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

Make the most effective diagnostic and therapeutic decisions quickly and efficiently!

Find answers fast with The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 8th Edition, your go-to resource for the effective medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. Using the proven 5-Minute format, it provides rapid access to information on diagnosis, treatment, medications, follow-up, and associated factors for more than 500 diseases and conditions. The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult is designed to help you make quick, accurate decisions every day helping you save time and offer every patient the best possible care.

Key Features

• Get quick access to all-new topics, including Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Vaccine Refusal, Zika Virus, Chikungunya Virus, Transgender Youth, and Follow-up of NICU Graduates.
• Reorganized and updated appendix includes unique identifiers for dozens of genetic conditions, associated inheritance patterns, specific gene(s) involved, mechanism of a disease, descriptions of the associated clinical findings, and a Glossary of Genetic Syndromes important for the care of children.
• Find the answers you need quickly thanks to an intuitive, at-a-glance format, with concise, bulleted text; ICD-10 codes; FAQs; and much more.
• Consult The 5-Minute Educator appendix for guidance in the clinical teaching and instruction of trainees at all levels so they can provide efficient, practical and accessible consultations in a busy clinical setting.
• Written by experts in the field of pediatrics and associated subspecialties and published by the leader in medical content

ABC of Diabetes, 7th Edition, provides primary care practitioners with a practical guide to all aspects of diabetes including the aetiology, diagnosis and management of Types 1 and 2 diabetes, detection and prevention, and the organization of care and support.

New to this Edition

• Advances in diabetes care take place at a rapid rate and this new edition is updated throughout to cover the latest evidence-based information for contemporary practice.
• A new chapter describes the management of severe and complex obesity complicated by diabetes and the management of patients through bariatric surgery.
• It also covers the growing number of devices and digital technology, including health informatics, that can assist in diabetes care and provides evidence of their benefit.
• With more links to useful websites and resources online, it is now easier than ever to keep up-to-date with changes.

Key Features

• A comprehensive view of the practical issues relating to diagnosis and treatment of diabetes together with very practical advice on the management of its complications
• Covers the early recognition of diabetes and cardiovascular risk as well as preventing complications specific to diabetes
• Addresses the need to deliver diabetes care in a multidisciplinary setting, including the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework, and reflects the increasing emphasis on self-management and patient-centred care, particularly as it relates to lifestyle changes, glycaemic control and patient choice over treatment options
• Contains information on retinopathy, peripheral neuropathies, autonomic neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy, cardiovascular disease, pregnancy and many more
• Sections include Insulin treatment, Hypoglycemia, Diabetic ketoacidosis and management of diabetes during pregnancy
• Gives concise and clear explanations and full-color images

This well established introduction to nutrition and special diets has been fully updated and revised.

Key Features

• Contains new charts, illustrations and guidelines on all aspects of nutrition that affect heart disease, blood pressure, and chronic diseases such as diabetes and some types of cancer.
• Contains the current nutritional recommendations for pregnancy and infant feeding as well as advice for children and adults.
• Covers nutritional deficiencies in developing and affluent countries, as well as eating disorders and obesity.
• A comprehensive guide for general practitioners, dieticians, nurses, and all junior medical staff.

Perfect for the non-specialist, Accident and Emergency Radiology focuses on common injuries and those abnormalities that are frequently overlooked or misinterpreted in the emergency department and gives key indicators when a radiologist should be consulted.

Using a concise and systematic approach, it explains how to examine and accurately interpret x-rays. Each section focuses on the basic radiographs required, important anatomy, normal variants, a system for inspecting suggested views, types of injury, and ends with a summary of key points. This latest update is based on the 3rd edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates!

Key Features

• Aims to provide simple and systematic approaches to the evaluation of Emergency Department radiographs.
• Valuable not only to physicians working in the Emergency Department but to others including radiologists, orthopaedic surgeons, and some pediatricians too.
• Provides greater coverage of chest radiology.
• Features more conceptual line drawings, tables, and summary charts, and improved quality of images.
• Skull section includes a comprehensive set of illustrative drawings and radiographs which can assist with the accurate assessment and interpretation of an infant's or toddler's skull films.
• Key Points summary at the end places an additional emphasis on a particularly subtle sign or appearance that is either not widely known or is regularly overlooked.
• Emphasizes pitfalls and associated abnormalities.

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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.

New edition of a comprehensive text: an ideal resource for the occupational health professional!

