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VM01-210 Biomedical Engineering and Information Systems: Technologies, Tools and Applications.
  Shukla, Anupam/ 9781616920043
 
  The multidisciplinary field of biomedical engineering is critical to the advancement and continual evolution of medical tools and technologies. Bridging the disciplines of engineering and medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Information Systems: Technologies, Tools and Applications, informs researchers, clinicians, and practitioners of the latest developments in diagnostic tools, decision support systems, and intelligent devices that impact and redefine research in and delivery of medical services. Topics Covered *Vascular bioengineering *Biological effect of AC-DC electromagnetic fields *Social and ethical concerns of biomedical engineering *Biomedical watermarking *Electrical impedance tomography *Large medical data sets *Health information exchange *E-medical education *Artificial intelligence in medical field *Analysis and prediction of DNA
VM01-209 Human Resources in Healthcare, Health Informatics and Healthcare Systems.
  Kabene, Stefane M./ 9781615208852
 
  While many countries enjoy the benefits of modern healthcare systems and social and economic policies that improve life expectancy, many countries still have high maternal and infant mortality rates, struggle with infectious diseases, and face critical human resource shortages in healthcare. Human Resources in Healthcare, Health Informatics and Healthcare Systems addresses two major problems that threaten the health of the human race. The first of which is the lack of human resources in healthcare. We need to ensure that we have an adequate number of healthcare professionals who are highly motivated and properly trained. Furthermore, we need to ensure that they have the latest health technology at their disposal, which is the second major issue facing the world today. The world's most respected scholars and practitioners describe their experiences and propose possible theoretical and practical solutions in this relevant and timely handbook. Topics Covered *Human Resources Planning *Human Resource Management *E-health *Health Informatics *Telehealth *Distance Education as a Retention Strategy *Recruitment and Retention of Healthcare Professionals *Collaborative Research Model *Humanotics *Learning Healthcare Organization
VM01-186 Caring for the Elderly, 4-Vols/Set.
  Victor, Christina/ 9780415426428
 
 
100 Questions & Answers About Caring for Family or Friends with Cancer.
  Rose, Susannah L./ 9780763762575
 
  Whether you are a friend or relative of someone suffering from cancer, this book offers help. The only book available to provide both the professional healthcare giver's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Caring for Family or Friends with Cancer, Second Edition gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, home care, insurance, quality of life and more. This book, completely revised and updated for this new edition, is an invaluable resource for family and friends who are coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of cancer.
VM01-208 Cellular Automata and Complex Systems: Methods for Modeling Biological Phenomena.
  Bilotta, Eleonora/ 9781615207879
 
  Cellular Automata (CA) are a class of spatially and temporally discrete mathematical systems characterized by local interaction and synchronous dynamical evolution, which show complex behavior and are able to model biological phenomena. Cellular Automata and Complex Systems: Methods for Modeling Biological Phenomena describes the use of cellular automata to provide important insights into a vast range of physical, biological, social, economic and psychological phenomena. This book presents contemporary research on discrete dynamical systems such as one-dimensional and two-dimensional cellular automata and outlines how these systems can be exploited for artistic purposes, translating their mathematical configurations into music and visual media. Topics Covered *One-dimensional and two-dimensional cellular automata *Complexity and chaos in the cellular automata *Genetic algorithms and multi-state cellular automata *Artificial self-reproducing systems *Von Newmann and the problem of self-replication *From the cellular automata to the universal neuron Linguistics features and emergent structures *Translation of cellular automata into music and visual art *Animals and virtual worlds produced by using self-reproducers
VM01-207 Clinical Data Mining for Physician Decision Making and Investigating Health Outcomes: Methods for Prediction and Analysis.
  Cerrito, Patricia/ 9781615209057
 
