Accident and emergency medicine

Pregnancy loss can leave us with many unanswered questions, and knowing where to find answers is not always clear.

Sepsis is a very important public health problem.

This book is a tribute to Dr Joan Chapple CNZM FRACS, who qualified as New Zealand's first formally trained female plastic surgeon in the late 1950s and practised as a plastic and hand surgeon in Auckland, New Zealand for over 38 years.

Rheumatology, Orthopaedics and Trauma at a Glance is the new edition of The Musculoskeletal System at a Glance.

With the expertise of an author panel of leading clinicians in the field of surgery, trauma, critical care and geriatrics the new edition of this text addresses the explosion in knowledge on the impact aging has on injury, acute illness and critical care management.

Emergency Medicine: Diagnosis and Management incorporates the latest ideas and evidence base underpinning best practice emergency medicine care.

High-altitude illness is a collective term for a cluster of acute clinical syndromes that directly consequence from rapid ascent to high altitude, viz.

Assessment of Trauma in Youths: Understanding issues of age, complexity, and associated variables is a collection of articles by well-known specialists in the field of childhood trauma.

The development of urgent care centres within emergency departments and the proliferation of minor injury units and walk in centres in recent years has led to a parallel rise in Emergency Practitioners (EPs) whose professional backgrounds range between nursing, physiotherapy and paramedical sciences with nurses being the predominant group.

Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions that are most likely to be encountered.

A reference on mental health and disasters, focused on the full spectrum of psychopathologies associated with many different types of disasters.

This key textbook equips all nurses with the knowledge and skills required to care for the deteriorating patient in the clinical environment.

The Hero's Mask Guidebook provides practical strategies to be used alongside the The Hero's Mask novel.

This book is a clinical guide in the practice of pediatric critical care and can serve as a roadmap for an introductory journey through this broad and challenging subspecialty.

Blood and Marrow Transplantation Long Term Management Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) provides curative therapy for a variety of diseases.

This book is designed to present an overview of common geriatrics ethical issues that arise during patient care and research activities.

The Disenfranchised: Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-Spouse Dies offers an unprecedented anthology of never-before-published, first-person life histories by ex-spouses whose grief has endured as disenfranchised: socially unacknowledged, untold, and unrecognised.

Road traffic injuries are a neglected global pandemic.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book focuses on subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), describing in detail the neurophysiology, anatomy, epidemiology, grading, anesthesia management, coiling and interventional treatment of this dangerous disease.

"e;The Cotton Dust Papers"e; is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.

"e;Everyday Bioethics"e; suggests a new perspective on the relationships between science, ethics and society.

This book contains relevant step-by-step information on how to detect, manage, and treat complications and emergencies during the perioperative period.

This extensively revised textbook reviews the use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in pediatric and young adult patients with cardiac disease.

This book focuses on patients with end-stage-liver disease (ESLD) who could possibly qualify for liver transplant.

Die Rettungswissenschaft tritt als eine neue Disziplin an und fordert ihren Platz innerhalb der Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft.

Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry directly challenges the oil industry's claims of corporate good citizenship, now widely advanced as part of a global public relations initiative.

Las quemaduras, desde las limitadas y superficiales hasta las extensas y profundas, condicionan dolor e incapacidad en quien las padece, alteran el entorno familiar y colectivo, son un reto en su abordaje y manejo, además de exigir al sistema de salud la necesidad de tener previsto implementar procesos de atención preventivos y de respuesta eficientes y concientizar sobre la necesidad de contar con centros especializados para su atención y de programas educativos que aseguren la profesionalización y la educación médica continua.

The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts.

The second edition of this award-winning Atlas provides trauma surgeons with an updated visual guide to key surgical techniques.

In the face of the long domination of medical care by men, Women and Health explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and the health care of women.

Combat Stress Injury represents a definitive collection of the most current theory, research, and practice in the area of combat and operational stress management, edited by two experts in the field.

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Die Beatmung gehört zu den zentralen Aufgaben eines jeden Intensivmediziners und Weiterbildungs-Assistenten in den verschiedenen operativen und konservativen Disziplinen.

Reading this book, caregivers will find ways to increase their effectiveness by understanding more fully what their care receivers are experiencing, by finding creative ways to assist them in processing what is happening, and by working with them to discern responses to loss that are emotionally healthy, intellectually coherent, spiritually genuine, culturally sensitive, relationally authentic, and personally fulfilling.

This book offers a diagnostic tool for physicians and psychologists who want to systematically document pain within a multimodal structure.

Dismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low per-capita GDP, but are poor patients in poor countries really fated to be denied the fruits of modern medicine?

This book provides an in-depth and complete guide explaining how to incorporate the strategic dialogue and strategic communication methods into the debriefing after the scenario, characteristics that make it unique.

Traumatization and Its Aftermath delves deep into the complexities of traumatization and is a practical, comprehensive guide to understanding and overcoming the impacts of adverse circumstances.

Point of Care Ultrasound Made Easy (POCUSME) is an exciting and innovative book that aims to teach all healthcare professionals how to do simple and clinically relevant ultrasound scanning at the point of care.

This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive review of every aspect of emergency chest radiology in patients who are admitted to emergency departments with chest trauma or chest pain.

The Handbook of Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Adversity in Children is a developmentally oriented book rich with findings related to child development, the impact of trauma on development and functioning, and interventions directed at treating reactions to trauma.

Stroke, Body Image, and Self Representation provides a psychoanalytic reading of the subjective difficulties encountered by patients who have suffered a stroke.

This is a book for clinician educators.

Emerging as a new sub-specialization within the hospitalist community, the neurosurgery hospitalist provides preoperative risk stratification, advises on managing pre- and postoperative complications, and helps doctors make decisions about when to involve specialists other than neurosurgeons.

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Covers a broad spectrum of traumatic injuries and procedures anesthesiologists perform to care for trauma patients perioperatively, surgically, and post-operatively.