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Guide to Clinical Management of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
by Steven D Nathan A Whitney Brown Christopher S KingThis clinically focused pocket guide offers a concise yet complete overview of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, covering the most recent information on aspects such as pathophysiology, management, treatment, and clinical trials. The text is easily accessible and offers pulmonologists and other health care professionals with an excellent quick reference tool. Full color images and figures enhance and summarize key aspects of the text. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a condition that affects the alveoli and leads to serious lung damage, and the idiopathic nature of this disease means that the origin or cause is unknown. This disease is relatively rare, affecting 3 in 10,000 people, but it is becoming more common. Physicians should be aware of the early stages and symptoms of this disease so management strategies can be implemented quickly, and the best treatment can be administered.
Guide to Clinical and Diagnostic Virology (ASM Books)
by Reeti KhareThe explosion in clinical testing has been especially rapid in virology, where emerging viruses and growing numbers of viral infections are driving advances. The Guide to Clinical and Diagnostic Virology offers a digestible view of the breadth and depth of information related to clinical virology, providing a practical, working knowledge of the wide array of viruses that cause human disease. Introductory chapters cover the basics of clinical virology and laboratory diagnosis of infections, including virus structure, life cycle, transmission, taxonomy, specimen types and handling, and a comparison of assays used for detection. Detailed sections on important topics include Viral pathogens and their clinical presentations Diagnostic assays and techniques, including culture-based, immunological, and molecular Prevention and management of viral infections, with guidance on biosafety, vaccines, and antiviral therapies The regulatory environment for laboratory testing, including regulatory requirements and assay performance and interpretation Critical concepts are carefully curated and concisely summarized and presented with detailed illustrations that aid comprehension, along with important highlights and helpful hints. These features, plus question sections that reinforce significant ideas and key concepts, make this an invaluable text for anyone looking for an accessible route through clinical and diagnostic virology. Laboratory technologists, medical students, infectious disease and microbiology fellows, pathology residents, researchers, and everyone involved with viruses in the clinical setting will find the Guide to Clinical and Diagnostic Virology an excellent text as well as companion to clinical virology references.
Guide to Complex Interventional Endoscopic Procedures
by Kelly Esponda Stephanie Shea Cristina DemoneThis guide walks you through the set-up, supplies, nursing considerations, troubleshooting, and steps to successfully assist during cutting edge interventional Gastroenterological procedures that are being performed to offer patients a safer and more cost effective treatment option. This key resource contributes, as the first of its kind, by helping endoscopic surgical centers to prepare for and train staff in order to offer these new and on the rise procedures to their patients. It goes into detail on each procedure and why a patient would benefit from it. Pictures will be included to demonstrate what the procedure will look like. A detailed step-by-step manual including photos will be put together on each case describing the set-up, pre, intra, and post-procedure care and responsibilities.This step-by-step guide includes a full range of highly advanced procedures that are on the forefront of medicine. It will help Endoscopy nurses and technicians, as well as radiology technicians and endoscopists, who are being trained to perform or assist in these new and complex procedures.
Guide to Ethical Decisions and Actions for Social Service Administrators: A Handbook for Managerial Personnel
by Simon Slavin Charles S LevyA compelling look at the ethics of social work administration and the inherent integration of ethics in social organizations.
Guide to Evidence-Based Physical Therapist Practice
by Dianne V. JewellGuide to Evidence-Based Physical Therapist Practice, Fifth Edition teaches the knowledge and skills to evaluate medical evidence and apply it to the practice of physical therapy. This valuable reference explains the fundamentals of medical research and how to determine which studies are useful in practice. As the leading evidence-based practice text for physical therapy, this is a comprehensive resource no physical therapist or student should be without. This practical guide empowers readers to learn how to evaluate research designs, appraise evidence, and apply research in clinical practice. Its reader-friendly style facilitates learning and presents the knowledge essential for physical therapist students to develop a strong foundation in research methods and methodologies related to evidence-based medicine.
