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Brings together a line-up of reviews on cultural aspect of child and adolescent psychiatry. This title covers such topics as: culture and development; immigration, acculturation, and stress; language, culture and adaptation; racial and ethnic disparities in mental health; and, cultural assessment and formulation.

Provides an overview of the surgical treatments to the hand and wrist of patients suffering with inflammatory arthritis. Including discussions with regard to various types of arthoplasty, this book covers soft tissue deformity and joint replacement with a presentation of the design of implants for the wrist and fingers, written by design surgeons.

Focuses on the development of the emergency medical specialty from the post World War II period to the early 1990s. In addition to chronicling the times and events of the genesis of emergency medicine, the book incorporates the oral history of the field from more than forty five interviews with the founders of emergency medicine.

Focuses on the advances in Colorectal Cancer and includes articles on Management of Multiple Adenomatous Polyps, Imaging of Rectal Cancers, Optimal Management of Small Rectal Cancers, Neoadjuvant Therapy for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer, Low Anterior Rectal Cancer Resection, Laparoscopy, and Adjuvant Therapy.

Offers guidelines and step-by-step sequences for moving and working with individuals with differing levels of paralysis. This title serves as both an ideal student textbook and a valuable clinical manual for therapists who see tetraplegic and paraplegic patients.

Doctors and nurses increasingly face a number of dilemmas with regulating health quality issues. This book focuses on the legal and professional conflicts and issues that can arise from regulating health care quality. It spells out and discusses the issues, taking an academic approach.

Offers information that places coronary artery disease in a historical, evolutionary, and scientific context. This book provides insight into the importance of history and how science, society and social circumstances interact. The contexts are biological, clinical, managerial, social and historical.

This handbook presents an anatomic approach to locating the needle insertion site for EMG, using guidelines that are applicable to patients of all ages and sizes. Text is presented in outline format and indicates peripheral and nerve root innervations, patient positioning, and notes and cautions.

A primary care practitioner needs to be a jack of all trades who is familiar with all body systems and their disorders. This title deals with common urinary tract conditions that are encountered in a typical office practice. Suitable family practice physicians, it includes the articles focusing on diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment options.

Brings together evidence-based knowledge from different fields. This book offers the health professional practical and evidenced-based strategies to facilitate adherence to prescribed physical activity or therapeutic exercise needed to achieve durable results in the preventative and therapeutic health care of ageing populations.

Neurology and Psychiatry, though closely related within neuroscience, nonetheless remain distinct in terms of clinical practice. This issue presents articles meant to bridge the clinical divide between these two disciplines.

Cardiac electrophysiologists have many options for treating arrhythmias, including catheter ablation and implantable cardiac defibrillators. This title summarizes the thinking on the role of pharmaceuticals in relation to other types of treatment, helping electrophysiologists to determine the best method for managing their patients.

Features articles on: Optimizing Antimicrobial Therapy in Life-threatening infection, sepsis and septic shock; General principles of antimicrobial dosing and PK/PD; Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic issues in the critically ill with severe sepsis and septic shock; Understanding antimicrobial resistance; and, Antifungal therapy.

Examines various aspects of osteoarthritis. This book features articles on the following topics: epidemiology; etiopathogenesis; the role of bone and meniscus in disease genesis; genetics; joint mechanics; symptoms, imaging; overview of management; obesity and management of body weight; and, the role of muscle in disease genesis.

Ocular emergencies can present major problems for vets. This book emphasises on differential diagnoses and treatment options, showing where the case needs referral to a specialist for resolution.

Provides workable educational strategies to assist busy practitioners supervise and support the learning and assessment of learners during clinical placements, to achieve valid and reliable assessments.

Highlights important areas in kidney failure and renal replacement therapies for all small animal practitioners.

Reviews the genetic basis of several heart rhythm disturbances, focusing on information that is relevant for the clinician.

Examining Perinatal HIV/AIDS, this title offers reviews on topics including Epidemiology of perinatal HIV infection: US and worldwide; Biology of perinatal HIV transmission - Timing, virologic and immunologic factors; and, Viral sequencing from HIV-infected mothers and infants.

Feature such article topics as - Frailty and Late Life Decline; The Epidemiology of Frailty and Late Life Vulnerability; The Physiology of Frailty; Frailty and Muscle Mass Decline; Frailty and Anemia; Immune System Alterations in Frailty; CMV/ Viral Infections and Frailty; Frailty and Chronic Disease; and, Aging Biology and Frailty.

Features subject topics such as: Interventions for Anxiety in the Critically Ill: A Guide for Nurses and Families; Psychiatric Co-Morbidities Across the Lifespan; Prevention Approaches in Childhood Mental Health Disorders; Adolescent Substance Use Conditions; Traumatic Brain Injury; Screening and Treatment of Depression in Primary Care; and, more.

A title that presents validated clinical decision rules, describes time-efficient approaches for the emergency physician to identify critical radiographic findings that impact clinical management and discusses hot topics such as radiation risks, oral and IV contrast in abdominal CT, MRI versus CT for occult hip injury, and more.

Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) Therapy is a hugely important therapy option for sleep medicine specialists. This title examines PAP therapy from different angles, in adults and children, to deliver a collection of reviews for the clinician.

Covers such topics as Endolymphatic hydrops - pathophysiology and experimental models; Physiologic effects on the cochlea in Meniere's disease; Physiologic effects on the vestibular system in Meniere's disease; Audiovestibular testing in Meniere's patients; and, Clinical hints and Precipitating Factors in patients suffering from Meniere's disease.

Features topics such as: Epidemiology of Falls in Older Adults; Exercise for Fall Prevention; Cardiac Causes of Falls and their Treatment; Medications and Falls; Vision and Fall Prevention; Preventing Falls in the Hospital; and, Public Health Approach to Falls on a State and National Level.

Includes topics such as: benign liver tumor, vascular disorders of the liver, autoimmune hepatitis, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Special emphasis is given to articles devoted to immuno chemistry in liver tumors, hepatic granulomas, and diagnostic pitfalls in liver transplantation.

A review of infectious diseases for the small animal practitioner! It includes topics such as: canine leptospirosis, canine parvovirus, lyme disease, ehrlichia/anaplasma, canine influenza, molecular diagnostic assays for infectious diseases in cats, bartonella, feline hemotropic mycoplasma, antifungal treatment, canine babesiosis, and more.

An ophthalmology primer for the food animal practitioner. It includes articles covering, examination techniques and therapeutic regimens for the ruminant eye, surgical techniques, infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, congenital abnormalities, listerial keratoconjunctivitis and uveitis, squamous cell carcinoma, and more.

Suitable for oral surgeons, this title includes such articles as: the need for preoperative psychological risk assessment, psychological risks associated with appearance-altering procedures, body dysmorphic disorder and surgical planning, personality disorders and perioperative risk, and managing the uncooperative child.

Covers such topics as: virus-induced airway injury and asthma inception; pediatric infectious diseases and asthma; rhinoviruses and inception or exacerbation of asthma; and, respiratory syncytial virus infections in the adult asthmatic-role of viral subversion and host susceptibility in RSV infection.