Books in the The Clinics: Internal Medicine series

Covers arrhythmias in athletes, which can be a cause of morbidity and mortality. In this title, the authors review the information available about management of ventricular arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, bradyarrhythmias, syncope and other conditions.

Covers infectious disease issues encountered in the ICU, including the approach to the febrile patient, management of septic shock, severe community-acquired pneumonia, management of ventilator-associated pneumonia, approach to the immunocompromised host, bloodstream infection, severe soft tissue infections, and meningitis and brain abscess.

Focuses on Insomnia. This title includes article topics such as cognitive-behavioral insomnia therapy, Insomnia and Cancer, Dissemination Training for CBTI, Insomnia and short sleep duration, neurophysiology of sleep quality and insomnia, Pain, Sleep, and Insomnia, and Insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea.

Deals with the assessment and treatment of infections in rheumatic diseases. This title covers topics such as: molecular biology of infectious agents ion chronic arthritis; gonococcal and non-gonococcal arthritis; clinical and medical management of reactive arthritis; lyme arthritis; and, the role of parvovirus B19 in chronic arthritis.

HPV is a growing epidemic in head and neck cancer and specialists working with these diseases are provided information on shifting trends in HPV in head and neck cancers along with challenges and controversies in treating this disease. This book includes topics such as: Epidemioloygy of HPV-head and neck cancer; and Clinical detection of HPV.

This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, edited by Mack T. Ruffin IV, MD, MPH and Cameron G. Shultz PhD, MSW, is devoted to Preventive Medicine. Articles in this issue include Risk Assessment Approach Screening; Substance Use and Tobacco Screening; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Planned Pregnancy; Violence Screening; Breast Cancer Screening; Lung Cancer Screening; Colorectal Cancer Screening; Prostate Cancer Screening; Heart Disease Screening; Screening for Depression; and Use of Genetic Markers.

Originally discussed in the context of "Paraphilias", this edition of Psychiatric Clinics of North America covers topics in sexual deviancy. The psychiatric community has revised this term through several editions of the DSM, indicating the view of these disorders changing from "sociopathic sexual deviation" to "sexual deviation of nonpsychotic mental disorder" to "paraphilias and paraphilic disorders." No matter how it is stated, this edition addresses sexual deviation assessemnt and treatment, covering conditions that harm others and that typically involve a legal/criminal/forensic component. Topics include Assessment; Mental illness and sexual offending; Treatment of sexual offenders-Psychological and Pharmacological; Professional sexual misconduct including clergy; Adolescent sexual offenders; Child pornography and sexual deviance; Sexual sadism and sexually motivated homicide; Dysfunctional anger and sexual violence; and Ethical issues in the treatment of sexual offenders. Highly renown for their research and clinical work in the nature of sexucal disorder, Dr Bradford and Dr Ahmed lead this edition intended for psychiatrists and other medical professionals dealing with this population.

Covers topics including: Management of Depression in Schizophrenia, Management of Schizophrenia with Comorbid Anxiety Disorders, Schizophrenia with Impulsive and Aggressive Behaviors, Management of Schizophrenia with Suicide Risks, Management of schizophrenia with eating disorders, and Schizophrenia with Substance Abuse disorders.

Complementary and alternative medicine encompasses a wide range of modalities, including acupuncture, herbs and supplements, naturopathy, and body and mind therapies. This title helps doctors understand the evidence supporting and refuting complementary and alternative medicine techniques so they can provide patients with answers.

Chronic liver diseases progressively destruct liver tissue, leading to fibrosis and cirrhosis. This title includes articles that review practices for managing and treating patients who present with these chronic problems, like hepatitis, nonalcoholic fatty liver, end stage liver disease, and drug-induced injuries.

Offers a rounded view of the therapeutic advances for the most common neurologic disorders and contains the following articles: Management Controversy in Chronic Daily Headaches (Rahmadan); Neurostimulation in Headache Patients (Dafer); and, The Selection of Anti-epileptic Drugs for the Treatment of Epilepsy in Children and Adults (Asconape).

Addresses neonatal neurology. This title reviews mechanisms and management of acute brain injury, including articles on systemic and cerebral transitional hemodynamics in premature infants, hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in the term infant, neuroprotection in the newborn infant, neonatal stroke, and neonatal seizures.

