The Art and Science of Compassion, A Primer: Reflections of a Physician-Chaplain
Agnes M.F. Wong
The Art and Science of Compassion, A Primer is designed as a short, “all-in-one,” introductory text that covers the full gamut of compassion, from the evolutional, biological, ...
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The Benzodiazepines Crisis
John Peppin, Joseph V. Pergolizzi, Robert B. Raffa, and Steven L. Wright (eds)
When properly prescribed, benzodiazepines and related “Z” drugs, are usually safe and effective. However, some patients experience lack of efficacy, severe adverse effects, and/or ...
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Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Intervention (2 edn)
Andrew Mitchell, Giovanni Luigi De Maria, and Adrian Banning (eds)
Cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography are both key components to routine cardiology practice. This new edition of Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Intervention has been fully ...
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Cardiothoracic Critical Care
Brigid Flynn, Natalia S. Ivascu, Vivek K. MoitraBrigid Flynn, , and Alan Gaffney (eds)
Practicing critical care entails understanding human physiology, pharmacokinetics, and molecular pathways in concert with adherence to evidence-based literature. Some may say combining all ...
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Caring for the Family Caregiver
Elaine Wittenberg, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Terri Ann Parnell
This remarkable work reveals the plight of the family caregiver in chronic illness through the prism of communication. Examining the high cost and poorly addressed exigencies of the ...
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Challenging Concepts in Paediatric Critical Care: Cases with Expert Commentary
Hari Krishnan, Miriam R. Fine-Goulden, Sainath Raman, and Akash Deep (eds)
This textbook, ‘Challenging concepts in paediatric critical care’, has been designed to cater to the needs of paediatric intensivists, current trainees and those intending to train in the ...
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The Complete Recovery Room Book (6 edn)
Anne Craig and Anthea Hatfield
New technologies are increasingly available for patient care but simple ‘tried and true’ old fashioned methods are still essential. The care that a patient receives in the first hours after ...
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Congress of Neurological Surgeons Essent
Najib E. El TEcle, Tarek Y. El Ahmadieh, Salah G. Aoun, and Bernard Bendok (eds)
This book presents a collection of critically appraised neurosurgical papers that shed light on some of the most impactful studies in the history of neurosurgery. Papers that have shaped ...
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Convergence Mental Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Innovation
Harris A. Eyre, Michael Berk, Helen Lavretsky, and Charles Reynolds (eds)
The world is in the throes of a global health, economic, and mental health crisis with severe physical, societal, and economic ramifications. Modern mental health problems are characterized ...
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Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health
Jaime BreilhNancy Krieger
This book provides a groundbreaking approach to critical epidemiology for understanding the complexity of the health process and studying the social determination of health. It presents a ...
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Emergencies in Anaesthesia (3 edn)
Alastair Martin, Keith Allman, and Andrew McIndoe (eds)
The updated third edition of Emergencies in Anaesthesia serves as a guide to all emergency situations encountered during, and immediately following, anaesthesia. Re-structured to follow the ...
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ESC Handbook of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation: A practical clinical guide
Ana Abreu, Jean-Paul Schmid, and Massimo Piepoli (eds)
There is a great deal of information available on why we should perform cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and in which type of patients. It has a permanent place in any book on secondary ...
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The ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiovascular Care (3 edn)
Marco Tubaro, Pascal Vranckx, Susanna Price, Christiaan Vrints, and Eric Bonnefoy (eds)
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a major cause of premature death worldwide and a cause of loss of disability-adjusted life years. For most types of CVD early diagnosis and ...
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Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable
Jeremy Snyder
One often hears stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by individuals offering empty promises of help. Frequently these cases are condemned ...
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Global Anaesthesia
Rachael Craven, Hilary Edgcombe, and Ben Gupta (eds)
The Oxford Specialist Handbook of Global Anaesthesia is an authoritative and comprehensive reference tool for anaesthetists practising in low-resource settings. It provides ...
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Inherited Cardiac Disease (2 edn)
Perry Elliott, Pier D. Lambiase, and Dhavendra Kumar (eds)
Every year, thousands of people die or suffer chronic disability as the result of inherited diseases of the cardiovascular system. In many cases, diagnosis of inherited disease is delayed ...
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Integrative Neurology
John W. McBurneyIlene S. RuhoyAndrew T. Weil
Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in alternative methods of treatment for many diseases. Physicians have recognized the limitations in the conventional use of ...
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Law and ethics in intensive care (2 edn)
Christopher Danbury, Christopher Newdick, Alex Ruck Keene, and Carl Waldmann (eds)
The practice of intensive care medicine raises multiple legal and ethical issues on a daily basis, making it increasingly difficult to know whom to admit and when, at what stage invasive ...
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Management of Sleep Disorders in Psychiatry
Amit Chopra, Piyush Das, and Karl Doghramji (eds)
‘Management of Sleep Disorders in Psychiatry’ provides an in-depth and evidence-based review of sleep-wake disorders included in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ...
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