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Reflecting the AOTA standards, this title help you learn to perform efficient evaluations of adults, identify problems, and plan and implement interventions to produce optimal therapeutic outcomes.

Offers coverage of minimally invasive procedures in every area of surgery. This book provides step-by-step details on all procedures, along with Advances in notes procedures and valuable author commentary.

Provides accurate information on the pharmacology and physiology that are relevant to anesthesiology, equipping you to deliver safe and effective perioperative patient management.

Serves as an introduction to speech science and covers basic information on acoustics, the acoustic analysis of speech, speech anatomy and physiology, and speech perception. This title includes topics such as research methodology, speech motor control, and history/evolution of speech science.

Suitable for anesthesiologists, residents, and nurse anesthetists, this title focuses on anesthesia equipment. It covers the most commonly used machines and devices and addresses common problems and pitfalls that affect clinical situations. It is illustrated with full-color photographs and line drawings.

Covers revision surgery for total hip and knee arthroplasty. This title focuses on the techniques of revision surgery. It includes evaluation of the failed replacement, revision surgery, surgical technique, revision for specific diagnosis, complications, and postoperative management.

Offers clinically relevant board-style questions - suitable for course review and board prep. This title includes approximately 400 multiple-choice questions with detailed answer explanations that covers tested topics in anatomy and embryology. It is illustrated with anatomical images, clinical images, and radiological images.

A practical, comprehensive manual on the diagnosis and management of hand problems. It presents information in easy-to-scan bullet points, with numerous lists and algorithms.

Provides instructions on various emergency medicine procedures performed on infants, children, and adolescents. This title covers such topics as: use of tissue adhesives in laceration repair, focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST), management of priapism, reimplanting an avulsed permanent tooth, and procedures related to bioterrorism.

A guide to diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization. It presents practical pointers, tips, ACC/AHA guidelines, and highlighted clinical pearls and includes troubleshooting sections that provide solutions to frequently encountered problems.

Presents a step-by-step "how-to" guide to advanced techniques in shoulder arthroscopy. This title describes techniques and instruments to solve difficult surgical problems and offers dozens of tips, tricks, and pearls. It includes more than 900 full-color arthroscopic and clinical photographs and numerous drawings to complement the text.

Presents protocols and recommendations for care of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. This title shows ACLS guidelines and the developments in cardiac surgery. It offers practical guidelines on preoperative evaluation and preparation, intraoperative management, and postoperative care for different cardiac surgical procedures.

With wipeable page surface that allows nurses to write notes and remove them, this title covers basic electrocardiography including cardiac conduction, lead placement, and heart rate calculation; rhythm strip interpretation; causes, signs and symptoms, interventions, and treatment for arrhythmias; and, antiarrhythmic drugs, pacemakers, and ICDs.

Presents clinical material on child and adolescent psychiatry. This book covers topics including clinically relevant information on: normal and abnormal development; examination; neuroimaging; and, adolescent substance abuse. It features treatment chapters including a range of psychopharmacotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic techniques.

Provides a step-by-step approach to using metabolic equations, from basic math principles to applying the equations to an exercise plan. This handbook features chapters that focus separately on each equation, provide an easy-to-follow process of solving, and demonstrate the varied uses of the equation in clinical as well as fitness settings.

Lists nearly 200 symptoms, physical signs, laboratory test results, and radiologic findings and their differential diagnoses. This book features two-color design, tabs indicating sections, and shortened lists of the common diagnoses. It includes a section on HIV infection that covers manifestations, including immune reconstitution syndrome.

Suitable for residents and practitioners, this title provides coverage of the modern clinical practice of obstetrics and gynecology. It includes chapters on urinary and fecal incontinence and overactive bladder. It covers stillbirth and psychological disorders of pregnancy and the postpartum.

Helps you develop both your clinical problem-solving and critical thinking skills. This title presents a fresh approach to integrating basic pathophysiology, risk factors, physical examination findings, and clinical laboratory data for 100 major health problems. It provides support for medical, pharmacy, nursing, and allied health studies.

A review tool for radiologic technologists taking the ARRT's Advanced Qualifications Examination in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. This work is packed with over 700 questions and answers covering various aspects of MRI.

Helps health care professionals in all clinical settings communicate easily with Spanish-speaking patients. This title presents Spanish words, phrases, questions, and instructions that cover signs and symptoms, history-taking, assessment of all body systems, mental health, diagnostic tests, disorders, medications, procedures, and surgery.

A pocket guide that presents the essentials of herbal therapy and nutritional supplements, combining the traditional and scientific worlds. It covers 115 herbs that are commonly available in the US and Canada and 15 nutritional supplements. Coverage of each herb includes traditional and current uses, dangers and toxicities, and a bibliography.

Contains the practical information health care professionals need to provide optimal end-of-life care. This book presents a multidimensional, holistic approach to assessment and management of the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of the patient and family.

Provides a comprehensive presentation of various aspects of hearing science, including acoustics, psychoacoustics, anatomy and physiology, and related topics such as introduction to digital signal processing and instrumentation in hearing science.

Describes and illustrates the pathoanatomy of various spinal disorders and its correlation with clinical symptoms. This book includes chapters on history taking, examination of the back, differential diagnosis of low back pain, pain management, and injections.

Presents normal and abnormal pulmonary function in a case-based format. This title includes an infectious diseases chapter, updates on asthma pathogenesis and bronchodilators, and user-friendly features such as chapter openers, chapter outlines, "key points" summary boxes, and board-formatted questions and answers.

Uses a case-based approach to teach students the basics of clinical reasoning. This title explains the chief components of the clinical reasoning process, such as generating and refining diagnostic hypotheses, using and interpreting diagnostic tests, assembling a working diagnosis, therapeutic decision making, and examining and applying evidence.

Provides the information and skills needed to write effective research proposals and theses; read, assess, interpret, and apply published research; and, understand how to conduct basic studies in health, physical education, exercise science, athletic training, and recreation.

Includes comprehensive references and discussions on the scientific fundamentals of anesthesia equipment, its design, and its optimal use. This title includes information on suction devices, the magnetic resonance imaging environment, temperature monitoring and control, double-lumen tubes, emergency room airway equipment, and many other topics.

Designed to be a primary reference for chiropractic students, this book offers a scientific survey of chiropractic theories based on research. It is a useful reference for students studying for the National Board of Chiropractors Examination Parts II, III, and IV, as well as a post-graduate reference.