  The investigation of healthcare databases can be used to examine physician decisions and develop evidence-based treatment guidelines that optimize patient outcomes. Clinical Data Mining for Physician Decision Making and Investigating Health Outcomes: Methods for Prediction and Analysis demonstrates how concern for detail in datasets and the use of data mining techniques can extract important and meaningful knowledge from healthcare databases. Basic information on processing data with step-by-step instructions is provided, allowing readers to use their own data and follow the instructions to find meaningful results. Topics Covered *Preprocessing of large, healthcare databases *Use of data mining techniques to investigate data *Time series methods *Dealing with large datasets *Patient compliance *Co-morbidities *Defining patient severity indices *Estimating probabilities of treatment outcomes *Relationship between treatment and outcome *Improving patient care
VM01-206 Intelligent Medical Technologies and Biomedical Engineering: Tools and Applications.
  Shukla, Anupam/ 9781615209774
 
  Technology has made it possible to bridge such distinct fields as engineering and medicine, creating systems with benefits that people could have never before imagined. Intelligent Medical Technologies and Biomedical Engineering: Tools and Applications helps young researchers and developers understand the basics of the field while highlighting the various developments over the last several years. Broad in scope and comprehensive in depth, this volume serves as a base text for any project or work into the domain of medical diagnosis or other areas of medical engineering. Topics Covered *Electrospinning: Development and Biomedical Applications *Applications of Robots in Surgery *Characterization of Surgical Actions involved in Mastoidectomy *ECG Data Analysis *Master And Slave Transluminal Endoscopic Robot (MASTER) for Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery *Using Ontologies in eHealth and Biomedicine *Venom and ECG signal processing *Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Medical Diagnosis *An intelligent algorithm for home sleep apnea test device *Hunting Drugs for Potent Antigens
VM01-205 Encyclopedia of the Eye, 4-Vols/Set.
  Besharse, Joseph/ 9780123741981
 
  As the first comprehensive reference for the eye, its support structures, diseases, and treatments, Encyclopedia of the Eye is an important resource for all visual scientists, ophthalmologists, and optometrists, as well as researchers in immunology, infectious disease, cell biology, neurobiology and related disciplines. This four-volume reference is unique in its coverage of information on all tissues important for vision, including the retina, cornea and lens. It also covers the physiological and pathophysiologic processes that affect all eye tissues. This Encyclopedia is invaluable for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are seeking an introduction to an area of eye research. Each chapter explains the basic concepts and provides references to relevant chapters within the Encyclopedia and more detailed articles across the wider research literature. The Encyclopedia is also particularly useful for visual scientists and practitioners who are researching a new area, seeking deeper understanding of important research articles in fields adjacent to their own, or reviewing a grant outside their immediate area of expertise. Contents The Encyclopedia contains more than 260 chapters in total across several sections. Sections include: Aqueous humor dynamics and optic nerve - edited by Ernst Tamm Comparative eye - edited by Barbara Battelle Immune Homeostasis of the eye - edited by Jerry Niederkorn Lens - edited by David Beebe Ocular Surface - edited by Henry Edelhauser Orbit - edited by Linda McLoon Retina - edited by Dean Bok & Joseph Besharse Retinal development - edited by Thomas Reh Vascular biology - edited by Patricia D'Amore Visual optics - edited by Peter Bex Vitreous - edited by Paul Bishop
VM01-204 Comprehensive Toxicology, 14-Vols/Set.
  McQueen, Charlene A./ 9780080468686
 
