Book Description: This comprehensive, readable introduction to medical-surgical nursing is the best-selling medical-surgical text of all time! Meticulously revised and updated, this edition is the ultimate resource for meeting the nursing challenges in today's dynamic healthcare environment. Now presented in a vivid new four-color design, Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing offers an abundance of charts and displays to enhance visual appeal and make information easily accessible. New in the Eighth Edition: community-based nursing care, collaborative problems / critical thinking exercises, critical pathways, plus new chapters on Shock and Multisystem Failure, Chronic Illness, AIDS, Cultural Diversity, and Community-Based Nursing Care.
Textbook of Rabbit Medicine by: Frances Harcourt-Brown 3 used from $130.65 15 Thirdparty New from $131.15 Edition: 1 Media: Hardcover EAN: 9780750640022 ISBN: 0750640022 Number Of Pages: 436 Publication Date: 2001-12-15 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Product Description: A comprehensive yet practical handbook on the diagnosis and treatment of the pet rabbit. * Deals specifically with rabbit medicine and surgery * Contains vital information for the effective treatment of animals that may already be in a critical condition * Written by an acknowledged expert in this specific field of veterinary medicine.
Product Description: Here's the leading resource on endocrine surgery-fully revised and updated in a New Edition! It examines disorders of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands as well as neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas and gastrointestinal tract. Leading authorities from around the world discuss diagnosis, localization, intraoperative management, and surgical therapy for the full range of endocrine conditions.
Considers etiology, embryology, anatomy, clinical manifestations, and diagnostic and localization procedures as well as surgical and other treatment modalities for the full range of endocrine disorders.
Reviews rationales, pre-operative considerations, operative techniques, and post-operative treatment for each procedure ... as well as the benefits, risks, controversial issues, and cost-effectiveness of each approach.
Makes complex information easy to understand with more than 500 line drawings and photographs.
New chapters on genetic analysis, localization tests for thyroid cancer, and new surgical techniques for tumors.
In-depth coverage of important advances in molecular biology · minimally invasive surgery to the thyroid and parathyroid · islet cell transplants · preoperative evaluation and surgical treatment of hyperparathyroidism · indications and techniques for laparoscopic and open adrenalectomy · potential new treatments for thyroid cancer and other tumors · radiation exposure related to thyroid cancer · and more.
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Product Description: TEXTBOOK AND COLOR ATLAS OF TOOTH IMPACTIONS covers endodontic, orthodontic, and surgical aspects of all types of tooth impactions. It demonstrates the necessary and exciting features of a symbiosis of Pedodontics, Orthodontics, and Oral Surgery dealing with tooth impactions and includes manifold aspects of all types, such as etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. The treatment aspect is illustrated by step-by-step color illustrations of the surgical procedure, giving the reader easy access to specific topics.
* Unique in its coverage of pedodontic, orthodontic, and surgical aspects of all types of tooth impactions. * Compiled by an international panel of 22 researchers with a thorough knowledge of the subject. * One thousand illustrations.
Product Description: This new Oxford Textbook will become the definitive reference for ophthalmology. Fully illustrated in colour throughout, it covers all aspects of the scientific basis, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of the eye and its disorders, including neuro-ophthalmology, paediatric ophthalmology, and surgical principles and anaesthesia.
The textbook has been written by an international team of contributors who have been instructed to emphasize clear plans for clinical management, giving the scientific evidence on which they based, while also analysing underlying mechanisms of disease.
Written by surgeons who are noted teachers, this volume of our Orthopaedic Surgery Essentials Series presents all the information residents need during sports medicine rotations. It can easily be read cover to cover during a rotation or used for quick reference before a patient workup or operation. The user-friendly, visually stimulating format features ample illustrations, algorithms, bulleted lists, charts, and tables. The book begins with physical examination, non-surgical topics, and principles of arthroscopic surgery and proceeds to specific sports injuries at each anatomic site. Coverage of each injury includes surgical anatomy, diagnosis, imaging, indications for surgery, techniques, and complications.
Textbook of Oral Pathology by: William G. Shafer 13 used from $0.31 2 Thirdparty New from $10.00 Edition: 4 Sub Media: Hardcover EAN: 9780721681283 ISBN: 072168128X Number Of Pages: 875 Publication Date: 1983-07 Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company
Product Description: PRACTICAL, HANDS-ON GUIDE TO THE FUNDAMENTALS AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF CARDIOTHORACIC ANESTHESIOLOGY
"The anesthesia resident on a cardiothoracic rotation should be able to consult [this book] the night before a specific case and find sufficient practical information to facilitate his or her participation in its anesthetic management. For the fellow specializing in cardiothoracic anesthesiology, the book should provide a comprehensive study guide"-- from the Preface
Clearly organized into preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative sections covering diagnostics, anesthetic management, and physiologic and pharmacologic principles Describes most of the diagnostic and evaluation methods currently used for patients with cardiothoracic disease Explains the basic principles of the diagnostic methodology and the various diagnostic tests; compares values relative to other techniques and reports their limitations Blends fundamental applications of anesthesiology with a practical focus Encompasses a broad range of thoracic topics not treated in other references, including medastinal, esophageal, tracheal, lung, airway, aortic and pericardial surgeries