The Human Heart: A Basic Guide to Heart Disease

This basic text on the heart and heart diseases is geared to everyone on the cardiovascular care team, including emergency personnel, interns, residents, nurses, patients, and families. The thoroughly updated Second Edition describes current technologies for noninvasive diagnosis and treatment of coronary and vascular disease. Coverage includes a complete description of echocardiographic stress testing and new information on implanted defibrillators, indications for coronary arteriography, new drugs for heart failure, new cardiac resuscitation procedures, and use of ventricular synchronizing pacemakers. Also included are discussions of recently discovered lethal entities such as Brugada’s syndrome, short QT syndrome, and the arrhythmogenic ventricle.

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Fundamental Critical Care Support

The entire FCCS program has been updated, enhanced and expanded to ensure it provides the most up to date information on caring for the critically ill and injured patient. This text is the core reference and course guide to the world-renowned Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) course, and is the premier critical care curriculum for the non-intensivist provider. Developed by an international panel of leading critical care experts in anesthesiology, emergency and internal medicine, nursing, pediatrics, and surgery, this text focuses on essential skills needed to manage the first 24 hours of patient critical care.

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Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines

 

Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines fills the demand for a discussing the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of diseases and conditions encountered by health care professionals.
The title was first published in Finland by the Finnish Medical Society, where it is now considered to be the single most important support tool for the physicians’ decision making in their daily work.
What sets EBM Guidelines apart from competing books?
Provides physicians with fast and easy access to practice guidelines based on the best available research evidence
practically all medical conditions encountered in general practice
Developed by over 300 experienced general practitioners and specialists worldwide
Includes both diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, and recommendations on diagnostic tests and drug dosage
Presented in a user-friendly format with self contained chapters based on clinical subjects
Clear and concise  of all available evidence results in the guideline for treatment
The strength of evidence is graded from A-D making this title a quick and easy reference whenever and wherever you need it!
Assumes no prior knowledge of EBM or statistics – all the work of searching and appraisal has been done for you!
Seeks to include guidelines where clinical evidence is incomplete or unavailable
Contains full-colour and tables throughout
Easy-to-read and fast support at the  of care – EBM Guidelines:
Summarises the best available evidence – Cochrane reviews – DARE abstracts – Clinical Evidence topics – original articles in medical journals – abstracts in the Health TechnologyDatabase – NHS Economic Evaluation
Evaluates and grades the strength of all individual evidence from A (Strong research-based evidence) to D (No scientific evidence)
Suggests guidelines based on clinical evidence. If clinical evidence is inadequate or missing, an expert panel evaluate all other available information and suggests the appropriate guideline
With over 1000 problem-orientated or disease-specific guidelines including reference to evidence summaries for all guidelines, this title is the most extensive collection of guidelines for primary care today.

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Evidence-Based Neurology: Management of Neurological Disorders (Evidence-Based Medicine)

 

In Evidence-based Neurology: Management of Neurological Disorders, a carefully selected group of clinically experienced collaborators use the best available evidence to answer more than 100 clinical questions about the treatment and management of neurological disorders.

Divided into three sections and 24 chapters, Evidence-based Neurology: Management of Neurological Disorders:

* fills the gap between guidelines and primary studies as well as between primary and secondary scientific medical literature

* summarizes the most recent and important findings on treatments for neurological patients

* the benefit and, when applicable,  harm inherent in specific neurological interventions.

Each chapter starts with a brief definition of the clinical condition, together with its incidence and natural history. A clear formulation of a real-world scenario or question usually follows, structured using the standard three elements of patient, intervention, and outcome. The results are as quantitative as possible.

This unique, evidence-based text, edited by members of the Cochrane Neurological will be an essential resource for all general neurologists, from the novice to the most experienced, in their everyday clinical practice.

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Obstetric Evidence-Based Guidelines, Second Edition (Series In Maternal Fetal Medicine)

 

This book reviews the evidence for best practice in obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine. It  readers with the right information, in the right format, by summarizing evidence in easy-to-use tables and algorithms. Recommendations have linkage to supporting evidence, and quality of evidence and strength of recommendation is stressed. Areas of uncertainty are recognized, and ‘individualized’ care suggested. Recommendations based on randomized trials and meta-analyses are highlighted so that clinical outcomes can be improved. The proper use of each guideline is aimed at “make it easy to do it right”, so there is appropriate use of proven interventions and no use of harmful interventions. Plenty of evidence is available so that well-informed clinicians can reduce errors (primum non nocere), so the first aim is ultimately to improve the health of mother and fetus by providing quality care

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