An updated and comprehensive guide to occupational and environmental injuries and illnesses, their diagnosis and treatment, and preventive measures in the workplace and community.

Complete and concise, this clinically focused book is the go-to reference for health care professionals in all specialties who diagnose and treat acute and chronic occupational and environmental injuries and illnesses. In addition to clinical management and toxicology, the text covers important aspects of multidisciplinary occupational health and safety practice including ethical principles, disability management, workers’ compensation, medical monitoring, and health risk assessment.

This new edition features

New chapters on the impact of climate change on workers, the changing nature of work, Total Worker Health, workplace violence, pediatric environmental health, genetic toxicology and responder safety and health latest approaches to prevent workplace-related injuries through the application of ergonomic principles updated practical information on the toxic properties and clinical manifestations of industrial materials and environmental age

This study tool product is ideal for residents taking yearly in-service exams and national boards and for fellows and practitioners of orthopaedics as a refresher and study tool for the recertification exams. Content is the most important, need-to-know facts about orthopaedics. The information is organized by anatomic area with separate sections for pediatrics, basic science, trauma, disease processes, foot & ankle, hand, shoulder & elbow, sports, adult reconstruction, spine and tumors.

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 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.

Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, Eighth Edition, the world's #1 visual atlas of dermatology--updated to keep pace with today's practice

"...should serve as a standard against which all future atlases will be measured..." -- The New England Journal of Medicine review of an earlier edition.

More than 1,000 full-color photographs speed diagnosis of the dermatologic conditions most often encountered in primary care

One of the bestselling dermatology books in the world, this quick-reference clinical guide has virtually defined the field for thousands of physicians, dermatology residents, and medical students for more than three decades. Spanning the entire spectrum of skin problems, Fitzpatrick’s Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, Eighth Edition combines laser-precise color images of skin lesions along with an overview of epidemiology and pathophysiology, and detailed information on diagnosis and treatment.

Features:

• Approximately 1083 full-color images, with more than 40% new to this edition
• A color-coded 4-part organization facilitates review at a glance and includes helpful icons denoting the incidence and morbidity of the disease
• ICD-10 codes are included for each disease
• Thoroughly updated coverage of etiology, pathogenesis, management, and therapy
• Many images highlight skin disease in different ethnic populations

If you’ve been looking for a unique combination text, clinical reference, and color atlas that spans the entire field of dermatology, and has been trusted by thousands of clinicians and students, your search ends here.

With practical coverage of both adult and pediatric fractures, Handbook of Fractures, Sixth Edition is the must-have reference for residents and anyone—nurse practitioners and physician assistants, for example—in either the orthopaedic or emergency medicine setting. Easy-to-read review provides fast access to information on all aspects of fracture management and classification—from anatomy and mechanism of injury to clinical and radiologic evaluation and treatment.

Key Features:

• Includes all major fracture classifications systems, and covers special topics such as multiple trauma, gunshot wounds, pathologic and periprosthetic fractures, and orthopaedic analgesia.
• Features a concise, bulleted structure for efficient review of fractures throughout the body.
• Packed with illustrations, quick-reference charts, tables, diagrams, and bulleted lists.
• Widely used by orthopaedic residents and surgeons, orthopaedic trauma fellows, primary care and emergency medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants
• Visualize key aspects of fracture management with abundant illustrations.
• Access vital information through quick-reference charts, tables, diagrams, and bulleted lists.
• Chapters on intraoperative imaging and basic science of fracture healing.
• Special topics such as multiple trauma, gunshot wounds, pathologic and periprosthetic fractures, and orthopedic analgesia.
• Quickly find the information you need with consistently organized chapters covering epidemiology, anatomy, mechanism of injury, clinical evaluation, radiologic evaluation, classification, treatment, and management of complications.

It is one of the most popular guides to the essential facts about all drugs used to treat anxiety, depression, bipolar disorders, psychotic disorders, substance abuse disorders, sleep disorders, dementia, and attention deficit disorder. This latest update is based on the 6th edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Handbook of Psychiatric Drug Therapy gives specific prescribing recommendations—including dosage and duration of use—for individual drugs. Tables provide at-a-glance information and a disease-specific table of contents directs readers quickly to relevant drug chapters.

