Medical specialties, branches of medicine

This new volume in the Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine series, published under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, provides a state-of-the- art account of the epidemiology of injury across a broad spectrum of Olympic sports.

The ABC of One to Seven is a practical guide to the management of common physical and emotional problems of early childhood.

Tropical Diseases in Travelers Covering all the major tropical diseases that present a health risk to travelers, this book is an invaluable resource for all practitioners who encounter the post travel patient.

Periodontology at a Glance Valerie Clerehugh, Aradhna Tugnait and Robert J.

Medicines are the most common form of treatment for those with mental health problems worldwide.

The Textbook of Human Disease in Dentistry is a comprehensive resource for all students of dentistry that provides uniquely integrated coverage of medicine, surgery, pharmacology, therapeutics, pathology and microbiology.

The Basic Guide to Medical Emergencies in the Dental Practice is a must have book for all dental care professionals.

The global shift towards overweight and obese populations has led to a significant rise in diet-related chronic illness.

Common Medical Conditions Common Medical Conditions: A Guide for the Dental Team is an invaluable reference in the Dental Update series of clinical resources outlining the clinical features, clinical signs, diagnosis, management and dental relevance of the most commonly encountered chronic medical problems in the developed world.

Oral Microbiology At A Glance is a title in the highly popular at a Glance series.

This is a seminal text uniquely dedicated to oral hard tissue pathology, presenting the growth of clinical knowledge and advancement in the field in recent years.

Research has shown that optimum maternal and child nutrition can reduce the incidence of chronic conditions ranging from obesity, food allergy and asthma, to cardiovascular disease and cancers.

This is a practical, accessible guide for nurses on the management and care of the dying and deceased patient.

Formulate treatment plans with confidence when you consult Sleep Disorders in Neurology, a helpful overview of both common and rare neurological disorders that are frequently accompanied by significant sleep disturbances.

This new textbook has an international authorship and is a practical, up-to-date resource for clinicians responsible for the care of children with oncologic and malignant hematologic disease.

Written by a multidisciplinary team of medical and nursing experts, this fully-updated second edition provides evidence-based coverage of all frequently seen neonatal conditions.

Dual Diagnosis: Practice in Context is a practical evidence-based guide for practitioners working in multi-disciplinary mental health and substance misuse service settings.

Remarkable improvements in cardiac survival rates have made cardiovascular critical care much more common, but no less challenging for the practitioner.

A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditions Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain

This is a thorough revision and update of the highly successful first edition, which which achieved sales in excess of 4,500.

Preterm birth is a major challenge in perinatal health care.

Access to high quality abortion care is essential to women s health, as evidenced by the dramatic decrease in pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality since the legalization of abortion in the United States, and by high rates of maternal death and complications in those countries where abortion is still provided under unsafe conditions.

This ABC introduces medicine in areas of conflict or natural disaster responding to the growing number of regions affected.

This brand new title in the popular ABC series offers an up-to-date introduction on improving patient safety in primary and secondary care.

The fourth edition of this important and highly praised guide has been substantially revised and updated, providing concise, practical information on a difficult and distressing area of paediatric medicine.

Health professionals and students need look no further than the seventh edition of Leitman's Manual for Eye Examination and Diagnosis for a concise introduction to eye diagnosis and treatment.

This revision guide contains Extended Matching Questions (EMQs) and Observed Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) that comprehensively cover the major topics in Psychiatry likely to be tested at medical school.

An ideal accompaniment to ECGs for the Emergency Physician Volume 1

The ABC of Skin Cancer is designed to boost GP confidence in the diagnosis and referral of skin cancer, focusing on differential diagnosis and common pitfalls.

This new volume in the concise "e;How To"e; series explores the foundations and principles of continuing education of professionals and then relates these to the practice of teaching the various modalities used in CME.

In its different presentations, headache is one of the most common symptoms seen by family practitioners.

Demographic trends confirm what clinicians already know - they are spending increasing amounts of time dealing with older people.

This well-established book gives clear guidance on normal development and how to diagnose and manage illness in newborn infants and babies.

Clinical Sedation in Dentistry is a comprehensive textbook on the principles and practice of clinical sedation in dentistry, written by experienced educators and internationally renowned researchers in the field.

Nothing is more perplexing to the clinician new to device therapy than having to deal with cardiac electrocardiograms from a device patient.

Neurology: A Queen Square Textbook is a remarkable fusion of modern neuroscience with traditional neurology that will inform and intrigue trainee and experienced neurologists alike.

Interventions for Amphetamine Misuse is a practical, useable guide for health professionals working in the field.

Clinical Management in Mental Health Services is a practical guide to the day to day operational management of mental health teams.

Local Anaesthesia in Dentistry is a practical guide for both students and general practitioners to this essential area of clinical practice.

Nursing the Highly Dependent Infant or Child is an accessible and clinical guide to the caring for the acutely ill child.

The often complex problems of the trauma patient present many challenges to front line emergency staff.

ECGs for Nurses provides everything the nurse needs to know about the electrocardiogram.

Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades.

Assessment and monitoring are fundamental aspects of the care of the acutely ill child, especially in high dependency areas and critical care units.

This textbook covers all aspects of materials science relevant to the practice of dentistry.

Restorative Dentistry: An Integrated Approach presents the core of knowledge that forms the basis of clinical practice in restorative dentistry.

Evidence-Based Clinical Supervision critiques and summarises the best available psychological evidence relating to clinical supervision, clarifying the key principles, setting out the related practice guidelines and specifying the research and practice implications.

This book is the British Medical Association s statement on the ethics related to care of the elderly, written and reviewed by a panel of renowned medical ethicists.

Academic, clinical and research aspects are offered in collaboration with clinical practitioners, who provide the clinical experience to foster the development of competencies in Health and Social Care.

The fully updated Second Edition of this case-led text provides an excellent introduction to evidence-based Clinical Practice for the major areas of infectious disease management.