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Sjögren’s Syndrome
by Manuel Ramos-Casals Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos John H. StoneSjögren's Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics provides a thorough, multisystemic overview of the clinical manifestations of Sjögren's Syndrome. It contains chapters pertinent across the range of medical specialties that may encounter Sjögren's Syndrome cases. Chapters are specialty-specific, for easy reference by the relevant medical specialist. In addition to being a diagnostic guide, Sjögren's Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics includes a section on prognosis and outcomes of Sjögren's Syndrome patients and provides an exhaustive therapeutic update, focused on new agents and experimental techniques. The inclusion of diagnostic/therapeutic algorithms illustrates the text with clinical photographs of the main organs involved and helps the reader to make guided diagnostic and therapeutic decisions through decision-based algorithms.
Sjögren’s Syndrome and the Salivary Glands: Novel Techniques in Diagnosis, Management and Treatment (Contemporary Rheumatology)
by George A. W. BruynThis book answers questions about the critical role of ultrasound in the management of patients with Sjögren’s syndrome. It also covers developments rheumatologists can foresee in performing a biopsy of the parotid gland. Each chapter is authored by experts on this condition, emphasizing the extent of current understanding and dealing with unanswered challenges and pitfalls. Topics such as modern imaging techniques like ultrasound and MRI and their importance are given particular focus in this book; practitioners are increasingly using imaging techniques to refine diagnosis and guide clinical management. Additionally, as a significant emerging point of interest in the field, biopsy of the major salivary glands, particularly ultrasound-guided procedures, receives extra attention within the text. The book also includes a chapter that deals with future directions and will also review the challenges patients face with unmanaged Sjögren’s syndrome. Comprehensive and concise, Sjögren’s Syndrome and the Salivary Glands provides a balanced overview between the chapters and ensure homogeneity of the terminology.
Skallagrigg
by William HorwoodThis story takes place in England, spanning the late 1800s to the not-too-distant future. One layer is the search for the "Skallagrigg", a mythical being known only to institutionalized disabled people. Are Arthur, a lttle boy with cerebral palsy who was left in a grim asylum, and the Skallagrigg merely myth? Read and find out. And then there's Esther Marquand, many years later, who as a woman with spastic cerebral palsy, cannot talk nor move much on her own. Yet she learns computers and writes amazing programming. SDhe goers in search of the Skallagrigg and makes her search into a computer game. Then there are all the other characters, including Tom, the close friend with Downs Syndrome. There are romances and losses. Surprises. Tears of sadness and joy. This is a good clean copy, I have verified accuracy with another person against the print book, but I'm not sure how screenreaders will come through on some of the phonetic disabled speech.
Skaphoidfraktur und Skaphoidpseudarthrose: Eine Übersicht für Ärzte aller Fachrichtungen (essentials)
by Frank Unglaub Adrian Cavalcanti Kußmaul Isabella MehlingDie Skaphoidfraktur stellt mit 90% die häufigste Fraktur der Handwurzelknochen dar. Bei einer verspäteten Frakturerkennung kann sich eine Skaphoidpseudarthrose und nachfolgend eine Handgelenksarthrose entwickeln. Daher ist eine frühzeitige klinische und radiologische Diagnostik unerlässlich. Diese beinhaltet die genaue Schmerzlokalisation und das Nativröntgen. Eine CT-Untersuchung des Skaphoids sollte sich bei Frakturverdacht sowie zum Frakturausschluss und zur Therapieplanung anschließen. Eine konservative Behandlung ist bei stabilen Skaphoidfrakturen möglich, alternativ können stabile Frakturen auch minimal-invasiv operiert werden. Instabile Skaphoidfrakturen sollten operativ versorgt werden. Je nach Frakturlokalisation kommen verschiedene Operationstechniken zum Einsatz. Die operative Therapie der Skaphoidpseudarthrose ist davon abhängig, in welchem Bereich des Skaphoids die Pseudarthrose lokalisiert ist und wie weit die Skaphoidpseudarthrose bereits fortgeschritten ist.
