Multiple Choice Questions in Regional Anaesthesia
Rajesh Gupta Dilip Patel 2013
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Manual of Geriatric Anesthesia
Sheila Ryan Barnett Editor 2013 Old and older: ready or not, here they come! It is common knowledge that the population is aging—in 2011, the 78 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 began to turn 65, marking the beginning of a new and considerably greyer America. By 2030, 20% of the US population will be over […]
Continue reading →Lungenfunktion und Spiroergometrie-Interpretation und Befunderstellung unter Einschluss der arteriellen Blutgasanalyse
Paul Haber 2013 Erfreulicherweise ist auch die 2. Auflage zwischenzeitlich vergriffen. Dies kann einerseits dahingehend interpretiert werden, dass die Lungenfunktionsuntersuchung und auch die Spiroergometrie bereits zunehmend in der medizinischen Praxis etabliert sind und andererseits, dass dieses Buch von vielen interessierten ÄrztInnen als Hilfe bei der Einarbeitung in die Interpretation und Befunderstellung geschätzt wird. Diese Überlegungen haben zur Vorbereitung einer 3. […]
Continue reading →Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy
Ricardo A. Cruciani • Helena Knotkova Editors 2013 This volume describes the evolving role of methadone and buprenorphine—pharmacologically distinct opioids that share clinical utility in the management of both pain and addiction. It is timely work given the attention now focused on the effort to improve the safety of long-term opioid therapy for pain, in part by […]
Continue reading →Handbook of Blood Gas/ Acid-Base Interpretation
Ashfaq Hasan Second Edition 2013 One of the primary objectives of the fi rst edition of this book was to facilitate understanding and retention of a complex subject in the least possible time—by breaking the subject matter down into small, easily comprehensible sections: these were presented in a logical sequence as flow charts, introducing concepts fi rst, and […]
Continue reading →Gestione delle crisi in medicina durgenza e terapia intensiva
Michael St.Pierre • Gesine Hofinger • Cornelius Buerschaper • Robert Simon • Ivan Daroui 2013 Molti professionisti in ambiente sanitario concordano sull’importanza delle cosiddette competenze non-tecniche, riassunte in questo volume con il termine di “fattori umani”. Anche in Italia, la consapevolezza del ruolo essenziale svolto dai fattori umani, dalle dinamiche di gruppo o dall’organizzazione stessa del sistema sanitario […]
Continue reading →Essentials of Palliative Care
Nalini Vadivelu ● Alan David Kaye Jack M. Berger Editors 2013 When my mother turned 90 years old, she had moderately advanced Parkinson’s disease, but no other major ailments. Her function was declining gradually, and she began to fall and become a bit forgetful. Her ability to live independently was waning. But her need for palliative […]
Continue reading →End-of-Life Care in der Intensivmedizin
Andrej Michalsen Christiane S. Hartog (Hrsg.) 2013 Intensivmediziner haben das berechtigte Selbstverständnis, dass die Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin dazu da ist, den Patienten mit Hilfe unserer medizinischen und technischen Möglichkeiten eine Chance zum Überleben zu geben. Denn in nahezu 90% der Fälle sind unsere intensivmedizinischen Maßnahmen erfolgreich. Viele auch hochbetagte und kranke Menschen erhalten durch die Fortschritte in der Intensivmedizin […]
Continue reading →Dawn and Evolution of Cardiac Procedures
Marco Piciche` Editor 2013 One century ago, no surgeon would have dared touch a living human heart, which represented the last frontier in the development of surgery. End-stage heart disease was regarded as the normal termination of life. A few surgeons and cardiologists, however, did not accept this fatality and began dreaming about sophisticated procedures […]
Continue reading →Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches
Timothy R. Deer Editor-in-chief Michael S. Leong Associate Editor-in-chief Asokumar Buvanendran • Vitaly Gordin Philip S. Kim • Sunil J. Panchal • Albert L. Ray Associate Editors 2013 A brand new textbook is a testament to many things—an editor’s vision, many authors’individual and collective expertise, the publisher’s commitment, and all told, thousands of hours of hard work. […]
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