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Nursing: Nurse to Nurse Palliative Care

>> Friday, April 30, 2010

304 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (August 26, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071493239
ISBN-13: 978-0071493239

A unique "mentor in a pocket" handbook covering the most emotionally-trying experience nurses face
From a world recognized expert on care for the dying, comes the first pocket-sized reference for generalist nurses on palliative care. This handy, portable reference assists nursing in dealing with one of the most emotionally trying situations they face in clinical practice.
Part of McGraw-Hill's Nurse to Nurse series, this title includes PDA download of the entire text, vignettes, nursing alerts that provide just-in-time information on complex or particularly important aspects of patient care, and clinical pearls which provide the benefit of other nurses' valuable experience in dealing with end-of-life care. Coated flex-binding repels stains.
The new Nurse to Nurse series is specifically designed to simulate the teaching experience nurses learn best from: trusted mentors carefully explaining what they must do in specific clinical situtions. Written in a consistent, single-author voice, this series brings the wisdom and experience of some of the foremost experts to non-specialist nurses in clinical care.

About the Author

Margaret Campbell, R.N., Ph.D.(c), F.A.A.N., is Associate Director for Research at the Center to Advance Palliative Care Excellence, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, at Wayne State University, and Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics at the Detroit Receiving Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. She has published more than forty journal articles, six book chapters, and the book Foregoing Life-Sustaining Therapy: How to Care for the Patient Who is Near Death. She has served appointments on various boards, including the Last Acts Task Force on Palliative Care through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.

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Internal Medicine: 250 Short Cases in Clinical Medicine 3rd ed.

672 pages
Publisher: Saunders Ltd.; 3 edition (March 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0702026247
ISBN-13: 978-0702026249

A collection of short cases arranged by clinical area, emphasising the key diagnostic features of clinical conditions as commonly presented in the short case part of the Final MB and MRCP examinations. Also included are likely instructions or commands expected from the examiner for each condition, and the key points which the candidate must tell the examiner. In June 2001 the MRCP short cases exam is being replaced with a new OSCE-style exam called PACES (Practice Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills) and this book will take full account of this change.

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Neurology:The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology

>> Saturday, April 24, 2010

240 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Second Edition edition (April 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781751373
ISBN-13: 978-0781751377

Now in its revised, updated Second Edition, this pocket-sized handbook is a practical quick-reference guide to the diagnosis and management of neurologic diseases. It presents specific management recommendations in a succinct outline format and includes protocols, step-by-step tests and procedures, and treatment algorithms. This handbook is unique in its inclusion of material from related disciplines such as general medicine, cardiology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, neuroanatomy, and radiology. The authors offer guidance in using contemporary neuroimaging techniques in diagnosis.

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Neurology: Atlas of Ambulatory EEG

120 pages
Publisher: Academic Press (August 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0126213453
ISBN-13: 978-0126213454

Atlas of Ambulatory EEG is a first-of-its-kind publication in clinical neurophysiology, an atlas that comprehensively depicts normal, abnormal, and artifactual findings from actual ambulatory EEG recordings in a convenient and easily accessible format. As the use of ambulatory EEG has increased in recent years, the need for a concise atlas of ambulatory EEG has grown significantly, since ambulatory EEG tracings are subject to their own unique issues and artifacts, often not discussed in standard EEG atlases. This book begins with several chapters that introduce the history, technology, and clinical utility of ambulatory EEG. The bulk of the atlas consists of a page-by-page display of high-quality ambulatory EEG excerpts that are easy to review and come with short annotations describing the relevant findings. Atlas of Ambulatory EEG is a critical resource for anyone involved in the interpretation of ambulatory EEG studies.

A handy reference describing EEG patterns in normal and abnormal subjects based upon continuous monitoring techniques from widely used ambulatory EEG equipment.

A section of EEG patterns without accompanying explanation will test the reader's ability to interpret the waveforms and answers will be given in a separate section.

Unique accompanying CD, which provides a sample of EEG files. The files have been provided by Digitrace - a company which maintains a vast library of EEG files.

Internationally renowned contributors in the field.

Wide audience including researchers in neurophysiology and neuroscience, as well as neurologists.

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Radiology: A-Z of Abdominal Radiology

>> Friday, April 23, 2010

366 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (February 23, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521700140
ISBN-13: 978-0521700146

A-Z of Abdominal Radiology provides a concise, easily accessible radiological guide to the imaging of the common disorders of the abdomen and pelvis. Organised by A-Z, each entry gives easy access to the key clinical features of the condition. Section 1 reviews the relevant radiological anatomy of the abdomen and pelvis. This is followed by over 80 abdominal disorders, listing characteristics, clinical features, radiological features and relevant clinical management. Each disorder is highly illustrated to aid diagnosis. A-Z of Abdominal Radiology is an invaluable quick reference for the busy clinician and aide memoir for exam revision in both medicine and radiology.

A concise, easily accessible radiological guide to the imaging of the common disorders of the abdomen and pelvis. An introductory section reviews the relevant radiological anatomy of the abdomen and pelvis, and is followed by over 80 abdominal disorders, each listing characteristics, clinical features, radiological features and clinical management.

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Anatomy: Anatomical Terms and their Derivation

by F. Peter Lisowsk

136 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing; 1 edition (January 3, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 981270387X
ISBN-13: 978-9812703873

Anatomical terms are the vocabulary of medicine. Anatomy began as a descriptive science in the days when Latin was the universal scientific language. Early anatomists described the structures they saw in that language, comparing them to common and familiar objects, or borrowing terms from the Greek and Arabic masters before them. In anatomic terminology, common Latin or Greek words are used as such for any part of the body for which the ancients had a name. For many other structures, scientific names have been invented either by using certain classical words which appear to be descriptive of the part concerned, or commonly, by combining Greek or Latin roots to form a new compound term. Memorization of such terms without understanding their meaning can lead to mental indigestion.

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