Nursing and ancillary services

This book is a resource that offers guidance to nurses who are experienced or novice aesthetic practitioners and would like to improve their aesthetic practice and enhance patient safety and satisfaction.

This book provides an introduction to next generation smart screening technology for medical image analysis that combines artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with digital screening to develop innovative methods for detecting breast cancer.

This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to advance a relational, action-oriented, interdisciplinary, and creative climate education attuned to the social and emotional effects of the climate emergency.

This book reviews the main principles of resistance training, from basics to modern insights.

This book provides a review of therapeutic foods and diets for aging patients.

The book is devoted to the 70th birthday of Prof.

This book offers a philosophically-based, yet clinically-oriented perspective on current medical reasoning aiming at 1) identifying important forms of uncertainty permeating current clinical reasoning and practice 2) promoting the application of an abductive methodology in the health context in order to deal with those clinical uncertainties 3) bridging the gap between biomedical knowledge, clinical practice, and research and values in both clinical and philosophical literature.

This book analyzes schizophrenia management in the context of recent clinical therapeutic advances that have transformed the measurements and outcomes landscape.

Setting out from the premise that "e;a picture is worth more than a thousand words"e;, this book presents a superb set of illustrations, with accompanying clinical data, relating to a series of cases from a single surgeon registry.

This book describes a set of novel statistical algorithms designed to infer functional connectivity of large-scale neural assemblies.

This volume contains the papers of the 1st Workshop IFToMM for Sustainable Development Goals (I4SDG), held online on November 25-26, 2021.

This guide walks you through the set-up, supplies, nursing considerations, troubleshooting, and steps to successfully assist during cutting edge interventional Gastroenterological procedures that are being performed to offer patients a safer and more cost effective treatment option.

Historically, nursing, in all of its missions of research/scholarship, education and practice, has not had access to large patient databases.

This book is concerned with human factors and ergonomics research and developments in the design and use of systems and devices for effective and safe healthcare delivery.

This book reports on cutting-edge findings and developments in physical, social and occupational ergonomics.

This book presents a systematic review of research concerning processes and systems in Emergency Departments (EDs), the issues faced by EDs, and their solutions to ensure the delivery of proper and ideal healthcare services for patients through superior quality process management.

This textbook introduces readers to the recent advances in the emerging field of genetic design automation (GDA).

The book covers the latest developments in biologically-inspired and derived nanomedicine for cancer therapy.

This is the first textbook to comprehensively cover the experimental methods used in biomechanics.

This book presents a compact study on recent concepts and advances in biomedical engineering.

This book contains the papers of the 7th International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB) that was planned to be held in Basel, Switzerland, in July 2020.

Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, this book demonstrates the best quality care for pregnant women and new mothers who may have complex social needs.

This book presents multidisciplinary research focusing on the analysis, synthesis, and design of bio and nanomaterials.

This book offers accessible and concise information to enable both student and qualified clinicians to navigate essential eating, drinking and swallowing (EDS) knowledge and equip them to meet relevant clinical competencies.

Forces such as political conflict, globalisation and the growth of the internet, offering news of life elsewhere, mean levels of migration are higher now than at any other time in history.

This new edition updates the previous one and adds additional content related to postoperative management, pain management, LGBTQ care,  and uroradiology.

This book addresses emerging issues in usability, interface design, human-computer interaction, user experience and assistive technology.

The systematic review is a rigorous method of collating and synthesizing evidence from multiple studies, producing a whole greater than the sum of parts.

For the first time in a thousand years, Americans are experiencing a reversal in lifespan.

The rapid and continuous growth in the amount of available medical information and the variety of multimodal content has created demand for a fast and reliable technology capable of processing data and delivering results in a user-friendly manner, whenever and wherever the information is needed.

This book covers the explosion of new information about the relationship between the brain and its blood supply since the first edition was published in 2009.

Want a sophisticated, witty and engaging introduction to the nursing profession?

Cancer is a very aggressive disease and currently it has been considered a challenge to oncologists and cancer patients worldwide.

This book presents new systems and circuits for implantable biomedical applications, using a non-conventional way to transmit energy and data via ultrasound.

This book explores the latest and most relevant topics in the field of computational bioengineering and bioinformatics, with a particular focus on patient-specific, disease-progression modeling.

This book provides a real-time and knowledge-based fuzzy logic model for soft tissue deformation.

This volume provides a cutting-edge analysis concerning the biology and aetiology, classification, clinical assessment and conservative treatment of lower limb muscle injuries in athletes.

This textbook presents a practical guide for new and experienced health or social care staff, helping them promote the health and well-being of people with learning disabilities.

"e;This book contains a collection of the most recent insights regarding maternal morbidity and mortality and optimization of the care processes during acute critical illness.

This book covers all the gynecological areas where nurses undertake a key role in managing and leading the care of women.

This volume presents a new contribution for the field of Tissue Engineering with a focus on the development of mathematical and computational methods that are relevant to understand human tissues, as well to model, design, and fabricate optimized and smart scaffolds.

A guide to the hottest new trend in full-body, no-impact exercise-pool workouts where your feet never touch the bottomWhether you're a professional athlete or general fitness enthusiast, wouldn't you prefer a workout that's kinder to your joints while also producing amazing results?

This book is about the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and the unique and special environment of active implants that electrically interface with the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and organs.

This comprehensive text examines both global and local coronary blood flow based on morphometry and mechanical properties of the coronary vasculature.