Skeletal Aging and Osteoporosis: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
by Matthew J. SilvaThe focus of this book is on mechanical aspects of skeletal fragility related to aging and osteoporosis. Topics include: Age-related changes in trabecular structure and strength; age-related changes in cortical material properties; age-related changes in whole-bone structure; predicting bone strength and fracture risk using image-based methods and finite element analysis; animal models of osteoporosis and aging; age-related changes in skeletal mechano responsiveness; exercise and physical interventions for osteoporosis.
Skeletal Atlas of Child Abuse
by Jennifer C. Love Jason M. Wiersema Sharon M. DerrickThis illustrated guide to the role of the forensic anthropologist in investigating child abuse is an essential resource in one of the most contentious areas of forensic pathology. Not only does it supply a review of the literature in this field, but it illustrates the material with photographs from real cases investigated by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, which serves a population of four million people. Broken down into body regions and skeletal elements for ease of reference, the atlas facilitates the vital work performed by forensic anthropologists, who bring to the autopsy table a store of specialist knowledge that can turn a case. Despite the frequency of child fatalities (in America, 2.3per 100,000) attributed to physical abuse, merely recognizing the offense is a major forensic challenge. The tell-tale signatures of non-accidental injury can be very subtle, making it difficult to differentiate between accidental and non-accidental injury. Yet successful adjudication of a child abuse case often rests on the correct interpretation of skeletal injury. In this volume the authors guide the reader through published data regarding the mechanics and interpretation of injuries,including the agencies they indicate. The material includes discussion of the limitations faced in interpreting some injuries, where making a judgment on cause is tricky. In addition, a chapter on natural diseases affecting the bones provides a good overview of several conditions that are often invoked as 'mimics' of child abuse. Finally, this publication evinces the value of collaboration between the pathologist and the anthropologist.
Skeletal Development and Repair
by Matthew J. HiltonSkeletal Development and Repair: Methods and Protocols is a compilation of a variety of skeletal research protocols utilizing the laboratory mouse as the platform for surgical manipulation and/or transplantation as well as the source of tissues and cells for in vitro culture and analyses. Chapters are written by experts in the field and cover topics including surgical, transplantation and organ culture methods that permit analyses of skeletal tissues undergoing repair in vivo and permits analyses of cellular interactions ex vivo, histological and molecular techniques developed to study gene and protein expression in whole embryos, skeletal tissues and tissue sections and in vitro primary cell culture protocols designed to assay gene function in specific cell populations. Written in the successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols and notes on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and easily accessible, Skeletal Development and Repair: Methods and Protocols is a comprehensive laboratory manual for all levels of basic research scientists working in the broad fields of skeletal development and skeletal repair research.
Skeletal Development and Repair: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #2230)
by Matthew J. HiltonThis second edition provides a comprehensive laboratory manual on skeletal development and skeletal repair research utilizing mouse models. Chapters provide methods and protocols on the most current and cutting-edge techniques in skeletal development and repair, histological, cellular, and molecular techniques. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and cutting-edge, Skeletal Development and Repair: Methods and Protocols-Second Edition aims to ensure successful results in the further study of this vital field.
Skeletal Dysplasias & Congenital Malformations
by Surender Singh YadavThis book presents significant clinical and radiological descriptions with photographic details of common and rare Skeletal Dysplasias and Congenital Malformations. It simplifies and classifies skeletal dysplasias and other orthopedic congenital anomalies with the help of a collection of complex cases.It contains 1195 images (404 Coloured). It also explains the simple and systematic approach to correct diagnosis and adequate management of such patients. All types of congenital anomalies of the musculoskeletal system are included, some of them treated.This book assists PG students in the Department of Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, and Radiology. It is also helpful as a ‘Reference Book’ for the concerned Medical teachers, Researchers, General Practitioners, and all others interested. The book will also benefit the parents of such children for correct diagnosis and required management.