Key Features

• Disease-specific index at the front directs readers to major discussions of clinical disorders and drugs used to treat them
• Extensive tables present key findings on clinical trials, indications, dosage, efficacy and side effects
• Invaluable resource to psychiatrists, primary care providers and for other health professionals who are involved in the management of patients with mental disorders
• Focused on the major classes of drugs used in clinical practice

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

This information-packed, easy-to-use pocket guide serves both as a reference for nurses working in clinical settings and as a student text for programs that offer condensed coverage of health assessment. Organized by body systems, the focus of this updated edition remains on assessing, documenting, and reporting the current status and changes in the condition of patients for all age groups.

Key Features

• Added focus on pain assessment and documentation, which is now required by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO).
• Expanded coverage of dental history and problems, obesity and diabetes, assessment of mental symptoms and behavior, and abuse and/or neglect.
• Additional color figures further illustrate procedures. Tables and appendices are revised and updated.
• More pediatric coverage on breast development for children, abuse, and asthma.
• More geriatric coverage on assessing edema, circulation and skin problems, nutritional needs, medications, and vitamins.
• Focuses on health promotion and wellness, community resources, payment mechanisms, specialized communication techniques based on age, ethnicity, and culture, and the use of alternative and complementary therapies.
• Clinical alert sections detail, in color, special instructions for assessments or concerns related to findings.

With Skyscape's patented smARTlink™ technology, RnAssess4™ 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 wherever you go!

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.

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!

Mobilization Notes: A Rehabilitation Specialist's Pocket Guide provides the rehabilitation specialist with innovative intervention strategies that are designed to address impairments in joint mobility. This latest update is based on the 1st edition and 2009 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Arranged by anatomic region, it provides an overview of functional anatomy and joint kinematics for the spine and extremities. For each mobilization technique, a detailed description of patient and clinician position along with photographs that include force vector arrows and points of stabilization is provided.

Key Features

• Organized by joint with anatomic diagrams and review tables of osteokinematic and arthrokinematic motions
• Includes an eclectic blend of joint mobilization techniques taken from a variety of manual therapy approaches
• Covers an innovative collection of joint mobilization techniques designed to address both accessory and physiologic motion with suggestions for modifications to meet unique demands
• Offers descriptive diagrams and tables that may be used to guide clinical decision-making when determining the efficacy, safety, and most appropriate use of joint mobilization procedures
• Provides a summary of the current best evidence as it relates to the clinical performance of joint mobilization
• Includes the full continuum of joint mobilization, including both thrust and non-thrust techniques

Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements provides the busy health care provider with detailed information for approximately 300 commonly used herbal products and natural supplements, including 20 herbal products and natural supplements. It incorporates authoritative information on common names, pronunciations, scientific names, origins, uses (reported and investigational), forms, dosages, contraindications, side effects and adverse reactions, interactions with herbs, drugs, foods, and lab tests, client considerations, pharmacology (pharmacokinetics, chemical components and actions) and references for every drug. With the increased usage of herbal therapies enjoyed by individuals, this resource is packed with easy-to-find herbal information and is a must-have for any clinician.

Reviewed by nurses and herbalists alike, this authoritative resource presents herb and supplement profiles in a convenient, A-Z format for fast reference. Updated, streamlined design helps you find information quickly, and a new systematic pregnancy and breastfeeding classification offers the latest guidelines for this special client population.. This latest update is based on the 4th edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates!

Key Features

• A pregnancy classification system from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration allows you to analyze herbs individually and provides a consistent formula to decide which herbs should be used
• Updated content throughout includes the latest uses, actions, dosages, contraindications, side effects/adverse reactions, interactions, pharmacology, alerts, and references
• Pediatric Herbal Use appendix covers uses, guidelines, and expanded pediatric and adolescent information for 32 herbs
• Drug/Herb Interaction appendix lists known drug and herb interactions for herbs included in the handbook to ensure client safety
• Updated references and information from new studies make this a reliable source for herbal content
• Alert icons warn you of potentially dangerous reactions that could threaten your clients’ health
• Popular Herb, Pregnancy, and Pediatric icons help you find relevant content quickly for common herbs and herbs for special populations
• Includes a Pediatric Herbal Use appendix with general guidelines and cautions regarding use of herbs in children
• Features a Drug-Herb Interaction Table to supply information on known drug-herb interactions
• A comprehensive index of herbal terms allows you to look up an herb by its common or scientific name, as well as by condition
• Provides a Glossary of herbal terms to clarify dose and form terminology unique to herbals and natural supplements
• Lists Poison Centers to aid in obtaining help quickly for potentially lethal use of plant products
• Identifies Herb-Lab Test Interferences in each herb monograph to supply information on known herbal interferences on most lab tests in use today

Find critical respiratory care information fast! Mosby's Respiratory Care PDQ, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive and precise, this portable guide provides rapid access to vital respiratory procedures, facts, and formulas with an emphasis on critical care. Easily access all the information on your smartphone or tablet with the option to bookmark frequently accessed topics. Whether you use it as a clinical resource, a study tool, or a quick refresher, this full-color resource offers quick access to just the right amount of practical, must-know information – essential for boosting your confidence at the point of care.

