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Your Child in the Hospital: A Practical Guide for Parents, 2nd Edition (Patient Centered Guides)

O'Reilly, 1999

Millions of parents take a child to the hospital each year, whether for stitches, outpatient surgery, or longer stays. Children who are reassured about what lies ahead have less anxiety and cope more easily with procedures and treatments. Well-prepared parents can be calm and effective advocates for their children in a situation that...

Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation: Techniques and Clinical Implementation

Springer, 2006

Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is being rapidly introduced into the clinical management of early breast cancer. APBI, in fact, encompasses a number of different techniques and approaches that include brachytherapy, intraoperative, and external beam techniques. There is currently no single source that describes these techniques...

Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias (Contemporary Cardiology)

Humana Press, 2002

During the past decade there have been enormous advances in the management of patients with cardiac arrhythmias. Catheter ablation has become a first-line therapy for a growing number of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias and idiopathic ventricular tachycardia. Frequently performed on an outpatient basis, radiofrequency catheter...

Organ Transplants: Making the Most of Your Gift of Life (Patient Centered Guides)

Patient Centered Guides, 2000

Over 64,000 people in the US are living in limbo, awaiting an organ transplant.The good news about organ transplants is that they are becoming fairly routine surgical procedures. The even better news is that they do work miracles. People who have been in ill health for years often describe a feeling of being reborn after a...

Surgical Wound Healing and Management

CRC Press, 2007

Wound bed preparation can be defined as the process of removing dead tissue, debris, and contaminants from an injured site to facilitate healing and provide a more expedient means to patient recovery. This reference explores the critical role of surgery in wound bed preparation and management and provides a sound knowledge of wound...

$Hyperopia and Presbyopia (Refractive Surgery)$

Hyperopia and Presbyopia (Refractive Surgery)

CRC Press, 2003

Examining established and emerging treatments for the correction of hyperopia and presbyopia, this reference offers guidance on technologies such as thermal or conductive keratoplasty, corneal implants, laser scleral relaxation, scleral expansion rings, intraocular lenses, and LASIK modifications.

With the explosion of refractive...

$Internal fixation of femoral neck fractures: An Atlas$

Internal fixation of femoral neck fractures: An Atlas

Springer, 2007

Femoral neck fractures occur primarily in the elderly population, and nowadays arthroplasty is chosen most frequently as a treatment solution. This illustrated atlas provides a comprehensive monograph of femoral neck fractures. It has more than 800 representative figures, x-rays and drawings, and describes in detail non-invasive internal...

Imaging of Carotid Artery Stenosis

Springer, 2007

An adequate and state-of-the-art treatment of atherosclerotic disease of the extra- and intracranial carotid arteries in a patient with an advanced degree of stenosis substantially reduces the risk of subsequent ischemic stroke in patients with recently symptomatic 70 to 99% carotid artery stenosis. The benefit that is to be...

Constipation: Etiology, Evaluation and Management

Springer, 2006

The only book to deal specifically with constipation for specialists has been updated to include all the new advances since the first edition (1995). These advances include biofeedback, surgery for constipation, sacral nerve stimulation, the use of laparoscopy for rectal prolapse, treament and our understanding of some of the psychological...

Hydrocephalus: A Guide for Patients, Families & Friends (Patient Centered Guides)

O'Reilly, 1999

Hydrocephalus, often referred to as "water on the brain," is a potentially life-threatening condition that affects one in a thousand babies born in the U.S. Hydrocephalus is now generally treated with surgical placement of a shunt system that drains excess fluid around the brain to another part of the body where it can be...

Smart Polymers and their Applications (Woodhead Publishing in Materials)

Woodhead Publishing, 2014

Smart polymers are polymers that respond to different stimuli or changes in the environment. Smart Polymers and their Applications reviews the types, synthesis, properties, and applications of smart polymers.

Chapters in part one focus on types of polymers, including temperature-, pH-, photo-, and enzyme-responsive polymers....

Computer Models in Biomechanics: From Nano to Macro

Springer, 2012

This book contains a collection of papers that were presented at the IUTAM Symposium

on “Computer Models in Biomechanics: From Nano to Macro” held at Stanford University, California, USA, from August 29 to September 2, 2011.

It contains state-of-the-art papers on:

- Protein and Cell...

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