Published September, 2009
By David A. Sass
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Suitable for a practicing clinician, this book presents some of the best practices of caring for a cirrhotic patient. It covers topics such as diagnosis and epidemiology of cirrhosis; ascites: diagnosis and management; encephalopathy: pathophysiology and emerging therapies; and, portal hypertensive bleeding.

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Published September, 2009
By Henry Rinder and Henry M. Rinder
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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The understanding of hemostasis physiology has been considerably advanced by models of kinetics and by the complicated interplay of cells and soluble coagulation factors. This book explains how this physiology is reflected in clinical laboratory testing.

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Published September, 2009
By Mary Margaret Gleason, Daniel S. Schechter, Dr. Daniel S. Schechter and Daniel Schechter
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Discusses Infant Development. This title includes two articles on assessment in early childhood psychiatry: Psychiatric assessment, and Assessment of the caregiver-child relationship in early childhood psychiatry. It also discusses Early Childhood Mental Health Problems, such as Internalizing, Trauma and PTSD, and Preschool Disruptive Behavior.

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Published September, 2009
By Theodore X. O'Connell, Jonathan M. Wong, Kevin M. Haggerty and Timothy J. Horita
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: Instant Workups
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Part of the "Instant Workups" series, this book helps you develop and refine your diagnostic skills. It includes some of the most commonly encountered medical conditions in a specialty. It presents workup plans for each condition. It covers the signs, symptoms, and abnormal lab readings for the various conditions.

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Published September, 2009
By Matthew E. Falagas
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Meta-analysis is a useful tool for evidence-based medicine. This book contains articles that examine the strengths and limitations of meta-analysis in infectious diseases, the use of meta-analysis in comparing diagnostic tests or treatments, and meta-analysis for specific problems, such as parasitic infections, HIV, and surgical infections.

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Published September, 2009
By Gary A. Colangelo and Gary Colangelo
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Dentistry
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An issue on access to oral health care. It includes topics such as: ethics, the dental workforce, non-dental health professionals providing access to dental care for low-income and minority patients, dental health care finance, third party reimbursement for dental care and access to dental care, managing clinical risk, and teledentistry.

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Published September, 2009
By E. Wesley Ely, Pratik Pandharipande and E.Wesley Ely
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Looks at modern Sedation techniques in the critically ill. This issue includes topics such as: Pharmacology of commonly used sedatives and analgesics in the ICU, Sedation practices: lessons learned from international surveys, Sedation and Immunomodulation, and Sedation and sleep disturbances in the ICU, and more.

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Published September, 2009
By David M. Spiro, Mohamud Daya and David Spiro
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Includes articles on GI Bleeding, Hepatic Encephalopathy, Bleeding diatheses, Disseminated intravascular coagulation, Hyperviscosity syndrome, Polycythemia, Hyperleukocytosis, Thrombocytosis, and more.

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Published September, 2009
By Scott B. Reeder and Pratik Mukherjee
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Offers information on imaging modality. This book explores such subjects as diffusion weighted MR imaging in musculoskeletal radiology, arterial spin labeled perfusion imaging, and diffusion tensor imaging of neurodegenerative diseases.

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Published September, 2009
By Marin H. Kollef, Scott T. Micek, Marin Kollef and Dr. Martin H. Kollef
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Covers infectious disease issues encountered in the ICU, including the approach to the febrile patient, management of septic shock, severe community-acquired pneumonia, management of ventilator-associated pneumonia, approach to the immunocompromised host, bloodstream infection, severe soft tissue infections, and meningitis and brain abscess.

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