A quick-reference format provides all of the key information you need with fast-access to respiratory care guidelines, including assessment, arterial blood gases, EKGs, medications, and PFTs. You’ll also find essential information on pulmonary diseases, equipment disinfection, and neonatal and pediatric care.

KEY FEATURES

• PDQ mobile reference guide perfect for the fast-paced clinical setting.
• Robust indices, table of contents and section menus make it easy to quickly locate key information within each section.
• Full-color design includes illustrations and clarifies important facts to help you easily find what you need.
• Commonly used and updated clinical information, including tables, formulas, equations, algorithms, and lab values – all necessary to deliver safe and efficient care.
• Designed for speed with much of the data organized into fast-access charts and tables.
• The entire scope of adult pulmonary care is included with a section on Neo/Peds.
• Sections include Diseases, ABG’s, Hemodynamics, Lab Values, PFT’s, X-rays, Mechanical Ventilation, Formulas, & much more!

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• AARC Clinical Practice Guidelines content has been redesigned into easy-to-use, compact algorithms.
• The latest asthma guidelines
• Increased coverage of neonatal and pediatric care
• Expanded BLS and ACLS protocols; updated medications, therapies, and therapeutic devices; and updated ventilator modes
• More formulas and facts than in the previous edition

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

"Neurological Differential Diagnosis: A Prioritized Approach" provides a practical, problem-based differential diagnosis for the entire spectrum of neurological disease.

The unique aspect of this resource is that the differential diagnosis lists are prioritized by listing the most common possibilities first. Furthermore, less common diagnoses that are potentially fatal or disabling in the acute period (diagnoses that "you don't want to miss") are also highlighted. Moreover, each differential also contains characteristics that help distinguish the specific diagnoses.

Key Features

• Invaluable resource to practitioners and medical trainees with an interest in neurological diagnosis, including neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry residents, also internal medicine, primary care or family medicine residents, and, of course, medical students.
• Contains concise information to assist the practitioner in prioritizing likely diagnoses when encountering a patient complaining of neurological problems or deficits.
• A marvelous example of providing the practical and probabilistic approach to patients with disorders of the nervous system.
• The most common and the most dangerous disorders are given greater weight than rare or slowly evolving conditions that are less urgent.
• Each differential also contains characteristics that help distinguish the specific diagnoses.

For more than 25 years, Dr. Charles Ciccone has been the forerunner in helping physical therapists explore how medications affect patient rehabilitation.

And he’s been updating his text ever since to make sure you stay on the brink of science and innovation as drug changes occur every day and expectations for your role continually evolve.

Pharmacology in Rehabilitation, 5th Edition, you’ll find even more case studies, review questions, information on vitamins and supplements, and expanded coverage of chemotherapy and cancer treatments.

Key Features

• Understand the benefits and adverse effects of medications commonly taken by patients receiving physical rehabilitation.
• Know the latest changes in traditional treatment paradigms for specific diseases.
• Discover how and why various medications are being used in new ways.

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.

Designed to offer essential information on-the-spot, where it's needed most! RAPID ACLS, 2nd Edition, Revised Reprint is now updated to reflect the 2010 emergency cardiovascular care guidelines contains a broad range of topics pertaining to advanced cardiac life support including information on airway management, pharmacology, vascular access, ECGs, electrical therapy, acute coronary syndromes, and special resuscitation situations. Loaded with tables, mnemonics, and algorithms throughout, it is ideal for use in clinical practice or during an ACLS course.

Key Features

• Revised and unique treatment algorithms reflect the 2010 emergency cardiovascular care guidelines and illustrate the necessary sequential steps in treating patients in emergency situations
• Over 70 tables throughout the text including dysrhythmias and cardiac medications provide the basics of dysrhythmias and medications at a glance
• Commonly used but rarely memorized information broken down into tables, algorithms, and acronyms help the user rapidly locate essential information
• Includes 6 interactive flowcharts which act as step-by-step decision support tool

This innovative, easy-to-access, pocket guide of essential assessment and treatment information is the ideal patient-side tool for students and rehabilitation clinicians. It's chocked full of critical information that you are unlikely to memorize, but always need close at hand when treating patients.

