Accident and emergency medicine

The Handbook of Women, Stress and Trauma focuses on the stresses and traumas that are unique to the lives of women.

Cardiology Emergencies covers the presentation, investigation, and management of acute cardiac problems that require speedy diagnosis and management.

The aim of this book is to help the reader achieve the correct diagnosis in the emergency setting, which continues to remain a challenge, given the variety of potential clinical presentations.

This handbook is an ideal, up-to-date guide to the application of catheter-based interventions across the entire patient age range, from fetal life through to adulthood.

This practically oriented book provides an up-to-date overview of all significant aspects of the pathogenesis of sepsis and its management, including within the intensive care unit.

This book serves as a guide to the pulmonary and critical care complications  of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).

This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir's work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma.

As the Baby Boomers age, concerns over healthcare systems abilities to accommodate geriatric patients grow increasingly challenging.

The highly anticipated update of the complete textbook of dermatologic science and practice focusing on the care of patients with moderately to heavily pigmented skin - 21 new chapters with more than 900 photographs!

This is a practical guide to the use of simulation in emergency medicine training and evaluation.

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This book explores the multifaceted experience of suffering in old age.

This book is a unique compilation of essays about the genocidal persecution fuelling the Nazi regime in World War II.

In this book, Jill Salberg and Sue Grand offer an overview of the psychoanalytic work on transgenerational trauma, rooting their perspective in attachment theory, and the social-ethical turn of Relational psychoanalysis.

Although there are many books on ischemic heart disease and myocardial in- farction, very few relate to the acute phase of the illness.

The book provides up-to-date and easy to understand information on airway management with special emphasis on practical management along with required theory background and key points.

This book will enable practicing physicians and trainees to learn, in a clinically relevant and intellectually stimulating way, guidelines for appropriate ordering of imaging exams.

This full-color atlas presents over 1200 images from one of the largest and busiest trauma centers in North America.

La crescita esponenziale dell'interesse per la ventilazione non invasiva (NIV) verificatasi negli ultimi 10-15 anni, non solo dal punto di vista clinico e applicativo, ma anche speculativo, ha pochi eguali nella recente storia della medicina.

Small bowel obstruction is a common but difficult clinical problem in terms of appropriate diagnosis and timely management.

This book introduces the latest advances relating to the pathophysiology, biophysics, monitoring and treatment of traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus, and stroke presented at the 16th International Conference on Intracranial Pressure and Neuromonitoring (the "e;ICP Conference"e;), held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June 2016 in conjunction with the 6th Annual Meeting of the Cerebral Autoregulation Research Network.

Children Recovering from Complex Trauma: From Wound to Scar draws on the latest knowledge and research on complex trauma in children, as well as the authors' expertise, in order to outline a trauma-sensitive approach to these children and their parents.

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The International Brain Hypothermia Symposium 2004, held in Tokyo, was a forum for many of the world's leading researchers and clinicians to present and discuss developments on the cutting edge of this most promising of neurological therapies.

This book, now in its 2nd edition, discusses, explains and provides detailed, up-to-date information on physics applied to clinical practice in anesthesiology and critical care medicine, with the aid of simple examples from daily life.

Die Spezialgebiete Anästhesiologie, Intensivtherapie, Schmerztherapie und Notfallmedizin haben in den letzten Jahren eine rasante Entwicklung und eine dementsprechend rasche Zunahme an neuen Erkenntnissen erfahren.

Uses a highly visual approach to summarise and simplify complex neurocritical care topics, providing a concise yet thorough reference.

How long have you been thirsting for tempting, tantalizing teasers, craving for challenging cryptographic conundrums?

A case-based guide with expert commentary, Challenging Concepts in Critical Care shows how the experts approach and deal with real-life clinical scenarios.

Reviews pre-, intra- and post-operative management of many of the most complicated and sick patients requiring anaesthesia for surgery.

Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life offers a unique understanding of memory's role in developing as a person, in navigating the course of life, and in mitigating emotional pain.

This book addresses the ethical problems that physicians have to face every day while caring for critically ill patients.

This book is a guide to making and carrying out the psychological decision to kill oneself or, if one so decide, to continue living.

Not since the great military suicide epidemic of the American Civil War have we seen so many of our heroes, our soldiers and veterans, die by suicide.

This extensively updated textbook comprehensively reviews the latest developments in evidence-based critical care.

This is a highly informative and carefully presented book for trainees and postgraduate students of anaesthesiology as well as practicing clinicians.

This book provides a theoretical background to occupational stress, and traces the early work of Hans Selye and the development of bio-physiological, psychological and then sociological models of stress.

Neurological Emergencies in Clinical Practice discusses neurological emergencies in a stepwise fashion including stabilizing the patient, identifying the cause, and treating the underlying cause.

Dissociation and the Dynamics of Personality addresses the nature of personality in trauma-dissociation and proposes a dynamic understanding of persons that fundamentally challenges conventional views of the self and consciousness.

The first complete resource in the emergency medicine literature on bioterrorism preparednessPerfect for the busy hospital room, EMS providers, public health officials, and others responding to or working to prevent damage from bioterrorism attacks Includes coverage of chemical, microbial, and radiological agents of terrorism

Trauma: A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach is a comprehensive, fully illustrated, interdisciplinary overview of trauma written by expert contributors.

This book describes the developments and improvements in electroencephalography (EEG).

The Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Descendants of Holocaust Survivors offers a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge studies from a wide range of fields dealing with new research about descendants of Holocaust survivors.

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This book provides a framework for goal-targeted management of the adult patient with spontaneous non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).

Just as the prevalence of incest and child sexual abuse was a well-kept secret until recently, the phenomenon of multiple personality disorder (MPD) - recently re-labelled dissociative identity disorder [DID] - has been minimized.