Guide to Evidence-based Physical Therapist Practice, Third Edition
by Dianne V. JewellGuide to Evidence-Based Physical Therapist Practice, Third Edition provides readers with the information and tools needed to appreciate the philosophy, history, and value of evidence-based practice, understand what constitutes evidence, search efficiently for applicable evidence in the literature, evaluate the findings in the literature, and integrate the evidence with clinical judgment and individual patient preferences and values. This unique handbook marries the best elements of multiple texts into a single accessible guide. Guide to Evidence-Based Physical Therapist Practice, Third Edition is updated and revised, including a vibrant 2-color engaging layout, improved organization, additional statistics coverage, and expanded resources for instructors and students. Its reader-friendly style facilitates learning and presents the knowledge and skills essential for physical therapist students to develop a foundation in research methods and methodologies related to evidence-based medicine. Students will learn how evaluate research designs, appraise evidence, and apply research in clinical practice. This is a comprehensive resource no physical therapist or student should be without. NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION* Features a new two-color design* Includes updated research examples* Presents statistics coverage in two chapters with more manageable content to review Description and Inference * Contains expanded content related to qualitative research designs* Provides qualitative research examples to illustrate the contribution of these designs to a physical therapist's ability to discern and understand individual patient/client applications* Explores examples of circumstances where biases and limitations have resulted in errors * Offers new instructor and student resourcesINSTRUCTOR RESOURCES* Sample Syllabus (corresponding with APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice 3. 0 and the 2016 CAPTE Evaluative Criteria)* PowerPoint Presentations for each chapter* New Test Bank with 150 questions* Revised Sample Evidence Appraisal Worksheets* Helpful Resource List with additional references* Answer Key - Sample Answers for End of Chapter QuestionsSTUDENT RESOURCES: Navigate Companion Website, including: Crossword Puzzles, Flashcards, Interactive Glossary, Practice Quizzes, Web Links, Screenshots of electronic databases
Guide to Forensic Pathology
by Jay DixGuide to Forensic Pathology provides a concise overview of forensic pathology to those who wish to know the basics but lack formal forensic training. Both fascinating and practical, this book explains everything from who the experts are in death investigation and what their roles are to how effective testimonies are presented in court. The importance of forensic DNA testing is emphasized with a separate section in this timely reference guide.
Guide to Genital HPV Diseases and Prevention: Diseases And Prevention
by William BonnezCustom-designed for clinicians on the frontline of treatment and prevention of the human papillomavirus (HPV), this stand-alone handbook provides the scientific background needed to understand and administer the new HPV vaccines. Written by some of the discoverers of these vaccines, this accessible text explores the biology and epidemiology of HPV,
Guide to Good Food
by Deborah L. Bence Velda L. LargenGuide to Good Food is designed to give you information about food and nutrition you can use every day. This practical text focuses on the latest advice on diet and physical activity to help you make healthful food and fitness choices. Guidelines for choosing appliances, setting up a food budget, and buying and storing foods will help you make consumer decisions. Tips on using space, time, and energy will help you manage your resources while working in the kitchen. Information on basic cooking methods will give you the background needed to prepare a wide range of foods.
Guide to Good Food
by Deborah L. Bence Velda L. LargenStudents will learn how to select, store, prepare, and serve foods while preserving their nutrients, flavors, textures, and colors.
Guide to Good Food
by Deborah L. Bence Velda L. LargenStudents will learn how to select, store, prepare, and serve foods while preserving their nutrients, flavors, textures, and colors.
Guide to Good Food
by Deborah L. Bence Velda L. LargenGuide to Good Food gives your students an in-depth look at the exciting world of food and the MyPlate food guidance system. This edition incorporates the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans as it shows students how to select, store, prepare, and serve nutritious, appealing dishes. Eachchapter includes a profile of one of the many food-related careers available. Students further investigate career and job success in two new career-related chapters and in brief Career Success features throughout. The extensive Foods of the World section has tabbed pages that allow students to conveniently explore the culture and cuisine of over 30 countries. Menus and recipes with step-by-step directions as well as nutritional analyses are included. New to this edition are A Measure of Math and Teamwork in Action activities at the end of each chapter. Within the chapters are new features on the following topics: * Global Perspective * Health and Wellness * Food Science * Culture and Social Studies
Guide to Good Food
by Deborah L. Bence Velda L. LargenGuide to Good Food provides an in-depth look at how to select, store, prepare, and serve nutritious, appealing dishes. Menus and recipes with easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions and nutritional analyses are included. Food-related careers are profiled in every chapter, and Career Success features are found throughout. Healthful lifestyles are supported by the inclusion of MyPlate and the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Students can explore the culture and cuisine of over 30 countries in the Foods of the World section. Math, food science, and social studies are introduced into the curriculum through features and activities.