Key Features

• Features 8 sections - Assessment & Evaluation, Cardiopulmonary, Musculoskeletal, Neuromuscular, Integumentary, Lab Tests, Medications, References & Index
• Sections are Organized by body system, with sections on normal laboratory values and common traditional and alternative medications.
• Covers equipment techniques and treatments.
• Includes normative values, medications, evaluation information, treatment guidelines, appropriate outcomes, and CPT codes for proper reimbursement.
• Section on Integumentary system covers assessment, classification of burn injury, stages & etiology of pressure wounds and many more.

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

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.

Screening Notes is a quick and user-friendly source for clinical implementation that is appropriate for all healthcare providers, regardless of practice setting. It empowers students and clinicians with the skills needed to thoroughly screen for medical conditions that may be outside their scope of practice. This handy reference also helps them to be more cognizant of the signs and symptoms of pathology that may influence their future interventions with their own clients.

Key Features

• Puts information about the most common signs and symptoms of pathology at the provider's fingertips. "Red flags" compartmentalize pathologies that would be most probable in various stages of an individual’s life, helping the provider make clinical decisions that are prudent.
• Body systems (musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, pulmonary, integumentary, gastrointestinal, hepatic, endocrine, and urologic) are covered within each of the life span sections.
• Includes questionnaires, lists and charts of signs and symptoms, and diagrams of methods of palpation of visceral structures.
• Includes normative values and standardized screening tools.

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!

• Continuously updated dosing guidelines on a variety of medications, including antimicrobial, cardiovascular, and psychiatric agents - plus many more!
• Rapidly access commonly used medications by indication, pharmacologic class or by generic or U.S. or Canadian brand name.
• Informative monographs with the latest information on indications and dosage (including renal and hepatic dosage adjustments) as well as sections on pregnancy, breastfeeding and comparative pricing.
• 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!

In any venue - the field, the gym, the ice rink - rely on this handy resource, Sport Notes Field and Clinical Examination Guide to examine and treat your patients. It’s packed with all of the information you need to quickly respond to any situation, available on your mobile device to fit in your kit, so you can always have it at hand.

With 8 sections and nearly 250 illustrations and photographs, most in full color, insure you can find just what you're looking for. This latest update is based on the 2008 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates!

Key Features

• The vital clinical information you need!
• Includes - skin disorders, pre-participation physical examination, eating disorder signs and symptoms, muscular and visceral referral patterns, and many more!
• Contains 8 sections
  • Screening
  • Equipment
  • Emergency
  • Integumentary
  • Ortho
  • Pathology
  • Modalities
  • Taping & Wrapping

This unique reference provides instant access to reliable information on herbs, minerals, vitamins, amino acids, probiotics, enzymes, over-the-counter hormones, and other dietary supplements commonly used by consumers. Health care professionals can quickly find a supplement by searching an A-to-Z list and get succinct information on claims, indications, scientific evidence, benefits, adverse effects, contraindications, drug interactions, and dosage, as well as answers to frequently asked questions.

Designed for quick consultation, The 5-Minute Orthopaedic Consult, Third Edition covers more than 250 conditions, disorders, and diseases routinely seen by orthopaedic surgeons, orthopaedists, primary care physicians, and physical therapists. Topics present disease or condition history, epidemiology, assessing the patient, diagnosis, treatment, therapy, and other important information.

KEY FEATURES

• Find the answers you need quickly thanks to an intuitive at-a-glance format with concise, bulleted text, ICD-10 codes, FAQs, and much more.
• Written by experts in the field of orthopaedics and associated subspecialties.
• Reliable, go-to resource for clinicians in orthopaedic surgery, primary care, family medicine, emergency medicine, nursing, and physical therapy.

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.

Internists, family physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists will find this unparalleled, authoritative resource has everything needed to understand and treat asthma in children and adults.

