Books published by Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Provides essential tools to make an accurate diagnosis. This title delivers the conceptual, factual, and interpretive information you need for effective clinical practice in gastrointestinal imaging.

Find critical respiratory care information fast! Comprehensive and precise, this portable guide provides rapid access to vital respiratory procedures, facts, and formulas with an emphasis on critical care. It fits easily into your pocket, and the spiral binding allows it to lie flat on any given page. Whether you use it as a clinical resource, a study tool, or a quick refresher, this full-color resource offers quick access to just the right amount of practical, must-know information ¿ essential for boosting your confidence at the point of care. A quick-reference format provides all of the key information you need with fast-access to respiratory care guidelines, including assessment, arterial blood gases, EKGs, medications, and PFTs. Yoüll also find essential information on pulmonary diseases, equipment disinfection, and neonatal and pediatric care. Waterproof and stain-resistant pages keep your PDQ reference guide performing like new in any clinical setting. Color coded tabs feature a table of contents with page references, making it easy to quickly locate key information within each section. Full color design includes illustrations and clarifies important facts to help you easily find what you need. Commonly used and updated clinical information, including tables, formulas, equations, algorithms, and lab values ¿ all necessary to deliver safe and efficient care. AARC Clinical Practice Guidelines content has been redesigned into easy-to-use, compact algorithms. The latest asthma guidelines Increased coverage of neonatal and pediatric care Expanded BLS and ACLS protocols; updated medications, therapies, and therapeutic devices; and updated ventilator modes More formulas and facts than in the previous edition

Presents interactions between drugs and herbs, drugs and nutrients, and selected herbs and nutrients including foods and dietary factors. This book looks at the mechanisms of interaction and assesses the research available.

Describes the fundamentals of residual stresses in friction stir welding and reviews the data reported for various materials. This book reviews magnitude of residual stresses in various metals and alloys. It discusses mitigation strategies for residual stresses during friction stir welding.

Provides engineers and designers with a quick reference guide to calculations, codes, and standards applicable to piping systems. This book considers the multitude of pipes, flanges, supports, gaskets, bolts, valves, strainers, flexibles, and expansion joints that make up these often complex systems.

Covers video compression techniques used in the assortment of digital video recorders (DVRs) available on the market. This book clarifies the technology of data networking and explains various compression techniques.

Provides a treatment of the generation of low-density aluminum-lithium (Al-Li) alloys, including microstructure, mechanical behavoir, processing and applications. This book contains two chapters devoted to applications in aircraft and aerospace fields, where the lighter, stronger Al-Li alloys mean better performing, more fuel-efficient aircraft.

Traditionally, engineers have used laboratory testing to investigate the behavior of metal structures and systems. From concept to assembly, this book provides Civil and Structural engineers with the concepts and procedures needed to build accurate numerical models without using expensive laboratory testing methods.

Starting with background principles in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, this title discusses axial flow turbines and compressors, centrifugal pumps, fans, and compressors, and radial flow gas turbines, hydraulic turbines, and wind turbines.