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Jessica's X-Ray
Featuring six real x-rays printed on mylar, Jessica's X-Ray is a unique and fun look inside our bodies and the world of x-rays written by a professional x-ray technologist who has worked extensively with children In the book, kids follow Jessica, who has broken her arm, as she tours the hospital seeing x-ray rooms and looking at actual x-ray, CAT-scan, MRI and ultrasound images. These real x-ray images are printed on mylar so readers can see firsthand what Jessica sees. An identification key at the end of the book also helps kids pick out bones and muscles on their own..
Price: $4.53
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Hospital Medicine (Hospital Medicine (Wachter))
Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, Hospital Medicine offers practical, evidence-based guidelines for the care of hospitalized patients. The only book geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management--and edited by the national leaders of the hospitalist field--Hospital Medicine includes indications for admission, guidelines for consultation, procedures for hospital discharge, diagnostic algorithms, and critical paths detailing effective, outcomes-oriented treatment plans for a range of diseases and disorders. New chapters in this edition focus on the hospitalist's increasing role in providing critical care, managing surgical patients with medical co-morbidities, ensuring patient safety and preventing adverse events, and directing hospital systems areas such as informatics, quality improvement, and practice management. .
Price: $44.97
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Milton Goes to the Vet (Milton)
It's every cat's worst nightmare: the cat carrier comes out, and the trip to the vet begins. But the irrepressible Milton handles the ordeal with style, and ultimately shows the vet who's boss. Cat lovers of all ages will surely see their won feline in Milton's antics. And children will easily relate to the fear of going to the doctor and will share Milton's relief when he realizes that it's not that bad after all!.
Price: $7.50
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ospital-Based Integrative Medicine: A Case Study of the Barriers and Factors Facilitating the Creation of a Center
This study tracks the establishment of a single hospital-based integrative medicine center. Although some factors clearly worked in favor of the center, the hospital had few models to guide it and no experience in creating such a clinic. Thus, it made many decisions in the areas of administration, finance, and legal issues that created barriers to the center's success, and the center was ultimately closed..
Price: $28.58
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The Hospital (Talk-about-Books No 15)
Have you ever visited a hospital? Many children will spend time in hospitals for one reason or another during their early years. In The Hospital each page explores a different aspect of what children can expect if they go to a hospital. Each picture shows the experience in a positive and realistic fashion. Children from various familial, cultural and ethnic backgrounds experience daily hospital activities like having an x-ray, getting a needle or staying overnight in a special bed. Learn how hospitals help when we are sick or hurt. The Talk-About-Books series was designed to enhance a young child's first collection of books. Each book in the series explores a different aspect of the young child's world using real-life photographs that depict a variety of children in different natural settings. This innovative series grew out of a desire to provide children -- all children -- with the opportunity to see themselves within the books they are reading and to better identify with the children and families they are looking at. The diversity of today's society is clearly captured. Since publication of the first two volumes, over 500,000 Talk-About-Books have been sold. The simple text and engaging photographs invite and encourage discussion, creating opportunities for developing language and literacy. .
Price: $2.48
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Cespi: Parent/Carregiver Workbook (William Beaumont Hospital Series in Speech & Language Pathology)
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Pediatric Airway Management for the Pre-Hospital Professional
Emergency management of the pediatric airway requires an understanding of the anatomic, physiologic, and behavioral differences in infants and children. It also requires specific skills that EMS providers do not have many opportunities to practice. A comprehensive, easily understandable text, Pediatric Airway Management for the Prehospital Professional teaches EMS providers how the pediatric airway is different from adults, and thoroughly covers the assessment and management of pediatric airway emergencies..
Price: $23.80
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Evidence-Based To Value-based Medicine
Medical research and practice is currently evolving from evidence-based medicine to an even higher quality of patient care: value-based medicine. Value-based medicine, which measures the patient's perceived value of health care interventions, allows a more accurate measure of the overall worth of interventions to a patient. Evidence-Based to Value-Based Medicine explains: -The uses and practice of value-based medicine in today's healthcare environment -How to integrate value-based medicine -How to deliver a higher quality of clinical care -How to measure and demonstrate the value of interventions to patients, policymakers and payers -Innovative input variable methodologies -A critical appraisal of health-related quality of life instruments -An overview of healthcare economics.
Price: $47.50
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Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine 3e and Oxford Handbook of Pre-Hospital Care Pack (Oxford Handbooks)
The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Hospital Care provides the reader with authoritative, evidence-based advice on the assessment and management of pre-hospital care emergencies. The Oxford Handbook format and its pocket size make its content readily accessible and it can be carried easily in jackets or other personal protective clothing. Each section defines the important clinical features of the named condition and includes boxes containing essential advice. The treatment section incorporates national and international guidelines and protocols where available and reflects current best practice. Topics include scene safety, personal protective equipment, basic and advanced life support, head injuries, chest injuries, abdominal and pelvic injuries, spinal injuries, musculoskeletal injuries, medical emergencies, mass gathering incidents, major incidents, burns and related problems. The bestselling Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine provides practical, accessible guidelines on a huge range of situations that present to the emergency department. The text is deliberately precise and prescriptive, giving up-to-date step-by-step advice on presentation, investigation, diagnosis, emergency treatment and further referral for adult and paediatric patients. Practical guidance on the management of a huge range of situations is provided including poisoning, major trauma, obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatric and paediatric emergencies. Important practical procedures are covered in a stepwise, easy-to-follow format with line diagrams illustrating anatomical landmarks. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to include the 2006 Resuscitation Council guidelines, as well as new guidelines from NICE, SIGN, BTS, ATLS and changes to the compulsory psychiatric hospitalisation law. There are updates on management throughout and new information on avian flu, terrorism, hospital-acquired infections including MRSA and hand washing. The authors of both titles have broad experience in various fields including medical emergencies, road traffic collisions, entrapments, ballistic trauma and major incidents. This combined bundle represents fantastic value, with comprehensive coverage of emergency and pre-hospital situations. This is the essential resource for all those working in immediate care or emergency medicine..
Price: $75.62
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