Brody’s Human Pharmacology Mechanism-Based Therapeutics
Lynn Wecker (editor), Susan Ingram (editor), Theodore M. Brody (associated with work)
Publisher’s Synopsis
Brody’s Human Pharmacology is a well-established and much-loved textbook that guides students of medicine, pharmacology and other health professions through pharmacology from both basic and clinical perspectives.
What can be a very difficult and complex topic is divided into easily digestible chapters, each of which is clearly structured from a therapeutic overview to mechanisms of action, relationships to clinical responses, pharmacokinetics, pharmacovigilance, new developments, and clinical relevance for all health professionals.
- Contains all the essential aspects of pharmacology – suitable for exam preparation
- Full color illustrations explain important processes and color-coded boxes enhance understanding
- Therapeutic overviews, clinical problems and trade names – everything you need to know
- Self-assessment questions and further reading to reinforce learning
- Current developments for each class of drugs and how information relates to students in the healthcare professions bring learning to life
New chapter on immunological and cell-based therapies
Updated content throughout
Pharmacodynamics chapter revised to include discussions of positive and negative allosteric modulators, as well as biased agonism
Pharmacogenetics chapter considers genetic variations and their relationship to drug responses
Section on cancer drugs revised to reflect major advances
Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Settings
Edward Purssell, Dinah Gould
Publisher’s Synopsis
INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS
In Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Settings, a team of distinguished researchers deliver an accessible and authoritative introduction to infection control and prevention in hospital and community settings. This is a key resource as professionals deal with the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and require the latest and most up-to-date information.
Central topics are discussed at the individual and population levels, with direct links to lessons learned throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The book is written from an evidence-based perspective that utilises modern approaches, reflecting current decision-making methods like GRADE and WHO Evidence to Decision Frameworks.
Readers will also find:
- A thorough introduction to the chain of infection and the main groups of micro-organisms causing infection
- Comprehensive explorations of the application of evidence-based practice principles to infection prevention and control
- Practical discussions of immunity, microbiology laboratories, antimicrobial drugs, and policies and protocols for infection prevention and control
- The role of epidemiology and public health in the prevention and control of infectious disease
Perfect for student nurses and students of allied health professions, Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Settings will also benefit practitioners and managers in the health services seeking to update their knowledge of infection control and prevention in healthcare settings.
ISBN: 9781119842590
Mosby’s Oncology Nursing Advisor A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Practice
Susan Newton (editor), Margaret Hickey (editor), Jeannine M. Brant (editor)
Publisher’s Synopsis
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with “Essential Purchase” designation in Oncology** Find oncology information fast with this concise, all-in-one clinical reference! Mosby’s Oncology Nursing Advisor, 3rd Edition uses a streamlined format to provide quick access to the most essential information on oncology nursing care. Evidence-based guidelines include topics such as the major cancers, principles of cancer management, and principles of symptom management, as well as oncologic emergencies, palliative care, and nursing practice considerations. This edition includes new information on cancer treatments, genetic risk, chemotherapy guidelines, and more. Written by a team of oncology nursing experts led by Susan Maloney-Newton, this book is ideal for use in any oncology nursing setting.
Section on palliative care and end-of-life issues offers helpful guidelines for dealing with topics related to survivorship, palliative care, the final hours of the cancer patient, and loss, grief, and bereavement.
Detailed descriptions of more than 50 major cancer types provide essential information on incidence, etiology and risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostic workup, histology, staging, treatment, prognosis, and prevention.
Coverage of cancer management principles outlines a wide range of treatment and pharmacologic modalities, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, immunotherapy, and complementary and alternative therapies.
Symptom management guidelines offer in-depth coverage of pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, assessment tools, lab and diagnostic tests, differential diagnoses, interventions, patient education, follow up care, and resources for more than 30 common symptoms associated with cancer and cancer treatments.
Essential information on oncologic emergencies and emergent issues prepares readers to respond quickly to structural, urologic, metabolic, and hematologic emergencies.
