Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Surgery - General

Tests and Exercises for the Spine expertly
guides physical therapists in conducting tests to help determine which exercises
are most effective in treating each patient's particular spinal condition. It
is a concise, practical manual in which the evaluation (test), therapy
(exercise), and home exercise program are presented in a single step, saving
physical therapists and patients time and increasing the sustainability of the
treatment.

Key Features:

• Nearly 300 full-color, high-quality photographs
  that demonstrate the tests and...

A teenage mother arrives by donkey cart to a hospital after attempting to deliver her baby in the bush. A young father faces the loss of a leg after receiving a gunshot wound that will not heal. A man walks miles to a hospital for a pain in his side caused by an appendix that burst five days earlier. Without access to surgical resources, millions of people with conditions like these become disabled or die.

In Operation Health, Adam L. Kushner argues that not only are severe medical conditions-- like a strangulated hernia or obstetric fistula--treatable by surgical means in...

The definitive interdisciplinary reference work for wound ballistics

Fundamentals in Physics, arms and ammunition, ballistics

Simulating gunshot wounds: Virtopsy - a virtual autopsy method, combining CT, MRT and surface scanning and Materials that reproduce the interaction of soft tissue, bone and blood vessels with a bullet that penetrates the body.

Wound ballistics for Short-range and long-range weapons, fragments, such as those from bombs and hand grenades, gas jets from blanks, gas weapons, etc., "Non-lethal" weapons as used by the police, in military operations or in...

• Tom Kenny, one of the best-known and well-respected educators in EP brings his signature style to this new primer
• Practical, accessible, highly illustrated approach makes learning easy
• Provides an overview of the algorithms and devices offered by the world's five pacemaker manufacturers
• Offers clinicians learning objectives, test questions and essential points in bulleted lists
• Perfect introductory guide to the topic, assumes little baseline knowledge and appropriate for residents, fellows, EP nurses, general clinical cardiologists, EP fellows and...

This second edition of the Manual of Clinical Dialysis is a concise and well-illustrated guide to all aspects of dialysis. All chapters have been revised and present a complete overview of the techniques, processes and equipment involved in clinical dialysis as well as an overview of the complications of dialysis. The manual also provides an overview of common clinical problems related to renal failure such as hypertension, anemia and renal osteodystrophy.

Pediatric Surgery provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of current practice in the field. It is divided into three volumes, with a total of seven sections that focus on general principles, newborn surgery, general pediatric surgery, tumor surgery, trauma, transplantation, and pediatric urology surgery. Detailed descriptions of surgical techniques and pre- and postoperative management are provided by experts from various parts of the world.

The result is an international reference on the surgical management of both common and rare diseases of infants and children...

In human solid cancer, the lymph node (LN) status is the most important prognostic indicator for the clinical outcome of patients. Recent developments in the sentinel lymph node (SLN) concept and technology have resulted in the application of this revolutionary approach to define the first draining or SLN to which the cancer may have metastasized. The underlying thesis in solid cancer biology is that metastasis generally starts in an orderly progression, spreading through the lymphatic channels to the SLN in the nearest LN basin. Thus, the logical approach is to harvest that specific SLN...