Author: Julie K Briggs
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: nurses, protocols, triage, telephone
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0781764610
ISBN-13: 9780781764612

This quick-reference manual presents over 200 triage protocols for evaluating patients’ symptoms over the telephone. Each symptom entry lists questions, grouped by urgency level, to determine whether the caller should seek emergency care now, seek medical care the same day, call back for appointment, or follow home care instructions. Detailed home care instructions are then provided. This edition features fourteen new protocols: avian influenza ("bird flu"); congestive heart failure; electrical burns; hand/wrist problems; hip pain/injury; influenza; neurological symptoms; newborn problem

Author: Jacques E Chelly
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: atlas, color, blocks, nerve, peripheral
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 0781768764
ISBN-13: 9780781768764

Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this best-selling full-color atlas is a step-by-step guide to performing more than 60 peripheral nerve blocks, including those used in children. For each nerve block, the book provides detailed information about indications, patient positioning, needle size, drug selection, volume for infusion rate, anatomic landmarks, approach, and technique and offers tips for maximizing effectiveness and minimizing complications. This edition offers new material on ultrasound guidance and continuous catheter techniques.

Author: A. James Barkovich
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: pediatric, neuroimaging, barkovich
Number of Pages: 976
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 0781757665
ISBN-13: 9780781757669

The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition of this acclaimed reference describes and illustrates the full range of pediatric disorders diagnosable by modern neuroimaging. This edition includes state-of-the-art information on the use of proton spectroscopy, diffusion imaging, and perfusion imaging in diagnosing metabolic disorders, brain tumors, abnormalities of cerebral microstructure, and abnormalities of blood flow. New entities have been added to the chapters on metabolic disorders, brain injuries, congenital malformations of the brain and skull, cerebellar disorders, brain tumors, phakomatoses,

Author: Jane M Orient
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: diagnosis, bedside, science, art, sapira
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 0781757312
ISBN-13: 9780781757317

The Third Edition of this comprehensive and invaluable textbook explores proven techniques for interviewing and physical examination--from the fundamentals to the most advanced levels. Methods are described in step-by-step detail, with clinical pearls and insightful vignettes, explanations of the physiologic significance of findings, and extensive discussions of evidence-based medicine. Highlights of this new edition include-- / Additional history-taking questions regarding risk factors and discussion of legal issues affecting medical records / Numerous first-hand accounts of cases that ill

Authors:Charles Court-Brown, Margaret M McQueen, Paul Torne
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: series, essentials, surgery, orthopaedic, trauma
Number of Pages: 549
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0781750962
ISBN-13: 9780781750967

Written by the world’s foremost trauma surgeons, this volume of our Orthopaedic Surgery Essentials Series presents all the information residents need during trauma surgery rotation or service. It can easily be read cover to cover during a rotation or used for quick reference before a patient workup or operation. The user-friendly, visually stimulating format features ample illustrations, bulleted lists, boxes, and tables. Coverage begins with brief chapters on fracture epidemiology and healing and proceeds to fracture types and injuries at each anatomic site. A section describes the vari

Authors:Andrew J Robinson, Lynn Snyder-Mackler,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: lippincott, williams, amp, wilkins, point, testing, electrophysiology, electrotherapy, electrophysiologic, clinical
Number of Pages: 555
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 0781744849
ISBN-13: 9780781744843

Organized by therapeutic goals, the Third Edition of this comprehensive textbook on electrotherapies provides a fundamental understanding of contemporary, evidence-based intervention and assessment procedures. The text takes a problem-oriented approach and recommends interventions consistent with both theory and the clinical efficacy of the intervention for specific, clearly identified clinical disorders. This edition has a new chapter on electrical stimulation and biofeedback for genitourinary dysfunction, including incontinence management in both women and men. All the intervention-based cha

Authors:Stephen J Snyder, Stephen J. Snyder,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: dvd, book, arthroscopy, shoulder
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2002-12-15
List price: $245.00
ISBN-10: 0781735017
ISBN-13: 9780781735018

Center for Orthopedic Surgery, Inc., Van Nuys, CA. Text provides a step-by-step approach to techniques and procedures. Topics include patient preparation, counseling, operating room set-up, and equipment needs. Features a surgeon’s preference card for procedures. DVD (movie) has a run time of 200 minutes. Full-color text. Previous edition: c1994. DNLM: Shoulder joint--surgery.