This book aims to provide an up-to-date review of the literature in each of the major areas relating to the management of older urological cancer patients, and makes recommendations for best practice and future research. The authors come from a broad geographic spread including the UK, mainland Europe and North America to ensure a worldwide relevance.
The book includes recommendations for COPD from published guidelines (eg, the GOLD, ATS, and NICE guidelines) and presents them in the context of relevant clinical treatment issues. This is an in-depth guide on the management of COPD, concentrating on the impact of COPD on a patient as well as how healthcare professionals can intervene and educate the patient at an early stage and thereby slow the onset of severe symptoms.
An ideal clinical handbook for medical professionals that regularly treat patients with diabetes and comorbid gastrointestinal complications. The concise format provides evidence-based content with a targeted emphasis on diagnosis, as up to 75% of patients visiting diabetes clinics report significant gastrointestinal symptoms. Includes guidelines for complication prevention, treatment, and long-term disease management.
This is a concise and timely review, which discusses the background of obesity, preventative care, medical and surgical treatment options, and long-term support for patients with obesity. Busy healthcare professionals who want a rapid review of obesity as well as a summary of the most recently approved surgical devices and medical therapies will benefit from this succinct guide.
Absolutely love this book! My preceptor still uses her book and she’s been a PNP for over 20 years! This helps me with my SOAP notes and documenting. I take it with me to clinicals and I look up anything I have to question.
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 diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms are accompanied by case-based illustrationsencountered on a daily basis by attendings, fellows, residents, and students. The bulleted format, concise approach, and familiar examples provide a framework for effective teaching, learning, and patient care.
This pocket-sized manual is a concise, ready reference for well-child care, a compilation of the most common management problems seen in an average pediatric practice, and a drug reference. Part I provides comprehensive guidelines for well-child visits from birth to adolescence along wth management guidelines for common childrearing issues. This part has a new, more streamlined format in the Sixth Edition with an emphasis on prevention. Part II provides management protocols for the most commonly occurring childhood illnesses. This edition includes new material on behavioral problems and common childrearing concerns, childhood obesity, food allergies, ADHD, sleep problems, and peer pressure. Part III provides a concise review of commonly used pharmaceuticals in pediatric practice, using both generic and trade names.
Fully updated throughout, the second edition of the Manual of Botulinum Toxin Therapy provides practical guidance on the use of Botox in a wide variety of disorders. New chapters have been added on the use of botulinum toxin in wound healing, in focal hand dystonia and in thoracic outlet syndrome, as well as others. There are new chapters on the use of botulinum toxins in conjunction with ultrasound guidance. Using clear line-drawings the Manual describes the relevant injection sites for each condition and gives comparative dosage tables for the various formulations of toxins used in different muscle groups. Throughout the emphasis is on technique and the book can be used as both a teaching aid and in bedside guidance. The manual will be of use to neurologists, otolaryngologists, urologists, ophthalmologists, dermatologists, internists, pain management specialists, rehabilitation specialists and plastic surgeons, and any other clinicians discovering the potential of botulinum toxin.
“This is a concise overview of the most common topics in cardiology, including evidence-based approaches to cardiovascular disease and comprehensive coverage of common cardiovascular procedures. Each chapter closes with an extensive reference list to guide readers to further reading. This edition’s additional features include management of patients with novel procedures, such as percutaneous heart valve replacement and left ventricular assist devices, a section on systemic diseases and their effect on the heart, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and pulmonary hypertension.”
“This book will be a valuable aid for those caring for patients with cardiovascular diseases on a day-to-day basis.”
Doody’s Reviews
Jose D Tafur, MD(Ochsner Clinic Foundation)
This manual is a comprehensive guide to cardiac diagnostic techniques for clinicians. Beginning with the basics, the book highlights the importance of history taking and physical examination.
With this second edition, professor Suhail Ahmad … offers an update of the ‘Seattle experience’ and of the field of dialysis. … the glossy paper and 50 color illustrations make it a very pleasant read. … The manual is intended as a brief overview of dialysis and its complications as well as of some of the complications of chronic kidney disease … . The manual is probably intended for newcomers to dialysis, including nurses, technicians, residents, and specialists other than nephrologists. (Mony Fraer, Doody’s Review Service, July, 2009)
Inside the Fourth Edition of theManual of Cardiovascular Medicine, you’ll find practical and effective approaches to common clinical syndromes—including clear guidance on administration of commonly prescribed medications and descriptions of proven therapeutic procedures. This best selling manual’s concise outline format and colorful design make essential facts easy to find. An ideal reference for the resident, fellow, practicing cardiologist, or nurse-practitioner treating patients with cardiovascular disease.
Good Guide and a lot of information for lab
This second edition of the Manual of Clinical Dialysis is a concise and well-illustrated guide to all aspects of dialysis. All chapters have been revised and present a complete overview of the techniques, processes and equipment involved in clinical dialysis as well as an overview of the complications of dialysis. The manual also provides an overview of common clinical problems related to renal failure such as hypertension, anemia and renal osteodystrophy.
This book has a great amount of detail for both solid tumors and leukemias, I used it during both my hematology and oncology rotations and found it to be extremely helpful.
