new team of editors.
Featuring new chapters covering:
o Diagnosis: the art of being a doctor – helping readers to develop a confident clinical method in interactions with patients
o Elderly medicine, frailty and multimorbidity
o Public health
o Surgery
o Evidence-based medicine
o Sepsis and the treatment of bacterial infection
o Haematological Oncology
o Venous thromboembolic disease
o Hypertension
o Men’s health
Enhanced clinical skills content has been added to most chapters – helping readers tailor history-taking and examination skills to specific specialty-based contexts.
Bonus online content – including self-assessment, common clinical and international cases, cardiovascular and respiratory audio material, clinical examination videos and bite-sized topic pages covering major conditions.
Heavily revised throughout with smaller chapters to ease navigation, added introductions and system overviews included for most chapters.

Edited by Adam Feather, MBBS, FRCP, FAcadMEd; David Randall, MA, MRCP; and Mona Waterhouse, MA, MRCP

Contributors comprise consultants at the top of their fields, paired with younger doctors closer to the exam experience, to ensure authority and relevance.

Enhanced e-book accompanies the print book, for ease of transportation and use on the move.

International Advisory Board, led by Professor Janaka de Silva and Professor Senaka Rajapakse, providing guidance for global coverage from across the world.

Contributions to the e-book by members of the International Advisory Board to amplify areas of clinical importance in their parts of the world.

Featuring new chapters covering: o Diagnosis: the art of being a doctor – helping readers to develop a confident clinical method in interactions with patients o Geriatric medicine, frailty and multimorbidity o Public health o Surgery o Evidence-based medicine o Sepsis o Haematological Oncology o Venous thromboembolic disease o Hypertension o Men’s health o Obstetric medicine Enhanced clinical skills content has been added to most chapters – helping readers tailor history-taking and examination skills to specific specialty-based contexts.

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Davidson’s 100 Clinical Cases 2nd Edition

Davidson’s 100 Clinical Cases 2nd Edition

Davidson’s 100 Clinical Cases was awarded First Prize in Medicine in the 2009 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards. This book reflects the real world in which doctors practise medicine. The selection of clinical problems guides the reader, step by step, through the correct path in the maze between the presenting complaint of a patient and the final diagnosis. The text emphasises the value of interpreting available clinical and investigative information in a logical way before considering a definitive diagnosis.

  • The 100 cases are based on the ‘presenting problems’ of Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine.

 

 

  • The book provides an international outlook reflecting the differences in the practice of medicine in the developing world and in low-resource settings, and addresses the epidemiological, economic and other reasons for many of these important differences.

 

  • The cases are written by a team of senior doctors, from 12 countries, with considerable teaching experience.

The book now includes 100 cases all closely linked to the ‘presenting problems’ sections of the latest 21st Edition of Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine. In this expanded new edition there are many new cases including aluminium phosphide poisoning; occupational lung disease; tremor; and drug interactions.

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Cardiology Secrets 6th Edition

Cardiology Secrets 6th Edition

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Cardiology Secrets, 6th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

  • The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time  – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective.
  • Fully revised and updated, including new information on peripheral vascular and cerebrovascular disease, direct oral anticoagulant agents, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
  • New chapter on COVID-19 and the Cardiovascular System.
  • Several hundred illustrations, figures, and flow diagrams clearly depict key topics.
  • Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams.
  • Bulleted lists, mnemonics, practical tips from global leaders in the field – all providing a concise overview of important board-relevant content.
  • Written by global experts and thought leaders in cardiovascular disease.
  • Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime.
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology, Fourth Edition 4th Edition

The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology, Fourth Edition 4th Edition

Expert, hands-on guidance for the practicing oncologist―from the leader in the field of cancer management―completely updated to reflect the latest advances

A Doody’s Core Title for 2022!

Comprehensive and authoritative, The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology delivers everything you need to accurately diagnose and effectively treat a wide range of cancers―including leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, lung and breast cancer, genitourinary carcinoma, melanoma, and sarcoma.

This unmatched resource emphasizes practical, actionable steps to cancer treatment, providing “to the point” recommendations, chapter summary boxes, tables, charts, expert opinion and patient education boxes, practice tips, cases, and prescriptive advice. The new format of this updated edition quickly guides you to the topic, the affiliated relevant chapter, new findings affecting clinical practice, and reference/evidence.

This fourth edition features:

NEW Q&A, cases, patient education information, and expert advice
Expanded coverage of immunotherapy treatment―written by the 2018 Nobel Prize-winner for immunology
Access to continually updated online content
A comparative table with guidelines from the European Society of Medical Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology
An emphasis on recent developments in precision medicine and immunotherapies
Plus important NEW chapters on:
Cord blood transplant
Haploidentical cell transplantation
Cellular therapy in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation
Pediatric cancers
Molecular biomarkers and cancer
Immune-oncology
Targeted therapies in cancer
Applied biostatistics
Oncocardiology
Pulmonary complications of cancer associated thrombosis

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Clinical Pharmacology 12th Edition

Clinical Pharmacology 12th Edition

‘The very last thing a drug regulator wishes to be able to say is, like Lord Byron (1788-1824), on the publication of his poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, ‘I awoke one morning and found myself famous.’

The twelfth edition of this long-established textbook of clinical pharmacology (first published in 1960) continues its fine tradition of balancing science and practice for improved evidence-based drug therapy and good prescribing in therapeutic settings increasingly complicated by intercurrent disease and polypharmacy.

Coverage of all major therapeutic topics by body system.
Introductory sections give brief chapter synopses.
Case studies where relevant.
Covers the needs of the developing world with a focus on practical prescribing and health technology assessment.
Definition, tips, brief explanation boxes throughout.
Interesting histories, etymologies and provenances of terms throughout.
Entertaining footnotes throughout.
Fully updated throughout.
New co-editor: Fraz Mir, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.
Now with free e-book on StudentConsult.

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Evidence-Based Nephrology, 2 Volume Set (Evidence-Based Medicine) 2nd Edition

Evidence-Based Nephrology, 2 Volume Set (Evidence-Based Medicine) 2nd Edition

Evidence-based Nephrology provides students of nephrology and practicing clinicians with a convenient single source of clinical evidence that has been passed through an evidence-based filter. This fully revised second edition incorporates substantial new available data, updated methods of research synthesis, and a renewed focus on consumer engagement in the evaluation and management kidney disease.

This updated textbook includes twenty new chapters and three new sections, covering supportive care and patient-centered care and outcomes. In addition, every chapter that was in the first edition has been extensively updated. This new edition covers epidemiology, acute kidney injury, primary diseases of the kidney, secondary diseases of the kidney, chronic kidney disease and complications, hemodialysis, chronic kidney disease stage 5, peritoneal dialysis, supportive care, transplantation, electrolytes and acid-base disorders, and patient centered care and outcomes for both adult and for pediatric patients.

Boasting a new co-editor along with several new chapter authors and section editors, Evidence-based Nephrology is now an even better evidence-based nephrology tool, where each chapter provides a clear foundation of the topic that is supported by the best current evidence. This new edition includes broader coverage of the available evidence and addresses crucial clinical questions regarding the treatment and care of people with all stages of chronic kidney disease, including people undergoing any form of dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis), those requiring kidney transplantation and pediatric patients.

Evidence-based Nephrology, Second Edition, is a core resource for the evidence-based nephrology practitioner who is otherwise limited by time constraints from researching every question that may arise daily in the care of their patients.

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