Books published by Elsevier Health Sciences

Written for health practitioners and students new to medical ultrasound, this book provides various basic physics and technological knowledge they need in order to practise ultrasound, including safety aspects of ultrasound, quality assurance and the techniques and developments.

Presents a comprehensive general overview of pediatric medicine from an osteopathic perspective. This textbook discusses the normal development, physiology and anatomy of the body systems from birth to adulthood. It explores the conditions and diseases of childhood and outlines the rationale for osteopathic treatment for each disorder.

An introductory manual for the use of clinical hypnosis in the treatment of medical and psychological problems and disorders. It is written with the interests and needs of the doctor or dentist in mind. It also explores the theoretical and historical background to hypnosis, and several key techniques and approaches.

Divided into 5 sections, this book covers: basic optical structure of the human eye; image formation and refraction of the eye; interactions between light and the eye, considering transmission, reflection and scatter in the media of the eye and at the fundus; aberrations and retinal image quality; and more.

Offers a two-color page layout, a more portable size, and a list of the "Top 100 Secrets" in hand surgery help readers to meet the challenges they face today.

Contains the principles of the extraction of teeth and the techniques of surgical management. This book contains sections on subjects such as the use of general anaesthetic and the medico-legal climate. It begins with the principles of tooth extraction and goes on to advise on the use of radiographs and the administration of anaesthesia.

No dental office should be without this quick-reference drug handbook! Ideal for chairside use by the entire dental team, Mosby's Dental Drug Reference, 14th Edition, provides guidelines for safe, accurate drug administration. More than 800 drug monographs - including 93 new monographs covering newly released, FDA-approved drugs - make it easy to find the information most relevant to oral healthcare practitioners, including indications and dosages, contraindications, interactions, side effects, serious reactions, and dental-specific drug data. Accompanied by an Evolve website with additional monographs, photos of pathologic conditions, and more, this durable, pocket-sized guide provides the current, concise drug information needed at the point of care.NEW! More than 93 new monographs cover newly released, FDA-approved drugs and provide up-to-date content on the latest drug therapies.NEW! Expanded coverage of "Biologic Agents" explores their impact on oral health and dental treatment.Durable, pocket-sized format provides essential drug information at a glance, making this guide ideal for chairside use.More than 800 drug monographs include each drug’s generic name, pronunciation, brand names, drug class, controlled substances schedule, mechanism of action, uses or indications, doses and routes of administration, side effects/adverse reactions, contraindications, precautions, pharmacokinetics, drug interactions of concern to dentistry, and more.Detailed dental considerations at the end of each monograph include an easy-to-use, bulleted list of specific dental-related information, as well as general drug information, saving you time with information that is dentistry-focused and easy to use.Emphasis on oral health, prevention, and treatment from the dental hygienist’s perspective facilitates the use of drug information for patient and family education.Coverage of oral contraceptives provides dental information on these commonly used drugs, often known to patients only by their brand names, to help you better serve and educate your patients.Convenient reference information in the front of the guide includes the therapeutic management of common oral lesions and drug information specific to medically compromised patients, while the back of the guide includes convenient appendices on abbreviations, drugs associated with dry mouth, drugs that affect taste, oral contraceptives, preventing medication errors, and more.

Known for its comprehensive coverage, readability, and visual presentation, Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 11th Edition helps prepare you to work in long-term care, acute care, and subacute care settings - and includes a practice scenario in each chapter to enhance your clinical judgment skills. It's the most comprehensive text for CNA programs, packed with step-by-step instructions for more than 100 procedures. Lifespan coverage includes skills not only for adults and older residents, but also for maternity and pediatric patients, so you can be comfortable working in a variety of care settings. Shorter, more focused chapters allow you to learn in manageable portions and an enhanced art program clarifies important concepts and procedural steps. NEW! Chapter organization breaks material into manageable portions, improving your ability to retain important information. NEW! More images depicting culturally diverse patients and care takers increase the variety of persons represented in the textbook. NEW! Shorter, more focused chapters help you retain important concepts and skills covered in the NATCEP certification exam. Complete coverage of the knowledge and skills needed to pass the state certification exam and engage in safe practice. Clear writing at a seventh-grade reading level ensures accessibility for low-level learners. More than 100 skills outlined in pre-procedure and post-procedure sections ensure you learn all the necessary steps to pass the skills portion of the certification exam. Focus on Math feature reviews mathematical calculations needed in various care measures and procedures. Getting a Job chapter covers the soft skills needed to seek and obtain employment. Focus on Surveys feature highlights the nursing assistant role during state inspections. Focus on Practice: Problem Solving scenarios stimulate critical thinking about common situations encountered during practice. Focus on PRIDE: The Person, Family, and Yourself boxes build on chapter concepts to help promote pride in the nursing assistant, the resident, and the resident's family. Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes emphasize the importance of the patient's or resident's safety and comfort. Delegation Guidelines detail the specifics of accepting delegated tasks. Focus on Children and Older Person boxes provide age-specific information about special needs, considerations, and circumstances of children and older persons. Focus on Long-Term Care and Home Care boxes highlight information vital to providing competent care in the long-term and home care settings. Focus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for how to clearly communicate with residents and avoid comments that might make them uncomfortable. Caring About Culture boxes contain information to help you learn about the various practices of other cultures. Teamwork and Time Management boxes provide specific guidelines to help nursing assistants work most efficiently, whether independently or as part of the nursing team. Chapter review questions are a useful study guide found at the end of each chapter.

