Adrienne Youdim Editor 2015 Recent epidemiologic studies have noted a plateauing of obesity rates in the USA following decades of steady escalation. Currently, 34.9 % of the US adult population is considered obese, as defined by a body mass index of 30 or greater, which has been stable in the years 2011–2012 as compared to 2003–2004 [1]. However, these […]
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Ajay K. Singh Joseph Loscalzo 2019 Passing the boards for many readers of this book represents a “rite of passage.” In Lakota Sioux culture, hembleciya (hamblay- che-ya) represents a Native American rite of passage. he word hembleciya translates to “crying for a dream.” he ceremony is frequently referred to as “going up on the hill,” because people often go to […]
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Federico Coccolini • Rao Ivatury Michael Sugrue • Luca Ansaloni Editors 2018 A Comprehensive Practical Manual The treatment of patients with intra-abdominal catastrophes with an open abdomen involves several potential complex management strategies. The open abdomen is universally recognized as an option to improve outcomes in selected patients. Firstly described in damage control procedures in trauma the open […]
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Editors Richard S. Irwin Craig M. Lilly Paul H. Mayo James M. Rippe 2018 It is with great pleasure that we present the eighth edition of Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. As with previous editions, the editorial challenge that we faced with this edition was to continue to ensure that the book remained at the cutting edge, […]
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Trisha Greenhalgh 2014 When I wrote this book in 1996, evidence-based medicine was a bit of an unknown quantity. A handful of academics (including me) were already enthusiastic and had begun running ‘training the trainers’ courses to disseminate what we saw as a highly logical and systematic approach to clinical practice. Others – certainly the majority of clinicians – […]
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Gregory A. Schmidt Editor 2016 Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) consists of using an external gas-exchanging membrane to support oxygenation or carbon dioxide removal (or both), at times including circulatory assistance. ECLS has been used in severe hypoxemic respiratory failure (ARDS, pneumonia); diseases dominated by ventilatory failure such as status asthmaticus and COPD; cardiogenic shock; following cardiothoracic surgery complicated by circulatory […]
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Alan D. Kaye • Frank J. E. Falco Joshua A. Hirsch Editors 2018 During the course of our training and practice, the dynamics of what we today call interventional pain management have changed from simple bedside injections to a full-fledged specialty with its own specialty designation (−09), explicit definition of interventional techniques, and mandated representation on the Centers […]
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Victor P. Eroschenko 2017 The thirteenth edition of Atlas of Histology with Functional Correlations (formerly diFiore’s Atlas of Histology with Functional Correlations) continues to provide a colorful and expanded atlas of histologic images for medical, veterinary, dentistry, and pathology as well as students of the biological sciences. As in previous editions, numerous comments from reviewers were helpful in suggesting improvement […]
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Edited by Jonathan A. Bernstein Louis-Philippe Boulet Michael E. Wechsler 2018 Since Hippocrates first used the term “asthma” more than 2000 years ago to describe episodic bouts of dyspnea, to the modern day recognition of the natural history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) detailed in the seminal work of Fletcher and colleagues in 1976 (The Natural History of Chronic […]
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Edited by David Hui Alexander A. Leung Raj Padwal 2016 In this fourth edition of Approach to Internal Medicine, we have substantially updated the content to provide practicing clinicians and trainees with a practical, evidence-based, and concise resource for everyday clinical use, bedside teaching and examination preparation. Approach to Internal Medicine consists of over 250 internal medicine topics […]
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