Care category: 6811 books
by Donald Chalfin, MD, MS
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Topics include: Why Economics Matters to Critical Care Clinicians, Overview of Health Economics: Basics Concept for Clinicians;Health Economic Methods; Costs of Critical Care Medicine; Economic Aspects of Sepsis and Severe Infections; Economic Aspects of Renal Failure and Acute Kidney Injury; Economic...
by Jennifer J. Taylor MD
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
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by Lydell Lettsome
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Americans have been led to believe that uncontrolled costs and waste are destroying their healthcare system. This is not true. Costs and waste are merely smokescreens. Greed and profit margins drive the American healthcare system. Together they have been used to block Americans from having a more...
by Judd Landsberg, MD
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, by Judd W. Landsberg, MD, is a unique point-of-care manual that provides essential information on managing inpatients and outpatients with common, serious respiratory and internal medicine presentation and problems. Easy-to-follow...
by Cherylee W.J. Chang
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Neurocritical Care and covers topics such as: The Evolution of Neurocritical Care, Update in management of acute ischemic stroke, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Subarachnoid treatment, Intracranial pressure monitoring and management of intracranial hypertension,...
Understanding Healthcare
a historical perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Freedom in Health Care, by Kenneth A. Fisher, MD. Feb. 2016, 154 pages. With tables, reading list, and footnotes. (ISBN: 9780997151107)
Dr. Fisher provides the reader an in-depth understanding of how we got into this controversial, overly expensive, exceedingly complex and bureaucratic healthcare...
Inside the Dementia Epidemic
A Daughter's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Winner of an Honorable Mention in the Life Stories category of the 20th Annual Writer's Digest Book Awards, Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter's Memoir is the unflinching and hopeful story of one woman's journey into family caregiving, and a vivid overview of the challenges of Alzheimer's care....
Bringing It Home
A Nurse Discovers the World Beyond the Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
ICU nurse and bestselling author Tilda Shalof learns what nursing beyond the hospital really means. For the 350,000 professional nurses in Canada and 3 million in the US; readers of Atul Gawande's award-winning books and The American Nurse by Carole Jones.
In her latest book, ICU nurse Tilda...
What You Don't Know Can Kill You
A Physician’s Radical Guide to Conquering the Obstacles to Excellent Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 2003, Dr. Laura Nathanson was widowed after the misdiagnosis of her beloved husband. After this tragedy, she was determined to help others protect themselves and their loved ones from similarly preventable health care disasters—and help them benefit from health care miracles.
In What You...
by Ann Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
You've heard of hospice care, but you prefer not to think about it. Dying is such an uncomfortable topic, we all avoid it. In ignorance, we fear the worst.
This book will change your whole view. Taking you behind the scenes of end-of-life care, you will see the enormous efforts of nurses, doctors,...
Becoming Dead Right
A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
All of us are entitled to the rewards of a peaceful, pain-free death. This book honors that with true stories about hospice patients and inspiring insights from the author. Becoming Dead Right guides us through the general and "how to" information maze that prepares us for dealing with death.
Improving...
The Good Caregiver
A One-of-a-Kind Compassionate Resource for Anyone Caring for an Aging Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A survival guide with an insider's perspective, for the millions of unprepared caregivers of aging loved ones.
As Americans are living longer, an unprecedented number of people now require long-term care during their last years. More than 15 million adult children now care for their elderly...
Reality Stories of Medicine
Things About Patient Care You Don't Learn at School
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This e-book is intended for healthcare providers at any level, students or practitioners. It contains six chapters of "real life" medical stories with over 300 observations learned from the day to day life of a practicing internist and subspecialist. Dr. Gullberg is a physician who has been...
Public Health Nursing - E-Book
Population-Centered Health Care in the Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Prepare for a successful career as a community/public health nurse! Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 9th Edition provides up-to-date information on issues that impact public health nursing, such as infectious diseases, natural and man-made disasters, and health...