Ensure your skills are at their clinical best! Laboratory Procedures for Veterinary Technicians, 8th Edition covers the broad spectrum of laboratory procedures that veterinary technicians need to perform effectively in the practice setting. Comprehensive content presents the fundamentals of microbiology, hematology, urinalysis, immunology, and cytology, along with the laboratory procedures used to perform the most widely used tests, such as complete blood count, urinalysis, and immunologic assays. This thoroughly updated edition includes step-by-step procedure guidelines, along with the latest advances in veterinary clinical procedures to prepare you for real-life laboratory work. NEW! Content addresses fear-free handling specimen collection methods. UPDATED! Comprehensive coverage reflects the latest advances in veterinary clinical laboratory procedures for improved patient service and higher practice revenue. UPDATED! Content outlines what is needed to successfully perform a broad spectrum of laboratory tests, including complete blood count, urinalysis, and immunologic assays. Atlas style appendices contain hundreds of images to enhance laboratory exercises and provide an excellent resource as you move into clinical practice. Vet Tech Threads pedagogical aids include introductions, suggested readings, boxed Technician Notes, learning objectives, chapter outlines, key terms, and a glossary to help you grasp key concepts and navigate through the chapters for more focused learning. Comprehensive coverage provides you with a solid foundation in the fundamentals of microbiology, hematology, urinalysis, immunology, and cytology, along with the laboratory procedures used to perform related tests. Step-by-step procedure boxes throughout the book present the skills that veterinary technician students must perform during their educational program, as well as procedures that are commonly performed by vet techs in the private practice, in an easy-to-access format.

Providing an easy-to-digest, comprehensive review of what can be a complex and challenging subject, The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 12th Edition, covers all aspects of normal and abnormal embryonic and fetal development. In a clear, concise manner, this lavishly illustrated text has been extensively revised to incorporate recent research and current clinical practice guidelines, meeting the needs of medical and health sciences students as well as those in graduate programs. Online features include multiple-choice questions and narrated animations to further support student success. Guides you month by month and stage by stage through embryo and fetal organ and systems development, using full-color photographs of clinical cases, relevant modern medical imaging, and numerous high-quality supportive figures. Covers timely topics such as signaling pathways used during development, epigenetics, gene editing and CRISPR/Cas9 technology, reproductive in-vitro technology, stem-cell culture and creation and use of human organoids and early embryoids, morphogens, new teratogens (infections and environmental chemicals), and clinical genetics of common birth defects. Emphasizes modern clinical imaging techniques, with many new 3D HD color rendered images of embryos and fetuses, 3D constructions of whole embryos, and imaging updates to sections on the head and neck, genitourinary system, ovarian development, nervous system, eyes, and integumentary system. Details how molecular biology has affected clinical practice, including techniques such as recumbent DNA technology and stem cell manipulation. Contains clinical "Blue Boxes" cases with answers to questions, numerous illustrations, crisp medical imaging figures, and many clinical photographs. Provides clinically-oriented problems for each chapter, with corresponding answers and explanations designed to facilitate discussion and learning. In addition, multiple-choice questions and answers are available online for supportive self-assessment. Features 18 outstanding, narrated, full-color animations to help you as you explore and learn the complexity of embryological development. Provides the knowledge base needed for today's examinations, including USMLE Step 1, as well as for future clinical practice. An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Exploring the immunologic concerns of both large and small animals, Veterinary Immunology,11th Edition is the only complete resource on immunology for veterinary practitioners. This new edition has been meticulously updated to continue its trend of incorporating the latest advances and topics in the field. It features a straightforward presentation of basic immunologic principles along with thorough and timely information on the most significant immunologic diseases and responses seen in domestic animals. Vibrant images and wealth of clinical examples give you a better understanding of complex topics and concepts and how they come in to play during professional practice. NEW! Completely updated content covers the latest advances and topics in veterinary immunology, including cutting-edge information on drugs for the immune system, antibodies, vaccines, cancer immunology, and much more. NEW! Enhanced ebook version, included with every new print purchase, features flashcards and enhanced animations, plus access to all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Comprehensive coverage clearly explains the general principles of immunology and provides information on the most significant immunologic diseases and immunologic responses seen in domestic animals and marine mammals. A wealth of clinical examples show how principles are applied in the clinical setting.