Focuses on performing CBT for a variety of psychiatric conditions. This title presents the article discussing how to effectively use CBT for anxiety disorders, personality disorder, eating disorders, schizophrenia, tic-related disorders, somatoform disorders, sleep disorders, substance use/dependence, sexual dysfunction, mood disorders and ADHD.

Reviews the information available on syncope. This book tells about the approach to the syncope patient, triage in the Emergency Department, differential diagnosis, and therapy.

Features topics such as: taking Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates to Zero, preventing ICU Delirium, avoiding Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea, reducing ventilator associated complications and pneumonia, and, Can Venous Thromboembolism be avoided?

Includes article topics such as Biowarfare/Bioterrorism pathogens, Infections in neutropenics, Infections in AIDS, Influenza and endemic viral pneumonias, Resistant gram negative infections, Toxic Shock Syndrome, Fulminant viral myocarditis, and Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection.

Addresses the continuum between acute and chronic pancreatitis, necrosis and pseudocysts, and the expanding role of endoscopic diagnosis and therapy. This title includes articles such as: Role of EUS in the diagnosis of acute and chronic pancreatitis; ERCP for acute biliary pancreatitis; and Prevention of post ERCP pancreatitis.

Cardiac catheterization is a significant part of the practice of cardiology. This title provides a picture of what can be learned in the catheterization laboratory about blood flow in the heart and coronary vessels.

Specialist title in pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Sleep researchers continue to study genetic markers that may someday lead to a personalized approach to treatment of sleep disorders. This issue that describes in detail the thinking on the way genes affect and determine sleep patterns, behaviors, disorders and needs.

Addresses the neurologic consequences of exposure to environmental toxins.

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are electronic devices installed in the chest to prevent sudden death caused by abnormally fast heart rhythms. This book provides electrophysiologists with the information on ICDs, including selection of patients who are appropriate for the device and monitoring patients after the device is implanted.

This issue of Medical Clinics, Guest Edited by C. Matthew Stewart, MD, is devoted to Otolaryngology. Articles in this issue include: Hearing Loss; Sinuses and Common Rhinologic Conditions; Dizziness and the Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery POV; Head and Neck Masses; Hoarseness; Aging Face; Pediatric Transitions; Chronic Ear Disease; Tinnitus; Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery System Diseases; Urgent Infections; Speech Language Pathologist Rehabilitation; and Facial Nerve Paralysis.

This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, guest edited by Dr. Michael Malone, is devoted to Infectious Disease. Articles in this issue include: Tick-borne Illnesses; Mosquito-Borne Diseases; Mite and Bed Bug Infections; Pertussis; Skin and Soft Tissue Infections; UTI Antibiotic Resistance in the U.S;  Emergence of Global Antibiotic Resistance; Guidelines for the Evaluation and Treatment of Pneumonia; Common Central Nervous System Infections; Common Gastrointestinal Infections; Role of Complimentary and Alternative Therapies in Infectious Disease; Health Guidelines for Travel Abroad; Aquatic Infections; and Infections During Pregnancy.

Deals with advances in laparoscopy and minimally invasive surgery. This title includes topics such as: urogynecology, robotics, anatomy, complications, and single site surgery.

Provides a fresh perspective on the topic of successful aging which covers article topics such as: Normal Aging: Theories, Aging and Disease Prevention, Aging, hormones and hormone replacement, Aging and Diet, Aging and the Effects of Vitamins and Supplements, Aging and Toxins, Aging and the Preservation of Neurologic Function, and more.

Biologic response modifiers (BRMs) are substances that stimulate the body's response to infection and disease. The body naturally produces small amounts of these substances. This title reviews the use of BRMs to treat infectious diseases as well as the infectious complications of BRMs used to treat non-infectious diseases.

Covers such topics as: Historical Perspective of Venous Thromboembolism; Coagulation for the Intensivist; VTE Prophylaxis in the Critically Ill; Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Embolism; Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism: Anti Coagulation; Thrombolytic Therapy and Complications; Major Pulmonary Embolism; and, Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia.

Includes topics on cardiovascular emergencies such as: Ischemia, Heart Failure, Congenital Heart Disease, Supreventricular Dysrhythmias, Atrial Fibrillation, Uncommon Dysrhythmias, Electrophysiology, Pericardial Disease, and Cardiac Arrest.

Focuses on gastrointestinal bleeding. This title offers coverage of the endoscopic, surgical and pharmacologic therapies. It also focuses on the epidemiology, pathology, and the prevalence and incidence of H Pylori in upper gastrointestinal bleeding.