  In more than a decade since the publication of the first edition of Comprehensive Toxicology, an explosive increase in the knowledge of the effects of chemical and physical agents on biological systems has led to an increased understanding of normal cellular functions and the consequences of their perturbations. Revised and updated to reflect new advances in toxicology research and including content by some of the leading researchers in the field, the 14-volume second edition of Comprehensive Toxicology remains the premier resource for toxicologists in academia, medicine, and corporations. Rather than giving an alphabetical listing of compounds, Comprehensive Toxicology second edition provides a unique organ-systems structure that allows the user to explore the toxic effects of various substances on each human system, aiding in providing diagnoses and proving essential in situations where the toxic substance is unknown but its effects on a system are obvious. Comprehensive Toxicology second edition is the most complete and valuable toxicology work available to researchers today. Key Features *Contents updated and revised to reflect developments in toxicology research *Organized with a unique organ-system approach *Features full color throughout Brief Contents Volume 1 - General Principles (Bond) Volume 2 - Cellular and Molecular Toxicology (Ramos) Volume 3 - Toxicology Testing and Evaluation (Lamb) Volume 4 - Biotransformation (Guengerich) Volume 5 - Immune System Toxicology (Lawrence) Volume 6 - Cardiovascular Toxicology (Walker) Volume 7 - Renal Toxicology (Schnellmann) Volume 8 - Respiratory Toxicology (Yost) Volume 9 - Hepatic Toxicology (Roth/Ganey) Volume 10 - Gastrointestinal Toxicology (Hooser) Volume 11 - Reproductive and Endocrine Toxicology (Richburg/Hoyer) Volume 12 - Developmental Toxicology (Knudsen/Daston) Volume 13 - Nervous System and Behavioural Toxicology (Philbert) Volume 14 - Carcinogenesis (Roberts)
VM01-203 Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders, 3-Vols/Set.
  Kompoliti, Katie/ 9780123741011
 
  The Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders is a comprehensive reference work on movement disorders, encompassing a wide variety of topics in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and pharmacology. This compilation will feature more than 300 focused entries, including sections on different disease states, pathophysiology, epidemiology, genetics, clinical presentation, diagnostic tools, as well as discussions on relevant basic science topics. This Encyclopedia is an essential addition to any collection, written to be accessible for both the clinical and non-clinical reader. Academic clinicians, translational researchers and basic scientists are brought together to connect experimental findings made in the laboratory to the clinical features, pathophysiology and treatment of movement disorders. The Encyclopedia targets a broad readership, ranging from students to general physicians, basic scientists and Movement Disorder specialists.
VM01-202 Handbook of Research on Human Cognition and Assistive Technology: Design, Accessibility and Transdisciplinary Perspectives.
  Seok, Soonhwa/ 9781615208173
 
  With the unprecedented advancements in computing power coupled with the societal movement towards inclusive settings, there is no better time than today to strive for assistive technology equity in terms of universal implementation within a transdisciplinary perspective. The Handbook of Research on Human Cognition and Assistive Technology: Design, Accessibility and Transdisciplinary Perspectives marks a critical milestone in the history of implementation and practice of assistive technology. The intent of this book is to assist researchers, practitioners, and the users of assistive technology to augment the accessibility of assistive technology by implementing human cognition into its design and practice. Consequently, this book presents assistive technology as an intervention for people with disabilities from a transdisciplinary perspective. Topics Covered *Assistive technology *Human cognition *Learning disabilities *Simulation-based instruction *Social orthotics *Multi-Sensory Environments *Cognitive load *Disorientation issues *Text-to-speech software *Electronic portfolios
VM01-201 Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems.
  Pease, Wayne/ 9781605662664
 
  The Internet and other technological developments are now playing increasing roles in the management of knowledge within consumer health behavior and the delivery of health services. Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems provides multidisciplinary best practices and experiences in knowledge management relevant to the healthcare industry. A useful reference for field researchers, academicians, and healthcare practitioners, this Handbook of Research presents an in-depth examination of common approaches to shared problems in the management of knowledge within e-health services. Topics Covered *Biomedical knowledge management *Client-based treatment *Data mining methods in medical records *Electronic health records *Knowledge management in the healthcare industry *Healthcare disparities *Human factors in e-health systems *Integrated information systems *Mental health management *Theory and applications of biotelemetry *User driven e-health care *Web-decision support system
VM01-200 Ubiquitous Health and Medical Informatics: The Ubiquity 2.0 Trend and Beyond.
  Mohammed, Sabah/ 9781615207770
 
