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The new edition of Get ahead! Medicine: 150 EMQs for Finals has been completely updated by two junior doctors who have achieved recent success in their finals, overseen by the book’s experienced author team. The 150 EMQ themes, each with five stems, are arranged as 10 practice papers, each containing...

As we stated in our message in the book of abstracts for this congress, we have planned the programme over a long period with one clear objective: to present musculoskeletal medicine as an integral part of orthodox medical practice, rather than as something alternative or complementary. To this end...

This issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics, edited by Dr. Eddy Chen, covers topics including: Being the Oncology Hospitalist; Caring for Acute Leukemics; Blood Transfusions for Cancer Patients; QI Initiatives in Hospitalized Cancer Patients; Febrile Neutropenia - A Closer Look; Chemotherapy Complications...

A comprehensive full-color anatomical atlas designed specifically for the anesthesiologist and pain physician A clear understanding of relevant anatomy is essential for physicians who wish to master ultrasound guided nerve blocks. This innovative resource includes high-resolution CT,...

The issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics, Guest Edited by Nicholas J. Kenyon and Mithu Molla, will include Management of Hospitalized Patients with Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease; The Hospitalized Patient with Acute Pneumonia; Evaluation and Management of the Hospitalized Patient with Interstitial...

Che cosa è la mente, e sopratutto dove è situata la mente, rappresentano le domande più importanti a cui si cerca di rispondere in questo testo, passando per esperienze di frontiera, quali le “esperienze di premorte” o gli “stati alterati di coscienza” descritti dalla Psicologia Transpersonale....

This new online Clinics series, Hospital Medicine Clinics, provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. This fourth issue in our growing online database covers essential updates in the following topics: atrial fibrillation; COPD; adult vaccines; inpatient...

A classic text, Chamberlain's Symptoms and Signs in Clinical Medicine has been providing students and professionals with a detailed and well-illustrated account of the symptoms and signs of diseases affecting all the body systems since the first edition published in 1936. Now completely rewritten by a new team of authors selected for their experien

Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research – Central Nervous System presents the latest research and clinical studies on the central nervous system (CNS). It covers a range of topics such as the development and pathophysiology of the brain and spinal cord, physiological sites of drug action in the CNS...

This book discusses a wide range of investigations and practice-oriented advances in pulmonary medicine and critical care. Pulmonary diseases are a major cause of hospitalization and mortality, affecting millions of people worldwide. Addressing a range of topics, including chronic obstructive...

In the last years, indications for defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy have expanded enormously; for this reason, and also due to the extension of human life length, the number of patients with implanted cardiac devices have steadily increased. The leads implanted for the functioning...

From recent developments in the rapidly growing area of neuroscience it has become increasingly clear that a simplistic description of brain function as a broad collection of simple input-output relations is quite inadequate. Introspection already tells us that our motor behavior is guided by a complex...

Following a brief outline of the technology involved in preparing casts as well as the types of casts made, this atlas devotes a whole section to three blood vessel systems (portal, arterial and venous) and the biliary system. Apart from normal anatomy, it presents all other major structural variations...

An anal abscess is an infected cavity filled with pus found near the anus or rectum.Ninety percent of abscesses are the result of an acute infection in the internal glands of the anus.Occasionally, bacteria, fecal material or foreign matter can clog an anal gland and tunnel into the tissue around...