An easy-to-understand introduction to pharmacology that nursing and healthcare professionals will find relevant from the beginning of clinical training at the hospital, and afterwards in medical practice.

Digitization is transforming our world economically, culturally and psychologically. The influx of new forms of communication, networking, and business opportunities, as well as new types of distraction, self-observation, and control into our societies represents an epochal challenge. Following Bernard Stiegler's concept of pharmacology, Felix Heidenreich and Florian Weber-Stein propose to view these new forms as digital pharmaka. Properly dosed,...

This concise textbook is ideal for students and health care professionals who needs an authoritative and readable text that is sharply focused on clinical psychiatry. It contains the most relevant clinical material and includes updated information on clinical syndromes and recently introduced pharmacological agents.

The sixth edition of Drugs in Nursing Practice updates all the existing drugs from the fifth edition, introduces a range of new drugs and includes a substantially revised section on nursing with a new nursing author involved in the book's publication.

'Medical Language for Modern Health Care' uses a contextual learning approach to introduce medical terminology within a healthcare environment. Chapters are broken into lessons that present and define terminology through the context of anatomy and physiology, pathology, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures as well as pharmacology.

A new and informative book introducing the principles of palliative care and detailing how these principles can be applied to practice. This book is based on the Health Service Executive’s (Ireland) Palliative Care Competence Framework by Ryan et al, 2014. This book clearly describes: -the need for holistic palliative care services across the lifespan and for common chronic illness -definition of pain, its symptoms, assessment, management and pharmacological...

Molecular Diagnostics and Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer describes the different emerging applications of systems biology and how it is shaping modern pancreatic cancer research. This book begins by introducing the current state of the art knowledge, trends in diagnostics, progress in disease model systems as well as new treatment and palliative care strategies in pancreatic cancer. Specific sections are dedicated to enlighten the readers to newer...

Anesthesiologists, residents, and advanced practice practitioners alike rely upon the comprehensive content of Hagberg and Benumof's Airway Management to remain proficient in this essential area. The 4th Edition, by Drs. Carin A. Hagberg, Carlos A. Artime, and Michael F. Aziz, continues the tradition of excellence with coverage of new devices and algorithms, new research, new outcomes reporting, and much more - while retaining a concise, how-to approach;...