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Current Indications for the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator

Dirk Böcker / Gunter Breithardt / Lars Eckardt

In this book, well-known physicians, Bocker, Eckardt and Breithardt have put together a succinct and focused book that compliments the CATA Series well. Implantation of defibrillators has evolved ...

Narrative Research in Health and Illness

This comprehensive book celebrates the coming of age of narrative in health care. It uses narrative to go beyond the patient's story and address social, cultural, ethical, psychological, organ...

The Brugada Syndrome

Until recently, the cellular basis for sudden death, the Brugada Syndrome, has largely remained an unknown to modern arrhythmologists and cardiologists, particularly in the absence of any structur...

Paediatric Radiography

Maryann Hardy / Stephen Boynes

The Law and the Midwife

Shirley R. Jones / Rosemary Jenkins

The second edition of this successful text is an essential and accessible guide to legal aspects of midwifery for all midwife supervisors, midwives, and midwifery students. Midwives will find this...

Beer

Charles W. Bamforth

This important and extremely interesting book is a serious scientific and authoritative overview of the implications of drinking beer as part of the human diet. Coverage includes a history of beer...

Nutrition and Stroke

Salah Gariballa

Stroke is a common and devasting event, which often results in death or major loss of independence, with immense human and financial costs. In the developed world stroke accounts for around 10 per...

Cardiac Pacing and ICDs

Kenneth A. Ellenbogen / Mark A. Wood

Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of <i>Cardiac Pacing and ICDs</i> continues to be an accessible and practical clinical reference for residents, fellows, surgeons, nurses,...

Advanced Digestive Endoscopy

<b><i>Advanced Digestive Endoscopy: ERCP</i></b> addresses some of the most complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for endoscopists. It provides the latest thinking ...

Practical Hemostasis and Thrombosis

Provides a comprehensive yet concise and practical guide to the full range of clotting and bleeding disorders encountered in clinical practice.<br /> <p><br /> </p> <p&g...

Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma

<b>The leading reference text entirely devoted to this increasingly significant condition</b><br /> <p>This text is dedicated to Barrett’s esophagus and provides recent e...

Brook's Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology

This new edition of the benchmark text on clinical pediatric endocrinology still remains at the forefront of world clinical opinion. Furthermore, the style, which has been the hallmark of the book...

Challenges in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

<b>Reviews focused topics – both clinical and basic science - in the fast-moving area of IBD, providing emphasis on the current challenges faced in the successful management of the disease...

Developing the Reflective Healthcare Team

Tony Ghaye

Team working and learning through reflection are both fundamental to quality healthcare. This book is the first to explore the use of the practices of reflection to develop health care teams that ...

ECG in the Child and Adolescent

Hung-Chi Lue

Compiled from electrocardiographic data on more than 1,800 normal newborns, infants, children, and adolescents, this convenient reference gives you fast access to the limits of normality so that d...

Endovascular Therapy

If you are one of the many physicians from different specialty disciplines who perform endovascular interventions then this practical reference will help you to develop your endovascular skills an...

Evidence-Based Respiratory Medicine

<ul> <li>First major evidence-based text in adult respiratory medicine</li> <li>Comprehensive, authoritative summary of the best treatments for the major respiratory diseas...

Heart Failure

Now there is an up-to-date guide for optimizing pharmacologic therapy in treating patients with heart failure. Reflecting current practice at leading medical centers, <i>Heart Failure: Pharm...

Implantable Cardiac Pacemakers and Defibrillators

Pacing and ICDs are used increasingly in the management of arrhythmias and a number of different cardiac conditions. Specialists, general cardiologists and general physicians are now closely invol...

Innovative Management of Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation is underdiagnosed and preventative strategies are underutilized.<br /> <p><br /> </p> <p>The disease is estimated to rise to an epidemic level, in...