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This extensively updated edition provides a comprehensive review of intensive care for neurologically injured patients from the emergency room and ICU through the operating room and post-surgical period in two comprehensive volumes. The Editors of this first volume present a comprehensive textbook that incorporates best practice/evidence-based medicine and performance improvement, while it champions the three characteristics needed in our neuro–ICUs: patient and family centered high-quality care, education, and discovery. This volume concentrates on neuroanatomy, diagnostic assessment and disease management, examining the neurological problems most frequently seen in intensive care, and describes the various types of neurosurgery and critical features of the management of patients. General issues are discussed across the textbook, such as cardiac care, fluids and electrolytes, nutrition, and monitoring as well as more specific conditions and complications including elevated intracranial pressure, seizures, and altered mental states. Listening to an injured brain is not easy. It takes knowledge, dedication, and understanding of the critically ill patient and their family. Textbook of Neurointensive Care Volume 1: Neuroanatomy, Diagnostic Assessment, Disease Management provides the reader with a detailed resource for studying this most complex area of medicine. It is thus essential reading for all trainees and professionals in critical care, neurosurgery, anesthesia and neurology.

The physician's responsibility continues to increase daily while providing health care in the 21st century; not only in keeping up with the increase of information, but also having to pay more attention to patient compliance. In addition, patients are educated, and often appreciate participation with a provider about treatment and medication choice. Often they have access to the Internet and other medical information and want to make informed choices along with their physician. Preventive Dermatology in Infectious Diseases will convey prevention and medication information to patients and thus help them reap the benefits of participating in their own health care and disease reduction.

Pediatric Surgery provides an authoritative, up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of current practice in the field. It is divided into three topical volumes, with a total of seven sections focusing 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 that will be an ideal source of information and guidance for pediatric surgeons, pediatric urologists, neonatologists, pediatricians, and all those seeking more detailed information on surgical conditions in children.The three topical volumes are as follows: General Principles and Newborn Surgery General Pediatric Surgery, Tumors, Traumaand Transplantation Pediatric Urology

Get Through MRCOG Part 1, Second Edition, provides a selection of questions covering the basic and applied sciences relevant to the clinical practice of obstetrics and gynaecology and mapped to the RCOG Knowledge Areas in the MCQ style. With appropriate explanations of the answers and references to the relevant guidelines, this is a definitive resource for those taking the MRCOG Part 1 examination.

Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics discusses the science of nearly two dozen cosmeceuticals used today. This third edition provides ample evidence on specific cosmeceutical substances, their classes of use, skin conditions for which they are used, and points of interest arising from other considerations, such as toxicology and manufacturing. The b

Modelled after the current MRCOG curriculum, the new edition of this bestselling book provides all the information a specialist registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology or senior house officer needs during training or when preparing for the MRCOG examination. Obstetrics & Gynaecology: An Evidence-based Text for MRCOG covers the latest profession

Suspected premature menopause • New patient asking for a benzodiazepine prescription • Management of recurrent gout • Asthma unresponsive to simple treatment in a child • Haemochromatosis • Smoking cessation • Otalgia • Fungal nail infection • Chronic diarrhoea in a teenager • Atrial fibrillation • Sleep disorder (insomnia) • Memory problems in an older person • Genital warts • Request for slimming tablets • Raised blood glucose concentration • Haematuria • Reduced sexual desire in women • Herpes zoster ophthalmicus • Exacerbation of atopic eczema in children • Acute anterior uveitis • Hirsutism • Thyroid swellings • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease • Aphthous ulcers • Acne vulgaris • Transient ischaemic attack • Tennis elbow • Malignant melanoma • Hoarse voice • My baby keeps bringing up his feeds! • Chalazion • Female stress urinary incontinence • Pollen food syndrome in a teenage student • Acute cough in adults • Vitamin B-12 deficiency • Sexual health consultation for men who have sex with men • Stridor in children • Gout • Macromastia (large breasts): request for breast reduction • Hallux valgus • Frequent exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Epididymo-orchitis • Gilbert's syndrome • Osgood-Schlatter disease • Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination in a child with suspected egg allergy • Funny turn • Hypoglycaemia • Otitis media with effusion ('glue ear') • The Watery Eye • Sexual dysfunction in cardiovascular disease • Chronic chilblains • Malaria • Otorrhoea • The Hajj • Dyspepsia • Varicose veins • Epistaxis • Reviewing a patient with coeliac disease • A scaly rash on the hands • A child with neck swelling • Tick bite and early Lyme borreliosis • Blepharitis • Blood stained nappy • Otitis externa • Dry eye • Adult trigger finger • Minor incised traumatic laceration • Vasectomy • Hearing loss in adults • Abnormal vaginal discharge • Young people who self harm by cutting • Tremor • Assessment and management of renal colic • A pain in the bottom • Umbilical hernia • Thrombocytopenia in an adult • Atrial fibrillation • Phimosis in childhood

In many paediatric cases the definitive diagnosis may not be made in the primary care setting, but this is where suspicions are often raised. General Practitioners are, therefore, required to maintain a breadth of knowledge covering the specialty. This invaluable guide outlines a case scenario followed by a highly detailed explanation of the condition and its management, presenting the symptoms in a way that are likely to be encountered in general practice.

