The first Edition of 25 Landmark Trials in Cardiology was created in 2005-06 in response to voiced frustrations among junior medicine, cardiology and off-service residents rotating through cardiology as well as non-cardiologist physicians who were overwhelmed by the sheer number of cardiology trials. After repeated requests for references of "just the important trials" or "just the trials that changed practice", we compiled a user-friendly quick-reference guide of the 25-30 studies that had the biggest impact on clinical practice across the breadth of cardiovascular medicine. With each new addition of the resource, we continue to comb through the cardiovascular literature for robust trials that consolidate mature lines of evidence and ultimately persuade us to change practice. The unique feature of the resource is its Perspectives section that explains the study and its context. We hope this resource will be a useful and relevant companion to you.

A resource from the 5-Minute Consult series that focuses on neurological diseases and disorders, as well as key symptoms, signs, and tests. This latest update is based on the 2nd edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

5-Minute Neurology Consult provides instant access to comprehensive, clinically-oriented, must-have information on all disorders of the nervous system in the popular 5-Minute format.

Key Features

• Dozens of noted authorities provide tightly organized, practical guidance
• Each disease is covered in a consistent, easy-to-follow format which includes signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, medications, follow-up, diseases with similar characteristics, pregnancy, synonyms, and ICD coding
• Significantly revised and expanded coverage in areas such as stroke therapy, multiple sclerosis, neurogenetic disorders, and Lewy Body dementia
• Uniform Topic organization to facilitate quick reference
• Includes 1 calculator & 1 flowchart to assist in making clinical decisions

Acute Medicine offers an accessible and concise guide to the practical management of all acute medical problems likely to be encountered in the emergency department, ambulatory care centre, acute medical unit or on the wards.

Reflecting the maturation of acute medicine as a separate specialty, divided into common presentations, specific problems and procedures. New to the fifth edition is a chapter on bed-side ultrasonography; throughout, emphasis is placed on patient safety, and the use of flow diagrams, tables and figures ensures that key information is quickly accessible.

Thoroughly revised by experts in the subject, and updated to reflect current approaches to diagnosis and management, Acute Medicine is an excellent companion for the trainee as well as an aide-mémoire for the more experienced physician.

Named a Doody's Core Title in 2023!

AHFS Drug Information® 2024 contains the most dependable drug information available?all in one place. It is the most comprehensive evidence-based source of drug information complete with therapeutic guidelines and off-label uses.

With expanded and revised content supported by more than 97,000 references and incorporating the advice of numerous subject matter experts, AHFS DI helps you protect your patients and your practice.

Updates in the new edition:

• Clinical perspective sections that include place of therapy discussions and recommendations from therapeutic guidelines
• Expanded coverage of specialty medications used to treat a variety of complex, chronic conditions that often require special handling and administration and may require careful oversight to manage severe adverse effects and dosage adjustments
• Contemporary topics such as new RSV treatments and vaccines, safety issues associated with the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists, novel orphan drugs, biosimilars, and more
• Expanded content on new and emerging gene therapies
• Updates to a variety of vaccine monographs including the pneumococcal, rabies, and respiratory syncytial virus vaccines Expanded content on off-label uses and long-term clinical data
• MedWatch alerts, Standardize4Safety information, REMS data, and focused FDA updates for various medications
• New content on over 175 new molecular entities (NMEs) or new therapeutic biological products and substantive revisions on approximately 190 medications
• Searchable and scalable database where you can search the index or perform a full-text search
• Ability to create user-specific favorites and add notes
• AHFS class for each drug based on the AHFS® Pharmacologic-Therapeutic Classification

Allay your anxieties about the MRCP exams and increase your confidence with An Aid to the MRCP: Essential Lists, Facts and Mnemonics. This invaluable resource provides the essential lists and facts you need to know together with memory aids to speed learning and recall. Armed with this knowledge you will be able to rapidly narrow your differential diagnosis and identify the most likely answer.

An Aid to the MRCP: Essential Lists, Facts and Mnemonics presents memory aids, facts and lists that are based on questions faced whilst revising for, or encountered during the MRCP exams.

Key Features

• The MRCP exam is a difficult challenge and this resource aims to give you the best chance of passing (first time).
• Using the technique made available in this resource NKB passed all parts of the MRCP on his first attempt.
• The lists in this resource and the mnemonics that accompany them include only information likely to present in the exam.
• Each of the memory aids, facts and lists in this resource is based on questions faced while revising for, or encountered during, the MRCP exams.

5-Star Rating from Doody's Review Service and Doody's Core Titles List Selection (2021, 2022, 2023)

For more than 50 years ASHP has published the most trusted resource for injectable drug information. Our new ASHP® Injectable Drug Information™ now delivers the same high-quality content that you can expect from ASHP with even MORE of the information you need to make decisive patient care decisions.

ASHP® Injectable Drug Information™ 2024 content is interactive, mobile, and updated quarterly. Includes monographs to Extended Stability for Parenteral Drugs, forming a single, comprehensive resource on injectable drug information.

Backed by quality, peer-reviewed published literature and authored under the editorial authority of ASHP, it is a must-have resource for every pharmacy.

Key Features

• Quick data search for 358 drugs
• 417 monographs on parenteral drugs available in the United States and in other countries
• Monographs cross-referenced with American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (AHFS) Drug Information through AHFS classification numbers
• More than 500 revisions to existing monographs (affecting nearly 60% of the existing monographs) have been accomplished to update information on stability, compatibility, and safety (e.g., Food and Drug Administration [FDA] MedWatch alerts) and to provide more specific referencing of manufacturer information and other enhancements to the more than 24,100 compatibility pairs contained in ASHP® Injectable Drug Information™ 2024.
• How to prepare, store and administer drugs
• Information accumulated from 3,603 references
• Quick identification of drug compatibility with easy to understand icons
• Drugs listed alphabetically by generic name for efficient searching, with brand names also listed
• Tabulated results from primary research on the compatibility of the listed drug with infusion solutions and other drugs
• Four compatibility tables are provided for each drug: solution, additive, syringe, and Y-site
• Storage requirements and general stability information, including pH, freezing, exposure to light, sorption and filtration characteristics, and repackaging information
• Key product data including common sizes, strengths, volumes, and forms in which the drug is supplied. Also includes pH, osmotic value, and other important product information
• Parenteral Drugs by Caryn Bing and Anna Nowobilski-Vasilios. This extended stability information is specifically designed for use in home and other infusion practices

WHAT'S NEW
ASHP® Injectable Drug Information™ 2024 includes

• 18 new monographs, bringing the total in this edition to 417 monographs on parenteral drugs available in the United States and in other countries.
• More than 500 revisions to existing monographs (affecting nearly 60% of the existing monographs) have been accomplished to update information on stability, compatibility, and safety (e.g., Food and Drug Administration [FDA] MedWatch alerts) and to provide more specific referencing of manufacturer information and other enhancements to the more than 24,100 compatibility pairs
• The information cited throughout the text has been compiled from 3603 references, including 195 new to this edition. Because information from pharmaceutical manufacturers had not been uniquely cited until the 18th edition, the number of unique references supporting ASHP® Injectable Drug Information™ 2024 information actually greatly exceeds this number.
• While primary, peer-reviewed literature remains a major source of compatibility and stability information, ongoing efforts are underway to provide increased specificity of references to the pharmaceutics research of drug manufacturers. Other relevant information and pertinent study details supplied by corresponding authors of the published literature also have been incorporated when available.

Atlas of Primary Care Procedures is a convenient how-to guide to more than 70 medical procedures most commonly performed in an office setting. Easy-to-navigate screens present step-by-step instructions for performing each procedure, plus essential information on indications, contraindications, common pitfalls, and strategies for avoiding these pitfalls. More than 295 images thoroughly demonstrate the procedures. Each entry also includes CPT code information and average fees.

Make the most informed decisions surrounding patient care with the new Braunwald's Heart Disease Practice Guidelines. Derived from the 10th edition of Braunwald's Heart Disease and offered in a convenient mobile format, this resource was designed to provide practitioners, physicians-in-training, and students at all levels with the critical tools to keep abreast of the rapidly changing scientific foundations and clinical advances in cardiovascular medicine. As new guidelines emerge, this resource will be updated by the Braunwald team of editors, who will synthesize updated information from various societies and, where appropriate, highlight important differences between guidelines.

Key Features

• Aims to broaden the knowledge base of those seeking to improve outcomes for patients afflicted with cardiovascular disease.
• Serves as a convenient resource for physicians who need high-level "take away" information to assist in patient management.
• Contains guidelines summaries for all current ACC/AHA guideline topics.
• Includes coverage of the latest guidelines on atrial fibrillation, in addition to Appropriate Use Criteria for each of the imaging modalities.

The consummate guide to cardiac pacing and defibrillator therapy in a clinical setting

Cardiac Pacing and ICDs is designed to provide clinicians and fellows with a complete, up-to-date breakdown of current device therapies for pacing and defibrillation, Cardiac Pacing and ICDs reflects the latest developments in the device treatment of heart rhythm abnormalities. Topics ranging from essential principals to new and innovative techniques are explored in focused chapters, illustrated with full-color images, charts, and diagrams. Addressing every aspect of permanent and temporary pacing and defibrillation therapy, this invaluable resource covers patient indications, pacing mode selection, implantation and removal techniques, troubleshooting, and much more.

The seventh edition has been expanded and revised to enable clear and practical understanding of the field as it exists today. Drawing upon real-world experience and cutting-edge research, it offers accessible, systematic guidance with a clinical focus, as well as a wealth of bitesize tips and tricks.

KEY FEATURES

• Provides an intuitive, easy-to-navigate guide to cardiac pacing techniques and devices
• Explains pacing hemodynamics in practical, clinically relevant terms
• Features simple algorithms for mode selection and device programming
• Offers details of novel pacing systems and techniques, such as leadless pacemaker and His bundle pacing.
• Covers pacemaker timing cycles, special features, and evaluation and management of pacing system malfunctions
• Summarizes indications and details implantation techniques of ICDs, including transvenous and subcutaneous systems
• Includes best practices in MRI safety, patient consultation, and remote patient follow-up
• Cardiac Pacing and ICDs is an ideal resource for clinicians and fellows in cardiology and electrophysiology, those preparing for the IHRBE Examination in Devices, and any nurses, technicians, and other professionals caring for patients with implantable cardiac devices.

This highly focused, user-friendly question-and-answer resource is geared specifically to candidates taking the Cardiovascular Boards and the Cardiovascular section of the Internal Medicine Boards, whether for initial certification or for recertification.

Cardiology Intensive Board Review Question Book contains over 700 questions with answers, focusing on the specific areas tested. Topic distribution reflects the actual percentage of coverage for each subject area on the exam to ensure highly targeted, high-yield preparation. This latest update is based on the 2nd edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates!

Key Features

• New sections on peripheral vascular disease, cardiac imaging, and electrocardiograms
• Questions are based on patient-oriented scenarios to mimic the Boards
• The electrophysiology sections have been completely revised and include more tracings
• Sections on heart failure, coronary artery disease, and STEMI treatment have been significantly revised to reflect current American Heart Association-American College of Cardiology guidelines
• The intuitive, easy-to-navigate program allows movement within topics with a single touch

Get the vital basics of cardiovascular care, with the expert direction and clear-cut images of the freshly updated Cardiovascular Care Made Incredibly Visual! ™, 3rd Edition.

Let this colorful, down-to-earth text guide you smoothly through essential skills, concepts, and equipment how-to’s, including physical assessments, diagnostic tests, cardiac monitoring, and handling emergencies and complications. Get ready for success in both the classroom and with patient care; the clear explanations, Incredibly Visual ™ humor, and numerous illustrations make this the enjoyable way to learn positive, effective cardiac care.

Master the fundamental concepts, skills, and processes of cardiac care … NEW and updated guidance on the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) algorithms, with step-by-step direction on handling emergency situations

NEW end-of-chapter selected readings that support evidence-based learning Hundreds of colorful images that bring complex cardiovascular care concepts to life —drawings, charts, photos, and diagrams explaining and reinforcing key cardiovascular concepts in easy-to-follow ways

Ideal reference and review for nursing students, new nurses, and other healthcare practitioners —detailed visuals and clear, concise explanations to help you master cardiovascular anatomy, and physiology and effective treatments and interventions Perfect for visual learners —numerous images that demonstrate skills and interventions in easy-to-follow ways, including:

• Essential cardiovascular anatomy and physiology
• Physical assessment techniques
• Diagnostic tests
• Common disorders
• ECG interpretation, including rhythm strip analysis, the 8-step method, and arrhythmias
• Cardiac monitoring methods, including handling monitor problems
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Handling complications
• Treatments and interventions
• Emergency procedures
• Excellent teaching aid—visual, step-by-step instruction applied to real-life patient care scenarios, backed by expert clinical tips
• Perfect supplement to medical-surgical texts on cardiovascular care, clarifying complex concepts

Chapter features:

• Just the facts —quick summary of chapter content
• Vision Quest —End-of-Chapter games that help you match words, concepts, and photos to reinforce key learning points
• “Nurse Joy and Jake” —Practical advice and expert insights offered throughout
• Memory jogger —simple techniques for remembering vital information

Certified Medical Surgical Nurse Certification Q&A Practice contains 300 practice questions and remediating rationales to help you prepare for your Certified Medical-Surgical Nurse or American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) medical-surgical nursing certification exam. It is based on the most recent exam blueprints from each certifying body and is organized by topic to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses. The questions are also organized into two timed practice exams to help simulate a true exam experience. For information on the exams and how to register, you can visit the Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board’s or ANCC’s websites for the most up-to-date details.

The content in this product was written and reviewed by a team of certified medical-surgical nurses. It is reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that the content remains current and reflects any changes on the exam.

Be sure to review the onboarding lessons for more information on the technical details of this application. Best of luck to you as you begin your journey preparing for your certification!

KEY FEATURES:

• 300 Practice Questions-Study by exam content area and identify your strengths and weaknesses to focus your studies.
• Two Full-Length Practice Tests-Simulate the test-taking environment with two 150-question, 3-hour timed tests. Mark questions to revisit later, pause, review, and finalize before submitting to get your score.
• High-quality, up-to-date content-Developed by medical-surgical nurses and based on the most recent exam blueprints from the medical-surgical nurse certification preparation and the ANCC.
• Study Plan-Use the structured study plan based on your personal exam date to break down your exam prep into digestible daily study tasks.
• Discussion Board-Connect with your nursing exam prep community to chat about your experience and get answers to questions you might have about the content.
• Game Center- Make studying fun by playing games and competing against your peers! Retain information and show off your skills by getting to the top of the leaderboard!

Designed for portability, this Clinical Companion provides at-a-glance access to key information on more than 200 medical-surgical conditions and procedures. Completely updated content mirrors the revisions in the 12th edition of Lewis’s Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems. Organized alphabetically for quick reference, it includes a variety of full-color illustrations and summary tables, as well as a handy reference appendix with laboratory values, Spanish translations of key phrases, and other information commonly used in nursing practice.

Key Features

• Part One: Disorders offers practical information in a consistent format: Definitions and Descriptions, Pathophysiology, Clinical Manifestations, Complications, Diagnostic Studies, Interprofessional Care and Drug Therapy, and Nursing Management.
• Treatments and Procedures section summarizes need-to-know content about common medical-surgical treatments and procedures such as basic life support, enteral nutrition, and artificial airway management.
• Patient and caregiver teaching content is highlighted with a special icon to identify appropriate information to share with patients and caregivers about the care of various conditions.
• Cross-references to the main text direct you to more in-depth information.
• Handy reference appendix contains information frequently used in nursing practice, including laboratory values, commonly used formulas, Spanish translations of key phrases, and much more.

New to This Edition

• Updated content reflects the revisions and updates in the Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing, 12th Edition text.

Thoroughly updated and cross-referenced with Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 14th Edition, this alphabetically organized pocket guide provides rapid access to essential information on nearly 200 diseases and disorders you are likely to encounter in nursing practice.

Key Features

• Quickly access vital information for each disorder:
• Pathophysiology
• Clinical manifestations
• Assessment and diagnostic findings
• Medical, surgical, and pharmacologic management
• Nursing management according to the nursing process
• Confidently address priority care issues and potentially hazardous or life-threatening situations with clearly identified best practices and warnings.
• Easily reference gerontologic considerations and interventions related to the care of older adult patients.
• Review important lab values in the appendix.

Trusted by clinicians for more than 75 years, Conn’s Current Therapy presents today’s evidence-based information along with the personal experience and discernment of expert physicians. The 2024 edition is a helpful resource for a wide range of healthcare providers, including primary care physicians, subspecialists, and allied health professionals, providing current treatment information in a concise yet in-depth format. Nearly 350 topics have been carefully reviewed and updated to bring you state-of-the-art content in even the most rapidly changing areas of medicine.

Key Features

• Offers personal approaches from recognized leaders in the field, covering common complaints, acute diseases, and chronic illnesses along with the most current evidence-based clinical management options.
• Follows a consistent, easy-to-use format throughout, with diagnosis, therapy, drug protocols, and treatment pearls presented in quick-reference boxes and tables for point-of-care answers to common clinical questions.
• Incorporates electronic links throughout the text that connect the reader to apps and clinical prediction tools that can easily be accessed in practice.
• Features thoroughly reviewed and updated information from multiple expert authors and editors, who offer a fresh perspective and their unique personal experience and judgment.
• Provides current drug information thoroughly reviewed by PharmDs.
• Features nearly 300 images, including algorithms, anatomical illustrations, and photographs, that provide useful information for diagnosis.
• This mobile application allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from anywhere, anytime.
• No internet connection is required to access the book content after the initial download. Find information quickly using powerful SmartSearch technology. Search part of term for those hard to spell medical terms.

Feeling unsure about your critical care nursing skills? Time to gain some confident know-how, with the freshly updated Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!®, 5th Edition.

This friendly, fully illustrated guide offers clear, concise direction on treating numerous acute and life-threatening issues. Absorb current best practices on critical care basics and specialized areas such as advanced life support measures, multisystem trauma, and treating specialized needs.

Let this expert review text guide you to exam and on-the-unit success:

• NEW end-of-book practice exam
• Expansive, systems-based review of acute care conditions for all body systems Guidance on treating multisystem disorders – burns, hyperthermia, hypothermia, hypovolemic shock, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), septic shock, trauma and more
• Expert guidance on nursing skills – blood and fluid replacement, rapid assessment and interventions, emergency measures, fluid replacement/resuscitation, drug therapy, pressure ulcer management, moderate sedation, CPR and emergency cardiac care, and more
• Numerous images and charts demonstrate clinical use of IV fluids, interpreting serum electrolyte test results, drug therapy for multisystem disorders, and more
• Step-by-step direction on performing blood transfusions with a guide to transfusion reactions
• Top-level instruction in areas including oncology, acute care surgery, drug overdose and poisoning, palliative care and pain management, nutrition, prevention and screening, professional roles and ethics, test-taking strategies
• Ideal review text for grasping the components required to master the CCRN certification exam
• Chapter features include:
  • Just the facts – a quick summary of content at the start of each chapter
  • Advice from experts – tips and tricks and key troubleshooting techniques
  • Take charge! – potentially lethal situations and steps to take when they occur
  • Handle with care – identifies concerns and actions related to elderly, pediatric, and bariatric patients
  • Weighing the evidence – highlights research that guides practice
  • Memory joggers – memory aids to help you grasp and remember difficult concepts
  • Certification tips – draws out the most important concepts from each chapter in relation to the CCRN exam
  • Quick quiz – end-of-chapter multiple choice questions, with answers and rationales
  • Practice makes perfect – extensive end-of-book practice exam to test knowledge in preparation for NCLEX and certification

This best-selling resource is completely updated, and still the most easy-to-use and effective high-yield review for USMLE Step 3. Covering all specialties and subspecialties included on the exam, it's perfect for the busy house officer who needs a review that hits all the important and commonly tested concepts in a concise format.

Over 100 high-yield figures illustrate important concepts, conditions, and imaging modalities. Get tips, insights, and guidance on how best to prepare and what to expect with the reader-friendly, succinct, and engaging writing style of best-selling author Adam Brochert, MD.

New to this Edition

• Presents updated case scenarios mirroring those on the Step 3 exam to keep you abreast of changes to the exam.
• Includes additional high-yield figures to be more relevant to recent administrations of the exam.
• Addresses current practice with updated diagnosis and treatment guidelines.

Key Features

• Features tips on the computer-based case simulations to prepare you for essential elements of the exam.
• Draws upon the personal experience of the best-selling author of USMLE reviews, Adam Brochert, MD, for trustworthy tips on how to study for the exam.
• Organizes material logically and allows quick spot review using bulleted and numbered lists, as well as many tables throughout the text.

