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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Principles of Pharmacology 3rd Edition by David E. Golan


Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy 3rd Edition by David E. Golan, Armen H. Tashjian Jr., Ehrin J. Armstrong and April W. Armstrong gives an integrated mechanism-primarily based and methods-based mostly strategy, incorporating the cell biology, biochemistry, physiology, and pathophysiology of organ systems.

The text features content reflecting present research findings, more than four hundred full-shade illustrations, Drug Abstract Tables, and elevated coverage of drug metabolism and the therapy of mycobacterial infections. The authors state that this book represents a brand new method to the instructing of a first or second year medical college pharmacology course.

It's designed for instructing pharmacology within the medical college curriculum, however is even better fitted to educating graduate students the rules of pharmacology. The authorship of this book is exclusive in that it's a collaboration of medical college students, residents, and faculty with expertise within the content of each chapter.

This book has a variety of features that make it distinctive amongst pharmacology books. First, and most necessary, it has a strong give attention to molecular and cellular mechanisms that contribute to the pathophysiology of ailments and the molecular actions of medication used to deal with these diseases. It emphasizes crucial thinking, molecular understanding, and techniques-based integration. Explanations are enriched by properly-designed multicolored illustrations.

Each chapter is introduced with a nicely-written scientific vignette that ends with a number of "yellow gentle-bulb" questions regarding the case. These "yellow gentle-bulbs" are then inserted into the text where the explanation to the query is provided. Lastly, every chapter ends with a effectively-designed signature drug summary table that lists drugs with mechanism of motion, medical applications, critical and customary antagonistic effects, contraindications, and therapeutic considerations.

These tables permit students to rapidly review all the drugs they should know for examinations. Nevertheless, detailed discussion of medical software of medication is extra limited. Students and faculty have access to an internet site with the absolutely searchable eBook, PowerPoint displays of figures for school, and, in fact, a question bank check generator for students.

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Explain Pain by David Butler and Lorimer Moseley


Explain Pain, by David Butler, PT and Dr. Lorimer Moseley and Sunyata is an evidence based book designed for therapists, patients and students. It answers the most common questions asked by pain sufferers: 'why do I hurt?' and 'what can I do for my pain?' Written in simple language that anyone can understand, it encourages patients to move better and research shows that they will have less pain once they have understood its underlying causes.

Every Physical Therapist (PT) should incorporate this book into their chronic pain patient's regiment. Your PT should also take the time to discuss it with you. Just as important - you need to communicate with your PT as to what is going on with you physically and what is running through your mind. You have to be a team.

This is a great book. It is packed with the right messages for patients and healthcare providers and presented in a visually pleasing format. I highly recommend it for one's patient library and as an introductory summary for those who are entering the field of pain management.

David Butler, PT is in high demand as a lecturer, educator and an accomplished author. He has written and co-authored many publications blending manual therapy skills with neuro-biological evidence and clinical decision-making skills.

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures 4e, Jaffe


Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures 4th Edition by Richard A. Jaffe offers comprehensive guide to the anesthetic and perioperative management of patients during all procedures performed by general and subspecialist surgeons.

The book explains each procedure from both the surgeon's and the anesthesiologist's perspective, presents details on anesthetic technique, and guides the anesthesiologist and surgeon through the decisions that must be made before, during, and after surgery. Emphasis is on factors that impact the anesthesiologist, including patient positioning, duration of surgery, and complications.

The Fourth Edition covers almost 40 new surgical procedures, with an increased focus on laparoscopic and endovascular procedures. A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank. The editors do an excellent job of bringing the perspectives of both anesthesia and surgery to each procedure, and include more than 700 procedures. A significant addition to this edition is chapters devoted to office based anesthesia and emergency procedures.

The surgical considerations section concludes with a summary of procedures. This section provides a fascinating insight into the surgical perspective on perioperative care. Aside from information on positioning, special instrumentation required, the incision, and predicted surgical time, a valuable information mine is present in the form of the ‘unique considerations’ section.

These sections often reveal the operating conditions that the surgeon is expecting to be provided by the anaesthetist. While mainly being extremely useful, especially in the cases of surgical procedures unfamiliar to the reader, sometimes surgical requirements appear more than a little prescriptive, perhaps due to the slightly different dynamic in the relationship between the American surgeon and the anaesthetist. Nowhere is this more apparent than the postoperative care sections.

Anaesthetic considerations are always divided into the familiar headings of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative. These sections are clearly and very competently written and provide concise information on anaesthetic technique, pathophysiology relevant to individual conditions, preoperative investigations, and postoperative complications.