Key Features

• Learn asthma care essentials - from top experts at the Partners Asthma Center. Ideal resource for preparing for certification as an asthma educator (AE-C).
• Important information on how to develop an asthma action plan based on the principles of assessing and treating asthma attacks
• Designed into two major sections - "The Fundamentals" and "Practical Aspects of Asthma Care"
• Section "The Fundamentals" covers what asthma is and its relation to allergies, making the diagnosis of asthma, defining the severity of asthma, the medications used to treat asthma with their potential side-effects, and use of these medications in a stepwise approach based on the severity of asthma
• Section "Practical Aspects of Asthma Care" covers various points - identifying and avoiding allergens in the home, work environments or school, how to use metered-dose inhaler or a Diskus, asthma action plans and many more!
• Information on Inhalers and inhalation aids, Diagnosis and staging ambulatory asthma treatment, Managing pediatric and adult asthma, including asthmatic attacks
• Section-ending Q&As that simulate the types of questions likely to appear on the National Asthma Educators Certification Board Exam
• Series of case discussions which test your knowledge by asking you to assume the role of an asthma educator
• Goal of this resource is to provide you with the tools to become an asthma educator

Effective management of the human hand depends on accurate diagnosis. This latest update is based on the 4th edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

To perform a successful examination, medical personnel need a sound knowledge of the anatomical principles relevant to this complex structure. The Hand: Anatomy, Examination, and Diagnosis, Fourth Edition provides that vital information. Published in partnership with the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, this concise, reference is a practical guide to evaluating a wide variety of common hand injuries and diseases.

Key Features

• This clearly written, thoroughly researched, full-color resource will be invaluable to orthopaedic, plastic, hand, and general surgeons, as well as emergency room physicians, family physicians, physical therapists, medical students, and nurses
• Full-color line drawings and photographs
• The interior design has been completely overhauled; this edition is in full color for the first time
• The anatomy content can be found in its own section, rather than scattered throughout the text
• An appendix section provides a list of abbreviations and recommended readings

Prepared by Washington University house staff and faculty, this survival guide provides all the essential information that every intern needs from Day 1 on the wards, including an overview of the residency, a breakdown of common floor calls, consults, and emergency room calls, a typical daily routine, examination of the head and neck, and information on otology, rhinosinusitis, surgical treatment of thyroid and parathyroid disease, antimicrobial therapy, and pediatric otolaryngology. Content includes algorithms, useful formulas, patient notes, top ten work-ups, common calls and complaints, key points on most common problems, essentials of what not to miss and when to refer/call for help, and tricks of the trade.

The Washington Manual® Psychiatry Survival Guide prepared by Washington University house staff and faculty, this handy guide is a quick reference for the hospital practice of psychiatric medicine in the inpatient psychiatric, consultation, and emergency settings. It addresses the most frequently encountered problems in these clinical settings and offers practical suggestions on how to obtain information, generate reasonable differential diagnoses, discriminate among diagnoses, and document clinical decisions.

Coverage includes style pointers on patient interview skills and clinical reasoning algorithms for the emergency setting. This electronic guide offers valuable assistance in documenting patient encounters in difficult medical-legal situations.

Prepared by Washington University house staff, this survival guide provides all the essential information that every intern needs from Day 1 on the wards, including the neurologic history and physical examination, a neuroanatomy review, specific neuroimaging techniques and diagnostic tools, and clinical information on stroke, seizures, vertigo, dizziness, and ataxia, acute vision loss, headache, movement disorders, dementia, and sleep disorders. Content includes algorithms, useful formulas, patient notes, top ten work-ups, common calls and complaints, key points on most common problems, essentials of what not to miss and when to refer/call for help, and tricks of the trade. A listing of neurological Internet resources is included.

Expertly bridging the gap between basic science and clinical information Williams Textbook of Endocrinology 14th Edition brings together an outstanding collection of world-renowned authors to provide authoritative discussions of the full spectrum of adult and pediatric endocrine system disorders. New chapters and significant revisions throughout keep you up to date with recent advances in medications therapies clinical trials and more. This essential reference is a must-have resource for endocrinologists endocrine surgeons gynecologists internists pediatricians and other clinicians who need current comprehensive coverage of this multifaceted field.

Key Features

• Up to date with recent advances in medications, therapies, and clinical trials.
• Provides state-of-the-art coverage of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, metabolic bones disorders, obesity, thyroid disease, testicular disorders, newly defined adrenal disorders and much more - all designed to help you provide optimal care to every patient.
• Contains new chapters on Global Burden of Endocrine Disease, Navigation of Endocrine Guidelines, and Transgender Endocrinology.
• Includes significant updates to the Diabetes section, including a new chapter on Physiology of Insulin Secretion and greater coverage of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Presents current information in a highly illustrated, user-friendly format for quick reference.