Practical, up-to-date, and ready-to-apply coverage of more than 1,000 diseases and disorders

CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Obstetrics & Gynecology, Twelth Edition is a concise, yet comprehensive textbook on the medical and surgical management of obstetrics and gynecology. It succinctly covers more than 1,000 diseases and disorders, the latest screening guidelines, and underlying pathophysiology when relevant. The twelfth edition is enriched by contributions from more than 85 world-renowned contributors

KEY FEATURES

• The single-source OB/GYN resource acclaimed for its currency, comprehensiveness, and strong focus on the practical aspects of clinical diagnosis and patient management
• Expanded and extensively updated to reflect the latest research and advances ñ including the concepts of precision medicine
• Of value to medical students, residents, and practicing physicians who will find this an outstanding guide to the management of common and uncommon conditions
• Ready-to-apply coverage of more than 1,000 diseases and disorders
• Strikes the perfect balance between brevity and clinical necessity, delivering exactly the amount of information needed for quick diagnosis, effective treatment, and improved outcomes
• Strong emphasis on disease prevention and evidence-based medicine
• Hundreds anatomic drawings, image studies, diagrams, charts, and graphs
• Thoroughly reviews all of obstetrics and gynecology
• Focuses on the practical aspects of clinical diagnosis and patient management
• Covers pathophysiology when relevant to diagnosis and treatment
• Emphasizes disease prevention and evidence-based medicine
• Includes more than 500 anatomic drawings, image studies, and diagrams
• Completely updated to reflect the latest research and advances
• Consistent presentation includes Clinical Findings, Diagnosis, Treatment, and
• Complications and Prognosis
• Quick-access design facilitates use at the point of care
• Updated to include the latest screening and management guidelines

NEW TO THIS EDITION

NEW CHAPTER on Benign Disorders of the Uterine Corpus; Cardiac Disorders in Pregnancy and Pulmonary Disorders in Pregnancy are now two separate chapters for more detailed, focused coverage of these important topics

CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Otolaryngology spans the entire breadth of ENT topics, including the latest developments in basic science, facial plastic surgery, head and neck surgery, laryngology, rhinology, pediatric otolaryngology, otology, and neurotology. This find-it-now clinician's guide includes commonly encountered as well as unusual diseases of the head and neck and is essential for board review and recertification.

KEY FEATURES

• The acclaimed one-stop clinician’s guide to treating all major diseases of the ear, nose, throat, and neck
• Emphasizes the practical features of clinical diagnosis and patient management
• Conveniently organized by anatomic region
• FOUR NEW CHAPTERS: Professional Voice Assessment and Care; Neurolaryngology; Aural Rehabilitation and Hearing Aids; and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
• Consistent presentation includes General Considerations, Pathogenesis, Prevention, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnosis, and Treatment
• Must-know medical and surgical management of each disorder
• Thorough discussion of pathophysiology and relevant basic and clinical science
• Comprehensive radiology chapter with more than 150 images
• “Essentials of Diagnosis” section for each disease and disorder delivers key points at a glance
• All new full color interior design with more than 500 color illustrations
• Valuable to otolaryngologists as well as all the medical and surgical specialties and related disciplines that treat patients with head and neck disorders
• Strikes the perfect balance between brevity and clinical necessity
• Spans the entire breadth of ENT topics, including the latest developments in basic science, facial plastic surgery, head and neck surgery, laryngology, rhinology, pediatric otolaryngology, otology, and neurotology

CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Cardiology - A concise, authoritative compilation of the essential knowledge needed to diagnose and manage cardiovascular disease

Key Features

• 37 chapters cover the major disease entities and therapeutic challenges in cardiology today
• Chapters on major management issues such as pregnancy and heart disease, the use of anticoagulants in heart disease, and the perioperative evaluation of heart disease patients
• Each chapter written by experts in that area, without losing the readability or coherence found in single-author texts
• Logically organized into six sections: Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Ischemic Heart Disease, Arrhythmias, Valvular Disease, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure, and Systemic Disease and the Heart
• NEW MATERIAL on the latest hypertension guidelines, new therapies for dyslipidemia management, new oral anticoagulants, and new antiplatelet and antithrombotic drugs
• Organized for speed, ease of use, and clinical functionality
• An essential quick reference for experienced physicians in the clinic or on the ward, cardiology fellows, students and residents, nurses, technicians, and other health care staff who provide care for the cardiology patient
• More than 200 illustrations, including ECGs, imaging studies, drawings, graphs and charts
• Emphasis on must know information makes it perfect for board review

The #1 annually updated general medical text—presents the most important diagnostic and treatment recommendations as well as the most useful new clinical developments in every field of adult medicine.

For more than six decades, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment has been delivering the authoritative information students, residents, and clinicians need to build their medical knowledge, expertise, and confidence. Written by top experts in their fields, this unmatched guide is formatted in a way that enables readers to find the answers they need quickly and easily.

CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2024 reflects the latest developments in medicine, guidelines, references, and more. You’ll find authoritative, evidence-based coverage of more than 1,000 diseases and disorders along with a concise, yet thorough synopsis of diagnosis and treatment. This trusted classic covers all aspects of outpatient and inpatient care and includes discussion of new developments and breakthroughs in medicine.

CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2024 features:

• A comprehensive approach to patient care, focusing on the diagnostic tools relevant to daily practice
• Coverage of more than 1,000 diseases and disorders
• Hundreds of drug treatment tables for quick access to indexed trade names
• Annual updates to topics in all chapters in a consistent format, drugs, tables, and images
• Year in Review highlighting the many topics with significant clinical changes over the last year
• Essentials of Diagnosis for most diseases/disorders
• Diagnostic and treatment algorithms present complex information in an at-a-glance style
• Hundreds of full-color photos and illustrations

New to this edition:

• Latest USPSFT recommendations for cardiovascular risk prevention
• Significant new opioid prescribing guidelines from the CDC
• Clarification on the distinction between uncontrolled hypertensive and hypertension emergency
• Latest classification of lymphomas released by the WHO
• Recommendations for the initiation and titration of treatment for chronic hypertension in pregnancy
• Current treatment guidelines and medications for H pylori infection
• Classification of the role, dosing, and potential risks of JAK inhibitors and anti-23 antibody (Risankizumab) in the treatment of IBD
• Updates that underscore the growing utility of combination treatments for high LDL levels, especially among high and very high-risk patients
• The WHO revision of the pathological classification of renal cell carcinoma to assist with prognosis prediction and treatment decisions

CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2024

The authoritative guidelines primary care clinicians need to diagnose and treat the most common outpatient conditions—compiled, distilled, and updated for easy referencing

Striking the perfect balance between brevity and clinical necessity, this acclaimed annual resource presents all the latest evidence-based guidelines clinicians need to treat the most common outpatient conditions. The most thorough print compendium of guidelines for primary care practice, the book features content drawn from government agencies, expert panels, medical specialty organizations, and other professional and scientific authorities.

CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2024 converts lengthy and cumbersome text into a practical, relevant collection of available options for busy clinicians. This go-to guide converts the tremendous amount of information on the web into a practical, relevant collection of usable data for busy clinicians. Each topic is carefully selected for relevance to the office practice of ambulatory medicine and the text is presented in a convenient, easy-to-navigate outline and tabular format.

• Content is drawn from a wide array of recommendations from government agencies, expert panels, medical specialty organizations, and other professional and scientific authorities
• NEW: Updates reflecting the review of more than 150 guidelines
• NEW: Updates to guidelines for screening/prevention of ASCVD; anxiety disorders in children, pediatric obesity, chronic pain, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia; and osteoarthritis
• NEW: Numerous topics have been added, including screening and prevention of eating disorders, COVID vaccination in pregnancy, prevention of pelvic floor dysfunction, management of chest pain, left ventricular thrombus, delirium
• Guideline Discordance tables highlight when major guidelines do not mirror each other
• Topics are carefully selected for relevance to the office practice of ambulatory medicine, and the text is enhanced by a convenient outline and tabular format
• Screening and prevention of conditions have been combined to enhance clinician use

With its unique focus on clinical judgment, Davis's Comprehensive Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests With Nursing Implications, 10th Edition provides interpretive guidance on the reasons for the studies and explains why they are important, and what it means for nurses and the care they provide to their patients. Tests and procedures are listed in alphabetical order by their complete name for quick reference. The integrated index allows fast searches by abbreviation, synonym, disease/disorder, specimen type, or test classification.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Updated! The most current information, terminology, and changes in health care and how the content relates to nurses
• New! “Core Lab Study” labels identifying 35 need-to-know, clinically significant laboratory studies that you will see frequently in practice
• New! “Clinical Judgment” statement at the end of every entry to help you recognize the value of nursing wisdom in relieving physical pain and the emotional distress associated with diagnoses and their related studies
• New! Current Trends in Health Care appendix with examples of approved and developing applications of technology specific to health

KEY FEATURES

• A focus on Clinical Judgment with “Nursing Implications, Nursing Process, Clinical Judgement” sections to draw attention to the clinical judgment aspect of care, plus a clinical judgment icon in each “Nursing Implications” section
• “Student Decision Making Model” to help learners visualize critical thinking and clinical judgment
• “Potential Nursing Problems” tables within many studies that present problems, signs and symptoms, and interventions related to the study ‘Common Use’ for each monograph to provide an at-a-glance description of what the test is for, presented in everyday language that patients will understand
• Monographs that focus on what you need to do before, during, and after each laboratory and diagnostic test, including…
  • *Patient teaching
  • *Detailed coverage of patient safety
  • *“Sensitivity to Social and Cultural Issues” and “Nutritional Considerations,” where appropriate Diagnostic imaging monographs with explanations of the reasons for the test results
• Pathophysiology information that explains why a lab test result is increased or decreased
• Reference Ranges that are expressed in both conventional and SI units (with the SI unit conversion factor) and include age- and gender-specific variations when indicated and normal variations due to cultural considerations
• Interfering Factors, including food, natural products, timing of test, handling of specimens, underlying patient conditions, and drugs that may interfere with the results of the test
• Unique coverage of laboratory and diagnostic tests for subspecialties, such as maternity, therapeutic drug monitoring, nutrition and sensory
• Cross referencing of related lab and diagnostic tests in every monograph

Everything you need to know about caring for patients—in a succinct easy-to-understand "must-have" guide! Put information on more than 240 diseases and disorders at your fingertips. Clear, comprehensive discussions of pathophysiology—with rationales in the test and intervention sections—help you deliver effective care with confidence.

KEY FEATURES

• Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) for each disorder
• The primary nursing diagnosis for each disease and disorder
• Diagnostic tables that make test results easy to reference
• The genetic basis of the diseases and disorders
• The physiology of the disorders and how it relates to risks and complications
• Collaborative and independent interventions
• Pharmacological tables that outline the dosages, mechanisms of action, and rationales for the drugs most commonly used for a disorder
• Separate headings for psychosocial issues
• Outlines for required documentation
• Home care and discharge guidelines and patient teaching checklists
• Evidence-based practice section
• Global health considerations that reflect issues that transcend national borders

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• REVISED & UPDATED! Up-to-date, must-know information on nearly 240 disorders that reflects advances in science and practice
• REVISED & UPDATED! Thoroughly reviewed coverage for each disorder, including causes • pertinent physical and psychosocial findings • primary nursing diagnoses • and collaborative and independent nursing interventions
• UPDATED! Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) for each disorder, plus documentation information on average length of stay and home healthcare guidelines
• NEW! How to handle COVID/infectious diseases and pandemics in the sections on ‘Global Health Considerations’ and ‘Evidence-Based Practice and Health Policy’.
• NEW! ‘Health Disparities and Sexual and Gender Minority Health’ section with new considerations for LGBTQ+ community

REVIEWS See what students and practitioners are saying

• Nursing students must have. “If you’re in a nursing program, this book will help you tremendously! Some books are lengthy but this one will get right to the point and the info you need to be successful!”—Chris G.
• Most helpful HESI, ATI and NCLEX study material. “Best for studying and understanding content. A must-use when studying for standardized tests…and licensing exams such as the NCLEX.”—Chelle
• Wonderful reference book. “The quick reference nature of this book tells me what I need to know and do as a nurse in a matter of a few pages.”—Bran
• This is an awesome book for referencing diseases that are unknown and you... “just need some concise, organized and to-the-point information! Used it for nursing school and it is fantastic!”—Guy L.

Thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the newest Test Plan. This latest update is based on the 3rd edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Davis's NCLEX-RN® Success, includes 1,000 brand-new questions, comprising overall 3,500 questions.

Key Features

• Presents comprehensive, but concise, well illustrated, content reviews
• Offers test-taking tips for all questions as well as rationales for correct and incorrect answers
• Physiological Integrity includes herbal meds and a section on drug calculations/conversions
• Codes all answers by clinical area
  • cognitive area
  • nursing process step
  • category of human function and
  • client need
• New systems-based approach for Pediatrics and Med/Surg
• New organization for OB—intrapartal , postpartal and newborn
• Psych organized by DSM categories
• More alternate-item-format questions
• New second color for easier reference
• New appendices offer a guide to content focused on the reduction of risk potential, and expanded information on complementary and alternative therapies
• Updated CPR guidelines
• Thousands of practice questions, including the integrated pretest, two integrated post-tests, content reviews
• Updated management of care section, including
  • delegation
  • establishing priorities
  • HIPPA rules
  • emergency response plan, including fire safety and preparedness
• Includes 5 interactive flowcharts which assist in making clinical decisions
• Brand-new appendices added...
  • Index to all diagnostic procedures and tests
  • Index of questions related to the six NCLEX descriptors or client sub-needs
  • Index of detailed content covered in the official NCLEX-RN® Test Plan
• Updated information on Older Adult, Infection Control, Bioterrorism and associated syndromes
• Comprehensive, illustrated review of nursing content with many illustrations, charts, and visual cues in med-surg, elderly, OB, pediatric, psych, nutrition, pharmacology, diagnostic procedures, nursing treatments, ethical/legal issues, management of care, prioritization, and safety and infection control
• The only review reference with critical pathways in OB, peds, psych, and med-surg
• A straightforward, step-by-step review process: pretest, content reviews of most frequently tested areas, practice test, and final test
• A special unit addressing the needs of international nurses and repeat test-takers is included
• Extensive appendices, including indexes of all questions in the reference by client need categories, subcategories, nursing process step, and areas of human function; plus Appendix C covers all the theory directly based on categories and subcategories covered in the official NCLEX-RN® test plan

Fully addressing the changes implemented in the new NCLEX-PN® Test plan, and with additional content review and more than 3000 questions, this invaluable tool addresses every client need category and subcategory on the 2005 Test Plan.

This resource's purposes are to provide the candidate for practical/vocational nurse licensure with a concise review of the information necessary to pass the NCLEX-PN licensing examination and to assist the candidate to apply this information in simulated clinical situations by using effective test-taking skills.Strikes the right balance between content review outlines and questions and integrated tests.

Key Features

• Fully integrates the 2005 NCLEX-PN® Test Plan.
• Introduction contains information about the new test plan and alternative item format questions, and offers study and test-taking tips.
• New and updated information on Gerontological Nursing, Pharmacology, Nutrition and Diet Therapy, and Leadership/Management/Delegation.
• Newly added tables summarizes Cultural Considerations for Client Care and other updated content review for Maternal, Peds, Med-Surg, Psych, and Procedures sections.
• More than 300 alternate item format questions integrated.
• Includes four integrated tests, each containing 205 questions - the maximum number on the NCLEX-PN® itself!
• Provides basic information on the development, administration, and scoring of the NCLEX-PN and how to prepare for and take the examination.
• Includes reviews of maternity nursing, pediatric nursing, medical-surgical nursing, gerontological nursing, and psychiatric-mental health nursing.
• Thousands of individual questions with no duplication!
• Strikes the right balance between content review outlines and questions and integrated tests.
• Answer statements include rationales for the correct and incorrect choices, nursing process step, integrated processes, and client need category.

Diagnostic Criteria in Dermatology provides dermatologists, residents, medical students and other physicians with the most up-to-date and evidence-based diagnostic criteria for dermatologic diseases and syndromes. For a number of conditions in dermatology, evidence-based diagnostic criteria have been developed to improve the diagnostic acuity. An accurate diagnosis is essential for proper patient management.

The lists of criteria provided in this invaluable resource should not only aid in making an appropriate diagnosis, but on occasion, may also serve as a reminder of non-cutaneous involvement and the need for assessment of other organ systems. This latest update is based on the 2nd edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates!

Key Features

• Designed to meet the needs of residents, medical students, practicing physicians and researchers for an easy to use, quick reference with diagnostic criteria of diseases and syndromes in dermatology.
• Includes articles from a variety of specialties, including the dermatology, rheumatology, internal medicine, medical genetics, neurology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology and pediatrics literature.
• The organization and definition of the criteria have been slightly modified in order to group similar criteria and/or more clearly define them.
• Contains common diseases such as atopic dermatitis as well as rare diseases such as Carney Complex and Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease.

Dorland's (formerly Jablonski's) Dictionary of Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations, 7th Edition - Medical acronyms and abbreviations offer convenience, but those countless shortcuts can often be confusing. Now a part of the popular Dorland’s suite of products, this reference features thousands of terms from across various medical specialties. Its alphabetical arrangement makes for quick reference, and expanded coverage of symbols ensures they are easier to find. Effective communication plays an important role in all medical settings, so turn to this trusted volume for nearly any medical abbreviation you might encounter.

Key Features

• More than 90,000 entries and definitions.
• Many new and updated entries including terminology in expanding specialties, such as Nursing; Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapies; Transcription and Coding; Computer and Technical Fields.
• New section on abbreviations to avoid, including Joint Commission abbreviations that are not to be used.
• Incorporates updates suggested by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).

The most trusted medical dictionary used by today’s health care professionals, this portable and user-friendly resource puts dependable and indispensable information at your fingertips. This latest update is based on the 29th edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary helps you to quickly find what you need from among 36,000+ medical terms, including today’s ever-evolving and expanding medical terminology with 3,100+ new and revised entries reflecting the most important changes in medicine.

Key Features

• Audio pronunciations for more than 15,000 new and current terms
• Enhance your understanding of complex information with 227 full-color illustrations, including 80 brand-new images and 32 color anatomical plates, 19 from the Netter collection
• Incorporates sweeping updates to reflect the latest medical terms, including the newest drugs
• Includes a 32 full-color anatomical illustrations to help you understand bodily structures and their definitions
• Includes 3 built-in calculators which assist in making clinical decisions
• Presents anatomy terms in a new format that eliminates the need for cumbersome tables
• Features the most portable format of any medical dictionary on the market

Calculate correct dosages with safety and confidence, with the easy-to-follow nursing expertise of Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy! 5th edition. This fully illustrated guide offers the complete how-to on calculating dosages for all drug forms and administration routes, with numerous practice exercises and seasoned guidance on interpreting drug orders accurately. Understand class materials more fully, get ready for the NCLEX or certification exam, or refresh your calculation skills with this enjoyable, colorful text.

Your Incredible Easy editors know from experience that learning the basics isn't always easy so you'll find full coverage of topics including:

• math basics such as fractions, decimals, and percentages
• measurement systems and conversions
• calculating oral, topical, liquid, and rectal drug dosages
• calculating parenteral injections and IV infusions
• calculating pediatric, obstetric, and critical care dosages
• recording drug administration

An easy-reference format with clearly worded, bulleted content demonstrated with numerous photos, illustrations, and diagrams will give you step-by-step direction on:

• calculating dosages of all kinds o starting an infusion, including IV guidelines
• choosing administration equipment
• dealing with poor handwriting
• understanding medication labels and drug abbreviations
• avoiding common drug errors

Plus, you'll get all of the learning aids, tips, and tricks that nurses have come to expect from the books in the Incredibly Easy series:

• Full-color inserts include: improving patient safety by using infusion devices; the anatomy of a medication label
• Appendices include: multiple choice Q&A; drug therapy conversions chart; dosage calculation formulas table; glossary with key terms and definitions
• Before you give that drug! – Crucial advice on avoiding medication errors
• Advice from the experts – Tips on ensuring accurate dosages
• For math phobics only – Hints, tips, and drawings to help you dissolve math obstacles
• Dosage drill - Real-life clinical dosage situations to practice your calculation skills on
• Memory jogger - Fortifies content with easy-to-remember tips and formulas
• Quick quiz - Questions with answers/explanations at end of every chapter to help you remember vital points

SAFETY FIRST!
Davis’s Canadian Drug Guide for Physicians ®, 19 Edition plus 2024 updates, delivers all of the information you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan—well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade-name drugs—along with the Canadian-specific information you want.

NEW IN THIS UPDATE :

• NEW! Added 22 New Monographs.
• NEW! 415 updated Monographs.
• NEW! Added 2 New Indices – BEERS, REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy).

