Ecstasy (Drugs: the Straight Facts)

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791076334

eBusiness in Healthcare

eProcurement in Healthcare is a book that aggregates 5 years of experience of three successive R and D projects (ELCH, GetTogether, GROPIS) covering technical and organizational issues of eProcurement. The projects, which were funded partly by the government and partly by industry and hospitals, looked at the characteristics of procurement processes and at standard technologies. Two of the projects included case studies (ELCH, GROPIS), the third project focused on the development of standard business objects for eProcurement in healthcare (GetTogether). Together they form a rich source of information worth communicating to a large audience of experts and newcomers alike. Results from the projects are supplemented by the contributions of international experts and their particular views on eProcurement, which gives the book a global perspective and hence allows its readers to learn from a variety of different approaches. Each chapter of the book is structured in a way that satisfies the needs of executives as well as academics. A management summary, tables and graphics together with key statements of experts allow the quick reader to capture the main message of each chapter, whereas background information and reference to the literature address readers who wish to gain a deeper and more comprehensive insight into the field. The management summary and the expert statements will appear in boxes separated from the main text by visual cues, e.g. background color, font size, font type.

Drugs Of Abuse

A concise, easy to read guide for healthcare professionals who encounter drug abuse. Each chapter deals with a different drug or gourp of drugs and has been extensively revised to reflect new research on adverse effects, treatments and patterns of use. There are also additional sections on drug abuse and concurrent illness, interactions between medicines and illicit drugs, and drugs in pregnancy.

Dopamine and Glutamate in Psychiatric Disorders

An illuminating summary of our current understanding of the interactive role of dopamine and glutamate in psychiatric diseases and the therapeutic strategies and possibilities for future treatment. Among the new ideas presented are hypotheses on the role of dopamine and glutamate in aggression, the glutamate system in anxiety disorders, glutamate and neurodegeneration, and on the origin and progression of Parkinson's disease. Additional chapters offer novel insights into a variety of psychiatric diseases, including ADHD, stress, aggression, addiction, schizophrenia, depression, social phobias, dementias, bulimia, and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Each chapter summarizes the prevalence and symptoms of the disease and explains the involvement of dopamine and/or glutamate systems using the newer molecular approaches such as transgenic knockout or knockin mice and recent brain imaging techniques.

Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession

Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession
Stationary Office | Pages:152 | 2007-07-10 | ISBN / ASIN:0881634697 | 2 MB 

 

The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field. Author René Muller presents a revealing look into how psychiatry has failed a great majority of patients, all the while recognizing the valiant efforts made by psychiatrists who maintain their integrity and serve their patients well. The result is an enlightening critique of the profession—one that pits criticism of psychiatry’s current biological reduction and exaggerated promises against the accumulated wisdom of a profession that has struggled for a century and a half to understand and help those with mental illness.

Muller’s analysis is drawn from the experience of having evaluated scores of emergency room patients over the course of 10 years. The patients’ stories reveal that many of these individuals have been diminished or damaged as a result of a wrong diagnosis and improper medication. Individual chapters throughout Doing Psychiatry Wrong explains how and why the practice of psychiatry has changed, how psychiatry mistreats depression, misdiagnoses of schizophrenia, and, finally, how psychiatry can be practiced so that all patients are helped by the medical profession rather than harmed.

Ditch Medicine : Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies

Ditch Medicine : Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies
Publisher: Paladin Press | 224 pages | 1993 | ISBN 0873647173 | PDF | 9 MB

 

It doesn't matter where you are, or what the situation is, if you, a team member, family member or friend is injured, you do what you have to do to save their life or treat the condition! Period! As survivalists we know that we may not always have access to a sanitary emergency room and a half-asleep doctor in the middle of the night. If that time comes, this is the book to have! This book teaches advanced field procedures for small wound repair, pain control, care of infected wounds, IV therapy, amputations, treatment of burns, airway procedures and much much more.
This book is writen in straightforward language for those who don't know an artery from a anuerism, and step-by-step proceedures are discussed in great detail. Pictures of suturing, debriding wounds and many other items show you what a thousand words cannot describe. So many techniques and how-to's are discussed that there is not room here to elaborate on all of them. Let's just say this book is pretty complete. Pair it with a few other reference manuals and you greatly increase your chances of saving a loved one's life in a disaster situation!

Dictionary for Clinical Trials by Simon Day

Dictionary for Clinical Trials by Simon Day
Publisher: Wiley | Number Of Pages: 228 | Publication Date: 1999-07-27 | ISBN-10: 0471985961

 

Clinical trials refer to any form of planned experiment involving patients, designed to elucidate the most appropriate treatment for future patients with a given medical condition. A comprehensive one-volume guide to clinical trial terminology, this book presents explanations and definitions normally found in clinical trial protocols, reports, regulatory guidelines, and published manuscripts, in language free from jargon.