ISBN: 9780323934466
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine – Oxford Textbook
Nathan I. Cherny (editor), Marie Fallon (editor), Stein Kaasa (editor), Russell K. Portenoy (editor), David Currow (editor)
Publisher’s Synopsis
This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook. It has been rigorously updated to offer a truly global perspective, highlighting the best current evidence-based practices, and collective wisdom from more than 200 experts around the world. This leading textbook covers all the new and emerging topics, updated and restructured to reflect major developments in the increasingly widespread acceptance of palliative medicine as a fundamental public health need. The sixth edition includes new sections devoted to family and caregiver issues, cardio-respiratory symptoms and disorders, and genitourinary symptoms and disorders. In addition, the multi-disciplinary nature of palliative care is emphasized throughout the textbook, covering areas from ethical and communication issues, the treatment of symptoms, and the management of pain. The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine is a truly comprehensive text. No hospital, hospice, palliative care service, or medical library should be without this essential source of information. This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine is dedicated to the memory of Professor Kenneth Fearon husband of Professor Marie Fallon and a surgeon who became a world leader in the research and management of anorexia and cachexia. He modeled a work-life balance that is so critical in our field, with devotion to both his patients and his family.
ISBN: 9780198900597
Preventing Hospital Infections Real-World Problems, Realistic Solutions
Sanjay Saint, Jennifer Meddings, Vineet Chopra
Publisher’s Synopsis
The first edition of Preventing Hospital Infections led readers through a step-by-step description of a quality improvement intervention as it might unfold in a model hospital, pinpointing the likely obstacles and offering practical strategies for how to overcome them. This newly updated edition draws on fresh examples and modern clinical tools, with new or expanded topics spanning antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship, RAND/UCLA appropriateness criteria for using devices, and tiered approaches to CAUTI, CLABSI, and CDI. Unlike other approaches, which focus on the technical aspects of healthcare-associated infections, this book offers a user-friendly manual for effecting real, practical change. Whether resistance comes from physicians who distrust change, nurses who want to protect their turf, or infection preventionists who are removed from the day-to-day work on wards, Preventing Hospital Infections, 2nd Edition offers an innovative and accessible approach that focuses on navigating the human element in a hospital quality improvement initiative.
Rheumatology and Orthopaedics For UKMLA and Medical Exams – Crash Course
Elspeth Murray, Anna Bradford, Marc Joseph Aitken
Publisher’s Synopsis
A winning formula now for over 25 years, having sold over 1 million copies and translated in over 8 languages, each series volume has been fine-tuned and fully updated with a full-colour layout tailored to make your life easier. Especially written by senior students or junior doctors – those who understand what is essential for exam success – with all information thoroughly checked and quality assured by expert Faculty Advisers, the result is books that exactly meet your needs and you know you can trust.
Each chapter guides you succinctly through the full range of curriculum topics in the UKMLA syllabus, integrating clinical considerations with the relevant basic science and avoiding unnecessary or confusing detail. A range of text boxes help you get to the hints, tips and key points you need fast! A fully revised self-assessment section matching the latest exam formats is included to check your understanding and aid exam preparation. The accompanying enhanced, downloadable eBook completes this invaluable learning package.
Series volumes have been honed to meet the requirements of today’s medical students, although the range of other health students and professionals who need rapid access to the essentials of rheumatology and orthopaedics will also love the unique approach of Crash Course. Whether you need to get out of a fix or aim for a distinction Crash Course is for you!
Crash Course Rheumatology and Orthopaedics directs you to the most fundamental aspects of rheumatology and orthopaedics, helping you focus on crucial concepts, test yourself, and bridge any knowledge gaps effectively. This portable guide will help you get the concise, targeted assistance you need for passing medical exams.
The Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition
Mary Width, Tonia Reinhard
Publisher’s Synopsis
In today’s fast-paced healthcare world, it’s crucial to have the information you need when you need it. The Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition, Fourth Edition is a quick reference guide for dietitians, students, interns, and other health professionals actively engaged in clinical nutrition. The easily readable format incorporates tables and boxes for immediate access to evidence-based information on nutritional assessment, nutrition support, life-stage nutrition, and nutrition considerations for specific diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and gastrointestinal diseases. All-inclusive resources and relevant appendices such as laboratory assessment and food-drug interactions, save the clinician from carrying around separate resources. There is no comparable pocket guide on the market that includes this comprehensive coverage of clinical nutrition.
