Physical Assessment for Health Care Professionals offers a practical and comprehensive guide to best clinical practice when taking patient history and physical examination. This accessible text is structured in accordance with the competencies for advanced practice in assessment, diagnosis and treatment as published by the RCN. Following a systematic, systems-based approach to patient assessment, …
Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) refers to pneumonia acquired outside of hospitals or extended-care facilities, and is distinct from Nosocomial or hospital-acquired pneumonia, which is a separate disease entity. It is one of the most common respiratory infections and presents one of the major health problems today, with an incidence that ranges from eight to fifty cases per thousand individuals …
Coaching Science and Coaching Studies courses are appearing in increasing numbers in many universities. The textbooks used in most of these courses are either theoretically based sports science texts or practically based coaching books. The former are generally lacking in application while the latter rarely have any scientific input. The reader is, therefore, left to make the links themselves. Coa…
An up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biosurveillance techniques With the worldwide awareness of bioterrorism and drug-resistant infectious diseases, the need for surveillance systems to accurately detect emerging epidemicsis essential for maintaining global safety. Responding to these issues, Disease Surveillance brings together fifteen eminent researchers in the fields of medicine, epidem…
Человечество всегда лелеяло мечту о полете! Как обычный человек может подняться в небо, что ждет его там на просторе, в потоках воздуха, когда вверху бездна, внизу скалистые вершины гор, а рядом только белоснежные облака-великаны? Эта книга о том, что и как необходимо делать пилоту, чтобы его полет оставался безопасным в самых разных условиях. А также о том, какими способностями должен обладать че…
Монография «Феномен дежа вю в практике невролога» посвящена достаточно широко распространенному, но до сих пор мало изученному феномену. Авторы всесторонне рассматривают проблему, приводя исторические, клинические, нейрофизиологические, нейровизуализационные разработки по изучаемому вопросу, обсуждают патофизиологию и современные представления по формированию данного феномена. Принципиально выделе…
Сколиоз - распространенное заболевание позвоночника. Который в свое время поражает физическое тело и органы. Как его лечить, имеет особое значение. Главное - найти первопричину возникновения сколиоза. А следовательно, найти источник самой проблемы и выключить его. При этом используя арсенал физических упражнений. Администрация сайта ЛитРес не несет ответственности за представленную информацию. Мог…
Chemical Warfare Agents, Second Edition has been totally revised since the successful first edition and expanded to about three times the length, with many new chapters and much more in-depth consideration of all the topics. The chapters have been written by distinguished international experts in various aspects of chemical warfare agents and edited by an experienced team to produce a clear review…
Можно ли игнорировать подготовку к беременности? Определённо, нет! Психологическая и физическая готовность к родительству снижает огромное число рисков для мамы и малыша - а также кратно снижает риски возникновения послеродовой депрессии. Если вы настроены на здоровую и благополучную беременность, прочтение этой книги точно не будет лишним, ведь из неё вы узнаете всё про анализы, обследования, пит…
Antibiotic Resistance: Origins, Evolution, Selection and Spread Chairman: Stuart B. Levy, 1997 Over the last 50 years, the rapid increase in the use of antibiotics, not only in people, but also in animal husbandry and agriculture, has delivered a selection unprecedented in the history of evolution. Consequently, society is facing one of its gravest public health problems-the emergence of infectiou…
Antibiotic Resistance: Origins, Evolution, Selection and Spread Chairman: Stuart B. Levy, 1997 Over the last 50 years, the rapid increase in the use of antibiotics, not only in people, but also in animal husbandry and agriculture, has delivered a selection unprecedented in the history of evolution. Consequently, society is facing one of its gravest public health problems-the emergence of infectiou…
The only text to cover lung function assessment from first principles including methodology, reference values and interpretation New for this edition: – More illustrations to convey concepts clearly to the busy physician – Text completely re-written in a contemporary style: includes user-friendly equations and more diagrams – New material covering the latest advances in the treatment of lung funct…
Iminosugars form undoubtedly the most attractive of carbohydrate mimics reported so far. In these structures, the substitution of the endocyclic oxygen of sugars by a basic nitrogen atom leads to remarkable biological properties and raises many challenges in organic synthesis. Since the discovery of their biological activity as glycosidase inhibitors in the 1970’s, these polyvalent molecules have …
The book addresses the basics, applications, and manufacturing of plasmid biopharmaceuticals. The survey of the most relevant characteristics of plasmids provides the basics for designing plasmid products (applications) and processes (manufacturing). Key features that the authors include in the book are: i) consistency and clear line of direction, ii) an extensive use of cross-referencing between …