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Designed to work as a clinical handbook and reference for nurses when interviewing patients of all age groups and cultural backgrounds, taking health histories, promoting health, and performing physical assessments, this book includes essential questions to review common and concerning signs and symptoms for each health assessment topic.

Now significantly revised based on student feedback, this best-selling text provides a quick, authoritative review of the most important clinical aspects of neuroanatomy. A new, full-color design highlights the essential information you need to know to excel on course exams and the USMLE Step 1. New objectives begin every chapter, contents have been reorganized and streamlined, and all information has been completely updated. A new Gross Structure chapter lays the foundation for understanding the sectional anatomy in the Atlas chapter, and all terminology is now consistent with Terminologia Anatomica. A companion website offers USMLE-style questions for study and review.A concise, streamlined review perfect for course exams or the USMLE Step 1.New full-color design and illustrations make the text more visually appealing.New objectives in every chapter help you focus on key content.Reorganized contents are integrated and combined to group similar topics in a logical, easy-to-review fashion.A new Gross Structure chapter lays the foundation for understanding the sectional anatomy in the Atlas chapter.All terminology is up-to-date to comply with Terminologia Anatomica.Online access to USMLE-style questions for self-assessment and review.

Synthesizes the information about the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders in children and adolescents. This edition presents the AAP's new guidelines on diagnosis and management of obstructive sleep apnea and the AAP's policy statement on school start times and its relationship to sleep in adolescents.

This book illustrates the "how" and "why" of breast imaging, whether via mammography or ultrasound and uses a case-based approach to walk you through a wide range of common and uncommon findings and correlates imaging patterns to pathology, helping you build your pattern recognition skills so you can diagnose breast cases with complete confidence.

Helps you systematically solve tough diagnostic challenges in GI pathology. This clinical reference uses select images of clinical and pathological findings together with succinct, expert instructions, to guide you through the decision-making process by distinguishing between commonly confused Gastrointestinal lesions.

Packed with more than 1,500 full-color illustrations, this is a guide to more than 125 of the key medical procedures commonly performed in an office setting. It helps you to perform procedures more effectively and avoid common mistakes.

Designed to improve your everyday approach to visual diagnosis, making identification more efficient and accurate, this title features a new chapter on child physical abuse. It also includes a special section on visual diagnosis in the newborn and essential breastfeeding images.

Mirroring the way practicing nurses read research reports, this book begins with a research article's conclusion - the section that most directly addresses the clinical meaning of a research study - and works "backward" through each section in the research article.

A thoracic surgery reference that provides illustrated, step-by-step guidance you need to perfect a full range of thoracic surgery techniques, avoid and manage complications, and achieve optimal outcomes. It shows you exactly how to perform the full range of procedures, both open and minimally invasive.

With a focus on technical efficiency, this book takes you step by step through every aspect of solid organ transplantation surgery. Using concise text, full-color illustrations, and operative images, it provides coverage of deceased and living donation, as well as liver, kidney, pancreas, and lung transplantation.

Focuses on the use of duplex scanning in the study and diagnosis of vascular disorders. This book covers all vascular duplex ultrasound topics, including principles and instrumentation; cerebrovascular; aortoiliac and peripheral arterial; peripheral venous; and visceral vascular.

Provides a basic framework of many common principles in patient safety and quality improvement to a broad market of medical students and residents, nurses, patient safety officers and pharmacists. This book highlights specific issues of patient safety relevant to different specialties.

Provides in every chapter a streamlined review of a common problem in critical care medicine, along with evidence-based guidelines and summary tables of landmark literature.

A resource that addresses the concerns you face when treating your patients with acute and chronic pain. It includes chapters that present the key pain management options available along with expert advice and insight into overcoming diagnostic and therapeutic obstacles, including prescribing medications and avoiding opioid abuse.

Relates the understanding of anatomy and mechanics with clinical practice concerns. Featuring seven chapters devoted to biomechanics, and over 900 illustrations, this text provides you with coverage of the structure, function, and kinesiology of various body regions.

A compact quick-reference covering relevant pathophysiology, diagnostic criteria, and glosses of medical and surgical treatment. It covers major subspecialty areas such as shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist, hip, knee, foot and ankle.

Provides coverage of medical and surgical management of diseases of the liver, pancreas, and biliary tree. This book offers an overviews of contemporary approaches to malignant and non-malignant conditions, open and minimally invasive surgical techniques, and imaging of the pancreas and hepatobiliary system.

Suitable for urologists, this book deals with urologic conditions on a daily basis, as well as residents and fellows prepping for their certification exams. It includes topics such as adult and pediatric urology, and the subspecialties of urologic oncology, endourology, female urology, neurourology, andrology, and infectious diseases.

Expand your knowledge of every aspect of breast diseases. This book is designed to foster the understanding necessary to provide optimal patient care. It is suitable for clinician seeing patients with breast disease, especially carcinoma of the breast.

Addressing pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and therapy of various CNS infections and related conditions, this book features clinical information on treatment of tuberculosis, non-tubercular mycobacterial infections, brain abscess, and lyme disease.

Simplifies neuroscience content to focus coverage on the essentials and helps students learn important neuroanatomical facts and definitions.

Designed to reinforce the material covered in Radiographic Pathology, Second Edition, by TerriAnn Linn-Watson. This book includes, a variety of exercise types to reinforce learning, including fill-in-the-blank, image labeling, true/false, multiple choice, matching. It also features case studies with critical thinking questions.

Helps radiographic technology students who succeed in the radiographic pathology course and prepare for the AART radiography exam. This book concentrates on crucial components and minimizes extraneous information to ensure that study time is focused on what's important.

Focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of antibiotic compounds in treating infectious diseases for over 35 years. This book equips you with all the methods for analyzing the mechanisms of activity/resistance of various pathogens, assessing their susceptibility to potential treatments, and detecting drug resistance and multi-drug resistance.

Provides students with a foundation for understanding data analysis and specific statistical techniques. Focusing on the statistical methods in health care literature, this book covers essential material for a variety of program levels including courses beyond the basic statistics course.

Suitable for medical students, medical residents, hematology-oncology fellows, and pathology residents, this book covers the knowledge about the study of blood cells. It features: 95 case studies; 227 images; and information from hands-on clinical practice.

Suitable for students, interns, residents, fellows, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, nurses, and respiratory care practitioners working in the critical care medicine environment, this book features revised content with a focus on patient safety.

Covers major aspects of preventive rehabilitative and fitness programs and the main points from position stands of the American College of Sports Medicine. This book includes topics on assessment of physical activity, applied exercise programming, arthritic diseases and conditions, and neuromuscular diseases and exercise.

The American College of Sports Medicine, founded in 1954, is the world's largest sports medicine and exercise science organization with more than 45,000 national, and international members and certified professionals in more than 90 countries. This text completes its presentation by including practical information on integrating exercise.

Delivers clear, how-to- information, an array of sport-specific guidelines, and key principles that will keep your clients at peak performance. This book lets you join the revolution to improve sports performance, treat injury, and re-train patterns.