Books published by Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Contains over 150 definitions of loss prevention terms. This book discusses topics ranging from accident investigations, counterfeit currency, emergency planning, and workplace violence to vendor frauds.

A foundational text of pediatric critical care nursing. It details the care required for critically ill children with discussions of physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, collaborative management, and nursing management.

Provides clinicians with the guidelines and tools necessary to provide quality, evidenced-based care to patients with life-limiting illness. This text describes the care and management of patients with advanced disease throughout the disease trajectory, extending from diagnosis of advanced disease until death.

Provides the mathematical background and step-by-step procedures for employing dimensional analyses. This work covers 4 essential aspects and applications which include: principal characteristics of dimensional systems; applications of dimensional techniques in engineering, mathematics and geometry; and applications in astronomy and physics.

Provides you with guidance on every aspect of orthopaedic disorders in children. From growth and development to integrating a child with a disability into society to physeal injuries to child abuse to youth sports and related injuries, this book presents all the key elements of orthopedics for clinical use, rounds, and board preparation.

With patients leaving the hospital sicker and more care being done in outpatient settings or at home, patients need to become informed participants on their health care team. This book gives advice to help nurses apply their knowledge and skills to teaching patients in the clinical setting with specific diseases, including special populations.