Product Description: Why waste time guessing at what you need to know for the otolaryngology board exam? Maximize your exam preparation time with this quick-hit question and answer review. The unique question and single-answer format eliminates the guesswork associated with traditional multiple-choice Q&A reviews and reinforces only the correct answers you'll need to know on exam day. Emphasis is placed on distilling key facts and clinical pearls essential for exam success. Great for certification and re-certification, this high-yield review for the boards is the perfect compliment to larger texts for intense, streamlined review in the days and weeks before your exam.
Product Description: Michael Chorost became a cyborg on October 1, 2001, the day his new ear was booted up. Born hard of hearing in 1964, he went completely deaf in his thirties. Rather than live in silence, he chose to have a computer surgically embedded in his skull to artificially restore his hearing. This is the story of Chorost’s journey -- from deafness to hearing, from human to cyborg -- and how it transformed him. The melding of silicon and flesh has long been the stuff of science fiction. But as Chorost reveals in this witty, poignant, and illuminating memoir, fantasy is now giving way to reality.
Chorost found his new body mystifyingly mechanical: kitchen magnets stuck to his head, and he could plug himself directly into a CD player. His hearing was routinely upgraded with new software. All this forced him to confront complex questions about humans in the machine age: When the senses become programmable, can we trust what they tell us about the world? Will cochlear implants destroy the signing deaf community? And above all, are cyborgs still human?
A brilliant dispatch from the technological frontier, Rebuilt is also an ode to sound. Whether Chorost is adjusting his software in a desperate attempt to make the world sound "right" again, exploring the neurobiology of the ear, or reflecting on the simple pleasure of his mother’s voice, he invites us to think about what we hear -- and how we experience the world -- in an altogether new way.
Brimming with insight and written with dry, self-deprecating humor, this quirky coming-of-age story unveils, in a way no other book has, the magnificent possibilities of a new technological era.
Product Description: Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond. Provides a practical knowledge base in oral and maxillofacial surgery. To be used as a study aid for exams and clinical rotations. Includes concise pearls, tips, memory aids, and 'secrets.' Bulleted lists, algorithms and illustrations are also included. Softcover. DNLM: Surgery, Oral--Examination Questions.
Product Description: Hugely popular on its first release, and now thoroughly revised and updated, the new edition of this pocket reference guide provides a rapid and thorough practical review and reference for otolaryngology clinicians and residents, as well as other medical students. Designed in an expanded outline format, the book is a guide to the entire medical course: from work-up, differential diagnosis and symptomatology to pathophysiology, complications, and current standard of care treatment plans. New content and illustrations appear throughout the text, and an additional chapter on Allergy and Immunology is included. Still in a convenient pocket-sized guide, this book remains an essential reference.
The leading guide to otolaryngology -- invaluable as both a general review and as a preparation for board certification or recertification
Since 1973, Essential Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery has proven itself as the benchmark guide to otolaryngology. This classic reference has now been thoroughly updated to bring you up to speed with today's practice of otolaryngology. In a single, compact volume, the book delivers the very latest critical information to help you treat conditions involving the head and neck, such as sinusitis, sensory disorders, cancer, and sleep disorders.
Features:
Top-to-bottom coverage that spans the entire discipline, yet provides an easy, at-a-glance review and summary of key information in otolaryngology
The perfect otolaryngology primer for the medical student/internist, and the ideal board review resource--in one complete volume!
Accessible, clinically relevant insights into this dynamic specialty
NEW! Addition of international contributors who deliver a timely new global perspective
NEW! More diagnostic algorithms throughout the text to sharpen your clinical decision-making
NEW! Chapters on Cysts and Tumors of the Jaw, TNM Classification in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and Malignant Melanoma
Product Description: Authored by one of the world's preeminent authorities in its field, this new book represents today's best single source of guidance on head and neck diagnostic imaging! It presents more details for each diagnosis · more representative images · more case data · and more current references than any other reference tool. At the same time, its user-friendly format lets readers access all of this information remarkably quickly!
Covers the top diagnoses in head and neck imaging, including both common and uncommon entities.
Begins each section with a unique chapter on critical anatomical and imaging issues; a clear and concise, contemporary and practical approach covers relevant terminology, spatial anatomy and imaging issues, embryology, and differential diagnoses, both general and specific.
Provides exquisitely reproduced imaging examples for every diagnosis-plus concise, bulleted summaries of terminology · imaging findings · key facts · differential diagnosis · pathology · clinical issues · a diagnostic checklist · and selected references.
Includes an extensive image gallery for each entity, depicting common and variant cases.
Offers vivid, full-color anatomy and pathology drawings.
Displays a "thumbnail" visual differential diagnosis for each entity.
Product Description: Why waste time guessing at what you need to know for the ophthalmology board exam? Maximize your exam preparation time with this quick-hit question and answer review. The unique question and single-answer format eliminates the guesswork associated with traditional multiple-choice Q&A reviews and reinforces only the correct answers you'll need to know on exam day. Emphasis is placed on distilling key facts and clinical pearls essential for exam success. Great for certification and re-certification, this high-yield review for the boards is the perfect compliment to larger texts for intense, streamlined review in the days and weeks before your exam.
Product Description: The most comprehensive physical therapy text available on this topic, Orthotics and Prosthetics in Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition provides clinically relevant information in a reader-friendly format. It provides essential information about orthotic/prosthetic prescription and fabrication to give readers a foundation for gait assessment, both pre- and post-intervention. Separate chapters cover each type of orthotic followed by clinical applications for typical and special populations, while the section on prosthetics provides an overview of the epidemiology of amputation and the criteria the physical therapist needs in order to determine the necessity for prosthetic limbs. Instructor resources available; contact your sales representative for details. * Includes guidelines for pre-prosthetic training programs * Presents case vignettes as models of evidence-based practice and clinical decision making * Uses a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate how physical therapists can best work with the rest of the health care team
Product Description: A Volume in the Early Childhood Intervention Series The comprehensive primary reference for assessment and management of infants and children of all ages with feeding and swallowing problems is updated and expanded in this second edition. The authors cogently detail vital information with clarity and precision for all professionals involved with pediatric swallowing and feeding disorders. New chapters focus on behavioral related feeding problems and chronic aspiration. Major reorganization adds evidence based, up-to-date information useful to the student as well as the seasoned practitioner.
Written by two renowned international experts in the field, this book gives a brilliant overview of the use of botulinum toxin A in aesthetic medicine, including patient selection and evaluation, as well as rules and requirements.
It provides hands-on information for the most common indications, such as forehead and glabella, lateral brow lift, crow’s feet and lower eyelid, bunny lines and marionette lines, nose and nasolabial folds, cheeks and "gummy smile," upper and lower lip, and the chin and neck.
Also included are the more advanced indications, such as facial asymmetries, Btx-A lifting and microinjection techniques.
Combination therapy and complications are also covered and a section with tips and tricks makes this book an invaluable resource for the practicing dermatologist, plastic surgeons and all other physicians interested in the field of aesthetic medicine.