Macleod's Clinical Diagnosis is a practical manual for evaluating and diagnosing problems based on presenting symptoms. The book covers the principles of the diagnostic process, then takes the reader step-by-step through common acute medical presentations and how to interpret symptoms in context to produce a differential diagnosis. Readers will learn to interpret clinical features, examination findings and investigation results, and will build their confidence in assessing patients and identifying red flags. Whether used as a stand-alone resource or as a companion to Macleod's Clinical Examination, this book will prove invaluable for medical students and junior doctors as they build on their basic clinical skills theory to practice in the real world. Series of clear 'diagnostic guides' to all the common acute medical presentations that may present to the emergency department or acute medical unitDiagnostic flow charts in each chapter - helps the reader to follow a clear step-by-step approach to diagnosisClear, succinct and logically ordered to support learningIncludes how to recognise red flags, eliminate life-threatening conditions and generate a logical differential diagnosisTakes a problem-based approach to diagnostic reasoning, reflecting both modern medical and current educational practicesBuilds on the clinical skills outlined in the companion Macleod's Clinical Examination textbookCovers all the acute medical presentations required by the UKMLA syllabusComes with an interactive eBook for easy anytime, anywhere accessNew chapter on the diagnostic approach to the poisoned patientContent restructured to reflect common acute medical presentationsFully updated to reflect current approaches to clinical diagnoses including diagnostic tests

Now fully revised and updated, this leading ICT series volume offers a concise yet comprehensive account of the structure and function of the human nervous system. Trusted by generations of readers and now in its seventh edition, it remains internationally popular as the most succinct, clinically relevant and uniquely illustrated textbook available on the subject. Carefully targeted to bridge the gap between a brief overview on the one hand and an extensive text on the other, this book provides a clear account of neuroanatomical principles. It describes normal structure and function and clinically relevant dysfunction, all related to conditions which students will encounter in clinical practice. This book will make learning easy for medical students, junior doctors and specialist trainees needing a sound understanding of the basics of neuroanatomy which underpin the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. Straightforward and concise - makes notoriously difficult concepts easy to understandSome of the best published illustrations in the field - all updated and improved for clarityPerfect for those new to neuroanatomy - provides enough detail for students to proceed to clinical studies with confidenceClinical material and topic summaries fully updated and highlighted in summary boxes throughout the textComes with the complete, enhanced eBook - including additional images and self-assessment material to aid revision and check understanding

Social prescribing - the connection of people to communities, services and activities to meet their practical, social and emotional needs - has become an increasingly important element of healthcare policy. As debate intensifies over an appropriate national model, this new book provides the first comprehensive overview of the entire concept of social prescribing.Social Prescribing pulls together arguments, evidence and resources to define social prescribing and analyze how it can change lives. It considers a range of paradigms for improving health and wellbeing through social approaches, and provides real-life examples of where the theory has been realized in practice.The book is well-balanced and easy to understand, making it ideal for healthcare practitioners, researchers and policy makers who are interested in exploring the potential of social prescribing for improving health and wellbeing.Editor Heather Henry is former chair of New NHS Alliance (now The Health Creation Alliance CIC), which influences national health strategy and policy on health inequalities and wellbeing. Her NHS career in primary care as both a practising Queen's Nurse and NHS director, combined with her experience of the voluntary community and social enterprise sector, ideally qualifies her to curate and interpret a wide range of contributions from household names to seldom-heard voices.Presents a balanced approach to the current debates and critiques of social prescribingSummarises the main arguments with supporting evidence and resourcesCovers the history and current policy, and provides a detailed analysis of the evidence base around how social prescribing can improve wellbeingOffers different paradigms and models of social prescribing, including concepts around power, control, relationships, economics, recognizing strengths and assets, managing complexity, and enabling self-organisationIncludes perspectives from an impressive list of contributors, from eminent thought leaders like Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Lord Gus O’Donnell to local leaders, citizens and voices from all levels in the systemExtends beyond health and care to other sectors that impact the social determinants of health including urgent and emergency services, housing and educationUses accessible language throughout - suitable for anyone from system leaders to researchers, educators, practitioners and students