The book concludes with a section entitled ‘Emergency Procedures for the Anesthesiologist’, which outlines techniques for performing procedures such as pericardiocentesis and arterial cutdown. This chapter appears a little ectopic, and is well covered in other, more conventional textbooks of anaesthesia. Similarly, the appendices covering topics as diverse as preoperative laboratory testing, perioperative beta-blockade, and ‘standard adult anesthetic protocols’, while well and clearly written, are quite heavily influenced by local practice and again are better covered elsewhere.

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Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation 2e


Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation 2nd Edition by Stuart McGill presents a clear exposition of back anatomy and biomechanics and demonstrates how to interpret the latest research on low back involvement for clinical applications. The text also contains detailed information on injuries associated with seated work and sport and ergonomic issues related to manual handling of materials.

With this text, you will gain valuable information on measured loading of the back during specific activities and apply it to avoid common—but counterproductive—practices in back rehabilitation; learn how to analyze each patient's or client's unique physical characteristics and lifestyle factors to tailor preventive measures and treatments to individual needs; learn how to help patients and clients progress through the stages of rehabilitation: corrective exercise, stability or mobility, endurance, and strength; and acquire the information necessary to design an effective injury-prevention program.

This fully updated second edition expands knowledge of low back disorders and best practices in several areas. Enhanced algorithms guide progessive therapeutic exercise, and specially designed patient assessment provocation tests aid you in determining the cause of back troubles, guide your choices in the best ways to eliminate problems, and improve the development of appropriate activities for functional gain.

Whereas the first edition focused on increasing spine stability, the second edition provides new information on dealing with both regional instability or mobility and regional stiffness present in individuals where most of the motion occurs at a single spinal segment. With an expanded repertoire of pain-free motion exercises and additional information on ways to find and adjust stabilization exercises, it offers you new tools to help your patients and clients achieve pain-free exertion.

The text includes exercises and activities that provide a solid foundation of physical work in preparation for more advanced activities in sports and occupations. Also, the process of transitioning into performance exercise is outlined with an explanation of the critical stages of the performance pyramid, including the design of appropriate corrective exercise, building joint and whole-body stability, enhancing endurance, training true strength, and transitioning to ultimate performance.

This text presents foundational information and corresponding clinical applications in a clear, well-sequenced format. Part I builds your knowledge of lumbar function and injury. Part II demonstrates how to use this knowledge to build evidence-based injury-prevention programs by assessing risks, creating ergonomic interventions, and training personnel. Part III focuses on improving rehabilitation techniques, including specific diagnostic and provocative tests, with specific therapeutic exercises proven to enhance performance and reduce pain through a continuum from corrective exercise to stability and mobility, endurance, strength, and power.

Additionally, the text offers these practical features to guide your learning and inform your practice. There are more than 475 photos, graphs, and charts support the research and the scientific basis for the text's conclusions. More than 50 tests and exercises with step-by-step instructions help you develop successful programs for your patients and clients.

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Essentials of Pain Medicine 3rd Edition by Honorio Benzon


Essentials of Pain Medicine 3rd Edition by Honorio Benzon, Srinivasa N. Raja, Scott M. Fishman and Spencer Liu offers an accessible and concise, yet complete, overview of today's theory and practice of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. From a review of basic considerations through local anesthetics and nerve block techniques, this book provides the reader with an excellent tool for exam review or practice of Pain Management.

Organized in a concise, practical quick-reference format, all chapters are brief and easy to read quickly. This text offers specific strategies for the evaluation and management of a full range of pain syndromes, including cancer pain with over 230 diagrams, illustrations, summary charts and tables that clarify the information and make it easy to apply.

Discussing the latest drugs and therapeutic approaches, such as acupuncture, this text presents the management of pain for every setting where it is practiced, including the emergency room, the critical care unit, and the pain clinic. It also includes new topics such as: imaging in pain medicine, radiation safety, issues associated with the use of narcotics, intraarticular and intraperitoneal use of opioids, pain management in the emergency room and in the intensive care unit, pain management issues during pregnancy, geriatric pain, and hospice care and end-of-life issues.

New chapters on interventional procedures include discography, intradiscal electrothermal coagulation (IDET), vertebroplasty, and piriformis injections. Truncal blocks and neuraxial blocks and anticoagulants are added to the section on nerve blocks. The book comes with an online accompaniment, allowing the reader to consult the text via the internet, thus allowing the book's text and illustrations to be accessed flexibility. The online version is eay to navigate through using sidebar application. Illustrations can be enlarged and all references are available with one mouse click.

The book is well balanced in terms of basic science and clinical applications and all chapters have a narrative flow that is not laborious and can be used effectively as a quick source of information for teaching or viva practice. Overall, this book sets out to provide a concise but complete overview of pain medicine without becoming too overwhelming for the reader. In my opinion, it would be an excellent textbook to read before or at the start of pain training and also as a resource to help manage a wide variety of pain syndromes in everyday practice.

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