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Libros en Ciencias de la Salud

  • Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada

    • 5 Edición
    • Chandrakant P. Shah
    • Inglés
    Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada by Dr. Chandrakant Shah is a book that is well-known and highly respected by health sciences professionals, instructors, and students throughout the country. The book is an excellent primer for beginning healthcare professionals and an important reference for administrators and practitioners who must understand health and the health system in order to work effectively within it.Dr. Shah has been diligent in updating previous versions of the text, thus making each edition essential reading for Canadians and their international colleagues who want to learn about health and health care in Canada. This edition is no exception. All of the chapters in this new fifth edition have been revised and updated to reflect the state of health care in Canada and the issues and trends faced by anyone involved with health care delivery across the country.A unique feature of this text is that it connects health promotion and prevention models with the policy and history of the healthcare system. Dr. Shah leads the reader through the complex determinants of health and its measurement to the development of contemporary health care in Canada. The assiduous attention to detail ensures that the most current legislation, policy recommendations, and reports are included. Dr. Shah describes past and present thoughts and events that will influence the future development of health and health care in Canada.Readers can progress one chapter at a time, or can easily reference facts about individual topics by referring to the detailed table of contents or the index. This comprehensive work about the Canadian healthcare system should be required reading for students in all health disciplines, including medicine and nursing.NEW TO THIS EDITION:* Health indicators* Demography of Canadian population* Telehealth* Osteoporosis* West Nile Virus* SARS* Mental health* Environmental health issues including climate change, greenhouse gases, and ozone depletion* Food quality* Multiple chemical sensitivity* Romanow Report* Kirby Report* First Ministers' Accord on Health Care Renewal, 2003

  • Shiatsu for Midwives

    • 1 Edición
    • Suzanne Yates + 1 más
    • Inglés
    This book provides an in-depth guide to how shiatsu can form part of modern maternity care. Based on traditional Chinese and Japanese approaches to health, shiatsu can be used to alleviate many of the chronic symptoms of pregnancy such as backache, insomnia and morning sickness. It can also help during labour and birth, as well as relieve postnatal problems such as heavy postpartum bleeding or difficulties with lactation. A shiatsu treatment simply encourages the body to balance its own natural energy by gentle stimulation of its energy pathways, the meridians - the same pathways used in acupuncture. The age-old midwifery skills of touching and stroking are an intrinsic part of nurturing and cherishing - the essence of 'being with woman'. Shiatsu takes this simple healing technique one stage further. You will find tips on how to use core midwifery skills of touch, gentle pressure and massage in a more systematic and focused way. The authors also discuss the actions necessary to establish its use in a maternity unit, including training and professional issues.Suzanne Yates is the leading shiatsu teacher world-wide to have made maternity work her main focus. She has been working with midwives and pregnant women for the last 13 years and developed a course of applied shiatsu for midwives that fulfils NMC requirements for training. Tricia Anderson, midwife lecturer and supervisor and past editor of Practising Midwife, has collaborated with her to ensure the content is appropriate to midwives' Code of Practice. This is a key text for anyone wishing to explore this new area.

  • Anesthesia and Critical Care

    An Exam Revision Companion
    • 1 Edición
    • Christopher Dodds + 1 más
    • Inglés
    A book of practice MCQs, Short Answer Questions and Clinical Scenarios for trainee anaesthetists taking the FRCA and similar exams.

  • Clinical Guide to Nutrition and Dietary Supplements in Disease Management

    • 1 Edición
    • Jennifer R. Jamison
    • Inglés
    This is a text which provides a contemporary approach to the use of lifestyle, herbal and nutritional interventions in health care. While conventional health care has long classified many nutritional and herbal remedies as folklore, there is increasing scientific evidence to support a number of 'old wives tales'.This book demonstrates the biological plausibility of using supplements in clinical care and supports the scientific validity of such interventions by referring to clinical trials. It provides the health professional with therapeutic protocols that can be used to manage or support other treatment regimes in promoting health, preventing and treating disease. The book is divided in to 3 parts. Part 1 considers the principles of nutritional intervention. Part 2 list prevalent diseases and provides a therapeutic protocol for their management. Part 3 lists nutrients (and some frequently used herbs) and seeks to catalogue the indications, doses, interactions and side effects that require consideration when providing safe and effective clinical care.

  • Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anaesthesia

    Anaesthesia in a Nutshell
    • 1 Edición
    • Elizabeth Haxby + 2 más
    • Inglés
    This fourth book in the series. It provides essential information for anaesthetic trainees on their specialist orthopaedic rotation or as a reference book for FRCA examination candidates.Edited by: George Hall, MB BS PhD FIBiol FRCAChairman and Professor of Anaesthesia, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UKP Neville Robinson, FRCAConsultant Anaesthetist, Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex, UK

  • Handbook of Pain Management

    A Clinical Companion to Textbook of Pain
    • 1 Edición
    • Ronald Melzack + 1 más
    • Inglés
    The essential companion to the Textbook of Pain, this book provides the pain specialist and trainee with an easy-to-access overview on the management complexities, assessment tools and multiple treatment modalities that are currently available to the physician dealing with the full spectrum of pain syndromes. The emphasis throughout is on the clinical aspects of pain medicine. It contains the core information that the practitioner and trainee needs. Each chapter is brief and succinctly written, with key information provided in accessible tables and summary charts. The book is divided into two main sections: clinical states (acute, chronic and cancer pain) and therapeutic aspects (pharmacological, surgical, physiotherapy, psychotherapy) - and it presents a rational, multidisciplinary approach to the management of pain.

  • Preparation and Revision for the DRCOG

    • 3 Edición
    • Janice Rymer + 3 más
    • Inglés
    A concise review of obstetrics and gynaecology structured to reflect the content of the DRCOG exam and written with that exam in mind.

  • De-stressing Doctors

    A Self-Management Guide
    • 1 Edición
    • Cary L. Cooper + 1 más
    • Inglés
    In a health care climate where patients are ever more demanding and resources increasingly difficult to access, it is a truism that stress is an inevitable part of the profession of the medical practitioner. Stressed doctors become ill and dissatisfied, and in consequence patients may also suffer. Eliminating a source of stress is acknowledged as the most effective approach to stress control, but this is not always a realistic option for doctors. This invaluable guide shows doctors how to effectively manage their stress, before they become distressed. The authors also acknowledge that doctors do not work in a social vacuum, and address the management, business and social positions doctors are expected to fulfil, in addition to their clinical role.De-stressing Doctors: a Self-management Guide will help every doctor to become their own stress manager by integrating stress control techniques into the day-to-day profession of medical practitioner.

  • Ethics in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

    • 2 Edición
    • Heather Draper + 1 más
    • Inglés
    A group of expert contributors have provided perspectives on areas of common concern to the anaesthetist and intensivist, and nursing staff, giving both the clinical and theoretical perspective. By understanding the underlying principles, the reader will be able to create their own framework from which to reach a decision. It is anticipated that the arguments given may challenge the reader's personal ethical stance. Those who are new to ethics will find the examples given help them to see how these underlying principles are put into everyday practice.

  • Extreme Clinic

    An Outpatient Doctor's Guide to the Perfect 7 Minute Visit
    • 1 Edición
    • Thomas N. Laurence
    • Inglés
    An authority from the front lines of outpatient medicine explains how to take control of a patient's visit, create an agenda for every encounter, and focus immediately and continually on the essence of the patient's illness. Abundant examples of problem-patients, potential disasters, and symptoms enable the reader to make the most of their limited time.

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