Now in its updated Fifth Edition, BRS Gross Anatomy is the first of the books in the Board Review Series to assume a primary role as a course review and textbook for medical students in first-year anatomy courses. Written in a concise, bulleted outline format, this well-illustrated text offers 500 USMLE-style review questions, answers, and explanations and features comprehensive content and upgraded USMLE Step 1 information.
In this state-of-the-art exploration of a hugely dynamic and fast-evolving field of research, leading researchers share their collective wisdom on the role that stem cells could play in the context of physiological stress and lung injury. The text focuses on reviewing the most relevant—and recent—ideas on using local, endogenous, and exogenous progenitor/stem cells in preventing and treating injury to the lung.
This volume in The Requisites in Anesthesiology Series concisely presents all of the knowledge essential to the safe practice of obstetric and gynecologic anesthesia. It covers every facet of the anesthetic care of female patients, including non-obstetrical pain management • pharmacology • physiology • common surgical procedures • oncologic procedures • assisted reproduction • fetal surgery • high-risk obstetric patients • and more. Case studies in each chapter demonstrate the clinical relevance of the material and test your comprehension.
Manual of Combined Movements: Their Use in the Examination and Treatment of Musculoskeletal Vertebral Column Disorders
Manual for physical therapists on the use of combined movements in treating spinal disorders. This edition expands the section on the thoracic spine and the selection of techniques. For practitioners. Halftone illustrations.
Value in Health Care: Accounting for Cost, Quality, Safety, Outcomes, and Innovations: Workshop Summary
Added by: alexa19 | Karma: 4030.48 | Non-Fiction, Medicine | 11 August 2010
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The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation. Yet despite the unprecedented levels of spending, harmful medical errors abound, uncoordinated care continues to frustrate patients and providers, and U.S. healthcare costs continue to increase. The growing ranks of the uninsured, an aging population with a higher prevalence of chronic diseases, and many patients with multiple conditions together constitute more complicating factors in the trend to higher costs of care.
