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The War on Pain
ISBN: 9780060930783 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you are one of the 45 million Americans suffering from chronic pain, you've most likely seen numerous doctors and tried a wide range of medicines and treatments, only to alleviate your pain. You've probably come to believe that there's nothing to be done and that your chronic pain, is, well, chronic. Now, in a groundbreaking contribution, Dr. Scott Fishman introduces an interdisciplinary pain-management approach that integrates traditional and alternative techniques including pharmcology, neuroscience, experimental precedures and mind-body medicine. For anyone who suffers from chronic... If you are one of the 45 million Americans suffering from chronic pain, you've most likely seen numerous doctors and tried a wide range of medicine... |
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70,46 |
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Concise Clinicial Pharmacology: CNS Therapeutics
ISBN: 9780071440363 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concise, one-stop coverage of CNS Therapeutics
Written from the perspective of real-world patient care, this resource delivers expert guidance to the clinical pharmacology of modern CNS (Central Nervous System) medicines.
Concise, one-stop coverage of CNS Therapeutics
Written from the perspective of real-world patient care, this resource delivers exper... |
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286,23 |
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Cancer Pain Management
ISBN: 9780071445351 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introducing the first definitive guide to pain management in the cancer patient A Doody's Core Title for 2011 "This book is comprehensive in scope and multidisciplinary in its approach. It is an excellent resource for oncologists, fellows, residents, medical students, oncology nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals who provide care for people with cancer. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review Service This pioneering book is the first to provide in-depth coverage of all the interventional and medical strategies needed for effective cancer... Introducing the first definitive guide to pain management in the cancer patient A Doody's Core Title for 2011 "This b... |
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1135,55 |
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Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptors
ISBN: 9780122826306 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neuroscience Perspectives provides multidisciplinary reviews of topics in one of the most diverse and rapidly advancing fields in the life sciences.
Whether you are a new recruit to neuroscience, or an established expert, look to this series for 'one-stop' sources of the historical, physiological, pharmacological, biochemical, molecular biological and therapeutic aspects of chosen research areas. Although peripheral type benzodiazepne recognition sites have been demonstrated in the brain and peripheral organs of various species for more than 10 years, the exact physiological... Neuroscience Perspectives provides multidisciplinary reviews of topics in one of the most diverse and rapidly advancing fields in the life scie...
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720,30 |
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Practical Pain Management
ISBN: 9780192624048 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pain is something that everyone feels but has always been difficult to understand and investigate due to its subjective nature. Practical Pain Management is written for all those involved in the care of people suffering from pain. The authors explain why pain is so often disregarded and poorly managed by clinicians. With an emphasis on the practical management of both chronic and acute pain, the book explores the mechanisms involved in pain percepetion, the use of analgesic drugs, local anesthetics, nerve blocks and stimulation techniques. The rehabilitation and care of patients whose pain...
Pain is something that everyone feels but has always been difficult to understand and investigate due to its subjective nature. Practical Pain Managem...
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100,38 |
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The Management of Acute Pain
ISBN: 9780192624673 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caring for patients with acute pain problems can present a considerabl e challenge to junior doctors and nursing staff. Too often, the proble ms are inappropriately managed, resulting in the patient suffering unn ecessary pain. The Management of Acute Pain provides simple, practical guidelines for those who prescribe and administer drugs for acute pai n relief, particularly junior medical and nursing staff. The new editi on has been extensively revised to take account of drug developments i n recent years. Featuring easy to follow flowcharts, and clear concise descriptions, the book will be a...
Caring for patients with acute pain problems can present a considerabl e challenge to junior doctors and nursing staff. Too often, the proble ms are i...
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396,91 |
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The Management of Chronic Pain
ISBN: 9780192626950 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an up-to-date account of how to deal with the major chronic pain syndromes, including back pain, body and myofascial pain, malignant diseases, neurogenic pain, and headaches. It covers the ba ckground knowledge required in practice, and gives clear and concise a dvice on managing patients who suffer chronic pain. This book is not a technical manual but provides the essential practical information req uired for effective patient management.
This book provides an up-to-date account of how to deal with the major chronic pain syndromes, including back pain, body and myofascial pain, malignan...
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335,73 |
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Chronic and Terminal Illness : New perspectives on caring and carers
ISBN: 9780192631671 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most chronically and terminally ill patients are cared for in their own homes and represent a major yet free resource. These patients are not in hospitals or hospices and their day-to-day care is provided by family and friends at home. Carers are an invaluable resource and there is an increasing amount of research into their role and the experiences in caring for the terminally ill, patients with cancer and patients with other chronic diseases.
This book provides a critique of the theoretical concept of caring, carers and caregivers. Material is based on empirical evidence from recent... Most chronically and terminally ill patients are cared for in their own homes and represent a major yet free resource. These patients are not in hospi...
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345,14 |
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Palliative Day Care in Practice
ISBN: 9780192631831 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Day care centres are growing important in palliative care, providing a variety of services from out-patient clinics to art therapy classes. They are proving to be a cost-effective way of providing care, and of accustomising patients to the hospice environment before full time adm ittance. They can also improve quality of life by giving patients and carers time away from one another. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current philosophy, patterns and policies of pallaiti ve day care. It places emphasis on the need to evaluate performance in palliative day care and describes in...
Day care centres are growing important in palliative care, providing a variety of services from out-patient clinics to art therapy classes. They are p...
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535,74 |
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Palliative Care in the Home
ISBN: 9780192632272 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people with far-advanced illness wish to be cared for at home for as long as possible. The challenge of providing good palliative care at home is therefore of major importance for family doctors, nurses and all those committed to maintaining the highest possible quality of life for the dying person. As modern specialist palliative care has raised both standards of care and also public expectations of family doctors and community nurses, this book helps to place specialist care in context. As palliative care is a major responsibility for teams providing palliative care at home, this book...
