How the Body Works: The Facts Simply Explained (DK How Stuff Works) 

This book takes you on the ultimate anatomical adventure around your own body, revealing how little you know about yourself in mind-blowing depth and detail.

As part of the best-selling How Things Work series, this biological bonanza uses dynamic graphics, simple science, and accessible text to explore and explain this tricky subject as never before.



If you’ve ever wondered why your blood is red, how your reflexes work, what makes you feel dizzy, and where exactly are the butterflies in your tummy, then wonder no more. The answers to all these questions and many others are included in this essential visual guide. From body basics to advanced anatomy, How the Body Works introduces all your weird and wonderful parts and processes, alongside fascinating facts and easy explanations across hundreds of pages.



Guaranteed to get your brain in gear, you’ll get to know your physical self in terms of cells, skin, bones, and blood, as well as getting to grips with your emotional side in the psychology of emotions, memories, and dreams. 

Understand how our bodies keep us alive and thriving with How the Body Works.

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An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry 5th Edition

An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry is the leading text for university courses on this subject. Renowned for being a textbook loved equally by both students and lecturers, it presents complete coverage in an accessible and engaging style.

The text begins with the essential biochemistry on which an understanding of medicinal chemistry is built, introducing the structure and function of important drug targets. It then explores how drugs interact with the body and the consequences of those reactions. There is a section on general principles and strategies involved in discovering and designing new drugs, and another on useful ‘tools of the trade’. The text ends with a contemporary look at specific topics within medicinal chemistry, for example, antiviral and anticancer agents; cholinergics and anticholinesterases; and antiulcer agents.

Learning features throughout An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry help to unlock this fascinating subject. A glossary helps to familiarise the language of medicinal chemistry. Boxes present in-depth material and explore how concepts are applied in practice. Key points summarise sections within chapters, providing a basis for revision, and questions at the end of chapters and on the accompanying Online Resource Centre allow the reader to test their understanding and develop molecular modelling skills.

Online Resource Centre

The Online Resource Centre features:

For registered adopters of the book:
DT Answers to end-of-chapter questions
DT Figures from the book
DT Power Point slides
DT Test Bank questions

For students:
DT Multiple Choice Questions
DT Web articles
DT Molecular Modelling Exercises
DT 3D Rotatable structures

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Parasitology: An Integrated Approach (New York Academy of Sciences) 2nd Edition

Parasitology

Highly detailed textbook on parasites and parasite relationships

The fully revised edition of Parasitology: An Integrated Approach holds true to its engaging and easy-to-read approach. It comprehensively covers the complex and dynamic interaction between the parasite and its host ranging from invertebrates to vertebrates. Following an integrated approach, the authors explain how the study of parasites requires an understanding of biological concepts such as growth and reproduction, molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology, and pathology. In this second edition, they further address parasites and parasite relationships in the grand scheme of global changes and their impact.

This textbook also reviews the often-neglected positive aspects of parasite infections and how humans have used parasites for their own advantage.

Parasitology: An Integrated Approach, 2nd edition includes supplementary learning resources such as self-assessment quizzes, practical exercises, and an extensive collection of photographs.

• Now includes parasite life cycles in colour
• Strong focus on parasite interactions with other pathogens such as bacteria and viruses
• Discusses major advancements in the field of parasite diagnostics
• Additional image material and learning resources (quizzes, practical exercises) provided online

A valuable and comprehensive learning resource for undergraduate students in the biological, biomedical and veterinary sciences and in medicine. It is also of interest to postgraduates and professionals with an interest including but not limited to parasitology, animal welfare, ecology, and medical microbiology.

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The Concise Human Body Book (DK Human Body Guides) 

Discover all there is to know about human anatomy in DK’s latest concise visual guide to the human body.

Fully updated to reflect the latest medical information, The Concise Human Body Book is illustrated throughout with colorful and comprehensive diagrams, photographs, scans, and 3D artworks, which take you right into the cells and fibers that are responsible for keeping your body ticking.

The Concise Human Body Book provides full coverage of the body, function by function, system by system. In the opening chapter, colorful medical scans, illustrations, and easy-to-understand diagrams show you how the different parts of the body work together to produce a living whole. Eleven main body systems – including the skeletal system, cardiovascular system, and respiratory system – are then covered in intricate detail in the following chapters, with each section ending on common diseases and disorders that can affect that system.

From bones and muscles to systems and processes, this in-depth, pocket-sized guide to the body’s physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems is the must-have reference manual for trainee medical professionals, students, or anyone interested in finding out more about how the human body works.

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Mechanical Circulatory Support Therapy In Advanced Heart Failure Illustrated Edition

This engaging book provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the rapidly evolving field of mechanical circulatory support therapy in the care of patients with advanced heart failure. It is aimed at healthcare teams around the world who are involved in patient care, research, and teaching of advanced heart failure; healthcare professionals in training; and interested lay persons. In particular, this book * serves as a comprehensive resource and practice guide on all aspects of mechanical circulatory support therapy, starting with an overview on heart failure management and then continuing with the referral and evaluation, the care before and after mechanical circulatory support implantation, the analysis of outcomes and complications, as well as a description of research and societal perspectives in the field of mechanical circulatory support therapy; * is founded on the expertise of Columbia University Medical Center (New York City), which has one of the most renowned heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and heart transplantation programs in the world; * takes a multidisciplinary integrated healthcare team approach, including the perspectives of cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, nurses, coordinators, social workers, psychologists, physical therapists, financial experts, and bioethicists; and * provides in a unique way the complementary viewpoints from the expert healthcare team’s as well as the patient’s and family’s perspectives, with patient vignettes interspersed throughout the entire text.