Guide to Good Food: Nutrition and Food Preparation
by Deborah L. Bence Velda L. LargenGuide to Good Food: Nutrition and Food Preparation employs current nutrition information to inform students as they learn the roles nutrients play in their health throughout the life cycle. Comprehensive content on food selection, storage, preparation, and service gives students the tools needed to recognize and follow a nutritionally balanced diet, while animations bring content to life. Menus and recipes with easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions, and nutritional analyses are also included. Food-related careers are profiled in every chapter. * Enhanced visuals program employs infographics and images to emphasize content and improve recall. * The Foods of the World section explores the culture and cuisine of over 30 countries. * Students can complete and submit review questions digitally, enhancing instructor's assessment of students' comprehension and reducing paper waste.
Guide to Health Informatics
by Enrico CoieraThis essential text provides a readable yet sophisticated overview of the basic concepts of information technologies as they apply in healthcare. Spanning areas as diverse as the electronic medical record, searching, protocols, and communications as well as the Internet, Enrico Coiera has succeeded in making this vast and complex area accessible and understandable to the non-specialist, while providing everything that students of medical informatics need to know to accompany their course.
Guide to Health Informatics
by Enrico CoieraThis essential text provides a readable yet sophisticated overview of the basic concepts of information technologies as they apply in healthcare. Spanning areas as diverse as the electronic medical record, searching, protocols, and communications as well as the Internet, Enrico Coiera has succeeded in making this vast and complex area accessible and understandable to the non-specialist, while providing everything that students of medical informatics need to know to accompany their course.
Guide to Medical Image Analysis
by Klaus D. ToenniesThis book presents a comprehensive overview of medical image analysis. Practical in approach, the text is uniquely structured by potential applications. Features: presents learning objectives, exercises and concluding remarks in each chapter, in addition to a glossary of abbreviations; describes a range of common imaging techniques, reconstruction techniques and image artefacts; discusses the archival and transfer of images, including the HL7 and DICOM standards; presents a selection of techniques for the enhancement of contrast and edges, for noise reduction and for edge-preserving smoothing; examines various feature detection and segmentation techniques, together with methods for computing a registration or normalisation transformation; explores object detection, as well as classification based on segment attributes such as shape and appearance; reviews the validation of an analysis method; includes appendices on Markov random field optimization, variational calculus and principal component analysis.
Guide to Medical Image Analysis
by Klaus D. ToenniesThis book presents a comprehensive overview of medical image analysis. Practical in approach, the text is uniquely structured by potential applications. Features: presents learning objectives, exercises and concluding remarks in each chapter, in addition to a glossary of abbreviations; describes a range of common imaging techniques, reconstruction techniques and image artefacts; discusses the archival and transfer of images, including the HL7 and DICOM standards; presents a selection of techniques for the enhancement of contrast and edges, for noise reduction and for edge-preserving smoothing; examines various feature detection and segmentation techniques, together with methods for computing a registration or normalisation transformation; explores object detection, as well as classification based on segment attributes such as shape and appearance; reviews the validation of an analysis method; includes appendices on Markov random field optimization, variational calculus and principal component analysis.
Guide to Minimally Invasive Aesthetic Procedures
by M. Laurin CouncilAmid today’s growing demand for cosmetic medicine, Guide to Minimally Invasive Aesthetic Procedures provides a reliable, up-to-date, and highly illustrated guide to the wide variety of aesthetic procedures commonly requested and performed in this fast-changing field. This easy-to-follow manual offers a quick, practical introduction to the optimal use of everything from botulinum toxin and deoxycholic acid to injectable fillers and laser and light devices.