  Progress in ubiquitous computing, social networking, medical informatics and IT technologies has resulted in a new generation of healthcare systems. Ubiquitous Health and Medical Informatics: The Ubiquity 2.0 Trend and Beyond provides insight into the various trends, innovations, and organizational challenges of contemporary ubiquitous health and medical informatics. Contributions highlight changes to healthcare distribution that will significantly revolutionize the exchange between healthcare providers and consumers.
VM01-198 Performance Evaluation in BREAST CANCER: Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment.
  Eddie Y. K. Ng/ 9781588831569
 
  Breast cancer is a leading cause of death nowadays in women throughout the world. In developed countries it is most common type of cancer in women and second or third most common malignancy in developing countries. It is gradually increasing and remains as a significant public health concern. There are various modalities available to detect the presence of breast cancer these days. They are light (optical), sound (ultrasound), heat (thermogram), magnetism, attenuation, microwave, X-rays, nuclear, electrical impedance, computer modeling (inverse simulation), or a fusion of different methods and computer-aided diagnosis. This book covers most of the areas namely breast screening instrumentation, early reliable diagnosis, and therapeutic methods possible. The book has four parts. First part of the book covers different kinds of breast cancers and their pathology and diagnosis of the breast cancer using mammogram, ultrasound images, and electropotentials using advanced image processing techniques. Various methods used for the performance evaluation of the breast cancer diagnosis is discussed in second part of the book. Third part of the book focuses on diagnosis of malignancy in the breast using thermogram (revisit) and discrete temperature data on skin surface. Novel data mining and imaging techniques are used for the early detection of the malignancy. The application of robots for the detection of breast surgery, transmission of mammograms in a noisy channel with error correcting codes, and computational simulation of breast tumor detection are covered in final part four..
VM01-197 Healthcare and the Effect of Technology: Developments, Challenges and Advancements.
  Kabene, Stefane M./ 9781615207336
 
  Healthcare is significantly affected by technological advancements, as technology both shapes and changes health systems locally and globally. As areas of computer science, information technology, and healthcare merge, it is important to understand the current and future implications of health informatics. Healthcare and the Effect of Technology: Developments, Challenges and Advancements bridges the gap between today's empirical research findings and healthcare practice. It provides the reader with information on current technological integrations, potential uses for technology in healthcare, and the implications-both positive and negative-of health informatics for one's health. Technology in healthcare can improve efficiency, make patient records more accessible, increase professional communication, create global health networking, and increase access to healthcare. However, it is important to consider the ethical, confidential, and cultural implications technology in healthcare may impose. That is what makes this book is a must-read for policymakers, human resource professionals, management personnel, as well as for researchers, scholars, students, and healthcare professionals.
VM01-196 Pervasive and Smart Technologies for Healthcare: Ubiquitous Methodologies and Tools.
  Coronato, Antonio/ 9781615207657
 
  Pervasive healthcare is an emerging discipline concerning the application of wireless, mobile, and intelligent technologies to certain healthcare issues. Such issues within healthcare systems include the increased incidence of lifestyle-related diseases and chronic illnesses, the need to educate individuals on the management of their own health, the rise of consumerism in healthcare, and also the need to provide direct access to healthcare services, irrespective of time and place. Pervasive and Smart Technologies for Healthcare: Ubiquitous Methodologies and Tools provides insight from members of prestigious universities and research institutes around the world into possible solutions for the aforementioned pressures within today・s healthcare systems. Pervasive healthcare technologies are creating a new market for higher quality and less expensive healthcare applications, making this book ideal for ICT community members willing to design and develop advanced pervasive healthcare applications, and healthcare practitioners wanting to reorganize business processes within a healthcare system so that patients are diagnosed and treated more quickly and effectively.
VM01-195-2 Emerging Drugs and Targets for Alzheimer's Disease, Vol. 2: Neuronal Plasticity, Neuronal Protection and Other Miscellaneous Strategies.
  Martinez, Ana/ 9781849730648
 