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LIFE-SAVING GUIDANCE…AT A GLANCE
Canadian-specific content 

• Full monographs on drugs approved for use in Canada that are not FDA-approved for use in the US.
• Additional Canadian trade names for many US-approved generic drugs; identified by a maple leaf icon.
• A summary of the similarities and differences between pharmaceutical practices in the US and Canada.
• Canadian Advisory Board of clinicians, educators, and students.

Highlights :

• Audio pronunciations for almost 890 generic drugs
• Over 700 built-in drug dosing calculation tools. Simply review a drug, calculate the dose and administer all in a single step without needing to switch to a separate drug dosing program.

Comprehensive coverage on over 1,400 drug monographs including more than:

• 5,000 trade and generic drugs as well as expanded coverage of herbal products
• 150 drug classifications, both therapeutic and pharmacologic (if available)
• 500 commonly used combination drugs, including the dosage amount of the active generic ingredient
• Most complete life-span drug dosing considerations for adult, pediatric, and geriatric patients

Completely updated with expanded coverage on vulnerable populations including:

• New indications and dosing recommendations for top 100 pediatric drugs
• Pediatric, geriatric, and OB medication administration considerations
• A complete immunization schedule
• Special techniques for administering medications to children
• Oral rehydration solutions
• Drugs and breast feeding
• List of drugs associated with increased number of falls in the elderly

More High Alert Coverage and Patient Safety Information than any other drug guide including:

• Special highlights to identify High Alert Medications with high risks for patient injury and information throughout the monograph that explain what the nurse can do to ensure patient safety
• "Do not confuse with" and "Do not crush, break, or chew" caution statements highlighted to support safe practice
• Information on how to prevent administration errors, detect dosing and dispensing errors, and detect or prevent adverse drug reactions (ADR)s.
• Explanations on how to administer medication safely by all routes – including signs and symptoms for toxicity and overdose, safe handling tips and how to educate patients for safe medication use in the home

Plus new integrated dosing calculators - Now, with over 700 built in weight-based drug dosing calculation tools, simply review a drug, calculate the dose and administer all in a single step.

Comprehensive and easy to use, Drugs for Pregnant and Lactating Women, 3rd Edition, remains your #1 resource for reliable information on virtually all of today's drugs and herbal supplements and how they interact with pregnancy and lactation. This logically organized reference has been frequently emulated, but not duplicated. The 3rd Edition has been thoroughly updated to keep you current with new drugs, changes in FDA labeling, and more in-depth information on interactions. Designed for ease of use in the clinical setting, it provides the key drug information needed by physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and others involved in the care of pregnant and lactating women.

New to this Edition

Features new letter thumb tabs for easier navigation.

Includes dozens of new drugs and thorough updates throughout. Online content included with purchase. This enhanced experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, glossary, and references.

Key Features

• Covers nearly 2,000 substances (more than 30 are new), arranged alphabetically by both trade and generic name, all updated and rewritten for this edition. Includes over-the-counter drugs and alternative medications as well as prescription drugs. Includes extensive updates to information for breastfeeding mothers and enhanced drug interactions throughout.
• Helps you make prescribing decisions with current information on whether each drug is FDA-approved for use by expecting or nursing mothers, is known to be safe for use, or is known to pose a danger.
• Describes each substance's mechanism of action, side effects, drug-drug interactions, dosage, cost of therapy, and degree of safety during pregnancy or lactation, providing the thorough details you need to choose the most effective course of treatment. Features an easy-to-read, efficient design with consistent headings, highly templated drug listings, and succinct text that presents only the key facts you need. Contains a special index listing drugs by category.
• Points out conflicts in FDA class with existing knowledge throughout the book. Indicates not only whether the FDA has approved a drug based on clinical trials, but also whether the drug is generally considered to be safe in the absence of FDA approval.

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 & 2023!

Essential for ob/gyn physicians, primary care physicians, and any health care provider working with pregnant or postpartum women, Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk, 12th Edition, puts must-know information at your fingertips in seconds. An easy A-to-Z format lists more than 1,400 of the most commonly prescribed drugs taken during pregnancy and lactation, with detailed monographs designed to provide the most essential information on possible effects on the mother, embryo, fetus, and nursing infant.

KEY FEATURES
Each templated monograph includes:

• Generic US name (trade names in index)
• Risk factors
• Pharmacologic class
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding recommendations
• Pregnancy, fetal risk, and breastfeeding summaries
• Updated references

NEW TO THIS EDITION :

• 100 new drugs, with thorough updates of all existing drugs
• Subheadings with each review for faster reference
• List of cross-referenced combination drugs
• List of drugs contraindicated in breastfeeding women
• List of drugs contraindicated in pregnancy
• List of drugs that affect human development
• Greatly improved App searchability

This invaluable resource will teach you the basics of interpreting ECG rhythms and will prepare you for taking the next step toward fluency.

This is the resource you need to understand the basic concepts of ECG, to develop your ability to identify rhythms (especially life-threatening ones), and to learn the appropriate response to patients with life-threatening rhythms.

Key Features

• Discusses the basics of electrophysiology
• Covers 1 to 12 leads
• Reviews ECG wave form characteristics to facilitate identification
• Contains numerous "perfect" ECG strips integrated in the didactic sections as examples
• Provides a workbook component of 30 "real world" ECG strips at the end of each rhythm chapter
• Presents all 675 ECG strips in standardized 6-second format to facilitate analysis and measurement
• Includes a 200-strip, self-administered comprehensive test.

A resource that provides information for visual learners with easy to learn and recall visual images that leave a lasting impression. This latest update is based on the 1st edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

ECG Interpretation: An incredibly Visual! Pocket Guide, presents the basics of interpreting various rhythm types such as sinus, atrial, junctional, ventricular and AV blocks as well as includes must-know information on ECG changes in specific cardiac disorders such as myocardial infarction, in electrolyte imbalances, and with a pacemaker.

Key Features

• Concise, clearly written text with easy to understand explanations
• Includes visually stunning 4-color photographs and illustrations throughout
• Highlights interpretation tips and life-threatening arrhythmias throughout

A Davis’s Notes title!

The pocket guide that covers it all—basics, 12-lead, ACLS, meds, and CPR for adults and children! A quick look-up reference for ECG interpretation and management! This indispensable pocket guide presents the basics (anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system, electrical conduction system of the heart, basic ECG concepts and components,) ACLS and CPR algorithms, emergency medications, and comprehensive information on monitoring leads and interpretation of over 100 ECG strips, including 12-lead and pacemaker rhythms.

KEY FEATURES

• Compact rhythm analysis guide with 125 ECG rhythm strips
• Complete coverage—basics, ECG (including 3- and 12-lead) ACLS, PALS, meds, and CPR
• CPR algorithms in tabular format
• Test Yourself ECG strips feature over 30 real-life arrhythmias
• Clinical Tips throughout
• PALS tab (Pediatric Advanced Life Support)
• Peds coverage throughout…
• Meds—Doses where applicable
• Skills—Defibrillation, automated defibrillation (AED), and cardioversion
• Basics—Normal vital signs values

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Updated & Expanded! Incorporating advances in science and clinical practice, including the American Heart Association’s 2020 CPR, ACLS, and PALS guidelines
• Expanded! “Clinical Tips” and coverage of rhythm analysis
• New! Summary table, “Identifying Features of Arrhythmias”
• New sections! Six Easy Steps in Analyzing ECG Strips and ECG Monitoring
• Expanded! The 12-Lead tab with more in-depth information about analyzing a 12-lead ECG

See what practitioners and students are saying about the previous edition…

• Worth every penny!! “Bought this to keep in my lab coat to help me interpret ECGs. It is absolutely perfect. Has several different rhythms and 50 practice questions. Wish I bought it sooner.”—Online Reviewer
• If you are trying to learn EKG, this is a must have!! “Really convenient tool to learn from. Easy to navigate.”—Emily, L., Online Reviewer
• Great for nursing students and RNs. “As a nurse educator (and earlier a staff RN) I made these required reading for my students, plus it's useful well beyond graduation.”—Barbara R., Online Reviewer
• Perfect Pocket reference. “For those of us that don't always remember every detail of EKGs, and need some help on the fly, this is perfect. I can carry it with me for reference whenever I need. I have already recommended it to many of my colleagues.”—Online Reviewer

The Manchester Triage System (MTS) is the most widely used triage system in the UK, Europe and Australia, with tens of millions of patients being processed through hospital emergency departments. It is also used in hospitals throughout Brazil.
Emergency Triage,3rd Edition contains all the information necessary for an MTS user: as such, it is an essential text for all emergency department staff, in particular triage nurses. The book is both a training tool and a reference for daily use in the Emergency Department and prehospital settings.

Key Features

• Well-organized and well-written
• Updated evidence-based concepts of triage for modern emergency departments
• New charts for abuse and neglect in childhood, unwell newborn, unwell baby
• A new approach to fever in childhood
• An introduction to telephone triage and advice

This edition features revised protocols that reflect new approaches to prioritisation, with accompanying revised flowcharts - the core part of the book.

Outstanding Value for Emergency Medical Services personnel of all provider levels, from First Responder to EMT-Paramedic.

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Dr. Drugs Drug Guide for Physicians: Delivers all of the information you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan—well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade-name drugs.

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Skyscape Labs™: Specifically developed for use on mobile devices, with a consistent and intuitive format. Healthcare providers will be able to rapidly obtain a description of the test; understand its clinical utility; and see what a high or low value might mean.

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	International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification: Based on the World Health Organization's Tenth Revision, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). ICD-10-CM is the official system of assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures associated with hospital utilization in the United States.

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• English & Spanish Medical Words & Phrases
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• Spanish-English English-Spanish Medical Dictionary
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• Emergency Medicine Manual

EMS Notes: EMT & Paramedic Field Guide delivers all of the essential facts and clinical information EMTs and paramedics need in the field and in the ED. This latest update, created in partnership with F. A. Davis Company, comes with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

From common medications and the interpretation of 12-lead ECGs to current algorithms and procedures, you'll find the answers to the questions that arise everyday, organized in 8 convenient sections.

Key Features

• Contains all the facts and field information needed by EMTs and Paramedics
• Differentiates the skills and tasks performed at the basic and intermediate levels, as well as those performed by paramedics, identifying the primary responsibility of each
• Covers over 100 emergency and nearly 2,000 common prescription drugs
• Covers primary and secondary trauma, and offers a simple approach to the rapid triage of multiple patients
• Includes the most current CPR, ACLS, PALS, and NRP algorithms from the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics
• Features Spanish translations of common medical terms, history, assessment and pain-related questions, the phonetic pronunciations, and includes questions which require ‘yes’ or ‘no’ responses

English & Spanish Medical Words & Phrases, covers thousands of key terms and phrases used in clinician-patient interactions. This latest update is based on the 4th edition and it includes additional features and enhanced functionality. It's the perfect resource for nurses and other health care professionals who care for Spanish-speaking patients or whose primary language is Spanish.

Coverage includes patient teaching, hospital admission and discharge planning, diagnostic tests, therapeutic procedures, history and physical examination, body systems assessment, medical equipment and supplies, nutrition and diet therapy, medication teaching, home care, and complementary and alternative therapies. Whether you are a doctor, nurse, or other health care professional, you will be able to communicate with confidence when caring for your patients.

Key Features

• New Pronunciation guide for common medical terms.
• It presents English and Spanish translations of all medical terms and phrases used in clinician-patient interactions.
• A must-have for any health care professional who cares for Spanish-speaking patients.
• Covers important terms related to every aspect of patient care, including systems assessment, patient teaching, discharge, medical equipment and supplies, diagnostic tests, treatments, nutrition and diet therapy, and complementary and alternative therapies.
• Anatomical illustrations are included to facilitate communication. This Fourth Edition includes an English-Spanish picture dictionary and Spanish pain-rating scales.

What you really need to know, but no-one told you.

The best-selling Essential Guide to Acute Care contains everything you need to know about acute care that you can't find in a standard textbook. The third edition has been extensively revised and updated, presenting new oxygen guidelines, updated evidence and practice around sepsis, fluid balance and volume resuscitation, acute kidney injury, perioperative care, and much more.

The third edition retains the accessible style and comprehensive coverage that has made Essential Guide to Acute Care essential reading for those who look after acutely ill adults. Throughout the book, 'mini-tutorials' expand on the latest thinking or controversies, and there are practical case histories to reinforce learning at the end of each chapter. The chapters are designed to be read by individuals or used for teaching material in tutorials.

This new edition of Essential Guide to Acute Care:

• Provides up-to-date and practical guidance on the principles of acute care, written by experienced teachers and clinicians
• Offers a unique approach to the subject that focuses on understanding rather than lists and 'recipes'
• Explains the altered physiology that accompanies acute illness in adults Includes learning objectives, self-assessment questions, and illustrative examples related to clinical practice
• Essential Guide to Acute Care is an indispensable volume for medical students and newly graduated doctors; doctors training in medicine, surgery, anaesthesia and emergency medicine; advanced clinical practitioners; nurses and allied health professionals working in acute and critical care; and teachers.

The seventh edition of this BMA award-winning pocket guide provides essential information for doctors based on the comprehensive Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine – the highly respected, gold-standard textbook on the treatment and management of medical conditions.

Essentials is intended as an easy-to-access revision reference that provides important information for doctors on the ward, including normal values, medical emergencies, useful websites, abbreviations and a dictionary of terms.

This best-selling book has been fully updated and is accessible, coherent and concise, making it an essential companion for medical students, doctors and health professionals in the UK and around the world.

• New to this edition
• New co-editor Euan Sandilands
• New chapter on Elderly Medicine and Frailty

Key Features

• Small and compact – can be taken anywhere
• Clearly laid out, logical and easy to follow
• Emergency guide for quick reference
• Illustrations and tables to enhance understanding
• New section on COVID-19
• New chapter on Elderly Medicine and Frailty
• Winner of the Internal Medicine category at the 2018 BMA Medical Book Awards Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Concise and clearly organized, Family Practice Guidelines, 5th Edition, features detailed, step-by-step instructions for physical examinations and diagnostic testing in the outpatient setting, information on health promotion, care guidelines, dietary information, information on culturally responsive care, patient resources, and abundant patient-education handouts. Now in color with abundant images and illustrations, this fifth edition features thoroughly updated guidelines and recommendations to reflect latest in practice, as well as many new guidelines. Each of the diagnoses includes definition, incidence, pathogenesis, predisposing factors, common complaints, signs/symptoms, subjective data, physical exam and diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, and a care plan.

Key Features:

• Presents information for disorders in consistent format for ease of use
• Highlights key considerations with Practice Pointers
• Provides individual care points for pediatric, pregnant, and geriatric patients
• Includes 138 printable Patient Teaching Guides
• Offers 18 procedure guidelines and routine health maintenance guidelines
• Features appendices that provide guidelines on normal lab values, special diets, Tanner’s Sexual Maturity Stages, and teeth

Practical and concise, go-to reference for up-to-date clinical material on today's diagnostic testing and laboratory tests. Three convenient sections provide quick access to key information on clinical laboratory testing, diagnostic imaging, and diagnostic algorithms. Experienced author Dr. Fred Ferri uses a unique, easy-to-follow format to simplify complex information and help you choose the best test to supplement your clinical diagnostic skills.

New to this Edition

• Features a new appendix on when to use contrast agents in ordering CT and MRI scans.
• Discusses new modalities including transient elastography (Fibroscan), CT enterography and CT enteroclysis.
• Provides new comparison tables to easily evaluate the best test; new algorithms for evaluation of immunodeficiency and hematochezia; and new tables and illustrations throughout to improve your test selection.

Key Features

• Includes both lab and imaging tests for concise, convenient access to all diagnostic test options for more than 200 common diseases and disorders.
• Includes essential information on indications, advantages, disadvantages, approximate costs, normal ranges, typical abnormalities, likeliest causes, and more.

For more than 25 years, Ferri’s Clinical Advisor has provided immediate answers on the myriad medical diseases and disorders you’re likely to encounter in a unique, easy-to-use format. A bestselling title year after year, this popular "5 books in 1" reference delivers vast amounts of information in a user-friendly manner. It is updated annually to provide current and clinically relevant answers on over 1,000 common medical conditions, including diseases and disorders, differential diagnoses, clinical algorithms, laboratory tests, and clinical practice guidelines?all carefully reviewed by experts in key clinical fields. Extensive algorithms, along with hundreds of high-quality photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and tables, ensure that you stay current with today's medical practice.

Key Features

• Contains significant updates throughout all 5 sections, covering all aspects of diagnosis and treatment.
• Features 26 all-new topics including monkeypox, occupational asthma, care of the transgender patient, infantile hypotonia, long-COVID, medical marijuana, cannabinoid use disorder, and abuse of performance enhancing hormones, among others.
• Includes useful appendices covering palliative care, preoperative evaluation, nutrition, poison management, commonly used herbal products in integrated medicine, and much more.
• Offers access to Patient Teaching Guides in both English and Spanish. App allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, bookmark, etc..

For nearly 25 years, Ferri's concise, pocket-sized resource has served as the go-to reference for practical, clinical information among students, residents, and other medical professionals. Formerly known as Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient, this volume continues to provide a fast, effective, and efficient, way to identify the important clinical, laboratory, and diagnostic imaging information you need to get through your internal medicine clerkship or residency.

New to this Edition

• Apply the latest knowledge and techniques with this updated and streamlined title, which still stays true to the Ferri name
• Quickly find important information with content organized into three major sections:
  • Section I, titled "Surviving the Wards," contains information on charting, laboratory evaluation and formulary;
  • Section II provides the differential diagnosis of common signs and symptoms likely to be encountered in the acute care setting;
  • Section III has been completely revised and subdivided into 11 specialty specific diseases and disorders.

Key Features

• Benefit from the expert guidance of Dr. Fred Ferri, a leading teacher, clinician, and author.
• Confidently manage patients with the latest clinical information, drug therapies, and lab tests.

First Aid Cases For The USMLE Step 2 CK, Second edition is a powerful casebook packed with 344 exam-type clinical cases that teach you how to work through questions on the exam. Completely updated based on student feedback, it includes active-recall questions and answers that reinforce key concepts.

KEY FEATURES

• 344 high-yield cases--94 NEW!--written by students who aced the exam Cases emphasize board-relevant diseases and concepts
• Open-ended active recall questions and answers teach you to work through cases and reinformce must-know facts and concepts
• Two-column format for easy self-quizzing
• 100+ images, diagrams, and tables complement the cases organized the same ways as First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK and First Aid Q&A for the USMLE Step 2 CK to facilitate parallel study

First Aid for the USMLE Step 3, Fourth Edition (First Aid USMLE)- The ultimate preparation for the USMLE Step 3, completely revised and updated!

KEY FEATURES

• Packed with proven test-taking strategies for the newly revised, 2-day exam
• Concise, high-yield format highlights board-relevant information
• Renewed emphasis on integrated pathophysiology, plus diagnosis and management ìnext stepsî
• 100 mini-cases ideally prepare you for the case portion of the exam
• More study-enhancing, vignette-style ìflash cardsî and full-color clinical images
• Resident-tested tips and shortcuts for the CCS
• And more!

Fluids and Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy!, 8th Edition, is the quick-reference guide to success in understanding fluids and electrolytes for nursing careers.

KEY FEATURES

• Updated content throughout keeps you current with the latest fluid and electrolyte nursing practices, common fluid imbalances and disorders you’ll encounter in practice, the effect of COVID-19 on fluid and electrolyte balances, and more.
• Colorful drawings, charts, and diagrams clarify important content in vivid detail.
• Memory Jogger reminders enhance your recall and understanding of difficult concepts.
• CAUTION! alerts help you quickly recognize dangerous signs and symptoms.
• It’s Not Working sections highlight alternative interventions to address unexpected patient outcomes.
• Chart Smart lists familiarize you with critical documentation elements and help you avoid legal trouble.
• Teaching Points offer patient-teaching tips you can use to help patients prevent recurrence of problems.
• Ages and Stages alert you to common fluid and electrolyte issues in young patients and older adults.
• That’s a Wrap! summaries reinforce key chapter takeaways at a glance.

A true essential for nearly three decades, this streamlined pocket reference provides logically organized, quickly retrievable information on basic and advanced management techniques for the neonate. Featuring a convenient outline approach that puts key information at reader’s fingertips, this quick reference covers everything clinicians need to know about on-call neonatal problems, procedures, diseases and disorders, and pharmacology.

Key Features

• The most comprehensive drug formulary available in a neonatal handbook
• 20 procedures are explained in a step-by-step manner
• Full-color images of neonatal rashes and dermatologic problems
• Immunization tables
• An "On Call" section presenting more than common and serious patient management issues with guidelines for rapid diagnosis and treatment
• Cutting-edge strategies for management of specific respiratory syndromes
• Valuable appendices, including Abbreviations Used in Neonatology, Blood Pressure Determinations, Isolation Guidelines, and more

“This reference should be kept readily available in the newborn unit. It is a potent learning tool for NCU students." -- Family Medicine review of an earlier edition

An invaluable resource which explains the physiology and pathophysiology of major organ systems and pathogens with respect to pharmacotherapy and the mechanisms of drug action. This latest update is based on the 2nd edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Goodman & Gilman's The Manual of Pharmacology and Therapeutics offers concise, authoritative coverage of class-specific and disease-specific drugs, organized primarily by organ/system.

