Medical Planet: 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders

Michael B. First , "Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders"
John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (2006) | ISBN-10: 0470019158 | 482 pages | PDF | 4,8 Mb

A concise reference providing all the clinically relevant information required to diagnose and treat patients with mental health disorders.

A Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders combines the DSM diagnostic criteria with clear, detailed information on treatment options, listing all drugs available for the disorder and giving full clinical management advice. Each disorder is discussed under the headings of Diagnosis / Differential Diagnosis, including assessment issues, laboratory tests or procedures, gender ratio, prevalence, familial pattern and Treatment, including therapeutic options and practical advice for patient management with the help of tables and treatment flowcharts.
The first book on the market to list treatment options and recommendations alongside the DSM-IV classifications of each mental disorder
Concise, focused clinical management advice given by the experts, all treatment options are discussed
Diagnostic decision trees, treatment flowcharts and algorithms provided for clear management guidance

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Clinical Forensic Medicine: A Physician's Guide

This revised edition has been completely updated and expanded to address the latest developments and professional concerns in forensic medicine. There are new chapters on the medical aspects of police restraint and new material on the potential of police exposure to infection, the role of alcohol and drugs in vehicular accidents, and forensic sampling in sexual assault examinations. The chapters on fundamental principles, nonaccidental injury in children, and the care of detainees are all fully revised, as are the appendices (now containing a list of useful websites).

Monday, December 14, 2009

Current Clinical Strategies History & Physical Examination 10 Ed

Current Clinical Strategies History & Physical Examination 10 Ed

This useful manual contains clinical pearls and guidance for history and physical taking. It is conveniently organized by disease and symptom, and it includes a complete differential diagnosis for each disease. It is useful for medical students, residents, and physicians in practice.

Black's Medical Dictionary

AThe 41st edition of this worldwide best-selling medical reference book presents more than 5,000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts, along with more than 100 diagrams and drawings including 16 pages of color illustrations. It includes updated and revised material on topics such as apoptosis, autism, prostheses, suicide, and transfusion. The 41st edition is an invaluable reference for a wide audience- from health care professionals and journalists to attorneys and interested consumers.

Basic Clinical Massage Therapy: Integrating Anatomy and Treatment

This superbly illustrated text familiarizes students with individual muscles and muscle systems and demonstrates basic clinical massage therapy techniques. More than 550 full-color illustrations of internal structures are embedded into photographs of live models to show each muscle or muscle group, surrounding structures, surface landmarks, and the therapist's hands. Students see clearly which muscle is being worked, where it is, where it is attached, how it can be accessed manually, what problems it can cause, and how treatment techniques are performed. This edition features improved illustrations of draping and includes palpation for each muscle. An accompanying Real Bodywork DVD includes video demonstrations of massage techniques from the book.

An Atlas of Depression by David Baldwin

An Atlas of Depression by David Baldwin & Jon Birtwistle

Informa Healthcare (February 22, 2002) | ISBN-10: 1850709424 | PDF | 6 Mb | 124 pages

This handsomely illustrated color atlas and clinical text presents a thorough and exhaustive graphical review of the diagnosis, management and treatment of the affective or "mood" disorders. It is an invaluable graphical aid to assist in the diagnosis of unipolar, bipolar (manic), seasonal affective disorder, generalized affective disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorders and all the other classes of anxiety. As the first work to bring together all the relevant illustrative resources in depression in one volume, it is a landmark title in its field

Atlas of Clinical Diagnosis, 2nd edition

The ATLAS OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS presents a sign-orientated approach to the diagnosis of both common and rare medical disorders that physicians may encounter in hospital or in the community. The comprehensive collection of clinical pictures, organised by anatomical region from scalp to sole, reflects actual clinical practice where a diagnosis has to be constructed from a single sign or a collection of signs. Fundamental, pathognomonic, and commonly seen non-specific clinical signs are presented with clinical features highlighted for rapid recognition and interpretation. In addition, the book provides guidance on appropriate bedside clinical tests for establishing diagnoses.

Anatomy of the Human Body - Henry Gray

Anatomy of the Human Body - Henry Gray

his completely new addition to the Gray's Anatomy family is specifically tailored to meet the needs of today's anatomy students. A team of authors with a wealth of diverse teaching and clinical experience have carefully crafted the book to efficiently cover the information taught in contemporary anatomy courses. A user-friendly format, a regional organization, and outstanding artwork make mastering anatomy remarkably easy. Unique coverage of surface anatomy, correlative diagnostic images, and clinical case studies demonstrate practical applications of anatomical concepts. STUDENT CONSULT offers convenient and versatile online access to the book's content plus interactive exercises and more. And, an international advisory board, comprised of more than 100 anatomy instructors, ensures that the material is accurate, up to date, and easy to use. The smart way to study!