 
VM01-195-1 Emerging Drugs and Targets for Alzheimer's Disease, Vol. 1: Beta-Amyloid, Tau Protein and Glucose Metabolism.
  Martinez, Ana/ 9781849730631
 
 
VM01-195 Emerging Drugs and Targets for Alzheimers Disease, 2-Vols/Set.
  Martinez, Ana/ 9781849730457
 
  Alzheimer?s disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder in the elderly. The Bloomberg School of Public Health recently estimated that over 26 million people were living with AD in 2006 and that the number will grow to 106 million by 2050. Interventions that delay onset by just one year could reduce the 2050 figure by 12 million. This demonstrates the importance and social need of finding an effective therapeutic intervention. Both volumes gather together some of the most promising examples of drugs now in pharmaceutical development, and new targets currently going through a validation process. It describes the discovery and development history of the disease modifying therapeutics most likely to reach the Alzheimer?s market in the next few years. It will be of interest to both those working in the pharmaceutical industry and in academia from graduate level onwards.
VM01-194 Cases on Health Outcomes and Clinical Data Mining: Studies and Frameworks.
  Cerrito, Patricia/ 9781615207237
 
  With the healthcare industry becoming increasingly more competitive, there exists a need for medical institutions to improve both the efficiency and the quality of their services. In order to do so, it is important to investigate how statistical models can be used to study health outcomes. Cases on Health Outcomes and Clinical Data Mining: Studies and Frameworks provides several case studies developed by faculty and graduates of the University of Louisville・s PhD program in Applied and Industrial Mathematics. The studies in this book use non-traditional, exploratory data analysis and data mining tools to examine health outcomes, finding patterns and trends in observational data. This book is ideal for the next generation of data mining practitioners.
VM01-192 Informatics in Oral Medicine: Advanced Techniques in Clinical and Diagnostic Technologies.
  Daskalaki, Andriani/ 9781605667331
 
  Advancing medical technologies are now developing cutting-edge computer applications useful to the field of oral studies. Informatics in Oral Medicine: Advanced Techniques in Clinical and Diagnostic Technologies provides innovative research techniques on current technologies in the management of problems in oral health and medicine. A unique and comprehensive reference source, this enriched collection contains valuable computational tools and the latest applications in dental and oral research topics such as artificial mouths, laser melting, and dentist appointment management.
VM01-188 Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare (D2H2).
  Acharya, U. Rajendra/ 9781588831583
 
  Various disciplines have been benefited by the advent of high-performance computing in achieving practical solutions to their problems and the area of healthcare is no exception to this. Signal processing, Image processing, and data mining tools have been developed to enhance the computational capabilities so as to help clinicians in diagnosis and treatment. Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare (D2H2) is and outgrowth of miniaturization and integration of instrumentation (wearable and implanted). The concept of D2H2 aims to improve the quality of patient care and patient care and patient wellness by transforming the delivery of healthcare from a central, hospital-based system to one that is more distributed and home-based. This integrative systems approach will revolutionize the practice of medicine in the new century, enabling the delivery of healthcare to patients anywhere in the world by integrating the disciplines of information technologies with disciplines of engineering and medical sciences. While using the envelope of techniques such as bio-computing, signal and image processing, communication, and healthcare informatics, D2H2 will facilitate the transition from central and hospital-based medical diagnosis and healthcare delivery to distributed diagnosis and home healthcare. The book has two major parts: Part I is dedicated on diagnostics and Part II is dedicated on home healthcare. The diagnostics part covers topics such as physiological signal analysis, image analysis and physiological modeling. Part II covers healthcare design and decision support and healthcare appliances, policy and budgets.
VM01-179 Adipose Tissue in Health and Disease.
  Leff, Todd A./ 9783527318575
 