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ISCCM Manual of RRT and ECMO in ICU: A Reference Book for Practicing Intensivists 1st Edition

The book provides best practices in renal replacement therapy and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a comprehensive and practical.

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Developing the Digital Lung, E-Book: From First Lung CT to Clinical AI 

Reflecting recent major advances in the field of artificial intelligence, Developing the Digital Lung, From First Lung CT to Clinical AI, by Dr. John Newell, is your go-to reference for all aspects of applied artificial intelligence in lung disease development, including application to clinical medicine. It provides a unique overview of the field, beginning with a review of the origins of artificial intelligence in the mid-1970s and progressing to its application to clinical medicine in the early 2020s. Organized based on the four stages of development, this practical, easy-to-use resource helps you effectively apply artificial intelligences to lung imaging.
Traces the development of precise quantitative CT of diffuse lung disease through the use of applied AI, leading to faster effective diagnosis of patients with lung disease.

Reviews CT manufacturers, models and scanning protocol used to produce the 3D digital maps of the lungs.

Discusses how the data processed by AI algorithms can produce measures of emphysema, air trapping, and airway wall thickening in subjects with COPD and measures of pulmonary fibrosis and traction bronchiectasis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

Demonstrates the differences between reactive machine AI and limited memory AI methods.

Includes comprehensive case studies and current information on cloud computing.

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Macleod’s Clinical Examination 15th Edition

Fifty years since it was first published and now fully revised, Macleod’s remains the textbook of choice for medical students, junior doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners who understand that excellence in clinical examination is integral to good practice.

The fifteenth edition will teach you how to take a history and carry out proficient clinical examination, in order to elicit the key clinical symptoms and signs of disease. It covers general principles, relevant history, examination and investigations for all the major body systems – and how to effectively apply these skills to specific clinical situations and prepare for assessment.

Macleod’s Clinical Examination is enhanced with 32 supplementary videos demonstrating key clinical examination routines described in the book, many new and revised for this edition in line with latest guidance and best practice.

• Primarily focused on the practical skills required by medical students and early career stage clinicians

• Explains the physical basis of clinical signs to aid understanding

• Introduces the formulation of a differential diagnosis

• Provides logical initial investigations for each body system

• Comes with access to the complete, fully searchable and downloadable eBook

• Enhanced sections on adapting skills to particular situations, including the challenges of remote consultation and infection control

• Updated text and images, to ensure the content is relevant to a diverse readership and patient population

• Latest clinical decision-making models to aid the learner’s diagnostic reasoning

• 8 brand new videos produced especially for this edition covering:

• • Obstetric examination
  • Gynaecological examination
  • Assessment of fluid balance
  • Examination of the hand and wrist
  • Examination of the foot and ankle
  • Examination of the neck
  • Examination of the foot in diabetes and peripheral vascular disease
  • The timed up and go test

   

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Fundamentals of Fixed Prosthodontics 4th Edition

The fourth edition of this popular undergraduate text has been updated and expanded to reflect new research, materials, and techniques in fixed prostho-dontics, with the addition of more than 350 new illustrations and three new chapters on the restoration of implants. It is designed to serve as an introduction to restorative dentistry techniques using fixed partial dentures and cast metal, metal-ceramic, and all-ceramic restorations, providing the background knowledge needed by the novice and serving as a refresher for the practitioner or graduate student. Specific techniques and instruments are discussed, and updated information has been added to cover new cements, new impression materials and equipment, and changes in soft tissue management methods used during impression procedures. New articulators, facebows, and concepts of occlusion have been added, along with precise ways of making removable dies. Different ways of handling edentulous ridges with defects that provide better control over the functional and cosmetic outcome are also presented. Finally, the topics of esthetic and implant restorations, which have become increasingly emphasized in dental practice, are given greater attention.

Contents

1. An Introduction to Fixed Prosthodontics

2. Fundamentals of Occlusion

3. Articulators

4. Interocclusal Records

5. Articulation of Casts

6. Treatment Planning for Single-Tooth Restorations

7. Treatment Planning for the Replacement of Missing Teeth

8. Fixed Partial Denture and Implant Configurations

9. Principles of Tooth Preparations

10. Preparations for Full Coverage Crowns

11. Preparations for Partial Coverage Crowns

12. Preparations for Intracoronal Restorations

13. Preparations for Severely Debilitated Teeth

14. Preparations for Periodontally Weakened Teeth

15. Provisional Restorations

16. Fluid Control and Soft Tissue Management

17. Impressions

18. Working Casts and Dies

19. Wax Patterns

20. Investing and Casting

21. Cementation and Bonding

22. Esthetic Considerations

23. All-Ceramic Restorations

24. Metal-Ceramic Restorations

25. Pontics and Edentulous Ridges

26. Solder Joints and Other Connectors

27. Restoration of Osseointegrated Dental Implants

28. Single-Tooth Implant Restoration

29. Multiple-Tooth Implant Restoration

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AIIMS Protocols Neonatology Core Protocol Volume-1

AIIMS Protocols Neonatology Core Protocol Volume-1, guides you and others involved in caring for sick and normal newborn babies. It is a compendium of the clinical protocols which have been used in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the premier institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AllMS), N ew Delhi, for the last few decades. The editors, drawn from the faculty of Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, AllMS, have developed and refined these protocols based on their experiences, learnings, and, most importantly, evidence from the literature. The faculty from other divisions and departments at the institute, along with the current and former fellows of the neonatology division, have helped the editors finalize the protocols. Not surprisingly, the previous two editions of the book received rave reviews, accolades and recognition from the residents, fellows, faculty, and practitioners in India, South East Asia, and other parts of the world.

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