This book has a distinguished legacy, having begun as the first major American textbook specifically to address complications of pregnancy. Its first edition (Medical, Surgical and Gynecologic Complications of Pregnancy, 1960) was a bellwether that focused attention on what were then nascent interfaces emerging among medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. The 6th edition concentrates on practical issues of clinical management and addresses both common and uncommon medical and surgical problems encountered during pregnancy. The book s title has varied in its previous editions, but the 6th edition has been renamed Obstetric Medicine. The change reflects the book s content more accurately and acknowledges the evolution of an emerging special interest domain. Increasingly, physicians are caring for pregnant women with acute and chronic medical conditions that require complex assessment and sophisticated care. We have tried to provide a text to help the practitioner clarify and organize some of the intricacies of such cases. The editors are an obstetrician with a longstanding interest in the management of surgical and medical complications of pregnancy and an internist-nephrologist with extensive experience in the management of medical diseases during gestation. They have assembled a group of contributors with an exceptionally broad range of backgrounds and interests, who in turn have emphasized clinical management approaches that are grounded in our understanding of pathophysiology and are functional in their attention to practical detail. KEY FEATURES New chapters addressing management of trauma, burns, liver disease, and obesity in the pregnant patient. Comprehensive coverage of common as well as uncommon conditions encountered during pregnancy. Use of logic trees and inclusion of a brief list of clinical pearls at the end of each chapter.

Le présent ouvrage constitue à la fois une référence et un outil de travail précieux. Il propose une approche par pathologies classées par systèmes, selon un plan précis : les généralités, les critères de choix et la stratégie thérapeutique, l'optimisation thérapeutique, « ce qu'il faut retenir » et des études de cas cliniques pour l'application des connaissances. Les généralités regroupent la physiopathologie et les médicaments utilisés dans la pathologie. Les critères de choix et la stratégie thérapeutique sont développés en fonction de la sévérité de la pathologie, du terrain et des éventuels traitements associés. - L'optimisation thérapeutique concerne les posologies, l'administration (voie d'administration, conseils, incompatibilités) les mises en garde, les précautions d'emploi et la prévention de l'iatropathologie (prévention des risques majeurs et des effets L'encadré « Ce qu'il faut retenir » expose l'essentiel du chapitre et en permet une révision générale. Enfin, un ou plusieurs cas cliniques accompagnés de questions générales ou à choix multiples sont traités. Les réponses sont accompagnées de commentaires, reprenant les points importants du chapitre. Avec ses nombreux tableaux, ses études de cas cliniques conformes aux dossiers biologiques et thérapeutiques des épreuves de l'internat de pharmacie, cet ouvrage constitue l'outil de travail indispensable pour les étudiants de pharmacie. Il est un guide thérapeutique pour les pharmaciens hospitaliers et d'officine, qui trouvent là un ouvrage essentiel pour les accompagner dans leur exercice quotidien. Les médecins pourront également y trouver de précieux renseignements sur l'utilisation optimale des médicaments. Cette 4e édition a été entièrement revue, corrigée et actualisée en particulier concernant les chapitres suivants : sida, traitements du diabète, polyarthrite rhumatoïde, anomalie de la coagulation, ostéoporose, hépatites virales, transplantation, dermatologie, pathologies cardio-vasculaires, insuffisance cardiaque, schizophrénie, nausées et vomissements, la dysthyroïdie, la prostate, l'insuffisance respiratoire chronique, l'eczéma. Des cas cliniques actualisés ou nouveaux ont été introduits, avec des médicaments récents. Les références bibliographiques ont été enrichies. Cette édition est en conformité avec les recommandations figurant dans les résolutions européennes. Écrit par l'Association nationale des enseignants de pharmacie clinique (ANEPC), cet ouvrage est le fruit du travail d'auteurs français, québécois, et quelques pharmaciens praticiens hospitaliers francophones (Belges, Libanais, Tunisiens), et associe, pour un grand nombre de chapitres, un médecin référent dans la pathologie concernée à un (des) pharmacien(s) hospitalier(s) et/ou universitaire(s).