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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Due to a high incidence of anemia, critically ill patients are frequently transfused, with up to 40% of patients receiving a transfusion during their stay in the Intensive Care Unit. It has become increasingly clear that there is an association between transfusion and adverse outcomes, underlining...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
This book highlights the practical characteristics of uncommon diseases and presents the most relevant features for the management of intensive care units. It does not aim to provide an exhaustive description of uncommon diseases, focusing instead on the major diseases that intensivists may encounter...
by Scott Kahan, MD, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Scott Kahan and Robert Kushner, is devoted to Practice-Based Nutrition Care. Articles in this outstanding issue include: Principles and Practice of Nutrition Assessment in Primary Care; Principles and Practice of Nutrition Counseling and Behavioral...
Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.
Proceedings of the 18th Postgraduate Course in Critical Care Medicine Trieste, Italy — November 14–17, 2003 Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Continuous update in critical care medicine is a real challenge due to the growing dimensions of its contents; these elements are the result of new research acquisitions, and of those clinical situations where the physician is able to intervene at a given moment, with the use of effective prevention...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Neuropsychiatric problems after critical illness are receiving increasing attention, particularly in the critical care medicine literature, but mental health and primary care clinicians should also be interested in these common problems, given the growing number of critical illness survivors who need...
by Michael H. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conventional, or biomedical, care with complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, herbal medicine, and spiritual...
by Catherine Harris, PhD, MBA
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Neuromonitoring is a broad term that essentially accounts for the essence of neuroscience nursing. Nurses working with critically ill, neurologically impaired patients should have a foundation in not only in invasive neuromonitoring, but the more subtle aspects of care. Nurses must understand...
Alcohol and Drug Misuse
A Guide for Health and Social Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Written by an experienced academic author, lecturer and practitioner, this comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to alcohol and drug misuse. It presents:
the context of alcohol and drug misuse, and the nature and theories of addiction, including a historical overview and policy initiatives...
Palliative Care
Handbuch für Pflege und Begleitung
Language: German
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Menschen in der letzten Lebensphase zu begleiten, stellt alle Begleitende vor viele Herausforderungen und Fragen. Das bewährte Handbuch „Palliative Care“ gibt Antworten. Darin finden professionell Pflegende und Begleitende in palliativen Arbeitsfeldern – ob ambulant oder stationär – alle...
The Healing of America
A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform Bill
Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany,...
Time to Care
Personal Medicine in the Age of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Proposing the patient-doctor relationship that was central in traditional medicine be brought back to the center of the healthcare system, this history observes how the high cost of technology-based care has caused an economic squeeze through wasteful and ineffective practices. Targeting habits of...
Changing the Way We Die
Compassionate End of Life Care and The Hospice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care—nearly 44 percent of all deaths—and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one...
The Healing Touch
Keeping the Doctor-Patient Relationship Alive Under Managed Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The traditional doctor-patient relationship is in jeopardy. In an era of “hurry up” medicine and “patient quotas,” health care professionals are no longer able to apply good bedside manner—the healing touch. As the focus shifts from patients to profits, this vital component of patient care...
Notes of a Love Song
Day-to-Day with Parkinson's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
When Claire Verney agreed to ‘for better or for worse, in sickness and in health’ she never imagined the journey that lay ahead of her. Her husband Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at the age of forty-six. Notes of a Love Song chronicles their lives as Claire becomes her husband’s...