Skeletal Tissue Mechanics
by R. Bruce Martin David B. Burr Neil A. Sharkey David P. FyhrieThis textbook describes the biomechanics of bone, cartilage, tendons and ligaments. It is rigorous in its approach to the mechanical properties of the skeleton yet it does not neglect the biological properties of skeletal tissue or require mathematics beyond calculus. Time is taken to introduce basic mechanical and biological concepts, and the approaches used for some of the engineering analyses are purposefully limited. The book is an effective bridge between engineering, veterinary, biological and medical disciplines and will be welcomed by students and researchers in biomechanics, orthopedics, physical anthropology, zoology and veterinary science. This book also: Maximizes reader insights into the mechanical properties of bone, fatigue and fracture resistance of bone and mechanical adaptability of the skeleton Illustrates synovial joint mechanics and mechanical properties of ligaments and tendons in an easy-to-understand way Provides exercises at the end of each chapter
Skeletal Trauma Analysis: Case Studies in Context
by Nicholas V. Passalacqua Christopher W. RainwaterIn the post-Daubert era, forensic science disciplines are increasingly informed by robust, statistically-sound experimental research. The educational value of the well-documented case study, however, remains as important as ever. Emphasizing known contextual information, this volume serves as a case-driven guide to skeletal trauma analysis through the unique perspective of each chapter’s authors. Both forensic anthropologists and pathologists contribute skeletal trauma cases covering a range of topics including child abuse, blunt force trauma, descents from height, plane crashes, sharp force trauma and dismemberment, gunshot wounds, blast trauma, and burned body interpretation. Several chapters also include a discussion of potentially confounding taphonomic influences such as animal scavenging, water immersion, burning, and extended postmortem intervals. Detailed descriptions with multiple supporting images allow the practitioner’s skeletal trauma interpretation to be compared to the “answer” as it pertains to the known circumstances surrounding the traumatic events of each case.
Skew-Normal Model Theories and Their Applications
by Rendao Ye Wenyan Zhu Yue Qi Kun LuoThe book focuses on several skew-normal mixed effects models, and systematically explores statistical inference theories, methods, and applications of parameters of interest. This book is of academic value as it helps to establish a series of statistical inference theories and methods for skew-normal mixed effects models. On the applications side, it provides efficient methods and tools for practical data analysis in various fields including economics, finance, biology and medical science.
Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
by Josephine EnsignA compelling look at the historical roots of poverty and homelessness, the "worthy" and "unworthy" poor, and the role of charity health care and public policy in the United States.Home to over 730,000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population in the United States. In 2018, an estimated 8,600 homeless people lived in the city, a figure that does not include the significant number of "hidden" homeless people doubled up with friends or living in and out of cheap hotels. In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history—past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not—to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society. The sometimes fragmentary tales of these people, their lives and deaths, are not included in official histories of a place. How, Ensign asks, has a large, socially progressive city like Seattle responded to the health needs of people marginalized by poverty, mental illness, addiction, racial/ethnic/sexual identities, and homelessness? Drawing on interviews and extensive research, Ensign shares a diversity of voices within contemporary health care and public policy debates. Informed by her own lived experience of homelessness, as well as over three decades of work as a family nurse practitioner providing primary health care to homeless people, Ensign is uniquely situated to explore the tensions between caregiving and oppression, as well as charity and solidarity, that polarize perspectives on homelessness throughout the country. A timely story in light of the ongoing health care reform debate, the affordable housing crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the stories from Skid Road illuminate issues surrounding poverty and homelessness throughout America.
Skilful Physician
by Carey D. BalabanThis book, The Skilful Physician, is a collection of guidelines for maintaining one's health plus recipes for disease remedies, perfumes and treated wines. It deals with the premise that preservation of good health requires attention to proper diet and life-style.
