Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine: WITH Emergencies in Respiratory Medicine
For the first time the Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine and Emergencies in Respiratory Medicine have been bundled together representing excellent value for the medical student or junior doctor purchaser. The combination of practical advice and essential background information with an easily accessible guide in emergencies presents a unique package essential to every doctor and medical student. The Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine provides a fast, reliable look-up reference on all chest diseases. The second edition of this comprehensive Handbook has been revised throughout, with additional material on avian flu and respiratory medicine in pregnancy, and updated references to the latest British Thoracic Society guidelines. The Handbook’s opening chapters aid diagnosis by addressing the main respiratory symptoms encountered by clinicians. Subsequent chapters discuss each respiratory disease in more depth, with practical tips for the out-patient clinic or ward setting. The Handbook also includes a unique section on practical skills and procedures, providing essential technical and reference information.Useful pages on lung and bronchial anatomy, CT anatomy and scans, lung function and blood-gas nomograms, and a list of useful websites are included for easy reference.
Emergencies in Respiratory Medicine provides a practical, accessible guide to all emergency situations encountered in respiratory medicine, from the immediately life-threatening, to the smaller but urgent problems that may arise. It is concise and didactic, and complements the ‘Emergencies’ section of the Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine. Respiratory disease is the most common illness responsible for an emergency admission to hospital and, as such, requires rapid and effective management. This book combines symptom and disease based sections. The first and second sections are symptom-based, exploring assessment, investigation and differential diagnoses. The third section is disease-based and explains how to manage the diagnoses covered in section one and two. The fourth section addresses practical issues from interpreting tests to practical procedures. The fifth section covers investigations.
Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine
Delivering the facts to your fingertips, the Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine provides an accessible and comprehensive, signs-and-symptoms-based source of information on medical problems commonly seen in the tropics. A handy guide which can fit in the coat pocket and be used easily at the bedside, it has been designed to be as practical as possible with illustrations of blood films and stool smears, which are useful for diagnosis, as well as clinical features, diagnosis, and management. Medical conditions are ordered by system except for the five major tropical conditions – malaria, HIV/STIs, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, and acute respiratory infections – and fevers. In this new edition the sections on malaria, cardiology, chest medicine, gastroenterology, mental health and dermatology have undergone major revision, and there is new material on altitude sickness, heat stroke, avian flu and fuller poisoning. There is a greater emphasis on paediatric medicine and public health throughout, and new illustrations and photographs have been included to aid with diagnosis.Small enough to throw in your rucksack, this unique handbook is the ultimate quick reference guide for all those working in the tropics.
Oxford Handbook of Urology
Approximately 20% of all surgical operations and a similar percentage of surgical emergencies are urological in nature. However, often doctors have very limited experience of the many common and varied conditions encountered in this important surgical specialty. For the doctor or nurse expected to provide the initial assessment and management of a condition with which he or she has had very limited experience, this book provides an invaluable source of information and advice. This applies not only to SHOs and specialist registrars on urology and surgical rotations, but also to General Practitioners, Accident and Emergency staff and the growing number of urological specialist nurses. The Oxford Handbook of Urology, Second edition covers a wide spectrum of diseases and their treatment in the field of urology and surgical aspects of kidney, bladder, prostate and scrotal disorders. It aims to give a brief overview of many different urological subjects including urology emergencies, cancers, infections, children’s disorders and kidney stone disease.It is designed so that it can be quickly and efficiently accessed by a range of people involved in patient care, including medical students, nurses, surgical and urology doctors and general practitioners.
Oxford Handbooks Clinical Tutor Study Cards: Surgery
Oxford Handbooks Clinical Tutor Study Cards are a new, innovative, and versatile aid to revision from the publishers of the famous Oxford Handbooks. Following the same portable format, each card covers a discrete topic, enabling students to revise in bite-sized chunks quickly and safely whilst on the move. These handy double-sided cards can also be used when carrying out an examination, containing the vital techniques and tips students need to know. They are split
up into defined sections to allow the reader to find topics quickly, and are supplemented with full colour illustrations to aid quick and confident diagnoses.
This set of surgery cards takes a system and anatomical-based approach, covering all essential conditions and diseases in just 132 cards. Each card first looks at clinical examination, before covering the need-to-know essentials: background and epidemiology, presentation, differential diagnosis, and suitable investigations, followed by treatment or management.
Paralegal Today : The Essentials
The definative, briefer text for new paralegal students, West’s Paralegal Today: The Essentials, provides the balanced coverage today’s instructors desire without the substantive law. The theoretical foundation is balanced with practical career information, skill building activities, and the very latest in legal technology. All this is presented with carefully researched pedagogy to help the learning process for all kinds of students. A full range of paralegal topics is covered such as computer-assisted legal research, certification, paralegal specialities, communicating with clients, and professionalism.
Pathology Illustrated, International Edition
Generations of medical students have been helped to pass their exams by the “Illustrated” books. The visual presentation of the subject matter, divided into one-page units, makes for easy learning and re-call. Pathology is central to the study of medicine and forms the bridge between the basic sciences and clinical medicine, making this book a key purchase.Covers both basic and systematic pathology
Each topic summarised in one page
Visual presentation for easy learning and re-call
More on molecular pathological mechanisms
Continues to emphasise clinical relevance
Includes occular pathology for first time
PATRICK CAMERON: DRESSING LONG HAIR
In Dressing Long Hair Book 2, Patrick Cameron introduces 15 new long-hair styles. Following on from his worldwide bestseller, Dressing Long Hair, Patrick Cameron builds on his successful step-by-step formula to offer professionals and students new styles which will give them that extra edge in the fashion stakes of dressing long hair, from fun and funky styles to timeless elegance.
PATTERN MAKING FOR FASHION DESIGNERS
The Practical Guide to Patternmaking for Fashion Designers: Menswear offers patternmaking techniques for a variety of garment styles and includes information on sizing, lining and a variety of fabrics. Covering everything from casual to tailored designs, it can serve both as an introduction to the pattern-drafting skills necessary for menswear and as a more in-depth treatment of patternmaking techniques. The guide covers the patternmaking process for an array of menswear garments, as well as the accompanying theories and concepts.