Ninety-eight of the chief complaints and disorders you're most likely to encounter in the ED! A clear, concise guide for clinicians new to the Emergency Department A Doody's Core Title for 2015! Written by authors who are practicing emergency physicians and emergency medicine educators, Clinical Emergency Medicine distills the entire content of the emergency medicine curriculum into less than one hundred succinct, clinically relevant chapters. This unique book is intended to guide you through what you must know and be able to do during an actual shift and give you a better understanding of the issues and problems you will face while working in the Emergency Department. Featuring a consistent, find-it-now design, Clinical Emergency Medicine delivers concise, must-know information on ninety-eight chief complaints and disorders, ranging from asthma and chest pain to fever and poisoning. Each chapter begins with Key Points, followed by an Introduction, Clinical Presentation (History and Physical Examination), Diagnostic Studies, Medical Decision Making, Treatment and Disposition, and Suggested Reading. Whenever possible, the authors provide practical advice on drug dosing, the medical decision-making thought process, treatment plans, and dispositions that will be of value in a clinical environment. Numerous diagnostic algorithms simplify the problem and point you towards a solution. Valuable to medical students, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and junior level residents, Clinical Emergency Medicine teaches you things that may not have been covered in medical or physician assistant school, but have an important bearing on patient outcomes.

Marvin Mocking is a bird that is very happy, who loves to sing. When Marvins feeling low, he will sing about almost anything. He sings high or he sings lowany season is a reason to sing. When the suns behind a cloud, this is a reason to celebrate. When hes alone or with someone, he sings, even on a date. While there are others with dark and dour faces who hate, whose principles look for any reason to scowl and frown, these unhappy ones seek any reason to be low-down. Who thinks this is the way life is supposed to be. In my life I would prefer to hear a happy song rather than walk with my chin on the ground.

This is the first textbook of Virtual Anthropology, the new science that combines elements from fields as diverse as anthropology, medicine, statistics, computing, scientific visualization, and industrial design. The book is intended for students in any of these or nearby fields within biology, medicine, or engineering and for teachers, journalists, and all others who will enjoy the many examples from our real biological world. After a general introduction to the field and an overview, the book is organized around six themes conveyed in more than 300 pages of text accompanied by hundreds of carefully annotated images: medical imaging and 3D digitising techniques, electronic preparation of individual specimens, analysis of complex forms in space one or many at a time, reconstruction of forms that are partly missing or damaged, production of real objects from virtual models, and, finally, thoughts about data accessibility and sharing and the implications of all this for the future of anthropology. The authors' emphasis is not on technical details but rather on step-by-step explanations of the wealth of examples included here, from brain evolution to surgical planning, always in light of the relevance of these approaches to science and to society. All readers are encouraged to try out the techniques on their own using the tools and data included in the Online Extra Materials resource.

What happened to the church after the apostles were gone? Men they ordained like Ignatius and Polycarp demonstrate what it was like. They left behind nine amazing writings that illuminate the mystery of Jesus Christ and the challenges of the second-century church. This book has translations for each text with side-by-side commentary and other aids to help the reader understand and apply what is being said. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, wrote seven letters on his way to Rome to be martyred in the arena. Six of these went to churches, including three churches that the apostle John had written to. Ignatius's seventh letter went to Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna. He, in turn, wrote a letter to the church at Philippi, the very church the apostle Paul founded and wrote to. The final piece, the first of its kind, is a detailed account of Polycarp's arrest and martyrdom in imitation of the Lord. The purpose of this book is to encourage and exhort readers to learn from the words and deeds of Ignatius and Polycarp how to follow Christ in the apostolic way of sacrificial and submissive love.

Genes are important modifiers of human response to drugs, hormones, and toxins. Patients and healthy individuals alike display significant differences in response and suffer adverse effects as a result of exposure to many therapeutic agents as well as occupational chemicals. This introductory text brings together laboratory methods and epidemiological studies for defining the role of heredity in human drug response. The book is divided into two parts. Part I describes the emergence and broad scope of pharmacogenetics from an historical viewpoint, as well as the principles of pharmacology and genetics that are used to evaluate the importance and molecular genetic basis of pharmacologic/toxicologic mechanisms of hypersensitivity in humans and experimental animal models. Part II presents the experimental epidemiologic and clinical evidence for the genetics, molecular basis and clinical significance of thirty-three human traits of pharmacogenetic importance. The author includes an extensive discussion of the role of recombinant DNA technology Thus Part II illustrates the application of the basic principles discussed in Part I to real-life situations. This book will benefit upper-level graduate students in pharmacology, genetics, epidemiology, nursing, and public health, and will serve as a handy reference to pharmacists, epidemiologists, and physicians responsible for the delivery and administration of drugs.

A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see the City of Lakes.

Audience: Medical students that are about to start a clerkship in Emergency Medicine 125+ illustrations visually convey essential concepts Clinical problems present case studies in USMLE format that build on the concepts presented in the chapters Explanations of answers included for each clinical problem