Get answers on-the-spot for nearly everything you might encounter in the surgical clerkship or in residency using the new Schwarz Companion Handbook . Distilling the clinical highlights from the comprehensive Principles of Surgery , the Handbook provides just the facts you need to understand the pathophysiology ... more »

Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer-witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik ... more »

Patient transfer is becoming increasingly frequent as specialist departments are being concentrated in the larger hospitals, and in the UK owing to the lack of ICU beds. There is a growing need for information on how to handle patients in these eventualities. This book gives a systematic approach for ... more »

Product Info This user-friendly text enables nurses to recognise, rationalise and remedy the common problems using both a multi-systems and evidence based approach. more »

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Hepatitis, the leading indication for liver transplantation, is a straight-forward disease when it comes to diagnosis: it is a disease of pathology and is diagnosed by liver biopsy, with the result being either positive or negative. There is only one effective treatment: interferons. Nonetheless, new ... more »

Concentrating on the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) through various different forms of treatment, this concise and practical handbook also covers causes and pathology of COPD, investigations and prevention. more »

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A portable companion to Principles of Critical Care, this handbook provides the same quality coverage as it summarizes the most important clinical portions of the large text in surprising detail. The new single volume format takes an organ system approach to critical care with sections addressing cardiovascular ... more »

CVMstat® provides leading edge information on hundreds of topics involving all aspects of cardiovascular medicine, including sections on diagnosis and management of peripheral arterial and venous disease. CVMstat® reviews and summarizes important clinical trials in cardiology and vascular medicine. Created ... more »

Established as one of the leading texts in major incident management, this title supports the MIMMS course that is the only international standard in major incident medical management. This edition is truly international concentrating on core generic principles that cross civilian-military and international ... more »

Get answers on-the-spot for nearly everything you might encounter in the surgical clerkship or in residency using the new Schwarz Companion Handbook . Distilling the clinical highlights from the comprehensive Principles of Surgery , the Handbook provides just the facts you need to understand the pathophysiology ... more »