Most people with far-advanced illness wish to be cared for at home for as long as possible. The challenge of providing good palliative care at home is...
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594,56 |
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A House Called Helen : The Development of Hospice Care for Children
ISBN: 9780192632357 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helen House - the first hospice for children in the UK - opened in Oxford in 1982 and has acted as a model for the establishment of respite and terminal hospice care for children ever since. This author of this book describes how the sudden illness of her daughter, Helen, was to lead to the idea of a small and homely hospice for children, providing respite and terminal care together with practical support for families. The text records the events surrounding the foundation of the hospice and sets out the philosophy behind the venture. It describes the operational framework and details the...
Helen House - the first hospice for children in the UK - opened in Oxford in 1982 and has acted as a model for the establishment of respite and termin...
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Managing Death in the ICU: The Transition from Cure to Comfort
ISBN: 9780195128819 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptoms, as well as ethical and societal issues that affect the standards of care received. The book also addresses the changing epidemiology of death in this setting related to managed care, practical skills needed to provide the highest quality of care to terminal patients, communicating with patients and families, the mechanics of withdrawing life-supporting therapies, and the essential role of palliative care specialists in the ICU. The book...
This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptom...
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458,08 |
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Topics in Palliative Care: Volume 5
ISBN: 9780195132205 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rapidly evolving field of Palliative Care focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders. The interdisciplinary clinical purview includes those factors - physical, psychological, social, and spiritual - that contribute to suffering, undermine the quality of life, and prevent a death with comfort and dignity. Palliative Care is a fundamental part of clinical practice, the "parallel universe" to therapies directed at cure or prolongation of life. All clinicians who treat patients with chronic...
The rapidly evolving field of Palliative Care focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life of...
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443,97 |
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Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together
ISBN: 9780195139402 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together, Dr. Quill uses his wide range of clinical experience caring for severely ill patients and their families to illustrate the challenges and potential of end-of-life care. Section one utilizes the near death experiences of two patients to explore values underlying medical humanism, and then presents the case of "Diane" to explore the fundamental clinical commitments of partnership and non-abandonment. Section two explores, illustrates, and provides practical guidance for clinicians, patients, and families...
In Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together, Dr. Quill uses his wide range of clinical experience caring f...
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187,44 |
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Palliative Care Perspectives
ISBN: 9780195165784 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr. Hallenbeck has written a guide to palliative care for clinicians. Topics addressed range from an overview of death and dying to specific approaches to symptom management. As an introduction to both the art and science of palliative care, this book reflects the perspectives of one physician who has dedicated his career to this rapidly evolving field. the book links real stories of illness with practical advice, thereby delineating clinical practice in a way that reflects the daily concerns of clinicians.
Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr. Hallenbeck has written a guide to palliative care for clinicians. Topic...
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227,44 |
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Pain and Chemical Dependency
ISBN: 9780195300550 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Both pain and addiction are tremendous public health problems. Practitioners of every stripe say that they learned precious little about pain or addiction in their training and readily admit that instruction on the interface of pain and addiction is nonexistent. The recent problem of prescription drug abuse has only served to highlight the fact that these two worlds need unificationthose who treat pain must be informed about the risks of controlled substances and those who treat addiction need to better and more fully understand their benefits. Nowhere is the pooled knowledge of pain...
Both pain and addiction are tremendous public health problems. Practitioners of every stripe say that they learned precious little about pain or addic...
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331,02 |
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The Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain 1880-1950
ISBN: 9780198221609 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this incisive analysis of the social character of the British working class from 1880 to the early 1950s, McKibbin examines different aspects of British political, social, and economic history to give an integrated explanation of the development of modern British society and the ideological assumptions on which it is founded.
In this incisive analysis of the social character of the British working class from 1880 to the early 1950s, McKibbin examines different aspects of Br...
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265,14 |
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Palliative Care in Neurology
ISBN: 9780198508434 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patients with degenerative neurological disorders are among the most handicapped patients in medicine. Many of these diseases are incurable. Expert palliative care is the duty of every neurologist: however, to date, this has not been a standard feature of neurological practice or training. This book helps define a new field, namely palliative care in neurology. It brings together all necessary information for neurologists caring for a patient with advance disease. Palliative care is an approach to the management of patients with life-threatening illness that attempts to enhance comfort,...
Patients with degenerative neurological disorders are among the most handicapped patients in medicine. Many of these diseases are incurable. Expert pa...
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1535,78 |
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Surgical Palliative Care
ISBN: 9780198510000 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the principles and practice of surgery in the context of palliative and supportive care. Surgery is often considered too invasive to be useful in palliation and clinicians instinctively turn to radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and other drugs. Surgery, with increasingly minimal access techniques, may be simpler and less invasive than other treatments and produces excellent palliation. Indeed, most types of surgery are not curative and the aim of this book is to alert all concerned with palliative care to the usefulness and appropriateness of a surgical option. The book is made...
This book describes the principles and practice of surgery in the context of palliative and supportive care. Surgery is often considered too invasive ...
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629,86 |
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The Neurobiology of Pain: Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology
ISBN: 9780198515616 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last decade has seen major advances in the neurobiology of pain, primarily resulting from a deeper understanding of the way in which pain signals are coded and processed in the nervous system. This volume in the Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology is the first book for many years to present an integrated overview of the current state of research into the neurobiology of chronic and acute pain.
While recent molecular aspects of nociception are covered in some detail, the book also emphasises the importance of viewing the pain experience as the co-ordinated response of many different... The last decade has seen major advances in the neurobiology of pain, primarily resulting from a deeper understanding of the way in which pain signals ...
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771,05 |