Skill Checklists for Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Care
by Carol R. TaylorSkill Checklists for Fundamentals of Nursing help you practice and record the mastery of every step of each skill found in Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Care, Tenth Edition. It serves as a valuable self-assessment tool for students as well as a convenient tool for faculty to record student performance.
Skill Checklists for Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills
by Pamela LynnSkill Checklists for Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills helps you practice and record the mastery of every step of each skill found in Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach, Sixth Edition. It serves as a valuable self-assessment tool for students as well as a convenient tool for faculty to record student performance.
Skill Checklists for Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach
by Pamela LynnPublisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Skill Checklists for Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills helps you practice and record the mastery of every step of each skill found in Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach, Fifth Edition. It serves as a valuable self-assessment tool for students as well as a convenient tool for faculty to record student performance.
Skill: 40 Principles That Surgeons, Athletes, And Other Elite Performers Use To Achieve Mastery
by Christopher S. AhmadSKILL is written for those who want to become the best - no matter what they're trying to achieve. This book provides guidelines - via 40 practical tips and processes - to fulfill anyone's natural ability. It's about becoming the master of your own fate, your own skills and your own success. Greatness is not a natural gift, according to Dr. Christopher S. Ahmad, one of the top surgeons in the world for orthopaedic surgery, and head team physician for the New York Yankees. It is something achieved through hard work and diligent practice - not from dreaming, but from working. Master chef, great soccer player, brilliant musician, doctor, lawyer, business executive: for anyone who aspires to excellence, reading this book will give you the tools to take your natural abilities to the next level.
Skilled Heartfelt Midwifery Practice: Safe, Relational Care for Alternative Physiological Births
by Claire FeeleyThis book about the art, craft and science of expert midwifery care, while focusing on ‘alternative physiological births’ that are those ‘outside’ of guidelines, the contents can be applied to any birthing choices. Drawing upon the findings of a PhD that captured the experiences of midwives who proactively supported alternative physiological births while working in the National Health Service, their practice was conceptualised as ‘skilled heartfelt practice’. Skilled heartfelt practice denotes the interrelationship between midwives’ attitudes and beliefs in support of women’s choices, their values of cultivating meaningful relationships, and their expert practical clinical skills. It is these qualities combined that give rise to what is called ‘full-scope midwifery’ as defined by the Lancet Midwifery Series. This book illuminates why and how these midwives facilitated safe, relational care. Using a combination of emotional intelligence skills and clinical expertise while centring women’s bodily autonomy, they ensured safe care was provided within a holistic framework. Moreover, this book offers insights for midwives to move beyond ‘rule-based’ practice, where the benefits of expert practice are illuminated. Midwives facilitating ‘alternative’ physiological births epitomise evidence-based practice, which centres the woman or birthing person as the expert in their life, and the midwife meets them where they are with expert skills to support them. But what does this look like in clinical practice, particularly for those employed by institutions, those ‘working within the system’ who have constraints that private or self-employed midwives don’t have? How does a midwife cultivate those skills within a culture and climate that devalues both relationships, midwives and women’s autonomy? This book aims to provide a roadmap for those seeking to cultivate these skills. The core focus will be the midwife-mother relationship from the perspectives of the midwives, rather than the midwives wider working relationships or workplace contexts. This is purposeful so to offer a deep dive into the nuanced and varied ways of delivering this type of care. However, the realities of practice are also firmly embedded with the book, tensions will be explored, limitations acknowledged.
