This is an introduction to the patient monitoring technologies that are used in today's acute care environments, including the operating room, recovery room, emergency department, intensive care unit, and telemetry floor. To a significant extent, day-to-day medical decision-making relies on the information provided by these technologies, yet how they actually work is not always addressed during education and training.

The editors and contributors are world-renowned experts who specialize in developing, refining, and testing the technology that makes modern-day clinical...

Written by experienced clinicians and edited by Vanderbilt Program for LGBTI Health faculty, this book contains up-to-date expertise from physicians renowned for their work in LGBTI health. This important text fills an informational void about the practical health needs of LGBTI patients in both the primary care and specialty settings remains, and serves as a guide for LGBTI preventative and specialty medicine that can be utilized within undergraduate medical education, residency training, and medical practice. Beginning with a short review of LGBTI populations and health disparities, it...