Key Features

• More than a pocket drug guide, this powerful resource covers:
  • General Principles
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Modulation of Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, and Renal Function
  • Inflammation, Immunomodulation, and Hematopoiesis
  • Hormones and Hormone Antagonists
  • Drugs Affecting Gastrointestinal Function
  • Chemotherapy of Microbial Diseases
  • Chemotherapy of Neoplastic Diseases
  • Special Systems Pharmacology, including Environmental Toxicology
• Focuses on the principles of medical pharmacology and drug therapy and delivers coverage of all major drug classes
• New full color design and numerous tables, charts, and illustrations that highlight, explain, and summarize important information
• Essential for nursing, pharmacy, medical students and wherever knowledge of drug actions and interactions is required

Based on the phenomenal artwork found in the 3rd edition of Gray's Anatomy for Students, this set of 350 flashcards is the perfect review companion to help you test your anatomical knowledge for course exams or the USMLE Step 1! It's portable, it's concise, it's simply the best way to study anatomy… in a flash!

Key Features

• Conveniently access all of the need-to-know anatomy information! Each card presents beautiful 4-color artwork or a radiologic image of a particular structure/area of the body, with numbered leader lines indicating anatomical structures; labels to the structures are listed by number on the reverse, in addition to relevant functions, clinical correlations, and more.
• Fully grasp the practical applications of anatomy with "In the Clinic" discussions on most cards, which relate structures to corresponding clinical disorders
• Carry flashcards wherever your studying takes you
• Access a clear, visual review of key concepts with wiring diagrams that detail the innervation of nerves to organs and other body parts, as well as muscle cards covering functions and attachments.
• Study efficiently while being confident in your mastery of the most important anatomical concepts! Flashcards have been thoroughly revised to reflect the updates made to the companion text, Gray's Anatomy for Students, 3rd Edition.
• Understand the clinical relevance of your anatomical knowledge with brand-new clinical imaging cards added to the set.

Each section is organised by drug class and follows a standard format for ease of use. Concise sections on pharmacology and indications for use are followed by detailed information on drug selection, initiation and maintenance of treatment and withdrawal. Adverse effects, contraindications and drug interactions are also reviewed in detail, along with issues such as treatment resistance and treatment evaluation.

Available on your mobile device, the Handbook of Psychiatric Drugs makes it easy to keep up-to-date with new developments. It is an invaluable resource for all clinicians who use psychiatric drugs to treat medical and psychiatric illness, and an informative read for all those with an interest in the subject.

Key Features

• Sections are organised by drug class and follows a standard format for ease of use.
• Informat format that emphasizes ease of use and includes information about pharmacology, mechanism of action and pharmacokinetics, indications and methods of prescribing, side effects and drug interactions.
• Fast access to concise, targeted information on psychiatric drug therapies and psychiatric illness.
• Includes prescription medications in common use anywhere in the world.
• Sections on Antipsychotic Drugs, Antidepressants, Mood Stabilizers, Anxiolytic Drugs, Sedative-Hypnotic Agents, Psychostimulants.
• Valuable information on Cognitive enhancers and treatments for Alzheimer's Disease and drugs for treating substance abuse disorders.

The newly updated Handbook of Signs & Symptoms, 5e proves it is still the must-have clinical nursing tool for improving patient safety, by increasing assessment accuracy. Quick-scan entries from A to Z offer the on-the-spot answers you need for more than 500 signs and symptoms, covering definitions, causes, patient history, exams, diagnostics, and interventions. Save time and increase your assessment confidence: Reach for this crucial guide!

Improve patient safety with . . .

NEW signs and symptoms related to emerging diseases and disorders, including avian influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, Kawasaki disease, and the currently epidemic metabolic syndrome

NEW appendix provides definitions and common causes of 250 less-familiar or nonspecific signs and symptoms

NEW techniques for evoking patient responses

NEW pediatric, psychiatric, and nail and tongue signs

NEW focus on obtaining health history needed for comprehensive, reliable documentation

KEY FEATURES

• Quick-reference A to Z format arms you with assessment guidance for 530 signs and symptoms6
• Up-to-date methods for determining each sign or symptom’s identity, cause, and nursing implications
• Description of sign or symptom is followed by:
  
  • History and physical examination – Guidelines for detailed history and exam: what to ask, what to examine, and how
  • Emergency interventions – Life-, limb-, and organ-threatening signs and symptoms, with recommended nursing interventions
  • Medical causes – Differential diagnosis: common causative diseases and disorders related to each sign and symptom, and subtle indicators that keep assessments on track
  • Other causes – Medications and herbal remedies associated with each complaint
  • Special considerations – Patient positioning to ease comfort; preparation for diagnostic testing; reducing anxiety; signs of complications
• Patient counseling – Patient teaching for comfort and safety; explaining causes, treatment, and possible outcomes; providing support referrals
• Pediatric pointers, Geriatric pointers, and Gender cues - Age and gender issues affecting sign and symptom’s presentation, detection, and interpretation
• Charts help differentiate among a sign or symptom's multiple causes, and differences among similar signs and symptoms
• Tables on signs and symptoms relating to bioterrorism agents and herbal remedies

All the authority of the most trusted brand in medical content in a convenient, portable guide

Derived from most clinically salient content featured in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20th Edition, this full color, portable guide covers all diseases and conditions commonly seen in general medical practice. This edition has been updated to reflect the latest clinical developments in medicine.

Designed for quick access and employing an effective blend of concise text, bulleted key points, decision trees, and summary tables, the Manual makes it easy to find what you need at the point of care. The easy-to-navigate chapters use a standard repeating template:

KEY FEATURES

• Etiology and Epidemiology
• Clinically Relevant Pathophysiology
• Signs and Symptoms
• Differential Diagnosis
• Physical and Laboratory Findings
• Therapeutics
• Practice Guidelines, and more

Perform pressure monitoring safely, accurately, and confidently with the freshly updated Hemodynamic Monitoring Made Incredibly Visual! Hundreds of drawings, flow charts, photos, and diagrams offer essential background on cardiopulmonary anatomy and physiology, nursing principles, and current hemodynamic monitoring technology, in the popular and colorful Made Incredibly Visual style. This easy-to-follow, easy-to-remember content will help you prepare for the NCLEX or certification exam, get clear on concepts discussed in class, and simply upgrade your pressure monitoring skills.

The updated 3rd edition of Hemodynamic Monitoring Made Incredibly Visual! includes brand new and updated content covering . . .

• Current nursing practice guidelines for hemodynamic monitoring
• Complete and current directions for procedures such as: changing a CV dressing; CV and PA catheter insertion; arterial line insertion; handling a displaced arterial line; and troubleshooting pressure monitoring systems
• Directions and images that explain the latest pressure monitoring technology, and current circulatory and ventricular assist devices

You'll also get colorful, real-life guidance on vital topics and step-by-step monitoring guidelines including:

• Anatomy and functions of the cardiac and pulmonary systems
• Pressure monitoring systems - square wave testing; leveling and zeroing the transducer o Arterial pressure monitoring
• Central venous pressure monitoring
• Pulmonary artery pressure monitoring
• Cardiac output monitoring
• Tissue oxygenation and monitoring
• Minimally invasive hemodynamic monitoring

Hemodynamic Monitoring Made Incredibly Visual's easy-to-read format will help you learn how to deliver safe and accurate monitoring with:

• Special features help you retain vital information:
• Q & A - Illustrated riddles, diagrams, and questions at end of each chapter help you retain vital information
• On the Level - Defines normal and abnormal pressure readings for different patient conditions
• Ride the Wave - Explains the actions of waveforms, including how to recognize abnormal waveforms

The HESI Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination, 4th Edition provides a complete, all-in-one review of the information you need to know. Written in an easy-to-read outline format, this study tool breaks down chapters by clinical areas and topics emphasized on the NCLEX-PN® exam. Rationales are provided for incorrect answers and help you address any areas of weakness. The companion Evolve website offers 500 practice questions, giving you valuable practice in the same electronic testing format you will experience on your nursing school exit exam and on the NCLEX-PN exam.

Key Features

• Detailed rationales explain correct and incorrect answer options for practice questions.
• HESI Hint boxes highlight important clinical information and concepts commonly tested on the NCLEX-PN® exam.
• Pharmacology tables summarize the need-to-know drug therapy content emphasized on the NCLEX-PN® exam.
• Critical thinking study questions reinforce key concepts and content, and also include answer guidelines.
• Chapters organized by clinical area make it easy to find and study review topics.
• Updated content reflects the latest NCLEX-PN® test plan.
• NEW fill-in-the-blank and prioritizing questions familiarize you with the new alternate item format item types included on the NCLEX-PN exam.
• NEW Gerontology quiz prepares you for the exam’s questions on this subject.

Want to cover EVERYTHING on the NCLEX-RN? HESI can help! The HESI Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, 5th Edition provides a comprehensive, all-in-one review of the information you need to know to not only succeed on the NCLEX-RN exam but also on your program’s HESI exit exam. Written in an easy-to-read outline format, this trusted guide breaks down chapters by clinical areas and the concepts emphasized on the NCLEX-RN exam. Rationales are provided for any incorrect answers or areas of weakness to help strengthen your understanding.

Key Features

• Chapters organized by clinical area enables you to easily search for various topics to review.
• HESI Hint boxes spotlight important clinical information and concepts commonly tested on the NCLEX-RN exam.
• Critical thinking study questions (with rationales) reinforce key concepts and content.
• Fill-in-the-blank and prioritizing questions mirror the new alternate item format item types included on the NCLEX-RN exam.
• Pharmacology tables highlight the need-to-know drug therapy content emphasized on the NCLEX-RN exam.
• Consistent format and chapter organization make it easy to move between topics when reviewing.
• NEW! Updated content reflects the latest NCLEX-RN test plan.
• NEW! Updated medications and nursing interventions have been added based on the latest evidence-based practice.
• NEW! Revised chapter on pediatric nursing includes an updated immunization chart, referral websites, and new content on children with disabilities and chromosomal and genetic syndromes.
• NEW! Revised chapter on maternity nursing features updated CPR guidelines and medications for neonatal cardiac arrest, as well as new HESI Hints that reflect new modalities such as fetal cell-DNA analysis and current screening tools.
• NEW! Revised chapter on psychiatric nursing includes new information on autism spectrum disorders, as well as updates on DSM 5 changes.
• NEW! Revised chapter on geriatrics features new content on polypharmacy in the elderly, the Geriatric Depression Scale as an assessment tool, the Mini-Cog tool for mental status assessment, and new information on elder mistreatment in various settings.

Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, Hospital Medicine offers practical, evidence-based guidelines for the care of hospitalized patients. The only resource geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management- and edited by the national leaders of the hospitalist field - Hospital Medicine includes indications for admission, guidelines for consultation, procedures for hospital discharge, diagnostic algorithms, and critical paths detailing effective, outcomes-oriented treatment plans for a range of diseases and disorders.

New sections in this resource focus on the hospitalist's increasing role in providing critical care, managing surgical patients with medical co-morbidities, ensuring patient safety and preventing adverse events, and directing hospital systems areas such as informatics, quality improvement, and practice management.

Key Features

• Indispensable primary care for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, inpatient pharmacists, residents, and students too!
• Focuses on the hospitalist's role in providing critical care, managing surgical patients with medical co-morbidities, improving safety and preventing adverse events.
• Approaches common hospital disorders and presentations from the perspective of the hospital physician, with a particular emphasis on the temporal flow of care in the hospital.
• Includes new sections focusing on leading systems changes in areas such as informatics, quality improvement, and practice management.
• Covers updated information on Vascular Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Renal Disease and many more!

This is the point-of-care reference every nurse in the emergency department or critical care unit needs. This clinical reference provides instant access to essential information ICU/ER nurses need quickly. This latest update is based on the 1st edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

ICU/ER Facts Made Incredibly Quick includes significant abnormal assessment findings; laboratory and critical values; complications of diseases and procedures; I.V. infusion rates; ACLS algorithms; BLS review; ECG interpretation; hemodynamic monitoring; intra-aortic balloon pump waveforms; SVO2 monitoring; troubleshooting ventilator problems; triage guidelines; managing multiple trauma; cultural considerations and dozens of illustrations with charts.

Key Features

• 5 tier triage guidelines
• Management of respiratory disorders such as pneumonia, PE, and asthma - commonly seen in critical care areas
• Management of psychiatric emergencies such as psychosis and suicide attempt
• Intra-abdominal pressure monitoring
• Moderate sedation monitoring
• Treatments for each cardiac arrhythmia
• Up-to-date information on ventilator modes
• Quick reference charts and checklists
• Each section identified by distinctive color or tab so user can quickly locate a body of information
• Includes 3 Calculators & 6 interactive flowcharts which helps in making quick decision

A concise, portable reference that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of over 60 of the most common internal medicine on-call problems. Each on call section includes a presenting problem, immediate questions, differential diagnosis, laboratory and other diagnostic data, and treatment plan.

Key Features

• Comprehensive overview of the initial evaluation and treatment of more than 60 of the most common problems seen daily on the wards
• Thoroughly updated on-call problems reflect the latest diagnostic tests and treatment options
• Essential guide to interpretation of laboratory tests and bedside procedures
• New sections include: dizziness, overdoses, and pruritis
• On call therapeutics section offers a quick reference to commonly used medications and includes both generic drugs as well as vitamins, minerals, and natural products
• New interactive flowcharts: Now, complex algorithms and protocols are transformed from static images into dynamic step-by-step decision support tools. See how this innovative feature can quickly and easily walk you through even the most intricate decision models.
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With Skyscape's patented smARTlink™ technology, Internal Medicine On Call can easily cross-index with other clinical and drug prescription products from Skyscape to provide a powerful and integrated source of clinical information that you can carry with you wherever you go!

The 2024 ICD-10-CM files below contain information on the ICD-10-CM updates for FY 2024. These 2024 ICD-10-CM codes are to be used for discharges occurring from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024 and for patient encounters occurring from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.
The ICD-10-CM April 1, 2024 update addresses typographical errors. There are no new diagnosis codes being implemented.

Key Features:

• Index of Drugs and Chemicals
• Index of Diseases and Injuries
• Index of External Causes of Injuries
• Index of Neoplasm

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are the U.S. governmental agencies responsible for overseeing all changes and modifications to the ICD-10-CM.

Latest Update Includes:

• I.B.14 – Add Underimmunization Status to list of exceptions requiring provider documentation
• I.B.16 – New verbiage in Documentation of Complications of Care
• I.C.1.a.2.a) – Hemolytic uremic syndrome associated with HIV
• I.C.2a – Changes to admission/encounter for treatment of primary site for malignancy
• I.C.2.t. – Secondary malignant neoplasm of lymphoid tissue – new guideline
• Chapters 4 and 15 – Add new code Z79.85, Long-term use of injectable non-insulin antidiabetic drugs
• I.C.5. d – Dementia – new guideline
• I.C. 15.a.7 – Completed weeks of gestation – new guideline
• I.C.15.q.4) – Hemorrhage following elective abortion – new guideline
• I.C.21.c.10 – Add paragraph for Z71 pediatric to adult transition
• I.C.21. 17 – Add information about the use of SDOH codes

Plus, with Skyscape's powerful SmartLink™ cross-linking capability you can quickly and easily access any related disease and diagnostic topics across your entire mobile reference library.

Accessing an intravenous site and delivering fluids and medicine can be a difficult and frightening experience for students. IV Med Notes alleviates students' fears by providing up-to-date information needed to safely administer medications by IV.

Key Features

• Illustrations and color pictures help you master difficult and potentially dangerous skills
• Step-by-step directions show students how to use the equipment correctly
• Focus on safety in administering I.V. medication the right way, highlighting high alert meds, do not confuse, "Special Considerations" and "Hot Tip" cautions
• Includes essential content on more than 200 drugs
• Provides common adult and pediatric doses, push rates, infusion times, drug interactions, solutions and chemical compatibilities
• Drug calculation formulas

IV Therapy Flash Cards include everything you need to know about infusion therapy - in one convenient resource. This latest update is based on the 1st edition and 2009 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

They’re the perfect study tool wherever you go. And, you can count on them for accuracy because their content is derived from author’s popular Manual of IV Therapeutics.

Key Features

• Perfect mobile resource for nursing students
• Fast access to more than 200 words
• They allow you to connect the term, its meaning, and how it functions in the language of nursing. This resource allows you to:
  • see the word
  • read the word (out loud is best)
  • use the word
  • associate the word with other related concepts
• Pronunciations are spelled phonetically
• Includes disease and medication indices

The Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Handbook is a concise resource that focuses on the clinical pearls essential to successful anesthesia practice and training. This latest update is based on the 2nd edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

The summaries of "clinical pearls" - lists of indications, dosages, treatments, and helpful guidelines, are consolidated in this mobile device compatible resource. Goal of this resource is to simplify the exercise of finding reference information, equations, and medication dosages.

Key Features

• An essential guide for anesthesiology resident and students
• Features a user-friendly format
• Mobile compatible design makes it easy to find the answers you need
• Presents the work of the residents and faculty from Johns Hopkins University to provide you with the most current and comprehensive clinical handbook available
• Offers evidence-based guidance linked to ranked evidence in anesthesia and critical care for expert recommendations on best practices
• Provides lists of indications, dosages, treatments, and helpful guidelines to create a powerful clinical tool

Confidently provide best practices in patient care, with the newly updated Lippincott® Nursing Procedures, 9th Edition.

More than 400 entries offer detailed, evidence-based guidance on procedures ranging from the most basic patient care to assisting with intricate surgeries. The alphabetical organization allows you to quickly look up any procedure by name, and benefit from the clear, concise, step-by-step direction of nursing experts. Whether you’re a nursing student, are new to nursing, or are a seasoned practitioner, this is your go-to guide to the latest in expert care and positive outcomes.

Ensure a high level of nursing expertise with this practical, quick-reference guide. This edition offers:

• NEW entries with evidence-based direction on:
  • Ankle-brachial index calculation
  • Biohazardous waste handling
  • Cultural assessment
  • Elastomeric pump use
  • Hazardous drug preparation and handling
  • Hazardous drug spill management
  • Nasal decolonization
  • Opioid withdrawal management
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder assessment
  • Prone positioning for the awake patient
  • Sepsis emergency patient care
  • Wound photography
• Colored letter tabs at the top of each page that allow quick-and-easy locating of any entry
• Full-color photos and diagrams that illustrate procedure steps with a quick-read, bulleted format that walks you through each procedure
• Practices based on clinical evidence—recent studies supporting best practices are cited
• Colorful, eye-catching special alerts:
  • Nursing Alerts – Potentially dangerous actions or clinically significant findings related to a procedure
  • Pediatric Alerts – Special precautions to take while treating infants, young children, and adolescents
  • Elder Alerts – Elder patient special needs
  • Hospital-Acquired Condition Alerts – Conditions the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have identified as events that may occur during hospitalization
• Procedures presented in a structured how-to format:
  • Equipment – Types of equipment needed for procedure
  • Preparation of equipment – Guidance on preparing any needed equipment for procedure
  • Implementation – Step-by-step guidance for performing procedure
  • Special considerations – Factors to keep in mind that can affect the procedure
  • Troubleshooting – Methods for troubleshooting equipment issues, with step-by-step interventions
  • Patient teaching – Helpful tips, reminders, and follow-up instructions before patient discharge
  • Complications – Procedure-related complications to watch for
  • Documentation – Everything needed to document the procedure fully

Skyscape's App is based on the best selling print edition Lippincott Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN®

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• All questions reviewed and updated as needed for appropriateness for Canadian nursing practice.
• Greater emphasis on pharmacology and management of care questions (delegation, prioritization, and leadership), as per the NCLEX-RN test plan.
• Additional questions about older adults.
• Continued use of high-level questions and teaching rationale.

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After the Exam - Candidate Performance Report gives summary of how you performed in and description of the content area with a list of topics related to it. Your performance in each area is described in one of the following ways

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Lippincott's Pocket Histology presents the essential information needed for course and board exam review in a concise, quick-reference format with tables, full-color images, and bullet-point text. The book contains multiple features identifying the clinical significance of concepts, as well as mnemonics to aid in the retention of facts. An index of terms and color-coded systems organization provide easy access to histological facts. This reference intuits how students typically study for exams and provides highly distilled content in one easily portable source.