Artificial Intelligence in Cancer, Biology and Oncology
Hamid Khayyam (guest editor), Ali Hekmatnia (guest editor), Rahele Kafieh (guest editor)
Publisher’s Synopsis
This reprint covers some significant impacts in recent research, in both the private and public sectors of cancer biology and oncology, in which artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are significant. This reprint is also a collection of forty different complex and challenging problems arranged in five groups which are focused on AI in diagnosis and therapy: AI in prognosis, grading and prediction; AI in clinical image analysis; AI models for pathological diagnosis; ML and statistical models for molecular cancer diagnostics and genetics; and AI in cancer triage, risk stratification, and screening. All necessary concepts, solutions, methodologies, and references are supplied, except for some fundamental knowledge that is well known in the general fields of AI and cancer, biology, and oncology. The readers may therefore gain the main concepts of each chapter, little need to refer to the concepts of the other chapters and references. The readers may hence start to read one or more chapters of the reprint according to their own interests.
Revolution in Cancer Therapy The Pioneering Role of MRNA-Based Medicine in Modern Oncology
Christian Gomez, John Lieck
Publisher’s Synopsis
Big wars, as bad as they are, often lead to technology breakthroughs. COVID was such a war for biomedicine, which was first decided with the help of the revolutionary technology of synthetic mRNA vaccines. These will now also lead to breakthroughs in cancer research in the foreseeable future. The first vaccines against certain types of cancer are expected to be authorised in the next few years. Clinical trials with larger patient groups are already underway.
The purpose of this book is to familiarise medical laypersons with the complex and difficult-to-understand topic of mRNA-based vaccines. It clearly explains how mRNA vaccines, developed in the heated battle against a pandemic, also have the potential to fundamentally change the fight against cancer.
Why do they offer such great new opportunities to cure a disease that is still generally considered incurable? Why is everything suddenly happening so quickly – at least by the standards of drug research? Which areas are being researched and where are results most likely to be obtained? And how much longer will it take? Finally, in which other areas can mRNA vaccines still have a beneficial effect?
Of course, the specific challenges and problems that are inherent in all drug research are also described. In the end, however, there is a hopeful, positive conclusion that a real breakthrough in cancer therapy is now imminent for the first time.
Breakthrough in Immunotherapy The New CAR-T Cell Therapy for Autoimmune Diseases Such as Multiple Sclerosis, Arthritis, Diabetes and Many Others
Anders Olofson, Thomas C Clark, Baptiste Durand
Publisher’s Synopsis
This guide highlights the revolutionary new treatment options offered by CAR-T cell therapy, which may bring hope to many people with autoimmune diseases. It begins with the basics of CAR-T cell therapy, explaining how these innovative immune cells work and why they are considered a breakthrough in medicine. It then provides an overview of autoimmune diseases, from well-known conditions such as multiple sclerosis and arthritis to less common but equally distressing conditions.
A central part of the book is devoted to the specific application of CAR-T cell therapy in autoimmune diseases. It explains how this form of therapy, which was originally developed for the treatment of cancer, is now also being used to treat autoimmune diseases and what successes have already been achieved. It also presents the current state of research and the results of clinical studies that show how far science has already come in this area. The book also addresses the opportunities and challenges of CAR-T cell therapy. While this form of therapy offers great potential, there are still questions that need to be answered in order to further improve its application and make it safer. Finally, we will take a look into the future: What developments can be expected and how could CAR-T cell therapy positively change the lives of millions of people in the coming years?
This book is aimed at anyone interested in new medical developments, but especially those affected and their relatives who are looking for information that is both comprehensible and detailed.
ISBN: 9783689046835
ABG Interpretation for Nurses: Everything You Need To Know To Interpret Arterial Blood Gases
NEDU
Publisher’s Synopsis
Arterial blood gases (or ABGs) are some of the more difficult lab tests to understand in all of medicine. Sure, there are normal results given along with the test values, but it doesn’t end there. What does a certain pH in the blood mean? Where does the bicarbonate level come from? These components, along with other values, need to be understood so you can interpret them.
Basically, the ABGs are a test of the arterial blood that check the oxygen levels, the carbon dioxide levels, the acidity (or pH) of the blood, the oxyhemoglobin saturation, and the bicarbonate. If you have a fancy blood gas analyzer, you can get a methemoglobin level, a carboxyhemoglobin level, and sometimes just a hemoglobin level. Each of these lab tests reveal crucial values that are important in caring for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) and other hospital settings. If you do not know what oxyhemoglobin saturation means (or any of these values), never fear! By the time you finish this guide, you will be an old pro!