Compartment Syndromes: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Complications
Written by an internationally recognized expert, this book provides a comprehensive text for physicians, nurses, and physiotherapists treating patients with acute and chronic compartment syndromes. Taking a mutlidisciplinary approach, the author delineates difficult material in a clear, concise manner that provides an easier understanding of this technical subject. The text includes the most current research and data on compartment syndromes. It presents in-depth coverage of acute and chronic compartment syndromes, considerations of interstitial space, intramuscular pressure recordings, and limb edema.
Management of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: A Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment This important textbook successfully tackles the lack of evidence for practice in caring for patients with acute heart failure, and provides the reader with practical advice on how to diagnose and treat their patients effectively.Bringing a major public health problem into the era of evidence-based medical practice, this important textbook successfully tackles the lack of evidence for practice in caring for patients with acute heart failure. Providing the reader with practical advice on how to diagnose and treat their patients effectively, key elements of the text include: - a definition of the problem, including its scope and epidemiology - common complications and comorbid conditions - an in-depth review of the pharmacological therapy for acute heart failure. With an interesting focus on the integrative care of the patient, the book includes chapters on psychosocial aspects, nursing care, and disease management, which clarify many issues about the total care of the patient and family that are often ignored in medical textbooks. Comprehensive and easy to use, this is an essential companion to practitioners caring for patients with this increasingly common, difficult, and fatal disease.
Acute Care of the Cancer Patient
Drawing on the real-world experience of leading experts in oncological medicine, this reference is an invaluable source of guidance for anyone specializing in the care of acutely ill cancer patients. It provides fast access to effective techniques, therapies, and approaches for surgical, medical, pediatric, pain, and general oncology issues. It emphasizes therapies unique to cancer patients, including hyperthermic perfusion, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy for solid tumor disease. The book includes many clear illustrations, figures, tables, and photographs and provides much information that has previously been unavailable in print
Containing high quality images, this book presents the common visual diagnoses that are either pathognomonic or suggestive of specific illnesses. Organized randomly as a patient would present their 'chief complaint' rather than neatly into topics, this book is an invaluable aid for all health care personnel who manage patients in acute care settings. This book is also ideal for national examination review.
An ideal complement to the medical student's curriculum and a leading text for primary care residents and physicians. It presents practical information for the diagnosis, management, and referral of common ocular disorders. Includes updated images and resources, additional sample clinical problems, and the latest information on such areas as glaucoma care and eye-related aging changes. Covers the eye examination, acute and chronic visual loss, the red eye, ocular and orbital injuries, amblyopia and strabismus, neuro-ophthalmology, ocular manifestations of systemic diseases, and drugs and the eye.