Key Features

• An introductory section on the basic principles of histology to provide a concise overview of concepts
• Clinically significant facts for practical application
• Over 300 full-color photomicrographs
• Tables, diagrams, and a complete index of terms for quick reference
• Mnemonic memory aids
• Histological look-a-likes and tips for distinguishing among them

Lippincott’s Pocket Neuroanatomy is a go-to reference, review, and study tool for neuroanatomy and neuroscience with a strong focus on high-yield topics and presentation. It presents the essential information needed for course and board exam review in a concise, quick-reference format with tables, full-color images, and bullet-point text. The book contains multiple features identifying the clinical significance of concepts, as well as mnemonics to aid in the retention of facts. An index of terms provides easy access to facts on all neuroanatomical structures and pathways. This mobile reference intuits how students typically study for exams and provides highly distilled content in one easily portable source. It is ideal for medical, dental, allied health, and graduate school students and appropriate for courses in nursing, pre-pharmacy, pre-med, and kinesiology.

Key Features

• An introductory chapter on terminology and orientation to provide a concise overview of concepts
• Clinically significant facts for practical application
• Consistent presentation of information including descriptions of structures, connections, pathways, and functions
• Learning aids such as mnemonics and analogies to help you remember important facts
• A complete index of terms for quick reference

Concise descriptions of diseases and conditions relevant to docs in "doc talk" language, with up-to-date as well as classic references. This latest update is based on the 6th edition and 2011 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Little Black Book of Primary Care is intended as a very portable manual with heavily referenced, concise, practical, clinically relevant information. It contains usual clinical approaches, personal "pearls", as well as and most importantly, literature-debated issues.

Clinical information in the resource is organized generally by medical specialty and can be accessed either by perusal down through the hierarchies of the table of contents, or by finding the disease or clinical word of interest in the Main Index. Main Index entries will generally take the reader to the relevant disease page or, if a medication, to a related medications list.

Key Features

• Over 6000 very specific references for virtually every aspect of clinical primary care make the reference unique among similar medical manuals
• Disease processes about which there is little current controversy, or new information are treated briefly
• Disease information is presented under the standard nine categories:
  • Cause
  • Pathophysiology
  • Epidemiology
  • Symptoms and Signs
  • Course
  • Complications
  • Lab
  • X-ray
  • Rx

Increase your confidence with the LPN Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide. Mobile app format for on the go with NCLEX® tips - perfect for preparing for the NCLEX®-PN exam. Thoroughly revised and updated, you’ll have access to even more of the commonly-used by rarely memorized clinical information that nurses and students need.

KEY FEATURES

• Procedures Tab presents the common skills, procedures and equipment, required to perform routine nursing tasks.
• Assess Tab provides comprehensive, system-specific information, including the skills, procedures, and tools necessary to perform an assessment on an adult patient.
• Disease/Patient Education Tab covers the most common diseases and disorders, homecare, safe medication administration practices, and safety as well as common patient education issues.
• Med-Surg & Emergency Tab presents 20 of the most commonly encountered symptoms and scenarios.
• Geri/Ob/Peds Tab now features geriatric assessment tips for 6 common marker conditions (SPICES) that could indicate increased risk for functional decline or even death.
• Life Span Tab combines geriatrics, obstetrics, and pediatrics to focus on life span considerations.
• Tools Tab includes a Spanish translator with phonetic pronunciations.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Easier-to-use design and layout with a table of contents.

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This new text/reference is designed to help nurse practitioner students learn how to effectively manage patients across the life span. Organized by anatomical areas, this text covers 310 disorders and conditions, with rationales and causes provided for abnormal lab and diagnostic test values. "Signal Symptoms" will assist your students in quickly locating potential diagnoses.

KEY FEATURES

• A brief overview of relevant physiology and pathophysiology
• ICD codes for each disorder
• "Signal Symptoms" at the beginning of each disorder help the user target the most appropriate diagnosis
• Each monograph includes definition, etiology, occurrence, age, ethnicity, gender, contributing factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, sequelae, prevention/prophylaxis, referral guidelines, education, and references
• Diagnostic data include rationales on why the test is ordered and a discussion of possible causes for abnormal lab values
• Comprehensive health promotion guidelines for each age group in Unit 1
• Alternative and complementary modalities included in management/treatment sections as appropriate
• Many monographs followed by a diagnostic decision tree to illustrate diagnostic or treatment reasoning
• Listing with common dermatologic conditions
• Website addresses for appropriate content areas and national organizations
• Organized by anatomical areas in a head-to-toe approach
• Each disorder chapter contains an overview of the essential elements to focus on during assessment
• Visual symbols such as Clinical Pearls, Age Related Considerations, Risk Factors, Red Flag, and Emergency Situation Signal Symptoms assist reader in quickly locating potential diagnoses

With Skyscape's patented smARTlink™ technology, NpFamily™ can easily cross-index with other clinical and drug prescription products from Skyscape to provide a powerful and integrated source of clinical information that you can carry with you wherever you go!

Developed by clinical experts to provide fast and easy access to information needed to provide comprehensive care to adult patients in the primary care setting, this reference for nurse practitioner students focuses on commonly seen disorders of adults and addresses both the medical aspects of the disorder and the nursing concerns, as well as patient education. It presents the symptom-based problems that adults frequently bring to their primary care provider. An overview of the differential diagnoses and diagnostically oriented algorithms guide your students to an appropriate diagnosis and management plan.

KEY FEATURES

• Focus on health promotion, anticipatory guidance, and disorder guidelines
• Focus on recommendations and guidelines, not theory
• ICD-9 codes added to all the disorders
• Discusses 172 disorders commonly seen in adults
• Reviews growth and development stages of the healthy male adult, with a brief overview of the female
• Discusses various approaches for assessing the client and obtaining all essential information in a timely fashion
• Each monograph includes definition, etiology, occurrence, age, ethnicity, gender, contributing factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, sequelae, prevention/prophylaxis, referral guidelines, education, and references
• Rationales added to differential diagnoses that helps differentiate one disorder from another
• Complementary therapies added to treatment section
• Psychosocial issues discussed
• Organized by anatomical areas in a head-to-toe approach
• Each disorder section contains an overview of the essential elements to focus on during assessment

With Skyscape's patented smARTlink™ technology, NpAdults2™ can easily cross-index with other titles from Skyscape to provide a powerful and integrated source of clinical information that you can carry with you anytime and anywhere!

Pediatric nurse practitioners and students have a need for a concise manual to assist in their assessment, evaluation of signs and symptoms, and initiation of treatment of children and adolescents. The new edition of this clinical reference fills that need by discussing the most common disorders seen in children and adolescents. Organized by anatomical areas in a head-to-toe approach, it reviews the growth and development stages of the healthy child, as well as lists the essential elements to focus on during assessment for each disorder.

Key Features

• Discusses 176 disorders commonly seen in children and adolescents
• Addresses both the medical aspects of the disorders and the nursing concerns and patient education
• Reviews growth and development stages of the healthy child
• Discusses various approaches for assessing the client and obtaining all essential information in a timely fashion
• Each monograph includes definition, etiology, occurrence, age, ethnicity, gender, contributing factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, sequelae, prevention/prophylaxis, referral guidelines, education, and references
• Rationales added to differential diagnoses that helps differentiate one disorder from another
• Complementary therapies added to treatment section
• Psychosocial issues discussed
• Many monographs conclude with a diagnostic decision tree to illustrate diagnostic or treatment reasoning
• Organized by anatomical areas in a head-to-toe approach
• Each disorder chapter contains an overview of the essential elements to focus on during assessment
• ICD-9 codes added to all the disorders

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Because of the continuing rapid growth of the older adult population, there will be an increased need for primary care providers to deliver age-specific care and direct disease management. This 2nd edition of Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners Working with Older Adults will serve as a clinical resource for advanced practice nurses and students who are privileged to provide primary care to older adults. Focused on common disorders seen in adults from both the medical and nursing perspectives, this revised reference addresses nursing diagnoses and patient education and provides your students with various approaches for assessing the older client. This handy reference also contains resources on the principles of promoting health and on the essentials of good nutrition for older adults.

KEY FEATURES

• Discusses 112 disorders seen in older adults
• Reviews the physiologic and psychosocial changes associated with aging
• Includes resources on principles of promoting health and on essentials of good nutrition
• Discusses various approaches for assessing the client and obtaining all essential information in a timely fashion
• Each monograph includes definition, etiology, occurrence, age, ethnicity, gender, contributing factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, sequelae, prevention/prophylaxis, referral guidelines, education, and references
• Rationales added to differential diagnoses that helps differentiate one disorder from another
• Complementary therapies added to treatment section
• Psychosocial issues discussed
• Organized by anatomical areas in a head-to-toe approach
• Each disorder contains an overview of the essential elements to focus on during assessment
• ICD-9 codes added to all the disorders

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An enlightening clinical reference for students and clinicians working in women's health. It focuses on the most commonly seen disorders and conditions of adult women, including those that occur pre- and post-partum; signs and symptoms, including those that occur in pregnancy and menopause; and various methods of contraception. This is the reference your students will refer to in clinical practice and long after they graduate.

Key Features:

• Discusses 81 disorders commonly seen in adult women
• Contains 26 common complaints, danger signs, and complications of pregnancy, and 6 post-partum complications
• Reviews growth and developmental stages of the healthy adult female
• Covers principles of promoting health and the essentials of good nutrition
• Discusses ways to promote a healthy pregnancy and to manage the complications of pregnancy and delivery
• Contains a section on menopause
• Discusses various approaches for assessing the client and obtaining all essential information in a timely fashion
• Each monograph includes definition, etiology, occurrence, age, ethnicity, gender, contributing factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, sequelae, prevention/prophylaxis, referral guidelines, education, and references
• Rationales added to differential diagnoses that helps differentiate one disorder from another
• Complementary therapies added to treatment section
• Psychosocial issues discussed
• Organized by anatomical areas in a head-to-toe approach
• Each disorder contains an overview of the essential elements to focus on during assessment
• ICD-9 codes added to all the disorders

With Skyscape's patented smARTlink™ technology, NpWomens™ can easily cross-index with other titles from Skyscape to provide a powerful and integrated source of clinical information that you can carry with you anytime and anywhere!

Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases: Latest Developments in Hepatitis C with accompanying Clinics Review Articles details the newest late-breaking approvals, recommendations, and key content on the treatment of hepatitis C in a convenient digital format. Brought to you by the expert editor team from Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, it provides the most current research and findings related to newly approved antivirals, guidelines for treatments, and clinical experiences with new HCV therapeutic regimens. In addition to this extended content, you'll also receive two accompanying Clinics Review Articles for further information on the management of the virus in women and patients with chronic liver disease.

Key Features

• Includes information on the approval of six new antivirals.
• Highlights the January 2015 guidelines for treatment of the virus.
• Provides detailed information on the pharmacology of new drugs used in treatment.
• Features the latest research in understanding the pathogenesis of HCV.
• Details clinical experiences with the new HCV therapeutic regimens and their application to specific patient populations.
• Includes two Clinics Review Articles: Prevalence and Management of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Women and Chronic Liver Disease in the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Patient.

Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases: Latest Developments in Papillomaviruses (HPV) details the newest late-breaking studies, recommendations, and key content on the treatment of HPV in a convenient digital format. Brought to you by the expert editor team from Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, it provides the latest information on the safety and effectiveness of the new 9-valent HPV vaccine as well as its potential to prevent even more cancer-causing virus types than its quadrivalent and bivalent predecessors. In addition to this extended content, you'll also receive two accompanying Clinics review articles for further information on immunization benefits and challenges, and a bonus chapter titled: A Molecular Perspective of Microbial Pathogenicity.

Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases: Latest Developments in Measles with accompanying Clinics Review Articles details the newest late-breaking approvals, recommendations, and key content on the prevention and treatment of measles in a convenient digital format. Brought to you by the expert editor team from Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, it provides the most current research and findings related to the ever-changing area of measles study. In addition to this extended content, you'll also receive two accompanying Clinics Review Articles for further information on immunization benefits and challenges.

The perfect resource for any setting requiring infusion therapy skills! This latest update is based on the 6th edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Manual of I.V. Therapeutics: Evidence-Based Practice for Infusion Therapy is an ideal resource for classroom and clinical settings as it progresses from the basics to advanced techniques while incorporating theory into practice.

Key Features

• Focus on evidence-based practice
• Integrates pediatric and geriatric content throughout
• New section “Thinking Critically”, on case study has been added
• Emphasizes standards of practice through its use of guidelines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Infusion Nursing Society (INS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Offers well organized pedagogical tools, including…
  • Learning Objectives
  • Nursing Fast Facts
  • Age-related and Cultural Considerations
  • Nursing Plans of Care
  • Home Care Issues
  • Patient Education
  • Key Points and
  • Review Questions
• Provides competency criteria for hospital policy and procedure development required by The Joint Commission
• Presents detailed step-by-step procedures for subcutaneous infusion of pain medication, peripherally inserted catheters (PICCs), epidural pain medication administration and patient controlled analgesic therapy
• Includes topic on, "Venipuncture for Blood Withdrawal"
• Examines delivery of IV therapy in the home setting
• Includes Competency Skill Checklists for evaluating procedures
• Emphasizes delivery of IV therapy in the home setting Includes boxes for age-related considerations as well as cultural considerations in delivering I.V. care
• Highlights critical content in "Nursing Fast Fact" section
• Spotlights assessment and intervention guidelines in "Nursing Points-of-Care" section for quick access to core clinical content

On the wards, in the office, on rounds, or at the bedside, clinicians can instantly access the most up-to-date, authoritative guidelines for diagnosing and treating the full range of psychiatric disorders. Content includes complete, current information on psychotropic drugs, pharmacotherapy for children, drug interactions, and nonpharmacologic therapies.

Users can quickly search a table of contents, a subject index, or a medication index and find exactly the information they need in an easy-to-read outline format.

Neurology, neurosurgery, and internal medicine residents and practitioners will find this resource an essential reference for their day-to-day practice. This latest update is based on the 2nd edition and it includes additional features and enhanced functionality. This updated invaluable resource is a practical quick-reference tool to the diagnosis and management of neurologic diseases. It presents specific management recommendations in a succinct outline format and includes protocols, step-by-step tests and procedures, and treatment algorithms.

This resource is unique in its inclusion of material from related disciplines such as general medicine, cardiology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, neuroanatomy, and radiology. The authors offer guidance in using contemporary neuroimaging techniques in diagnosis.

Key Features

• Newly added sections on cerebrovascular disease and neuroimaging.
• Portable mobile version, yet comprehensive for complete guidance.
• Efficient organization makes it easy to navigate.
• Up-to-date coverage of the latest high-tech procedures.
• Provides a clear framework for action, without neglecting the complexity that arises when protocols are applied to real patients.
• It covers all related topics such as neuroanatomy, neurosurgery, and radiology and highlights topics on the neurology board exam.
• Blending neurology and general medicine, this product includes protocols, step-by-step tests and procedures, and decision-making algorithms.

MedSurg Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide app provides on-the-spot guidance that helps you identify and treat patients with urgent and common medical-surgical conditions. Each condition is in outline format and delivers all the current information you need to deliver the very best patient care.

KEY FEATURES

• Covers advanced nursing procedures and concepts associated with over 65 urgent and common medical-surgical conditions.
• Uses a systems approach, organized by symptom and medical diagnosis.
• Addresses the clinical picture, immediate interventions, focused assessment, stabilizing and monitoring, and follow-up assessment and interventions.
• Includes an A&P snapshot of the associated system in each section—7 in all.
• Provides a focused assessment tool for each body system and each clinical problem.
• Reviews IV therapy, including indications for crystalloids, colloids, or blood products administration.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Updated and revised throughout to reflect the art and science of nursing today
• New content that addresses the opioid crisis and the role of the Med-Surg nurse, from safely and effectively managing patients’ pain, and educating patients to assessing for abuse potential and making appropriate referrals
• New content on caring for LGBTQ persons
• New section in each chapter, “You’ll Want to Know,” that spotlights helpful background or supplemental information for each disorder

REVIEWS

What students and clinicians are saying…

• “This little pocket flip book is invaluable if you are a nursing student or new nurse, a wealth of information very condensed and to the point.”—Robert S., Online Reviewer
• “I carried this around on my clinicals and it was great! It has nice rundowns of every major body system/problem that you might encounter on a med/surg floor.” —Lisa R., Online Reviewer
• “Perfect for a new nurse who needs a quick, concise refresher on information. Fits in my pocket nicely, and has come in handy more than once!”—Chandra B., Online Reviewer
• “A must have for any nurse or nursing student! Everything you could need in one place!”—Jecca L., Online Reviewer

The popular Medical Eponyms is thoroughly updated with more than 1700 common and obscure medical eponyms with descriptions, featuring more of the medical terminology used in over 20 of today's fastest growing health profession areas.

You'll also find more comprehensive inclusion of geographic eponyms, syndromes and anatomy eponyms. This product consists of additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates!

Key Features

• More than 1700 common and obscure medical eponyms with descriptions used in various health profession areas.
• Aims to provide medical students, nursing students, primary healthcare providers with concise and accurate descriptions.
• Contains eponyms useful in the field of Biochemistry, Neurology, Infectious Disease, Rheumatology, Radiology and many more.
• Included are eponyms used in various procedures like Ambesh Maneuver, Girdlestone Procedure, Queckenstedt's Maneuver, Trendelenburg Position, etc.

Only Inside Skyscape's Eponyms

• Signs & Symptoms index allows you to select from a checklist of comprehensive healthcare profession areas to quickly see a list of matching eponyms.

Medical Notes Clinical Medicine Pocket Guide contains key clinical essentials you need to care for patients with a wide variety of medical problems in a range of healthcare settings.

Eight sections make it easy to navigate, and 136 tables and organ system icons give you fingertip access. This latest update is based on the 2009 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates!

Key Features

• Provides medical students, house staff, physician assistants students, and nurse practitioner students with a quick reference tool for competently caring for patients in all medical settings for all major medical specialties
• Mirrors the way you work clinically -- by body system
• Presents H & P diagrams, findings, and techniques
• Provides diagnostic and treatment algorithms
• Supplies crucial equations and formulas
• Offers high-yield data for commonly used drugs
• Describes major radiological procedures, including their indications, normal and abnormal findings, implications, and contraindications
• Highlights normal, low, and high ranges of lab test results (grouped alphabetically by commonly- ordered clusters) and explains rationales for variations
• Includes core clinical tools, such as immunization schedules, developmental charts, and screening and preventive medicine recommendations

Since 1986, Medicine for the Outdoors has been hailed as the definitive take-along manual on the subject. Packed with step-by-step instructions and how-to explanations, this updated edition tells you the best way to respond to just about any medical problem. Logically organized, simple-to-understand enhanced illustrations and an increased focus on new topics mean this medical reference book may literally save your life. Whether you’re venturing into mountains, deserts, forests, or out to sea, it belongs in your pack!

Key Features

• Examine the most diverse and comprehensive coverage of medical conditions related to the outdoors.
• Be guided through logical and complete explanations of every topic.
• Enhance your understanding with descriptive material including numerous drawings and instructions.
• Research recommendations for injury and illness prevention.
• Locate answers quickly with a helpful comprehensive index.

"A comprehensive guide to basically anything that could go wrong, or needs to medically managed whilst in out and about." Reviewed by: Dr Stevan R Bruijns, Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine at University of Cape Town Date: July 2015

Based on 4th Edition of Diagnosaurus, this authoritative, quick reference tool helps you make accurate, informed and confident differential diagnoses at point of care.

With MobileDDx™ you can choose to explore topics by organ system, symptoms or diseases only, or search across all topics. For example, if you wish to review the causes of a patient's chief complaint, simply select the symptom or sign from the main index. If you have made a diagnosis and wonder what other disorders to consider, select your diagnosis from the list to see its differential diagnoses.

Includes over 1,000 medicine and surgery differential diagnoses derived from the most trusted Current Lange series.

And only with Skyscape, any MobileDDx™ differential diagnoses topic can be quickly and easily cross-indexed to related drug, disease or diagnostic topics across your entire mobile reference library!

Perform today’s important lab tests safely and accurately! With test entries organized the way you’ll use them, Mosby's® Diagnostic & Laboratory Test Reference makes it fast and easy to look up current testing information. Concise monographs are arranged alphabetically and include vital information such as the type of test, alternate or abbreviated test names, test explanation, normal and abnormal findings, possible critical values, contraindications, potential complications, interfering factors, and guidelines to patient care before, during, and after the test. From the experienced author team of Kathleen Deska Pagana, Timothy J. Pagana, and Theresa Noel Pagana, this bestselling handbook as a mobile app for quick reference while on the job.