  This timely and most comprehensive reference available on the topic covers all the different aspects vital in the fight against the global obesity epidemic. Following a look at adipose tissue development and morphology, the authors go on to examine its metabolic and endocrine functions and its role in disease. The final section deals with comparative and evolutionary aspects of the tissue. The result is an essential resource for cell and molecular biologists, physiologists, biochemists, pharmacologists, and those working in the pharmaceutical industry. Table of Contents Adipose Tissue Development and Morphology Metabolic Functions of Adipose Tissue Endocrine Functions of Adipose Tissue Adipose Tissue and Disease Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects of Adipose Tissue
VM01-176 Handbook of Materials For Nanomedicine.
  Torchilin, Vladimir/ 9789814267557
 
  The fast developing field of nanomedicine uses a broad variety of materials to serve as delivery systems for drugs, genes, and diagnostic agents. This book aims to collate all major available information about these materials, both still on experimental levels and already applied in patients. In addition, described in detail are the advantages and disadvantages of different material in nanomedicine and the area of applications where these materials could be utilized with a maximal success is suggested. Editors and individual authors of this book are internationally recognized authorities in related areas and thus provide the most balanced and up-to-date views. Contents: Organic Nanostructures: oPolymeric Nanostructures: *Synthetic Polymer-Drug Conjugates for Human Therapy (K Ulbrich & V Zubr) *Dendrimer-Based Nanomaterials (K Nam et al.) *Combinatorial Polymer and Lipidoid Libraries for Nanomedicine (J J Green et al.) oLipid-Based and Other Organic Structures: *Liposomal Nanomedicines (V Torchilin) *Nanomedicines from Polymeric Amphiphiles (I F Uchegbu et al.) *Materials for Nanoemulsions and Their Influence on the Biofate (E Rozentur et al.) *Inorganic Nanostructures: oMetal Structures: *Biomedical Applications of Multifunctional Silica-Based Gold Nanoshells (L R Bickford et al.) *Metal Oxide Nanoarchitectures for Biotemplating Application (K C Popat & T A Desai) oMiscellaneous Inorganic Structures: *Fluorescent Quantum Dots for Biomedical Applications (K Kenniff et al.) *Lipid Coated Microbubbles and Nanodroplets as Tools for Biomedical Nanotechnology (E Unger & T O Matsunaga) *Biomimetics: Bio-Inspired Engineering of Human Tissue Scaffolding for Regenerative Medicine (D W Green & B Ben-Nissan) and other papers
VM01-160 Health Communication, 5-Vols/Set.
  Kreps, Gary L./ 9781847875785
 
  Health communication inquiry has developed over the last thirty years as a rapidly growing, active, and important interdisciplinary area of study concerned with the powerful roles performed by human and mediated communication in health care delivery and health promotion. Health communication is an exciting applied behavioral science area of communication inquiry that examines the ways communication influences health, health care delivery, and health promotion. Research concerning health communication is often problem-focused, designed to identify, examine, and solve serious health care and health promotion problems. Volume One: Health Communication in the Delivery of Health Care focuses on amongst other things consumer-provider health communication, interprofessional relations and team work in health care services and the role of communication in both leading to and reducing disparities in health outcomes. Volume Two: Health Communication and Health Promotion focuses on topics such as the role of communication in public health promotion campaigns, social marketing strategies and the role of media in health promotion. Volume Three: Health Risk Communication focuses on theory and research on health risk awareness, health risk prevention and health risk reduction. Volume Four: Health Communication and New Information Technologies (eHealth) focuses on the use of technology in the dissemination of relevant health information and the advent of empowered e-patients, and ehealth policy and regulation. Volume Five: Health Communication and the Health Care System
VM01-159 Encyclopedia of Perception, 2-Vols/Set.
  Goldstein, E. Bruce/ 9781412940818
 
