A four-color, 6-panel clinical card measuring 3.75 x 7.5 inches that presents pertinent clinical information about Crohn's Disease in a quick-reference format! Durable and compact, this card us UV varnished for long life and is the perfect protable reference for busy healthcare professionals.
Hailed as "important book certain to stir extended psychoanalytic debate" (American Journal of Psychiatry) on publication in 1979, Gedo's Beyond Interpretation set forth a radically new theoretical framework and clinical agenda for modern psychoanalysis. The theoretical framework revolved around Gedo's reconceptualization of human personality as a hierarchy of personal aims culminating in a "self-organization." The clinical agenda followed from the need for interventions that regularly went "bey...
Neurotransmitters in Epilepsy (Epilepsy Research Supplements, v. 8)
This volume presents recent information on the role of neurotransmitters in epileptogenesis. Organized into five sections, the first section addresses the various experimental models of epilepsy used for studying neurotransmitter mechanisms. The second section is concerned with the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid, and the third with studies that have led to new insights into the role of excitatory amino acids in mediating epileptic phenomena. The fourth section considers the...
Wenn Sie sich fur ein Medizinstudium entschieden haben, mussen Sie sich auch mit der Chemie auseinandersetzen. Aber keine Sorge, dieses Buch bereitet Sie optimal auf die anstehende Prufung vor. "Chemie fur Mediziner fur Dummies" erklart Ihnen anschaulich, wie ein Atom aufgebaut ist, welche Arten der chemischen Bindung es gibt, was Komplexverbindungen sind und fuhrt Sie in die Organische Chemie und die Chemie der Naturstoffe ein. Bernd Goldfuss erklart Ihnen alles, was Sie als Mediziner uber die...
Strahlen und Gesundheit beschreibt in allgemein verst?ndlicher Form sowohl die diagnostischen und therapeutischen M?glichkeiten der Strahlenanwendung als auch die Gefahren f?r die menschliche Gesundheit. Dabei werden die Erkenntnisse von medizinischer Technik, Strahlenbiologie und -medizin und Strahlenepidemiologie ber?cksichtigt, ohne sich zu sehr in wissenschaftlichen Details zu verlieren. In einem eher wissenschaftlich orientierten zweiten Teil werden die Grundlagen ausf?hrlicher erl?utert...
There's a running joke among radiologists: finding a tumor in a mammogram is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. A bit of medical gallows humour, this simile illustrates the difficulties of finding signals (the snowball) against a background of noise (the blizzard). Doctors are faced with similar difficulties every day when sifting through piles of data from blood tests to X-rays to endless lists of patient symptoms.Diagnoses are often just educated guesses, and prognoses less certain stil...
Evaluation des connaissances infirmi�res � propos l'h�patite C
by Marwa Gargouri and Hela Gargouri
With fast facts and packed with tables, this useful updated edition continues to present valuable quick-reference information to the clinical microbiology community in a small package. Along with specifics on pathogenic microorganisms, there is updated information on essential diagnostic techniques--MALDI-TOF MS and sequencing--and a greatly expanded section on susceptibility testing.
Methods in Neurosciences (Methods in Neurosciences, Vol 17)
Recent data suggest a critical role for cytokines in the regulation of brain and endocrine ftmction under non-nal physiological conditions. The aim of this volume and its companion Volume 16 is to provide an overview of the effects of cytokines in the brain and in the endocrine system. Major topics include: General aspects of cvtokines, including the endoizenous agonists and antagonists, their receptors, @heir second messengers, and transport mechanisms for c@lokines across the blood-brain barr'...
Bonney's Gynaecological Surgery
by John M. Monaghan, Tito Lopes, and Raj Naik
Bonney's Gynaecological Surgery has been a firm favourite for gynaecological surgical practice since it was first published in 1911! In this new tenth edition, this classic of the medical literature has been extensively revised and expanded by three leading gynaecological oncologists. Specifically tailored for trainees in obstetrics and gynaecology, the text focuses on the most commonly performed procedures. This, the tenth edition carries a renewed emphasis on evidence-based decision making, a...
In the new edition of this successful and authoritative book, the thalassaemias are reviewed in detail with respect to their clinical features, cellular pathology, molecular genetics, prevention and treatment. It is aimed at specialists in haematology in the laboratory or clinical setting, particularly in areas where thalassaemia is common either in the native population or in immigrant communities. The fourth edition has been both updated and re-organized. Three new chapters have been added on...
An invaluable addition to the library of any neurologist, this book updates and presents the current state of the art clinical approaches to this subject, assisting neurologists and physicians alike in this difficult but increasingly common situation.
Proceedings of the Third Baveno International Consensus Workshop on Definitions, Methodology and Therapeutic Strategies. The participants attempted to develop consensus definitions of key events in portal hypertension and variceal bleeding, diagnostic and therapeutic issues, and the complications of therapies for portal hypertension, as well as producing updated guidelines. The lectures summarized the consensus reached in the earlier workshops, addressed two important new areas of research, and...
Principles of Applied Clinical Chemistry Chemical Background and Medical Applications
"Clinical Chemistry encompasses the study of the fundamental princi- ples of chemistry as applied to an understanding of the functioning of the human organism in health and disease." 1 From its very definition, clinical chemistry is an applied science. Its scope includes the following: I. Studies designed to elucidate the chemical mechanisms whereby the human normally functions. 2. The application of this information to an understanding of the disease process in the human. 3. The development of...
Wie effektiv ist E-Learning bei der Vermittlung praktischer Fertigkeiten?
by Manfred Eglmeier
End-Stage Renal Disease
End-Stage Renal Disease: An Integrated Approach is a collection of papers that focuses on the care of patients with end-stage renal disease. The book presents informative chapters that discuss aspects of renal disease such as renal physiology and pathophysiology of renal failure; the presentation of the patient with chronic renal failure; and nursing care of the patient with end-stage renal disease. The text will be of value to nephrologists, physicians, general internists, and medical student...
Most parents care deeply about their children. If that were enough, we would not see the inequalities we currently do in children's opportunities and healthy development-children out of school, children laboring, children living in poverty. While the scale of the problems can seem overwhelming, history has shown that massive progress is possible on problems that once seemed unsolvable. Within the span of less than twenty-five years, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has been cut...
Pretest Emergency Medicine, Fifth Edition
by Adam J Rosh and Ciara Barlcay-Buchanan