Key Features

• Alphabetically organized tests offer quick reference with A-to-Z index, plus easily perform a global search in the content using Smartsearch.
• User’s Guide to Test Preparation and Procedures provides an overview and guidelines for each type of laboratory test and diagnostic procedure to ensure that each is performed accurately and safely, and to prevent having to repeat a test due to an error.
• Normal findings for adult, elderly, and pediatric patients are included where applicable.
• Abnormal findings are highlighted with directional arrows, and are now alphabetized for fast reference.
• Possible critical values are highlighted to alert you to situations requiring immediate intervention.
• Icons for drug-related interfering factors alert you to the effects of pharmacologic agents on tests.
• Icons for patient teaching-related care indicate information that should be shared with patients and their families.
• Abbreviations for diagnostic and laboratory tests are provided inside the back cover, and appendices list blood tests used for disease and organ panels as well as symbols and units of measurement.
• Appendix with lists of tests by body system and by type allow you to quickly locate related studies.
• Easy-to-find information on common reference ranges for healthy adults, routine blood testing, and routine urine testing.
• Mobile app is ideal for use in the practice setting.

New to This Edition

• NEW! Thirteen new monographs cover the latest tests and procedures; 11 outdated monographs are removed.
• NEW! Updated content reflects the latest research relating to accuracy of testing, diagnostic values of results, and patient care and education for each test.

Find essential nursing information at a glance! Mosby’s PDQ for RN: Practical Detailed Quick, 4th Edition is an easy-to-use pocket-sized guide to important facts formulas and procedures used in the clinical setting. It offers quick access to details you need but don’t usually memorize such as signs and symptoms medications conversions abbreviations and normal/abnormal ranges for lab tests. When in doubt check this handy reference!

New to this edition

• NEW! Expanded coverage addresses oxygen delivery, hypoglycemic drugs, cardiac rhythms (STEMI), seizure treatment, breath sounds, and more.
• NEW assessment tools are included for pain, nutrition, and alcohol abuse.
• UPDATED content reflects the latest clinical developments, screening guidelines, and drug information.

Key Features

• Sections provide quick access to essential facts, formulas, lab values, procedures, and more.
• Easy to access on any iOS device and use in any clinical setting.
• A focus on special populations includes separate sections on pediatric, maternity, and geriatric patients.
• Emergency Care section provides guidelines for treating stroke patients, assessing trauma patients, and responding to cardiopulmonary arrest.
• HIPAA- and OSHA- compliant information reflects the latest practice standards and guidelines.
• Colorful charts and tables make lookup easy, and data is thorough enough for even experienced practicing nurses.

What does that term mean? How is it even pronounced? Make sense of the complex world of health care with Mosby's® Pocket Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 9th Edition. This comprehensive, portable dictionary offers a unique, strong focus on nursing and health science terminology. Featuring over 33,000 authoritative definitions of diseases, procedures, equipment, drugs, and more, it ensures you have the most reliable health science information right at your fingertips in an intuitive A-to-Z format — no struggling to find sub-definitions! Word roots and pronunciations help you learn and correctly use medical terminology, and alphabetized, screened thumb tabs make finding definitions quick and easy.

Key Features

• Over 33,000 definitions, focused on language in current use, ensure easy access to key information.
• Practical, strict A-to-Z organization with no subentries makes it easier to find terms.
• British spellings are included, where appropriate, for international users and for US users who need to be able to recognize alternate spellings of common terms.
• Marie O’Toole, an experienced dictionary lexicographer and nursing educator, has reviewed and revised all definitions to provide a cohesive and consistent voice.
• Small size makes this dictionary portable and convenient.
• Terms emphasize nursing and health science terminology, making this a useful resource for students and practitioners.
• Etymologies for most entries help you understand medical terminology and build a professional vocabulary.
• Pronunciations for key entries boost your confidence when using terminology in everyday practice.
• Screened thumb tabs allow you to quickly locate entries.
• A Spanish/English appendix and commonly used abbreviations are easy to access.

New to This Edition :
NEW! Approximately 1,700 updated or new terms reflect the changing terminology used in medicine, nursing, and the health professions.

Mosby's Critical Care Drug Reference is a critical care drug resource that covers all of the drugs commonly administered in critical care settings, as well as those prescription, over-the-counter, and complementary and herbal preparations that have an impact on a patient's health while in the critical care setting. Its authoritative content has been carefully tailored to meet the needs of critical care providers.

Includes specific information related to hemodynamics and the use of vasoactive and other medications for life support, and it provides expanded information about complications of many routinely used medications that may go unrecognized. This resource will be useful in identifying possible medication-related symptoms to facilitate prompt and effective patient management in the critical care setting.

Key Features

• More than 500 up-to-date drug monographs focus on the drugs and the types of drug information that critical care providers need to know for day-to-day clinical practice.
• Organized into two parts: Part 1 covers selected drug classifications in quick-reference tables. Part 2 is an A-Z drug reference consisting of concise, critical care-focused drug monographs.
• Each drug monograph includes Critical Care Considerations such as administration and handling, precautions, monitoring, and serious reactions, that are clinically oriented and focused on the unique needs of critical care providers.
• Unique "Overdose/Toxicity" and "Antidote/Dialysis" sections provide essential content to help you manage drug-related emergencies.
• Includes clinically important over-the-counter and complementary/herbal agents that can have profound implications for patients in critical care settings.
• Selected monographs highlight key interactions with common herbal preparations.
• Various indices like Trade Name, Combination drugs, Drug category, Chemical class and Therapeutic index facilitate quick information retrieval.
• Appendices cover quick-reference information that is vital in the critical care setting

Developed to provide nurse clinicians with a resource for the management of adult critical care patients, Mosby's Critical Care Nursing Reference condenses the most essential information needed by nurses working in the ICU. The resource provides, information on broad topics that apply to a variety of critically ill patients, and detailed information on organ diseases. Therapeutic modalities and pharmacology are both examined, with information that is useful for the student, the new nurse, and the experienced professional.

Key Features

• The latest information disorders, treatment, assessment, monitoring, pharmacology and therapeutic modalities incorporated throughout.
• Allows critical care nurses to quickly assess, diagnose, and facilitate the care of patients in an ICU setting.
• New sections on Palliative Care in the Critical Care Unit and Case Management in the Critical Care Unit have been included.
• Updated information is presented regarding pain control from the World Health Organization, as well as drug incompatibilities.
• Sections dedicated to psychosocial concerns, complementary therapies and the unique needs of a pediatric patient in an adult ICU.
• Discussions have been added on cortisol level testing, new laboratory tests such as brain naturetic peptide, and therapies used in end of life.
• Contains both general information on patient care, as well as specific details outlining nursing procedures in a professional setting.
• Organization of information allows for quick access of desired subject matter in critical care situations.
• Clearly organized appendices allow the user to rapidly obtain frequently needed data.
• Provided useful tools like organ donation guidelines, cardiopulmonary formulas, and drug dosage charts and conversion factors.

This reference helps students to prepare for their NCLEX exams anytime and anywhere. This latest update is based on the 1st edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

NCLEX-PN Notes addresses all four major content areas of the NCLEX Test Plan, including care of adults, mothers and newborns, children, and psychiatric/mental health nursing. You’ll also find coverage of the elderly, pharmacology, and the administration of medication.

Key Features

• Excellent, pocket-size reference for use in the clinical setting as well as for NCLEX prep
• Coverage of key nursing content
• "Tips" that explain the format and content of the NCLEX and the new, 2008 Test Plan
• Strategies to manage test-taking anxiety
• Alternate format questions for all key content areas, including pharmacology
• Key nursing considerations listed for major drug classes and administration of medications

Download the FREE app, attempt 100+ questions and explore all the unique features (In-App purchase required to unlock the full set of 1500+ questions). Download the App**



NCLEX-RN Q & A Flash Cards makes it easy for you to study anywhere and everywhere. This latest update is based on the 1st edition and 2010 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

These questions are designed to assist nursing students in preparing for various courses across the curriculum and, of course, that all-important examination, the NCLEX-RN.

Key Features

• 1,535 questions in all
• All questions written at application and analysis level
• Organized according to systems and disease processes
• Rationales for correct and incorrect answers
• Approximately 200 alternate-format questions
• All questions field tested by nursing students
• Critical thinking-style questions, including
  • multiple choice
  • multiple answer
  • fill in the blank
  • graphic
• Questions cover medical-surgical content, with the remaining questions divided equally among pediatric, pharmacology, psychiatric, maternity, women's health, and management content
• Key questions on
  • major drug classes
  • medication administration
  • delegation
  • management content

Netter's Anatomy Flash Cards, 6th Edition - Learn the essential anatomy you need to know ñ quickly and easily! Each flash card in this full-color deck features high-quality Netter art (and several new paintings by Dr. Carlos Machado), numbered labels (with hidden answers), and concise comments and clinical notes for the most commonly tested anatomy terms and concepts. Focusing on clinically relevant anatomy, this easy-to-use, portable study tool helps you learn anatomical structures with confidence!

KEY FEATURES :

• Clinical Notes help you focus on the most relevant clinical implications of anatomical concepts, helpful in preparing for the USMLE Step 1 exam
• Features a full-color illustration from Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy, with numbered lines pointing to key structures
• Concise text identifies those structures and reviews relevant anatomical information and clinical correlations
• Offers a unique learning resource to supplement the anatomy textbook, atlas or dissection materials used in medical, dental, nursing, allied health, and undergraduate courses in human anatomy
• Separate groups of illustrations are devoted to anatomy - head and neck, back and spinal cord, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perineum, upper and lower limb
• Within each group, information is arranged sequentially : Bones and Joints; Muscles; Nerves; Vessels; and Viscera;

Whatever the practice setting - acute care, rehabilitation, outpatient, extended care, or in a school - turn to this invaluable resource to the neurological examination. It covers all of the common neuromuscular conditions, disorders, and diseases you might encountered in patients throughout their life spans. User friendly design and nearly 240 illustrations insure you can find just what you're looking for.

Neuro Notes Clinical Pocket Guide presents an overview of neuroanatomy and an outline of a neurological examination in an easy-to-reference format. This latest update is based on the 2009 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Key Features

• Designed for physical therapists, physical therapy students, and related health professionals
• Presents an overview of neuroanatomy and an outline of a neurological examination in an easy-to-reference, full-color table in the first section
• Follows the preferred practice patterns for patients with neuromuscular disorders presented in the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice
• Features
  • neurological examination techniques
  • standardized tests
  • differential diagnosis
  • medical red flags
  • radiological/imaging techniques
  • medications for the most common disorders within each category
• Incorporates pain assessment within each disorder discussion, where appropriate
• Includes congenital or acquired disorders of the central nervous systems in infancy, childhood, and adolescence within the pediatric section
• It is a clinical guide for the assessment of patients with neuromuscular disorders
• Use the tables in the INTRO section to quickly find information on specific diseases/disorders or test and measures

Nurse's Fast Facts is a compilation of all of those hard-to-remember procedures, calculations, lab values, and interactions in a quickly accessible PDA reference. This essential reference offers the most important but difficult to remember clinical information for nine nursing content areas as well as age-specific guidelines for assessing health problems and interpreting lab values. Get speedy access to information by specialty, and the many charts, graphs and illustrations.

Topics include:

• Medical-Surgical
• Gerontological Care
• Maternal-Infant
• Pediatric
• Mental Health
• Emergency and Critical Care
• Long-Term Care
• Home Health Care
• Nutrition

With Skyscape's patent pending smARTlink™ technology, RNFastFacts3™ can easily cross-index with other clinical and drug prescription products from Skyscape to provide a powerful and integrated source of clinical information that you can carry with you wherever you go!

Nurses' Guide to Clinical Procedures provides step-by-step instructions for over 200 common nursing procedures. This latest update is based on the 6th edition and 2010 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Each procedure is organized according to the nursing process, including assessment, sample diagnoses, planning, desired outcomes, implementation, evaluation, and documentation. Planning sections emphasize individual client needs and include pediatric, geriatric, home health, cultural, end-of-life, and delegation considerations. Implementation sections present specific steps and rationales. Icons highlight cultural considerations and cost-cutting tips.

Learning features put expertise at your fingertips:

• A quick-reference clinical-support tool designed to serve students in all types of educational programs and practicing nurses in any clinical setting
• Section overviews highlight the basic principles underlying each procedure
• Bulleted lists make essential facts easy to remember
• Planning sections help you tailor each care plan to the individual patient's needs
• Documentation samples for each procedure build sound practice performance
• Nursing process documents desired outcome and its evaluation in a narrative format

Nurses' Handbook of Health Assessment, 10th Edition is a full-color handbook — updated to reflect the latest clinical insights in Health Assessment for Nursing, 7th Edition — details everything students need to interview clients and conduct thorough physical assessments with ease, including up-to-date assessment guidelines, full-color anatomy and physiology illustrations, images of normal and abnormal findings, and more — all in a convenient format ideal for today’s on-the-go learning.

KEY FEATURES

• UPDATED! Content mirrors the latest textbook enhancements and familiarizes students with emerging challenges in health assessment.
• UPDATED! Full-color illustrations clarify anatomical and physiological concepts and normal and abnormal findings.
• Convenient, app format provides easy access to nursing assessment guidelines and findings in any setting.
• Unique 3-column assessment presentation guides students through assessment techniques, normal findings, and abnormal findings side by side to enhance comprehension.
• Geriatric variations, pediatric variations, and cultural variations in relevant chapters reinforce important considerations for the care of key client populations.

Perform nursing procedures safely and accurately, with the freshly updated Nursing Procedures Made Incredibly Easy, Second Edition. Written in the popular, lighthearted Incredibly Easy style, this comprehensive guide offers expert, step-by-step direction on a broad range of fundamental and system-based nursing procedures. This enjoyable way to learn nursing’s best practices will help you stay up-to-date with the latest in technology, nursing standards, NCLEX preparation, and safe, quality care.

NEW and updated content offers:

• Crucial patient care methods
• Current nursing practice guidelines
• directions for using the latest medical technology
• directions for ensuring patient safety and providing quality care

Coverage of topics including:

• Fundamental nursing procedures - Easy-to-follow algorithms for a patient’s entire hospital stay, from intake to discharge, including surgical care
• Specimen collection - Clear directions on collecting blood, urine, and other specimens
• Physical treatments - Techniques for heat and cold application, baths, support devices, wound care, drug administration, I.V. therapy, and more
• System-based procedures - Directions on procedures for all body systems
• Clear direction to meet the needs of your maternal, neonatal, and pediatric patients
• Easy-to-follow format for each procedure - Quick-skim paragraphs and bulleted lists specify equipment, step-by-step instructions, and practice pointers
• Nursing procedures guides such as comparing biological dressings and assessing pressure ulcers

Special features:

• Just the facts – Outline of chapter content at start of every chapter
• Write it down - Essential documentation points for each procedure
• Ages and stages – Issues where patient’s age impacts a procedure
• Handle with care - Patient care tips for elderly, pediatric, and bariatric patients
• Memory joggers – Simple tricks for remembering complex concepts
• Warning - Possible dangers, risks, complications, or contraindications associated with a particular procedure
• Quick Quiz – Questions & Answers at the end of every chapter

A Davis’s Notes Title

Perfect wherever you are…in class, in clinical, and in any practice setting! OB/GYN Peds Notes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide delivers quick access to the essential clinical information you need to care for obstetric, gynecological, newborn, and pediatric patients in any setting. The 4th Edition of this popular pocket guide has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect nursing practice today.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• New, Updated & Revised! Thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the art and science of nursing today, including the latest guidelines, warning signs, and patient care for common procedures during pregnancy, labor, and delivery
• New! Coverage of families dealing with newborn anomaly, birth injury, or fetal demise, the high-risk or ill newborn, and nursing care of children and families dealing with end-of-life issues
• New! Content on assessment and nursing care of the opioid-addicted mother/newborn and nursing care of the child with cerebral palsy
• New! Content on pediatric blood pressure assessment and charts Updated & Revised! The most current guidelines, including ACOG Pap Smear, CDC Immunization in Pregnancy, ACOG and ACS Mammography, and ACOG and ACS Breast Self-Exam and Breast Self-Awareness
• Updated & Revised! Information on birth control and emergency contraception choices, pain control in labor, breastfeeding, safety teaching tips, and cultural competence guidance
• Updated! AWHONN practice guidelines for postpartum hemorrhage and ACOG guidelines for vaginal birth after cesarean section guide
• Updated & Revised! Terminology and definitions

KEY FEATURES

• Prenatal nursing care from conception through labor
• Assessment of women during stages of pregnancy, postpartum, and with gynecological complaints
• Techniques for medication administration, calculating fluids and rate
• Preventative care, symptoms, and testing for sexually transmitted diseases
• Coverage of newborn care
• Norms and assessment for infants and children, including immunization basics and standardized growth charts
• The most common reasons for the hospitalization of children and the appropriate nursing care
• Age-appropriate play for hospitalized children
• Patient teaching guidance
• Cultural awareness coverage, where appropriate

The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Paediatric Handbook is a trusted guide to managing common and serious childhood illnesses and disorders. This bestselling resource provides students and practitioners across medical, nursing, and allied health fields with authoritative and up-to-date information on a comprehensive range of paediatric topics, enabling readers to make the appropriate decisions at the point of care.

Now in its tenth edition, the Handbook features clear illustrations and evidence-based diagnostic and management algorithms throughout, covering resuscitation and medical emergencies, prescribing and therapeutics, medicine, surgery, procedures, and much more.

• Contains accessible summaries of common and serious paediatric illnesses and disorders
• Aligns with latest clinical practice guidelines
• Features numerous full-colour photos, illustrations, diagrams, and clinical images
• Provides practical guidance on professional ethics and communication in paediatric consultations
• Includes updated information on refugee health and trans and gender diverse health

Paediatric Handbook is an invaluable reference for medical practitioners, nurses and allied health professionals, as well as students and trainees.

This comprehensive, evidence-based reference was created by medical residents for medical residents. Complete with diagnostic and exam findings, acute management, troubleshooting tips, and indications for emergency consultation, this reference is the only one of its kind to actually guide diagnoses and therapies of hospitalized patients only, from admission to discharge. It's the perfect companion for residents, fellows, internists, and specialists alike!

Key Features

• Easy-to-use table and outline format to allow pertinent information to be extracted quickly and efficiently
• Emphasis on evidence-based medicine with key references highlighting major clinical trials and key reviews
• Differential diagnoses in every section to assist the reader in formulating targeted differentials
• Covers inpatients to help focus attention on patients you deal with most
• Warnings to critical information

Get essential pediatric nursing guidance and vital information in your pocket, with the freshly updated Pediatric Facts Made Incredibly Quick!®, 3rd Edition.

Like having a friendly, experienced coworker at your side, this enjoyable, colorfully illustrated guide clarifies vital pediatric nursing skills and concepts, with easy-to-remember how-to’s on pediatric vital signs, pain assessments, meds administration, and more. Whether you’re a nursing student or a nurse who is new to pediatrics, this must-have quick-reference delivers on-the-spot knowledge and confidence needed to provide safe, effective care.
Get the know-how you need to succeed, with this colorful in-your-pocket guide.

KEY FEATURES

• NEW and updated content on crucial pediatric nursing skills
• Mobile application format easily fits in your pocket for at-a-glance answers
• Dozens of color photos, drawings, and diagrams that demonstrate the concise, easy-to-remember text
• Clear directions and helpful tables delineating vital technical information, including:
  • Lab Values – Chemistry tests, complete blood count, antibiotic levels, urine, acid-base disorders
  • Meds / IV Therapy – Immunization schedules, calculations, conversions, BSA, administration methods and sites, fluid needs, IV solutions, blood compatibility, insulin IV solutions – Infusion therapy and rates
• Uniquely designed layout provides quick access to a broad range of techniques, data, and information on areas such as: Growth and Patterns of Development – Theories of development; expected growth rates; height and weight tables; stages of development – language, play, psychosocial, moral, intuitive; sexual maturity; preparation for hospitalization and surgery
• Assessment – Health history; length and head circumference; physical exams; abuse assessments; burns; mental health; vital signs – normal heart rates; assessment of body systems – eyes and ears, respiratory, cardiovascular, GI, urinary, nervous, musculoskeletal, hematological, immune, and endocrine
• Emergency measures – CPR, choking, ACLS algorithms
• Skills – Med administration, IVs, precautions, tracheostomy care
• Teaching – SIDS, choking, toileting, burns, poison, drowning, falls, vehicle safety
• Resources – Conversion, nutrition, sleep, cultural concerns
• Important on-the-job and classroom resources – includes an English-to-Spanish guide for translations of basic terms “Nurse Joy” and “Jake” provide expert insights and encouragement on assessments and interventions

This concise yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for certification, recertification, CME - or for use as a clinical refresher. Featuring the expert insight, its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies only the most important content for maximum yield and minimum time.

This resource is divided into five sections. The first section addresses general aspects of perioperative care and considerations that apply to most surgical patients. The second section highlights aspects specific to different types of surgery, and the third concerns preoperative evaluation and management of concomitant medical conditions. The fourth section covers general prophylactic measures, and the fifth reviews evaluation and management of postoperative complications.