  Because of the ease with which we perceive, many people see perception as something that ：just happens.； However, even seemingly simple perceptual experiences involve complex underlying mechanisms, which are often hidden from our conscious experience. These mechanisms are being investigated by researchers and theorists in fields such as psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and philosophy. A few examples of the questions posed by these investigations are, What do infants perceive? How does perception develop? What do perceptual disorders reveal about normal functioning? How can information from one sense, such as hearing, be affected by information from another sense, such as vision? How is the information from all of our senses combined to result in our perception of a coherent environment? What are some practical outcomes of basic research in perception? These are just a few of the questions this encyclopedia will consider, as it presents a comprehensive overview of the field of perception for students, researchers, and professionals in psychology, the cognitive sciences, neuroscience, and related medical disciplines such as neurology and ophthalmology.
VM01-158 Organizing Health Services, 4-Vols/Set.
  Currie, Graeme/ 9781847879004
 
  Convergence between models of public and private sector management in recent years has turned the research of public services organizations into a fertile and expanding field. This four-volume set, part of the new Organizing and Managing Public Services series, brings together a collection of keynote papers spanning research and practice across health services worldwide, bridging the gap between organization studies and literature more specific to the sociology of health and illness, social policy and health services research. With papers selected through a qualitative, systematic process of peer review, this collection is an essential resource for libraries, and will be an invaluable aid to teachers and lecturers in structuring courses and referring their students to the key literature. " Organizing and Managing Public Services is a series of first-class reference collections, bringing a management and organization studies focus to a field which uses the disciplines extensively - the public sector. " Each multivolume set brings together not just the papers with importance to the public service in question, but on management organization studies as a whole, and is compiled by a renowned editor or editorial team with original essays outlining the state of the discipline and presenting a rationale for the selection. " This series is designed to be an essential reference collection for university libraries worldwide with programs in management and organization studies.
SM01-373 Medical Ethics and Humanities.
  Paola, Frederick A./ 9780763760632
 
  Medical Ethics and Humanities is a survey of medical ethics and humanities geared toward physician assistants, analyzing important ethics, humanities, and law topics. The book explains the various approaches to ethical analysis and illustrates their application through the use of cases. Authored by experts in medical ethics and humanities, this book specifically addresses ethical and legal issues of concern to physician assistant students and physician assistants. Medical Ethics and Humanities includes chapter objectives, chapter summaries, illustrative case studies, and review questions at the end of each chapter. Important topics include moral rules, confidentiality, pediatric ethics, and medical malpractice. This is a valuable text for all physician assistants and students
Spinal Tumors: A Treatment Guide for Patients and Family.
  Aryan, Henry E./ 9780763757083
 
  In the United States there are 1.2 million new cancer cases diagnosed per year, and of this number, up to 30% of patients will develop symptomatic spinal metastasis. The management of metastatic cancer is an evolving discipline, and treatment strategies are constantly changing as technology improves and the understanding of cancer biology deepens. Spinal Tumors: A Treatment Guide for Patients and Family helps inform both patients and their families about treatment options and helps unlock the confusing, sophisticated, and sometimes contradictory information about the best ways to proceed with cancer treatment. Written by leading Neurosurgeon, Dr. Henry E. Aryan, this book is an essential resource for anyone dealing with the terrifying, exhausting, and confusing experience of symptomatic spinal metastasis.
Cases in Clinical Medicine.
  Scott, Pam M./ 9780763771805
 
  Cases in Clinical Medicine provides students with a patient vignette followed by a series of multiple choice questions regarding the next most appropriate course of action. These questions follow the familiar S.O.A.P. (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) format and require the student to determine and justify which additional aspects of the patient・s history, physical examination, and diagnostic studies are essential to perform on the case patient. Case studies are followed by three to five choices for the student to select to provide additional historical components, diagnostic studies, diagnosis, and treatment options related to the case. After receiving appropriate feedback via the discussion section, the student is then required to select and defend the patient・s most likely diagnosis. Finally, the student is required to determine the most appropriate therapy for the patient. The cases are written with the physician assistant student in mind, however this text is also appropriate for medical and nurse practitioner students.
 

 

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