Challenging Concepts in Critical Care: Cases with Expert Commentary
Christopher Gough, Justine Barnett, Tim Cook, and Jerry Nolan (eds)
This book includes 18 challenging topics in critical care. Each chapter is centred on a clinically relevant case study and comprises a full case history, punctuated by evidence-based, ...
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Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing
Constance Dahlin, Patrick Coyne, and Betty Ferrell (eds)
The Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is a companion guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing, the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of ...
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Communicating Prognosis
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Prognostication of acute neurologic disease is a major task for neuro-hospitalists and neuro-intensivists. The family conference raises the delicate matter of how to decide that outcome is ...
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Deconstructing the Interview
Duncan Harding
The professional interview is a charged psychological encounter and hurdle, necessary for all of us to traverse in order to move on in our lives and careers. The interviewer is the ...
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The EACVI Echo Handbook
Patrizio Lancellotti and Bernard Cosyns (eds)
Echocardiography has become the most requested imaging modalities. It is the first line imaging in the diagnostic work-up and monitoring of most cardiac diseases. Echocardiography is ...
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Essential Revision Notes for the Cardiology KBA
Ali Khavandi
Aimed specifically at the Knowledge-Based Assessment, Revision Notes for Cardiology provides the first clear and accessible revision resource created specifically for this new 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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Geriatric Medicine: an Evidence-based Approach
Frank Lally and Christine Roffe (eds)
Geriatric medicine: an evidence based approach is an online clinical reference for health care professionals who manage older patients, and summarizes up-to-date research literature in a ...
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Handbook of Surgical Consent
Rajesh Nair and David J. Holroyd (eds)
This valuable tool, written by experts, offers practical guidance in the principles of consent, alongside procedure-specific information on risks and benefits
The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook: Using Lean and the Theory of Constraints for Better Healthcare Delivery
Boaz Ronen, Joseph S. Pliskin, Shimeon Pass, and Donald M. Berwick
The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook is about doing more using existing resources. For example, achieving more throughput in the operating rooms, reducing waiting times ...
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Landmark Papers in Rheumatology
Richard A. Watts and David G. I. Scott (eds)
Rheumatic disease is a major cause of morbidity and disability in the Western world. There have been major developments in our understanding of the causes of rheumatic disease and in their ...
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Manual of Simulation in Healthcare (2 ed.)
Richard H. Riley (ed.)
The use of simulation-based education has become widely embedded in almost all areas of healthcare. Medical educators have enthusiastically accepted the range of techniques offered by ...
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Mayo Clinic Strategies To Reduce Burnout: 12 Actions to Create the Ideal Workplace
Stephen Swensen and Tait Shanafelt
Many believe burnout of health care professionals to be the result of individual weakness when, in fact, burnout is primarily the result of health care systems that take emotionally ...
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MBA for Healthcare
Joseph Sanfilippo, Eric Bieber, David Javitch, and Richard Siegrist
MBA for Healthcare is designed to provide healthcare providers with a modus operandi for virtually all aspects of “the business of medicine.” This educational book is a unique ...
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A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters
Jane Sturgess, Derek Duane, and Rebekah Ley (eds)
Patient expectations for immediate, risk-free healthcare have never been greater; the scrutiny that the medical profession face to deliver this perfect care has also never been greater; the ...
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Medical Education and Training: From theory to delivery
Yvonne Carter and Neil Jackson (eds)
This resource offers theoretical and practical guidance for those planning, delivering, and receiving education and training in ever-changing healthcare environments. Themes covered include ...
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Medical Reasoning: The Nature and Use of Medical Knowledge
Erwin B. Montgomery
Modern medicine is one of humankind’s greatest achievements. Yet medical errors and irreproducibility in biomedical research suggest something is amiss. Concerns have driven considerable ...
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Motivational Interviewing: A Guide for Medical Trainees
Antoine Douaihy, Thomas M. Kelly, and Melanie A. Gold (eds)
Motivational interviewing (MI) is among the most powerful tools available to promote behavior change in patients. In an age of chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, ...
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Motivational Interviewing in HIV Care
Antoine Douaihy and K. Rivet Amico (eds)
Motivational Interviewing in HIV Care reflects significant advances in clinical practice and research, as well as the growing momentum of professional acceptance of the ...
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Operative Solutions in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
Ashley R. Dennison and Guy J. Maddern
This resource combines clearly written, practical text with over 200 illustrations and numerous flow charts which take the reader through the management of all the commonly encountered ...
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