Skills Checklist to Accompany Fundamentals of Nursing
by Carol TaylorPublisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Skill Checklists for Fundamentals of Nursing helps you practice and record the mastery of every step of each skill found in Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Care, Ninth Edition. It serves as a valuable self-assessment tool for students as well as convenient tool for faculty to record student performance
Skills Training in Communication and Related Topics: Dealing with Conflict and Change
by Ellen Belzer Mary SalinskyWith packed curricula in most health care training institutions, and hectic schedules in practices and administrative offices, time for teaching vital communication and interpersonal skills is often at a premium.This book is designed to equip trainees with the skills needed to deal effectively with conflict, difficult behaviours and other complex situations, employing a 'learning by doing' approach for effective and engaging learning. It has been designed for practice leaders, hospital leaders and public health professionals helping health care professionals upgrade their skills, and especially for faculty members who teach students and residents. It contains over 100 exercises designed for use in a variety of training situations, and which take into consideration the often limited training time available for non-clinical topics. The exercises range in length from minutes to over an hour, whilst a selection grid allows trainers and educators to select the right exercises to cover topics in the available time.
Skills Training in Communication and Related Topics: Pt. 2
by John Saunders Ellen BelzerQuality communication contributes to smoother running practices, better care and services, greater efficiencies, fewer unhealthy conflicts, more satisfied staff and patients, and an improved ability to meet the challenges of an evolving and increasingly complex health care environment - With packed curricula in most health care training institutions, and hectic schedules in practices and administrative offices, time for teaching vital communication and interpersonal skills is often at a premium. This book equips trainees with the skills needed to communicate effectively with patients, colleagues and the community, employing a 'learning by doing' approach for effective and engaging learning. It is designed for practice leaders, hospital leaders and public health professionals helping health care professionals upgrade their skills, and especially for faculty members who teach students and residents. Featuring more than 100 exercises ideal for use in a variety of training situations, this book takes into consideration the often limited training time available for non-clinical topics. Exercises range in length from minutes to over an hour, whilst a selection grid allows trainers and educators to select the right exercises to cover topics in the available time.
Skills for Communicating with Patients
by Jonathan Silverman Suzanne Kurtz Juliet DraperSkills for Communicating with Patients, Third Edition is one of two companion books on improving communication in medicine, which together provide a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning communication skills throughout all levels of medical education in both specialist and family medicine. Since their publication, the first edition of thi
Skills for a Scientific Life
by John R. HelliwellBeing, or wanting to become, a scientist requires academic training in the science subjects. To succeed as a research scientist and educator requires specific as well as general skills. Skills for a Scientific Life provides insight into how to be successful. This career book is intended for potential entrants, early career and mid-career scientists for a wide range of science disciplines. Features Offers advice on specific skills for research article writing, grant writing, and refereeing as well as teaching undergraduates and supervising postgraduates Provides helpful case studies resulting from the author's teaching and mentoring experience Contributes a special emphasis on skills for realizing wider impacts such as sustainability and gender equality Presents several chapters on leadership skills both in academe and in government service Concludes with an emphasis on the author&’s overall underpinning of the topics from the point of view of ethics
Skills for the Labor Market in the Philippines
by Prateek Tandon Emanuela Di Gropello Hong W. TanThe Filipino economy has experienced overall growth over the last 20 years, but the growth of the manufacturing sector has been sluggish, and the country has lost innovation capacity. Regaining momentum will depend on many factors, but skills have a key role to play in supporting the growing service sector, improving the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector, and enhancing the long-term ability of the country to innovate and adapt and assimilate new technologies. 'Skills for the Labor Market in the Philippines' analyzes the functional skills with which workers need to be equipped to be employable and support firms' competitiveness and productivity, and evaluates the role of the education and training system in providing these skills. Based on an innovative survey of employers, this book is the most comprehensive attempt thus far to review the skills that matter for the labor market. The book reveals that a dramatic increase in educational attainment occurred in just under two decades in the Philippines. However, in light of the growing demand for skills, the authors also make it clear that there are indications of emerging skills gaps, suggesting that skills are becoming a constraining factor for economic growth. The authors flesh out several policy implications, which should provide a valuable contribution to improving the country's education and training system. The book is primarily intended for the policy makers and researchers who shape the delivery of education and training in the Philippines and other middle-income countries.