Guide to Nursing's Social Policy Statement: Understanding the Profession from Social Contract to Social Covenant
by Marsha D. M. FowlerNursing is often called a helping profession: Nursings Social Policy Statement is about the many ways that nursing helps others. It is about the relationship the social contract between the nursing profession and society and their reciprocal expectations. This arrangement authorizes nurses as professionals to meet the needs involved in the care, and health of patients and clients and the health of society. It helps nurses engage in the political and legislative action that supports nursing education, research, and practice to better influence that health and care; and to understand the social ethics and justice that affect global and individual health. But what does that mean now? The new Guide to Nursings Social Policy Statement unpacks it for the 21st century nurse: Social contract in theory and practice Nursings own social contract and its 16 distinct elements Nursing and the common good and what constitutes the common good today Citizenship, civic engagement, and civic professionalism of nurses Professions and what they are, how they can get broken and mended, and nursing as a profession The interplay of the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements and Nursings Social Policy Statement Nursings social covenant (by which nursing goes beyond its social contract) Nursings involvement in public and global health Suitable for courses and professional development activities in nursing curriculum, ethics, leadership, research, and role development, the Guide to Nursings Social Policy Statement clarifies foundational concepts of the nursing society relationship, the breadth of ways in which nurses might exercise their passion for the profession, a vision for nursings social evolution, and much more!
Guide to Paediatric Haematology Morphology
by Gillian RozenbergThis illustrated guide to identifying or confirming blood disorders in paediatric patients presents examples of the abnormal morphology involved. Clinicians in both haematology and paediatrics will find this an invaluable resource. Provides an authoritative visual guide for standard morphology in paediatric haematology disorders. Offers a reliable guide for registrars in haematology and paediatrics. Presents expert guidance for clinical identification and confirmation of diagnoses.
Guide to Pediatric Urology and Surgery in Clinical Practice
by Martin Koyle Duncan T. Wilcox Prasad P. GodboleGuide to Pediatric Urology and Surgery in Clinical Practice addresses the surgical and urological problems in children that may be encountered in the primary care clinic. Divided into two sections on urology and surgery, the chapters give a synopsis of a particular condition, its management in primary care, indications for referral and timing of referral. Complications of a particular procedure and its management if presenting to primary care is also discussed. The book is illustrated throughout and key points are provided at the beginning of each chapter for quick and easy reference. A concise assemblage of all those pediatric surgical and urological conditions commonly encountered in primary care, this book provides a quick reference guide for use in clinical practice.
Guide to Pediatric Urology and Surgery in Clinical Practice
by Martin Koyle Duncan T. Wilcox Prasad P. GodboleThis extensively revised second edition provides a quick reference guide to pediatric surgical and urological problems encountered in the primary care clinic. Chapters cover recent updates in the field and give a synopsis of a particular condition, its management in primary care, indications for referral, and timing of referral. Guide to Pediatric Urology and Surgery in Clinical Practice features a concise collection of pediatric surgical and urological conditions commonly encountered in primary care, and is a valuable resource for primary care practitioners, medical students, pediatricians and residents in pediatrics.
Guide to Psychoactive Drugs
by David E Smith Richard B SeymourInvaluable clinical and treatment information on the most powerful mind-altering drugs in use today. Compiled by two leading professionals from the renowned Haight Ashbury Clinic, the information is based on national and international studies undertaken at the clinic, as well as from 600,000 patient visits, a thorough review of practice and background as reported in the literature, and from their own private practices. An up-to-date reference source, this important guide includes information on the trademark, generic, and popular names of drugs; the use and abuse of drugs; and their acute and chronic effects. An innovative index and cross reference system provide quick, easy access for the physician who must act quickly in an emergency.
Guide to Ruminant Anatomy: Dissection and Clinical Aspects
by Joe Rowe Mahmoud Mansour Ray WilhiteGuide to Ruminant Anatomy: Dissection and Clinical Aspectspresents a concise, clinically relevant reference to goat and cattle anatomy, with color schematic illustrations and embalmed arterially injected prosection images for comparison. Offers 244 color images depicting goat and cattle anatomy Provides selected line drawings correlated to dissection images of embalmed arterially injected specimens Takes a practical approach, with material organized by body system within each region Demonstrates the clinical relevance of basic anatomy Poses review questions in each chapter, with answers and videos provided on a companion website