Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has revisited his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. Updated in collaboration with co-author Ethan Marcotte, this third edition covers improvements and challenges in the changing environment of standards-based design.
The step-by-step, instructional guide for the most common ophthalmic instruments and procedures has been updated to a second edition. Clinical Skills for the Ophthalmic Examination: Basic Procedures, Second Edition provides details on tests frequently performed in the office and provides instructions on the proper way to...
I often thought of this mantra during my on-call nights when, as a Stanford sleep
medicine fellow, I was awakened from sleep by a technologist informing me that
one of the clinic patients had repetitive obstructive apneas with significant oxygen
desaturations. The technologist would typically ask, “can I start the patient on...
Thoroughly revised for its Third Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary text on genitourinary cancers. This edition has two new editors—Frans M.J. Debruyne and W. Marston Linehan—and more than 50% new contributors. Seventeen new chapters cover familial prostate cancer, biology of bone...
Confocal microscopy with laser scanning technology yields in-vivo images of ocular and ocular adnexal surfaces that are so brilliant that they rival histology in terms of quality.This unique atlas and textbook demonstrates normal in-vivo anatomy of the cornea, limbus and conjunctiva, quantifies various cellular structures using cell-density...
The history of medicine has been substantially defined by a small number of monumental
discoveries. Most of these breakthroughs have emerged from the biological sciences. One of
the first great breakthroughs was the recognition by Koch in 1884 that pathogens could be
transmitted from one living organism to another to cause disease....
This is the first part in a two-volume work on neuromodulation. It describes techniques and procedures applied in internal contact with non-neural tissues surrounding the nervous system (dura or cerebrospinal fluid), as in the case of epidural stimulation for pain or intrathecal drug application for the treatment of spasticity and pain. In...
Creatine and creatine phosphate (CP, also called phosphocreatine, PCr) are
important metabolites in high-energy phosphorus metabolism. They rank
with dietary carbohydrates fats, proteins and other compounds as central
components of the metabolic system involved in the provision of energy for
work and exercise performance....
This extensively updated and expanded second edition reflects new research, advances in clinical care, and the growing recognition that diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Written for the practicing clinician as a comprehensive review of diabetic vascular disease, the book both explains the basic pathophysiology of...
Brain metastases are among the most feared and debilitating complication of
systemic cancer. They impact approximately 170 000 patients a year in the United
States, a number ten-fold greater than malignant gliomas. Historically, brain metastases
were diagnosed in patients with widespread systemic malignancy. Recent
improvements...
As a group, gastrointestinal-tract cancers are the second most common
cancers among males and females in the United States. The most dominant
is colorectal cancer; remarkably, only a small proportion of people
nationwide receive adequate screening for this malignancy. Patients with
gastrointestinal-tract cancers are benefiting...
American medicine remains in the midst of a profound and wrenching transformation. The government, Wall Street, third party payers, and patients have demanded improved medical care at lower cost. Better medicine (orthopaedics) occurs when doctors practice medicine consistently on the basis of the best scientific evidence...
