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Prepare for success on your board and shelf exams with the all-new Massachusetts General Hospital Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams. Based on the popular and authoritative Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 2nd Edition, this practical review tool contains 600 questions with annotated answers, offered both in print and online. You''ll have convenient, flexible access to hundreds of relevant, carefully reviewed questions from MGH-the name trusted by psychiatry residents and practicing clinicians as a leader in psychiatry information and reference. Contains 600 multiple-choice questions and annotated answers that test your knowledge of every aspect of psychiatry, offering highly effective preparation for your primary certification exams. Divides questions into 94 sections that match the parent text, Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 2nd Edition. Helps you gain a better understanding of exam presentation and format as you study relevant content that is fully up to date with DSM-5. Allows you to study both in print and online, or review offline with the eBook download. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

As an energetic puppy, Pharaoh encounters many challenges on his journey to become a service dog. It can be hard to learn new things. However, with practice and patience, he achieved his goal and became a service dog. Do you ever have trouble learning something new?

Provides the essential updates on coronary risk factors. This title provides answers to such questions as: Are new biomarkers informative? LDL: the lower the better? How important is HDL? How much credit does triglyceride deserve? How important is family history of coronary disease? And, more.

Editor Robert Sheridan and authors review the latest in Management of Burns. Articles will include Reflection: evolution of the field over 50 years, Acute burn procedures and operations, Special injuries and illnesses, Initial evaluation and fluid resuscitation, Critical care of burns, Biology and principles of scar management and burn reconstruction, Management of common post-burn deformities, Burn recovery-physical and emotional rehabilitation, Anesthesia and pain control for burns, Outpatient burn management, Measuring burn outcomes, Burn care in disasters and austere settings, On the horizon--research priorities for the next decade, and more!

For the first time, Pediatric Clinics is devoting one issue to two clinically focused topics: Pediatric Palliative Care and Pediatric Hospital Medicine. Dr. Ottolini has organized her section to focus on a variety of issues of relevant to all pediatricians, but which pose special challenge to the Pediatric Hospitalists. As pediatric care has advanced, children who would not have survived infancy are growing into young adults with complex chronic diseases and dependence upon technology. They frequently require hospitalization to address exacerbation of underlying disease processes and procedures to improve their quality of life. The articles are devoted to patient care challenges of troubleshooting malfunctioning technology, co-managing medically complex patients pre and post-op with surgical colleagues, and the Hospitalist's evolving role in performing procedures and sedation in this population of vulnerable patients. Also discussed rare strategies to maximize communication with parents, patients and primary care providers during hospitalization, especially for medically complex patients. Dr. Ullrich and Dr. Wolfe Pediatric have worked to bring relevant articles on palliative care to the pediatrician. While life-threatening conditions in childhood are rare, children with LTC account for a high proportion of pediatric hospital care, and about one half of such children die in the inpatient setting. The number of hospital-based pediatric palliative care programs has increased dramatically over the past decade to meet the palliative care needs of hospitalized children including symptom management, facilitation of communication, decision-making and advance care planning support, and coordination of care. Given these considerations, it is evident that the topics of pediatric palliative care and hospital medicine are fitting counterparts for this comprehensive issue.

Food Borne Illness is a common, costly, yet preventable public health problem. This issue covers the most common food borne pathogens, along with articles that deals with identifying, diagnosing, and treating food borne illness. It also covers food borne illness in special populations.

This issue of Ultrasound Clinics addresses pediatric applications. Topics include: Chest; Spine; Adrenal; Pancreas and Spleen; Bladder; Gynecology; Portal Hypertension; Unusual Abdominal; Hepatic, Renal and Multivisceral Transplantation; Abdominal Emergencies.

Includes topics such as include obstruction, perforation, bleeding, acute inflammation, hernia emergencies, the open abdomen, necrotizing soft tissue infections, vascular emergencies, thoracic emergencies, and more.

Discusses the staging of liver disease, treatments for those newly diagnosed, and those who are dealing with chronic illness, along with managing drug therapy and virus resistance.

Provides essential updates on COPD. This title covers such topics as: pathobiological mechanisms; genes and the disease (alpha-l-antitrypsin); the environment, phenotype, and comorbidity; the role and potential of imaging; pulmonary function and its importance; exercise in testing and therapy; and, more.