Key Features

• Ideal for all internists, hospitalists, and all clinicians who assess and provide medical care for the surgical patient
• Streamlined, bulleted format ensures quick comprehension of key concepts and reinforces your understanding of the most complex topics in medical consultation and perioperative medicine
• An incisive look at comorbid conditions, assessment, and surgical care implications
• Expert, up-to-date coverage of the most critical, need-to-know concepts in perioperative care, from preoperative risk assessment to postoperative follow-up and recover-and much more
• Logically organized, easy-to-follow topics help focus your study and provide rapid access to specific subjects

The critical drug information you need for clinical practice and board preparation—in one, convenient portable guide

Pharmacotherapy Handbook delivers both the key points pharmacists needs to know in practice and the information students studying for the boards needs to pass. The Handbook delivers the essential information you need to confidently make drug therapy decisions for more than 140 diseases and disorders most commonly encountered in a clinical setting. Whether you’re a student, pharmacist, or hospital administrator, you’ll find answers quickly and easily in this reliable, carry-anywhere guide.

Featuring a convenient alphabetized presentation, the book utilizes text, tables, figures, and treatment algorithms to make important drug data readily accessible and easily understandable. This updated eleventh edition includes new chapters on the pharmacists’ patient care process, opioid use disorder, and superficial fungal infections.

Each chapter is organized in a consistent format:

• Disease state definition
• Pathophysiology
• Clinical presentation
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Evaluation of therapeutic outcomes
• Nine appendices include Pediatric Pharmacotherapy, Geriatric Assessment, Critical Care Patient Assessment, Drug Allergies, Drug-Induced Hematologic Disorders, Drug-Induced Liver Disease, Drug-Induced Pulmonary Disease, Drug-Induced Kidney Disease, and Drug-Induced Ophthalmic Disorders

Pocket Anatomy and Physiology offers crystal-clear, full-color illustrations with concise labels put all the need-to-know A&P information at your fingertips. Whether you’re looking for a cross section of the cardiac conducting system, a postoperative view of a total hip replacement, or any other perspective on the human body - you’ll find it here.

KEY FEATURES

• A brief description introduces each body system.
• Crystal clear presentation makes the illustrations pop from the pages.
• Precise labels accurately identify every structure.
• Unique anatomical views—like the cross section of the hand—highlight every detail in full-color.
• Every page tells you the orientation of every figure—no more guessing at what you’re viewing.
• Easy-to-reference tables summarize all of the relevant physiology.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Ten new original pathophysiology illustrations showing common issues encountered by health professionals.

REVIEWS

• See what students and practitioners are saying online about previous edition…
• “Must for A&P students! I am officially addicted to this pocket guide.”
• “Absolutely amazing! This thing is a lifesaver! It captures the important details and summarizes it for easy comprehension. The images are very detailed and the quality is fantastic. It is worth every penny.”

This invaluable resource provides instant information on management of infants and children in emergency situations. From recognition of the sick child to dealing with life threatening trauma, it covers all the major conditions likely to be encountered in the emergency department or at the site of an accident.

In addition, the basics of neonatal and paediatric life support are included, in line with the internationally adopted procedures of the Advanced Paediatric Life Support courses.

Key Features

• Contains the information needed immediately when confronted with a critically ill or injured neonate, baby or child.
• Covers, in a well presented format, all of the information relevant to clinical management within the first 1-2 hours after presentation.
• Most information within this resource is applicable anywhere in the world.
• Designed in a way that ensures easy access in an emergency,

This handy resource will become an invaluable companion on the road to becoming a successful nurse. This latest update is based on the 1st edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Pocket Nursing Skills: What you need to know now put the what, why, and how for 106 fundamentals skills and procedures right at your fingertips! From the team of Wilkinson and Treas, this handy resource will become an invaluable companion on the road to becoming a successful nurse and, can provide quick access to the critical aspects of most often used procedures

Key Features

• Details the critical aspects of 106 fundamental nursing skills
• Features 'Be Safe' alerts for circumstances that can affect either you or your patient
• Offers 'Be Smart' sections, clinical pearls from experienced practitioners

When every moment counts, count on Poisoning & Drug Overdose

Designed for speed of use during toxicologic emergencies, this instant-answer guide delivers critical information on the effective diagnosis and treatment of drug-related emergencies and chemical exposures. Enhanced by detailed tables and charts, extensive cross-referencing, and a comprehensive index, the Seventh Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect newly released drugs and the latest information on existing drugs.

Poisoning & Drug Overdose is divided into four sections:

• Section 1 leads you through initial emergency management, including treatment of coma, hypotension, and other common complications; physical and laboratory diagnosis; and methods of decontamination and enhanced eliminations of poisons
• Section II provides detailed information on hundreds of common drugs and poisons
• Section III describes the use and side effects of more than 80 antidotes and therapeutic drugs
• Section IV covers the medical management of chemical spills and occupational chemical exposures, and includes a table of more than 500 industrial chemicals

Put essential nursing skills and procedures at your fingertips! Based on Potter & Perry's bestselling textbook Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, this pocket guideprovides quick access to 83 key nursing skills in a convenient, A-to-Z format. Step-by-step instructions include full-color photos plus rationales explaining why and how to use specific techniques, and also suggest nursing interventions for potential complications. The app is an ideal companion during clinical rotations. Reflecting the latest in evidence-based practice, this study tool and clinical reference helps you perform core nursing skills safely and effectively.

NEW TO THIS EDITION
NEW! Skills are added and all skills throughout are updated to match the latest evidence-based practice, guidelines, and standards — ensuring safe, effective performance of skills.

KEY FEATURES

• Authoritative content is based on and matches Perry, Potter, Ostendorf & Laplante’s Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 10th Edition, making this book ideal as a quick, handy skills reference for information in the core text.
• A-to-Z organization of skills makes it easy to find information quickly, with each skill beginning on a new page.
• Clear, step-by-step instructions include the purpose for performing each skill, guidelines to help in delegating tasks to assistive personnel, lists of required equipment, and full-color photographs and drawings.
• Concise two-column format for skills includes rationales for each step, providing the "what" and the "why" for performing the steps of each skill.
• Unexpected Outcomes / Related Interventions provide troubleshooting information for common problems that may develop when performing a skill and also recommend appropriate actions.
• Safety Alerts within the skills highlight important information for patient safety and effective performance of the skill.
• Special Considerations address teaching, home care settings, and pediatric and geriatric patients, describing the risks or accommodations needed when caring for patients in these populations.
• Gloving logo within the skills steps identifies circumstances in which clean gloves should be worn or gloves should be changed before proceeding to the next step of the skill.
• Documentation guidelines provide bulleted lists of what should be reported and recorded in the patient records.

Procedures Consult is the new, first-of-its-kind, online multimedia procedures training and reference tool that helps physicians, medical residents, and students prepare for, perform, and test their knowledge of top medical procedures.

Key Features

• Offers high-quality illustrations and multi-media for each procedure
• Is browsable and searchable for quick and easy access to any procedure
• Highlights when patient "informed consent" is required
• Is customizable, for institution-specific protocols and procedures
• Provides time-effective, self-directed procedures training and testing-with trackable results
• Reinforces Joint Commission patient safety concepts
• Provide Pre-, During, and Post-procedure reference
• Benefits of Procedures Consult:
  • Enhances efficiency and consistency of medical procedures education
  • Fully customizable
  • Accessible online anywhere, anytime
  • Includes testing, competency tracking and reporting

Procedures Consult is the new, first-of-its-kind, online multimedia procedures training and reference tool that helps physicians, medical residents, and students prepare for, perform, and test their knowledge of top medical procedures.

Key Features

• Offers high-quality illustrations and multi-media for each procedure
• Is browsable and searchable for quick and easy access to any procedure
• Highlights when patient "informed consent" is required
• Is customizable, for institution-specific protocols and procedures
• Provides time-effective, self-directed procedures training and testing-with trackable results
• Reinforces Joint Commission patient safety concepts
• Provide Pre-, During, and Post-procedure reference
• Benefits of Procedures Consult:
  • Enhances efficiency and consistency of medical procedures education
  • Fully customizable
  • Accessible online anywhere, anytime
  • Includes testing, competency tracking and reporting

Through seven editions, Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancies has helped busy obstetricians keep pace with a constantly evolving field. Providing just-in-time content, its focus on protocols and guidelines helps organize medical thinking, avoid heuristic errors of omission and commission, and optimize maternal and fetal outcomes.

As with the prior six editions, the editors (Queenan, Spong and Lockwood) have once again assembled some of the world’s top obstetrical and medical experts. This seventh edition has also been expanded to include a number of new topics, including:

• Protocols on opioid use, misuse and addition in pregnancy and postpartum
• Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of aneuploidy
• Periconceptual genetic screening
• Expanded protocols on maternal valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies
• Protocols on arboviruses, including Zika and malaria
• Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancies: An Evidence-Based Approach will be an essential reference for obstetricians, medical students, general practitioners and all medical professionals who are seeking the most up-to-date information and guidance on high-risk pregnancies.

Psychiatric Nursing: Assessment, Care Plans, and Medications, 9th Edition is the most complete and easy-to-use resource on how to develop practical, individualized plans of care for psychiatric and mental health patients. It’s really two books in one! The first half provides the diagnostic information needed to create a care plan; the second half covers the safe prescription and administration of psychotropic medications. And, the concepts can be applied to a variety of healthcare settings…from in-patient hospitalization through the outpatient clinic…to home health and private practice. Completely revised and updated throughout, the 9th Edition reflects all of the new knowledge and new medications in the field, including the DSM-5, and all of today’s new psychotropic medications.

Key Features

• Index of Client Behaviors with page numbers listed on inside covers.
• Concept Mapping and the use of Concept Care Map Plans introduced in Chapter 1.
• Organized by DSM-5 and diagnoses.
• Nursing diagnoses and interventions include the definition, possible etiologies ("Related to ..."), defining characteristics ("Evidenced by ..."), objectives broken down to show long- and short-term goals, interventions with selected rationales, and desired patient outcomes/discharge criteria.
• Each psychiatric disorder lists background assessment data, predisposing factors, symptomatology, and nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions commonly associated with the disorder.
• Unit on psychotropic drug classifications covers anti-anxiety agents, antidepressants, mood stabilizing agents, antipsychotics, antiparkinsonian drugs, sedative hypnotics, and agents for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
• Indications, route, and dosage listed for individual drugs as well as for classifications.

New To This Edition

• UPDATED & REVISED! All content, thoroughly revised and updated, reflects the education and practice of nursing today.
• UPDATED! Coverage of psychiatric disorders reflects the DSM-5.
• EXPANDED & UPDATED! Section on psychotropic medications includes the addition of medications available since the last edition and the deletion of those discontinued.
• NEW! New content on factitious disorder • Munchhausen syndrome • working with military families.
• EXPANDED! More communication interventions in the care plans to reinforce the emphasis on therapeutic communication.
• NEW! Two additional rating scales in the appendix…The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and The Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale.

Awarded second place in the 2015 AJN Book of the Year Award in the Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing category

A Davis’s Notes Title, Perfect wherever you are…in class, in clinical, and in any practice setting! This handy guide delivers quick access to need-to-know information on DSM-5 disorders and treatments, psychotropic drugs, documentation, and patient education. No other resource delivers as much information in a format that’s as easy to read, easy to access, carry all the content on your mobile device.

KEY FEATURES

• Coverage of documentation • psychiatric medications, restraints and seclusion • DSM-5 disorders and treatments • and patient education and care
• Basic behavioral theories at a glance
• Key aspects of psychiatric and crisis interventions
• General mental status assessments and exams, with focused assessments for adult and geriatric populations, including mini-cognitive assessment instrument for dementia and rating scale for Lewy Body diseases
• Essential information on psychotropic drugs
• Client/family education tables, tips, and strategies
• Cultural considerations and assessment tool

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Addresses important topics such as Telepsychiatry and Teletherapy and more importantly Covid-19 and its effect on mental health, both on individuals as well as health care providers.
• Several new psychotropics — for tardive dyskinesia, PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, and also a new medication for schizophrenia.
• Crises that deal with Covid and PTSD as well as the military, and geriatrics in a clinical pocket companion.
• Multiaxial assessment, CAGE, self-administered patient health questionnaires 2 and 9, and many other assessment tools
• Clinical pearls throughout to provide practical on-the-spot advice
• UPDATED & REVISED! All content thoroughly reviewed, revised, and updated to incorporate the newest knowledge in the field, including new drugs and drug updates.

This concise and invaluable resource will help prepare students and nurses for common psychosocial and psychiatric problems that can coincide with patients' medical problems. This latest update is based on the 2008 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates!

Psychosocial Nursing for General Patient Care bridges the gap between the information contained in the large, comprehensive psychiatric resources and the information needed to function effectively in a variety of healthcare settings.

Key Features

• Useful for clinician to find the information to effectively handle specific patient problems.
• The nursing student can use this resource as a supplement to other resources and will be useful throughout nursing school curriculum.
• New sections on homeless with chronic illness and caring for patients in disaster.
• New interventions focusing on new anti-psychotic medications.
• Expanded coverage on dual diagnosis, emotional response to community disasters, preventing the escalation of violence and alternative and complementary treatments.
• The concise, quick reference format used throughout this resource allows the nurse to easily find information on a specific psychosocial problem commonly seen in practice.
• Organized to provide easy access to information on etiology, assessment, age-specific implications, nursing diagnosis and interventions, patient/family education, interdisciplinary management including pharmacology, and community based care.

Known among radiation oncology residents as "the green book," Radiation Oncology: A Question-Based Review is a must-have learning tool for trainees and physicians who want to strengthen their long-term command of radiation oncology. The updated 3rd Edition reflects state-of-the-art advances in the field, with revised questions and answers, new professional guidelines, and new annual content updates.

Offers detailed questions on the natural history, epidemiology, diagnosis, staging, treatment recommendations, and treatment-related side effects for each cancer type. Contains a new primer section on immunotherapy.

Retains popular features such as memory aids, quick-reference tables, and useful facts from other relevant disciplines such as radiology, anatomy, and medical oncology.

Incorporates the latest ASTRO, AJCC, and NCCN guidelines, as well as seminal new studies and practice-changing trials, to reflect current radiation oncology practice. Includes new annual updates to the eBook for the life of the edition, with revised questions or answers that keep you current with new knowledge in the field. Ideal for both trainees and radiation oncologists as a high-yield introduction and review of the clinical management of major cancer types and conditions that are currently treated with radiation.

For more than 25 years, Dr. Dähnert's Radiology Review Manual has earned its reputation as the green "bible” for board exam preparation, in teaching situations, and in the daily practice of radiology. A logical organization, extensive lists of image findings and differential diagnoses, an accessible outline format, and a thorough index have made this reference the #1 choice for success on the written boards. The Eighth Edition has been completely updated to provide head-to-heel coverage of the information needed for today’s general radiology practice.

NEW to this edition:

• A section on General Radiology has been created that covers techniques in nuclear medicine as well as contrast media, statistics, sedation, analgesia, and local anesthesia.
• Mnemonics have been added to help make need-to-know facts and trivia easier to find, review, and remember.

Quickly master the anatomical knowledge you need for exam and practice success! This updated Fourth Edition of Rapid Review: Anatomy Reference Guide offers everything you need for quick and effective memorization of key anatomical knowledge. Organized into 31 easy-to-use sections app is a must-have resource provides labels on clear overlays that allow you test yourself and immediately see what you’ve mastered and what you still need to work on. Four-color illustrations of major systems, organs, and structures with labels on overlays for easy review and self-testing.

Includes related information—additional full-color illustrations, key facts, location of the organ or system highlighted on a human figure, roots of key words and their meanings, and terminology and definitions.

A bright new design and updated text and labels make studying even more efficient.

Key Features

• Designed for high school and college-level students
• Clear illustrations of the major systems, organs and structures of the body are paired with their corresponding labels for easy study
• Device Tapping: Using Skyscape's "Hot Spot" technology, you can tap directly on anatomic areas and see and learn the structure’s name
• Physical Writing: View the image with just numbered leader lines. Write the number on a piece of paper along with your answer. Then go back and check your answers on your mobile device, mimicking what customers love about the print version of the Rapid Review Anatomy Reference Guide
• All 31 sections feature commonly taught anatomical and physiological concepts including basic facts, location, histology, key terminology and structure identifications

Respiratory Notes: Respiratory Therapist's Pocket Guide a quick-reference tool that put all the respiratory therapy information you need at your fingertips. The procedure-based format includes supporting illustrations, fill-in-the-blank forms, and algorithms to help you study and guide you in practice.

Key Features

• Bullet-point reviews guide you through procedures.
• Quick-scan illustrations and tables summarize data.
• Algorithms are based on AARC Clinical Practice Guidelines.
• Key forms allow you to gather data at the bedside, and then transcribe to conventional charts

New to this Edition

• NEW! Pulmonary Disease and Airway/Ventilation Tabs
• NEW! Comprehensive index
• UPDATED! Procedures now organized around protocols

RN’s Study Guide: Nursing Essentials is a unique and user-friendly resource that presents students with need to know information to help them thrive on their path to becoming a nurse. Unlike other texts, it condenses vast amounts of knowledge into manageable basics to help nursing students and professionals understand difficult material, prepare for rigorous tests, and provide optimal care for patients and their families.

With a concise and practical approach, RN’s Study Guide: Nursing Essentials offers simplified introductions to the major health problems of different systems with important nursing tips and explanations. Also included are useful medical terms, anatomic pointers, points to consider, and precautions.

The sixth edition of this comprehensive yet concise Rosen & Barkin’s 5 Minute Emergency Medicine Consult pulls together up-to-date and evidence-based practice guidelines for easy use in a busy emergency department. Brief layout with bullet-friendly, clutter-free topics, you can quickly decipher the information you need to confirm your diagnosis, order tests, manage treatment and more!

KEY FEATURES

• Features new information—based on the latest practice guidelines and theoretical developments—and new approaches to diagnosis and management.
• Designed for integrating into your practice—in an urgent care setting with patients or during downtime between patients or meetings.
• Covers over 600 disease and condition topics, such as bleeding, orthopedic injuries, gastric conditions, domestic violence and more.
• Suitable for all practitioners, nurses and residents in an emergency room setting.

Skyscape's App is based on the print edition of often called the Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination

8th Edition provides everything you need to prepare for the NCLEX exam — complete content review and 4,500+ NCLEX examination-style questions.

Get the best review for the NCLEX-PN® exam from the leading NCLEX® experts! Written by Linda Anne Silvestri and Angela E. Silvestri, Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination, 8th Edition provides everything you need to prepare for success on the NCLEX-PN. The book includes a review of all nursing content areas, more than 4,500 NCLEX exam-style questions, detailed rationales, test-taking tips and strategies, and new Next-Generation NCLEX (NGN)-style questions. Mobile app simulates the exam-taking experience with a choice of practice questions along with realistic practice tests. Based on Silvestri’s proven Pyramid to Success, this complete review is a perennial favorite of students preparing for the NCLEX.

New to this edition

• NEW! Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN)-style questions ensure that you are ready for the biggest change to the NCLEX-PN test plan in many years.
• New! The current NCLEX-PN® test plan is incorporated throughout the app.

"Try before you buy" - Download the FREE App, includes sample Chapters and ~100 practice questions.

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Key Features

• More than 4,500 practice questions are included.
• Detailed rationales are provided for both correct and incorrect answer options.
• Alternate item format questions include multiple response, prioritizing, fill-in-the-blank, figure/chart, and video clips.
• Test-taking strategies provide useful hints for analyzing and uncovering correct answer options.
• Pyramid Points and Pyramid Alerts identify content that typically appears on the NCLEX-PN exam
• Pyramid to Success sections at the beginning of each unit provide an overview of content, guidance for your review, and the subject’s relative importance in the NCLEX-PN text plan.
• What Should You Do? boxes in each chapter help you develop critical thinking skills, with answers at the end of the chapter.
• UNIQUE! A 75-question pre-test provides feedback on your strengths and weaknesses, and the results generate an individualized study calendar.

App Features

• Study Mode (Attempt a question, see answer and the rationale)
• Create Quiz (Select topic, number of questions - Pause and resume anytime)
• Time Mode (Answer as many questions as possible in a set time to improve your speed)
• Study Goals (Recommends quantity of questions to complete daily based on goal/test date)
• Stats (View details on topics mastered so you can focus on weak areas)
• Bookmark tricky questions and add notes - Creating flashcards

• ASK-AN-EXPERT - Nurse educators are on standby. Free service from Skyscape, response within 24 hours.