Anaesthesia at the district hospital

Anaesthesia at the district hospital

Author: M.B. Dobson | Publisher: World Health OrganizationPublication | Pages: 153 |

A practical manual designed to help medical officers in small hospitals acquire competence in the use of essential techniques for inducing anaesthesia.
Procedures for both elective surgery and emergency care of the critically ill are considered. This second edition has been substantially revised to reflect changes in clinical practice, equipment and drugs, since the publication of the first edition.
The manual opens with a description of the fundamental principles and techniques underlying the practice of anaesthesia.
Guidelines cover the immediate and continuing care of the critically ill, unconscious, or anaesthetized patient and the principles of fluid and electrolyte therapy. Against this background, chapters explain the methods, equipment and drugs used to induce general and regional anaesthesia.
Particular attention is given to the use of draw-over anaesthesia as the technique of first choice for general anaesthesia in small hospitals.
Other chapters discuss the special needs of paediatric and obstetric anaesthesia and outline a number of medical conditions important for the anaesthetist.

An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica

Jing-Nuan Wu -An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica

Herbal medicine, one of the cornerstones of traditional Chinese medicine, has evolved over centuries of clinical practice and empirical results into a vast body of knowledge encompassing more than 6,000 substances, most of whose effects and uses have been documented and researched. This illustrated Chinese Materia offers contemporary medicinal, pharmaeutical, and natural product chemists as well as practitioners of homeopathic and alternative medicines authentic, concise monographs on the 320 herbs used in 80% of medicinal formulations in traditional Chinese medical practice. It also provides an overview of traditional Chinese medicine as a framework for understanding how herbal medicines fit within an integrated approach to health and well-being.

Allergic Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment

Allergic Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment (Current Clinical Practice)

In this updated third edition of the critically-acclaimed volume, expert physicians assemble user-friendly, clinically-oriented guides to aid in the day-to-day management of the allergic patient. With an emphasis on common allergic diseases and the pharmacological tools to control them, Allergic Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment, Third Edition disseminates the practical knowledge that practitioners have accumulated through practice and teaching in the field of allergy and immunology.

This entirely revised third edition updates topics from the second edition and now covers in detail the use of antihistamines and antileukotrienes. Another new chapter will help physicians treat children who experience recurrent respiratory tract infections. Other topics include diagnostic tests, insect stings, sinusitis and otitis media, ocular allergy, atopic dermatitis, and food allergy.

Allergic Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, Third Edition, is intended for the front-line physician who cares for allergic patients and will help any physician improve the care offered to those patients.

Alcohol (DRUGS The Straight Facts)

Alcohol (DRUGS The Straight Facts)

Drugs are everywhere--on our streets, in our homes, and in our schools--but straight facts about drugs are not. Drugs: The Straight Facts fills this void with candid discussions that emphasize a historical and scientific approach to learning about drugs, their use, and their effect on the user's health. Learn about alcohol's effects on the brain and body--from consumption to absorption and intoxication.

Advances in Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

Advances in Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
Review of Psychiatry, Volume 24

Edited by Terence A. Ketter, M.D.

Advances in Treatment of Bipolar Disorder helps clinicians to better understand the utility of both older medications and important new treatment options as it highlights the need for additional research to ensure further progress in overcoming the challenges of caring for patients with bipolar disorder.

Contents
Introduction. Treatment of acute mania in bipolar disorder. Treatment of acute depression in bipolar disorder. Long-term management of bipolar disorder. Treatment of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder. Treatment of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. Special considerations for women with bipolar disorder. Index.

About the Authors
Terence A. Ketter, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Chief of the Bipolar Disorders Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California.

Advanced Biosignal Processing

Amine Nait-Ali, "Advanced Biosignal Processing "
Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 3540895051 | 374 pages | PDF | 9,7 MB

Through 17 chapters, this book presents the principle of many advanced biosignal processing techniques. After an important chapter introducing the main biosignal properties as well as the most recent acquisition techniques, it highlights five specific parts which build the body of this book. Each part concerns one of the most intensively used biosignals in the clinical routine, namely the Electrocardiogram (ECG), the Elektroenzephalogram (EEG), the Electromyogram (EMG) and the Evoked Potential (EP). In addition, each part gathers a certain number of chapters related to analysis, detection, classification, source separation and feature extraction. These aspects are explored by means of various advanced signal processing approaches, namely wavelets, Empirical Modal Decomposition, Neural networks, Markov models, Metaheuristics as well as hybrid approaches including wavelet networks, and neuro-fuzzy networks.

The last part, concerns the Multimodal Biosignal processing, in which we present two different chapters related to the biomedical compression and the data fusion.

Instead organising the chapters by approaches, the present book has been voluntarily structured according to signal categories (ECG, EEG, EMG, EP). This helps the reader, interested in a specific field, to assimilate easily the techniques dedicated to a given class of biosignals. Furthermore, most of signals used for illustration purpose in this book can be downloaded from the Medical Database for the Evaluation of Image and Signal Processing Algorithm. These materials assist considerably the user in evaluating the performances of their developed algorithms.

This book is suited for final year graduate students, engineers and researchers in biomedical engineering and practicing engineers in biomedical science and medical physics.

A Textbook of Modern Toxicology

A Textbook of Modern Toxicology
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience | ISBN: 047126508X | edition 2004 | PDF | 582 pages

Toxicology is the science of poisons, embracing the physical and chemical study of all the known poisonous substances, as well as the methods of testing for them, their action on the living body, and the postmortem results they occasion. The Third Edition of this benchmark text once again proves the most authoritative resource on the subject for both students and practicing professionals.
Students and instructors in courses in environmental, veterinary, pharmacological and medical toxicology will find this an excellent modern textbook that benefits from the current writings of experts in all the key topics of modern toxicology.