In-app purchase unlocks:

• Over 4,500+ practice questions and study chapters 
• Question categorized by: 
• Client needs
• Cognitive level
• Integrated process
• Content area
• Priority concepts
• UNIQUE! A detailed test-taking strategy and rationale
• Inclusion of all alternate item format questions to give users practice with mastering prioritizing, decision-making, and critical thinking skills. 
• Multiple response
• Prioritizing [ordered response]
• Fill-in-the-blank
• Figure/illustration [hot spot]
• Chart/exhibit video
• Audio questions
• Pyramid to Success sections at the beginning of each unit provide an overview of content, guidance for your review, and the subject’s relative importance in the NCLEX-PN text plan.
• Pyramid Points and Pyramid Alert boxes identify content that typically appears on the NCLEX-PN exam.
• What Should You Do? boxes in each chapter help you develop critical thinking skills, with answers at the end of the chapter.

Educators - Make NCLEX prep part of the curriculum with hundreds of example questions

The Skyscape App/Platform includes a Web Dashboard

• Filter question bank
• Content area for "Content based" curriculum
• Priority concepts for "Concept based" curriculum
• Cognitive level
• Client needs
• Integrated Process

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Students - Prepare for NCLEX "Anytime - Anywhere" with 4,500+ practice questions

• The app tracks metrics on attempted questions so you can focus on your "Knowledge" gaps
• Correct answer after first attempt
• Correct answer after multiple attempts
• Bookmarked questions with notes

After the Exam - Candidate Performance Report gives summary of how you performed in and description of the content area with a list of topics related to it. Your performance in each area is described in one of the following ways

• Above the Passing Standard
• Near the Passing Standard
• Below the Passing Standard

Use the report and filters questions to brush-up on weak areas

Prepare for success on the NCLEX-RN® exam with this complete review! Often called the the best NCLEX® exam review book ever, Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, 9th Edition, reviews all nursing content areas related to the current test plan. This new edition includes 5,700 NCLEX exam-style questions in the app, including alternate items formats and Next Generation NCLEX questions. Don't make the mistake of assuming the quality of the questions is the same in all NCLEX exam review books; only this book includes the kinds of questions that consistently test the clinical judgment skills necessary to pass today's NCLEX exam. Even better, all answers include detailed rationales to help you learn from your answer choices as well as test-taking strategies with tips on how to best approach each question. Written by the most trusted names in NCLEX review, Linda Anne Silvestri and Angela Elizabeth Silvestri, this is THE book of choice for NCLEX preparation. But don’t just take our word for it ? read any customer review or ask your classmates to see why there's nothing else like it!

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New graduate’s perspective is offeredon how to prepare for the NCLEX-RN, in addition to nonacademic preparation, the CAT format, and test-taking strategies. Mnemonics are included to help you remember important information. Alternate item format questions cover multiple response, prioritizing [ordered response], fill-in-the-blank, figure/illustration [hot spot], chart/exhibit, video, and audio questions.

75-question comprehensive exam covers all content areas in the book in the same percentages that they are covered on the actual NCLEX-RN test plan. Practice questions on Evolve areorganizedby content area, cognitive level, client needs area, integrated process, health problem, clinical judgment, and priority concepts, allowing completely customizable exams or study sessions.

• NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) examination-style questions prepare you for the biggest change to the NCLEX-RN® test plan to date.
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• NEW! Urinary and Bowel Elimination and Hygiene, Mobility, and Skin Integrity chapters are added to this edition.

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Full purchased content 1200 updated practice questions reflect the most recent NCLEX-PN test plan including "Alternative styles" such as Select-all-that-apply, Reorder, Fill-in-the-blank.

Get thorough NCLEX-PN review anytime and anywhere with Saunders Q&A Review Cards for the NCLEX-PN® Exam, 2nd Edition. From Linda Silvestri, the foremost expert in NCLEX prep, comes a collection of portable review cards with practice questions that reflect the latest NCLEX-PN test plan. Completely updated and organized by NCLEX Client Needs category, each of the 1,200 cards features an NCLEX practice question on the front, along with the question’s answer, rationale, and focused review topic on the reverse side. Silvestri’s insightful test-taking tips are also included to ensure you are fully prepared both in knowledge and mindset to ace the NCLEX-PN exam on the first try.

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Skyscape Clinical Calculator is a uniquely innovative calculator application with over 250 essential tools which give you results in seconds. No more looking up complicated formulas and struggling with variables - just enter the necessary values in Skyscape Clinical Calculator and get the answers you need.

Skyscape also offers Skyscape Clinical Calculator PLUS which adds more than 75 premium, specialty-focused calculators designed to serve in a wide variety of clinical situations. You can see a comparison chart here.

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Skyscape Clinical Calculator Plus is the most comprehensive medical calculator available! It includes a full suite of basic and premium calculation tools designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of specialties and clinical situations. All of these are packaged into a convenient, single format that does it all. Forget having to remember complicated formulas, just input the necessary values and results presented in a consistent format are immediately available.

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Skyscape Clinical Consult ® is downloaded on device with FREE Skyscape Medical Library APP on iOS/Android platform.

Skyscape Clinical Consult® (SCC®) consists of over 850 separate succinct summaries of topics encountered in General Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine Subspecialties, Emergency Medicine and Family Practice. Topics in geriatrics, pediatrics, ophthalmology, gynecology, obstetrics, psychiatry, and neurology are also covered in some detail. In addition, over 500 Internal Medicine Board's-type review questions (linked to appropriate text) are included to aide in reviewing topics and in preparation for licensing examinations.

SCC® is updated throughout the year with information from more than seven major medical journal publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and The Medical Letter, in addition to seminars, review articles, patient care, drug development conferences, and teaching experience.

Key Features

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Skyscape Rx™ is available for FREE with the Skyscape Medical Library APP on iOS/Android platforms.

This continually updated tool provides dosing guidelines on thousands of commonly used brand and generic drugs and now includes nearly 400 integrated weight-based drug dosing calculators.

Look at all this drug dosing tool delivers!

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• An indispensable tool that helps you make accurate, informed and confident drug dosing decisions at point of care. A must have for every medical professional!

With the rapid growth of the Spanish-speaking population globally, this comprehensive communicator has become a crucial resource for healthcare students and professionals. This latest update is based on the 4th edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Spanish-English English-Spanish Medical Dictionary provides easy access to nearly 23,000 medical terms, technology-related medical terms, and medical abbreviations, plus definitions, translations, pronunciation, signs and symptoms, patient communication phrases, and much more.

Key Features

• Updated and enhanced terminology, appendices, and illustrations
• Alphabetical organization makes locating terms quick and easy
• Color anatomical insert with labels in both English and Spanish
• Concise definitions with usage and translations for quick and easy reference
• Grammar sections provide a grammatical overview of both the English and Spanish languages
• Illustrations highlight key terms and concepts
• Spanish and English sections: all terms and definitions appear in both languages
• Valuable appendices including many key phrases and medical scenarios to help users better communicate with patients
• Consent, Authorization, and Release forms to obtain easier communication with patients when research projects or procedures are done
• Valuable Appendices include additional phrases focusing on HIV, AIDS, neonatology and bioterrorism
• Verb tables
• The content has been fully updated by adding new phrases ranging across the specialties of cardiology, immunology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, and neonatology - all fields noted for their new technical and procedural developments

Healthcare students and professionals need instant access to the most current, up-to-date shorthand of medical terminology fast. Stedman's Abbreviations & Acronyms Pocket for PDA provides thousands of medical abbreviations and acronyms with their expansions at the touch of your stylus!

Includes the PDA functionality you have come to rely on:

• Intuitive, easy to navigate user interface
• One-tap to view the abbreviation and acronym
• Search by index of abbreviations and expansions
• Word wheel search (search as you tap)
• Cross-reference hyperlinks

Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th Edition, is the most reliable, must-have resource available for healthcare professionals. Charts and tables enhance definitions, and powerful navigation and search tools let you find terms quickly and easily. This latest update is based on the 2005 print edition with additional features and enhanced functionality.

• One of the main highlight of 28th edition is that it provides audio pronunciations for almost 42,000 new and current terms.
• Includes more than 100,000 terms, more than 5,000 new to this edition.
• Thoroughly reviewed and updated by consultants from all the major medical and health science specialities including Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, and Rheumatology.
• Quick access to thousands of medical terms, drug names, eponyms, procedures and protocols.

* Internet connection is required to access the audio file

Thoroughly revised and updated with more than 56,000 entries, this resource contains the medical terminology used in more than 30 of today's fastest growing health profession areas. This latest update is based on the 7th edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

In Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing, you’ll also find comprehensive inclusion of entries suited for the nursing field.

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• A-Z organization for quick reference to find definitions
• Includes 1,000 color illustrations
• More British alternative spellings
• More than 70 leading consultants from the fastest growing nursing and health professions contributed to the enhancements of this latest edition
• Written pronunciations for every term helps you master usage quickly

Surgery Mentor: Your Clerkship and Shelf Exam Companion is a compact, succinct resource of vital information for the student or trainee. This latest update is based on the 2nd edition and 2009 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

An outline format with hundreds of review questions, full-color illustrations, and appendices helps you find the information you need to know to survive the rotation, excel on the shelf exam, and succeed on the USMLE Step 2 exam.

Key Features

• A valuable resource to medical students and residents
• More than 400 shelf exam-style questions and answers
• It provides the foundation for solid surgical knowledge that is easily accessible
• Surgical Mentor can be used during "down time" between OR cases and conferences
• Surgery Mentor will serve as a rapid source of organized information in Surgery
• Important facts are highlighted in each section, and each section is accompanied by practice questions
• Content based on ACS guidelines
• State-of-the-art Mentor Tips convey key facts and put details into perspective through the eyes of experienced surgeons
• Mentoring style helps students understand the way that medical and surgical interventions complement each other
• Coverage of the basics of the operating room, surgical instruments, and the typical day on the surgical service

On-the-spot treatment advice for more than 75 of the most common surgical on-call problems.

Key Features

• Comprehensive overview of the evaluation and treatment of common problems that present on a surgical service
• Organized for quick access to essential information you need to manage patients efficiently
• Differential diagnosis, key laboratory and diagnostic tests, and treatment plans for 75+ common on-call problems
• Thoroughly updated on-call problems, procedures, and tests reflect current practice and treatment options
• New medical section offers a quick reference to commonly used drugs

Build the Confidence for Success on Your Exams and in the Operating Suite! Written in a rapid-fire question-and-answer format ideal for learning on the go, this best-selling clerkship resource covers both general surgery and surgical subspecialties and provides accurate, on-the-spot answers to the questions most likely encountered during rotations and on the shelf exam. This enhanced 9th edition reflects the latest advances in key areas, as well as additional Rapid-Fire Review questions and new Rapid-Fire Vignettes to prepare students for success on exams and beyond.

Rapid-Fire Reviews at the end of most chapters and a pre-and post-book test evaluate students™ knowledge, demonstrate students™ level of mastery, and identify areas for further focus.

NEW! Three-Dimensional Surgical Vignette Chess offers a novel, three-column format to practice handling patient scenarios and to assess knowledge. Surgical Overview and Background sections deliver practice advice and tricks of the trade.

Hundreds of mnemonics, acronyms, tips, prompts, and hints help students master and retain essential knowledge.

Concise procedure descriptions and a strategic two-column format prepare students for active participation in the operating suite.

"This is a tremendous asset for students and residents learning to develop their diagnostic skills. It can also be useful as a refresher for established clinicians when the more common diagnoses are not the cause of a patient's complaints." - Doody's Review

An engaging case-based approach to learning the diagnostic process in internal medicine

Doody's Core Titles for 2021!

Symptom to Diagnosis, Fourth Edition teaches an evidence-based, step-by-step process for evaluating, diagnosing, and treating patients based on their clinical complaints. By applying this process clinicians will be able to recognize specific diseases and prescribe the most effective therapy.

Each chapter is built around a common patient complaint that illustrates essential concepts and provides insight into the process by which the differential diagnosis is identified. As the case progresses, clinical reasoning is explained in detail. The differential diagnosis for that particular case is summarized in tables that highlight the clinical clues and important tests for the leading diagnostic hypothesis and alternative diagnostic hypotheses. As the chapter progresses, the pertinent diseases are reviewed. Just as in real life, the case unfolds in a stepwise fashion as tests are performed and diagnoses are confirmed or refuted.

Completely updated to reflect the latest research in clinical medicine, this fourth edition is enhanced by algorithms, summary tables, questions that direct evaluation, and an examination of recently developed diagnostic tools and guidelines. Clinical pearls are featured in every chapter. Coverage for each disease includes: Textbook Presentation, Disease Highlights, Evidence-Based Diagnosis, and Treatment.

Changes include new algorithms and approaches in the chapters on Chest Pain, Syncope, Dizziness, and others. Recently developed new diagnostic tools are discussed in the chapters of Diarrhea, Jaundice, and Cough and Fever, and new guidelines have been included in the chapters on Screening, Diabetes, and Hypertension

Taber’s brings meanings to life.

Put the language of nursing, medicine, and the healthcare professions at your fingertips. In hand, online, or on your mobile device—anywhere and everywhere, Taber’s 24 is the all-in-one, go-to source in the classroom, clinical, and beyond.

Under the editorial direction of Donald Venes, MD, MSJ, a team of expert consulting editors and consultants representing nearly every health care profession ensures that the content reflects today’s most current and relevant information.

App includes a FREE, 1-year subscription to Taber’s WebView, the complete Taber’s database for quick reference when and where you need it.

Key Features

• Mobile and Web access must-have information in any setting.
• 75,000+ terms—put the language of health care at your fingertips in class, clinical, and practice.
• FREE, 1-year subscription to Taber’s WebView, powered by Skyscape—tap into all of the knowledge in Taber’s anytime, anywhere.
• Full-color illustrations—make often complex concepts easier to understand, including detailed illustrations of anatomy and physiology, and photographs of diseases and disorders that focus on their distinguishing features.
• Tools for clinical success—integrate must-have information where you need it.
• Patient Care Statements—Quick-reference summaries detail assessment, treatment, and patient teaching requirements.
• Caution/Safety Statements—An easy-to-find icon highlights information critical to safe patient care.
• Disease/Disorder Entries—Concise descriptions summarize diagnosis, signs and symptoms, etiology, treatments, and prognosis.
• 2020-21 NANDA-I.—The complete list of nursing diagnoses makes reference quick and easy.
• Over 30,000 audio pronunciations—build speaking confidence.
• Appendices—put must-know, rarely memorized information at your fingertips, including normal reference laboratory values and prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms, as well as abbreviations, symbols, and units of measurement, documentation system definitions, and translations of common healthcare terms and phrases in English, French, and Spanish.

See what students and practitioners are saying about the previous edition…

• Five Stars “What every medical student, student nurse, paramedic student, and medical professional should have.”—Kelly, Online Reviewer
• EVERYTHING A NURSING STUDENT NEEDS. “My school did not recommend this book, but I remembered this book from LPN school and how much it helped with care planning. It’s much easier to carry than all the textbooks to clinicals too! LOVE this newest version too!!”—Melissa A. B., Online Reviewer
• Nursing school life saver. “This book has been a great for my clinical experience databases. I love how it's broken into sections for easy access and understanding. My school offers an electronic edition for free to us, but I like hard copy books.”—P.M., Online Reviewer
• Gotta Have It! “I have thoroughly used this dictionary already in my schooling! I am sure it will help me in many days to come.”—Christina M., Online Reviewer
• Very Informative! “Love that I have access to the online version that makes it quicker to find terms needed for class.”—Kelly V., Online Reviewer
• Great book. “I use it for nursing school during my clinicals and it is perfect.”—Online Reviewer

Thoroughly revised with the latest evidence-based practices, Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills, 6th Edition, helps nursing students and graduate nurses confidently incorporate cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and ethical/legal skills into safe and effective patient care. This engaging resource is rich with nearly 1,000 photographs, providing step-by-step guidance through essential skills presented in context with the nursing process. Updated content throughout keeps students current with today’s evolving healthcare environment and cultivates the critical thinking and clinical judgment critical to success in practice.

Usable in conjunction with any nursing fundamentals text or as a standalone resource, Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills is specifically designed to complement Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Care, 10th Edition, giving students a consistent, seamless learning experience for superior understanding.

New for this Edition:

• UPDATED! Focusing on Patient Care chapter-opening scenarios and Developing Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Judgment end-of-chapter questions challenge readers to think through clinical situations, combining critical thinking and clinical reasoning to form clinical judgment that can affect patient outcomes.
• UPDATED! Step-by-Step Skills, updated to reflect the latest evidence, walk students through skills in a consistent, straightforward format to ensure comprehension.
• UPDATED! Evidence for Practice boxes familiarize students with the latest best-practice guidelines, research-based evidence, and support from professional literature.
• UPDATED! Developing Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Judgment provides insight into prioritization and evidence-based practice and supports students’ development of clinical reasoning and clinical judgment skills. This section includes:
  • Unexpected Situations highlight unexpected outcomes and explanations of how to react to provide the best care.
  • Special Considerations explain the varying needs of patients across the lifespan and in various settings.
• UPDATED! Integrated Case Study Connection callouts refer students to related case studies in Unit III, which challenge students to think critically and confidently prioritize care.
• UPDATED! Photo Atlas Approach with nearly 1,000 high-quality photographs helps visual learners effectively learn and perform each skill. NEW! Nursing Concepts lists in each chapter emphasize key connections at a glance

The 5 Minute Toxicology Consult is a reliable rapid-access guide to assessing and treating poisoned patients. Designed and organized for quick consultation and focused on practical clinical issues, the reference covers the full range of chemicals, medications, natural compounds, adverse interactions, and patient presentations with toxicologic causes.

Each topic is divided into standard categories: Basics, Diagnosis, Signs/Symptoms, Treatment, Follow-up, and Pitfalls. An entire section is devoted to evaluating patients with suspected but unidentified poisoning. At least two experienced, board-certified, practicing emergency physicians and toxicologists were involved in the editing of every section.

The Harriet Lane Handbook of Pediatric Antimicrobial Therapy, 2nd edition provides evidence-based recommendations for antimicrobial therapy appropriate for infants, children and adolescents.

From the experts at Johns Hopkins University, who bring you the best-selling Harriet Lane Handbook, this easy-to-use mobile resource expands on the indispensable Harriet Lane formulary to help you effectively treat a broad spectrum of pediatric infections.

New to this Edition

• Make the best clinical decisions with up-to-date practice guidelines from the AAP, CDC, and other authoritative pediatric and infectious disease sources.
• Stay on top of the most effective treatments with leading-edge coverage of antiretroviral drugs for HIV and hepatitis; antimicrobial pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) information; the latest Vancomycin therapeutic drug-monitoring recommendations; antimicrobial desensitization; pediatric developmental effects of antimicrobials approved in adults but not children; and much more.
• Depend on the professional wisdom of an expert author team, combined with the front-line input of current pediatric infectious disease fellows.

Key Features

• Get all of the information you need to prescribe the correct drug and the appropriate dose through a detailed drug formulary, expanded from the popular Harriet Lane Handbook.
• Better manage persistent, hard-to-fight pediatric infections with a section on adverse effects and drug resistance.
• Information regarding safety, likely antimicrobial resistance, pharmacokinetics and distribution, as well as efficacy.
• Detailed discussions on antibiotic resistance and post exposure prophylaxis.
• Dedicated section on adverse effects and drug resistance.
• Essential resource for busy house officers and residents in pediatric departments.

Your #1 source of pediatric point-of-care clinical information.

Every three years, The Harriet Lane Handbook is carefully updated by residents, edited by chief residents, and reviewed by expert faculty at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Easy to use, concise, and complete, this essential manual keeps you current with new guidelines, practice parameters, pharmacology, and more. The 23rd Edition of this portable reference continues to be the most widely used and most recognized pediatric reference worldwide—an indispensable resource for pediatric residents, students, nurses, and all healthcare professionals who treat young patients.

Key Features

• Trusted for 70 years for fast, accurate information on pediatric diagnosis and treatment.
• New audio case files: Listen to residents and faculty at The Johns Hopkins Hospital discuss case studies and healthcare disparities based on topics from this bestselling book.
• The popular and comprehensive Pediatric Drug Formulary, updated by Carlton K. K. Lee, PharmD, MPH, provides the latest in pharmacologic treatment of pediatric patients.
• Outline format ensures you’ll find information quickly and easily, even in the most demanding circumstances.

Portable and easy to consult, The Johns Hopkins Manual® of Gynecology and Obstetrics is a trusted on-the-spot reference for virtually any issue you’ll encounter in obstetrics, high-risk obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive endocrinology, infertility, and gynecologic oncology. The updated 6th Edition has been reorganized for quick reference, and contains thoroughly revised information culled from the collective expertise of residents and attending physicians at The Johns Hopkins University.

KEY FEATURES

• New sections on female pelvic medicine/reconstructive surgery and general surgery in obstetrics and gynecology.
• New chapters cover multifetal pregnancy, substance abuse, psychiatric diseases, neoplastic diseases, hereditary cancer syndromes, and more.
• Easy-to-use outline format modeled after The Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics.
• Used with confidence for nearly 20 years by house officers, medical students, and practitioners who deal with obstetric and gynecologic diseases and disorders.