New Medical Books

Physicians' Desk Reference 2010 (64th ed.)

The most authoritative source of FDA-regulated drug information available, the new 2010 Physicians' Desk Reference provides you with the ability to reference thousands of drugs on the market new and existing.

Valvular Heart Disease
edited by Andrew Wang, Thomas M. Bashore

Challenges for the treatment of valvular heart disease include the growing need for effective yet less invasive interventions and therapies to treat these progressive conditions.

Manual of Clinical Oncology (6th ed.)
edited by Dennis A. Casciato

Updated for its Sixth Edition, this pocket manual is a practical, accessible, comprehensive guide to the management of patients with cancer.

Medication Safety: An Essential Guide (6th ed.)
edited by Molly Courtenay and Matt Griffiths

The supply and administration of medicines is an area of practice in which a number of healthcare professionals (e.g. nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals) are involved.

Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor: A Handbook for Clergy and Health-Care Professionals
by Robert D. Orr

In this book Robert Orr draws on his extensive medical knowledge and experience to offer a wealth of guidance regarding real-life dilemmas in clinical ethics.

Osteopathy: Research & Practice
by A. T. Still

Original 1910 edition of this classic work by the founder of Osteopathy.

Case Files: Family Medicine (2nd ed.)
edited by Eugene C. Toy

Case Files: Family Medicine presents 55 real-life cases that illustrate essential concepts in Family Medicine.

Case Files: Internal Medicine (3rd ed.)
edited by Eugene C. Toy

Case Files: Internal Medicine presents 60 real-life cases that illustrate essential concepts in Internal Medicine.

Blueprints Medicine (5th ed.)
edited by Vincent B. Young

Blueprints Medicine provides a concise review of what students need to know in their rotations or the Boards.

Medical Insights: From Classroom to Patient
by Morton A. Diamond

Medical Insights: From Classroom to Patient is a quick reference to assist medical professionals and students on how to decipher medical information. Many texts present materials in a voluminous and disjointed manner.

Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones and More (3rd ed.)
by Andrew Biel

This acclaimed book teaches readers to palpate the body's structures with ease and precision.

Field's Anatomy, Palpation, and Surface Markings (4th ed.)
by Derek Field, Jane Owen Hutchinson

This acclaimed book teaches readers to palpate the body's structures with ease and precision.

Functional Methods: A Manual for Palpatory Skill Development In Osteopathic Examination and Manipulation of Motor Function
by William L. Johnston, Harry D. Friedman, David C. Eland

End-Of-Life Care and Pragmatic Decision Making: A Bioethical Perspective
by D. Micah Hester

End-of-Life Care and Pragmatic Decision Making provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death.

Outline of Osteopathic Manipulative Procedures: The Kimberly Manual 2006
by Paul E. Kimberly

The Philosophy and Mechanical Principles of Osteopathy
by Andrew Taylor Still

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Autobiography of Andrew T. Still: With A History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy
by Andrew Taylor Still

In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, Kessinger Publishings has chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control.

Evidence-Based Manual Medicine: A Problem-Oriented Approach
by Michael A. Seffinger, Raymond J. Hruby

Shows you how to apply patient-focused, basic palpatory diagnostic and manual treatment procedures to achieve optimal outcomes.

Surgical Management of Low Back Pain (2nd ed.)
edited by Daniel K. Resnick, Regis W. Haid, Jr., Jeffrey C. Wang

The second edition of this popular text presents the current diagnostic and therapeutic surgical treatments for low back pain as well as the anatomic and physiologic rationale for their application.

Physical Examination of the Spine and Extremities in Collaboration
by Stanley Hoppenfeld, in collaboration with Richard Hutton

This clear, concise manual fills the growing need for a text covering the process of physical examination of the spine and extremities.

The Wrist (3rd ed.)
edited by Richard H. Gelberman

This volume in the MTOS series covers hand surgery techniques. Each chapter will be written by a world-renowned expert in that particular technique.

Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds (4th ed.)

This book and CD-ROM offers practicing nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds to help them accurately interpret what they hear and then apply that knowledge toward a proper diagnosis and treatment regimen.

Sleep Apnea: Implications in Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (2nd ed.)
edited by T. Douglas Bradley, John Floras

Atlas of Hypertension (6th ed.)
edited by Norman K. Hollenberg

The sixth edition of the Atlas of Hypertension builds on the tremendous success of earlier editions, but significant revision has been done since the last edition—a third of the chapters are new, and more than half of the chapters are written by new authors.

Complications of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas
by Stuart J. Hutchison

1.2 million myocardial infarctions occurred last year in the U.S., and 480,000 patients died following complications of infarction.

Heart Sounds and Murmurs Across the Lifespan (4th ed.)
by Barbara Erickson

Heart Sounds and Murmurs Across the Lifespan defines the concepts needed to learn or review cardiac auscultation.

Primary Cardiology (2nd ed.)
edited by Eugene Braunwald, Lee Goldman

Emphasizes preventive cardiology and includes new chapters on screening for coronary artery disease, dietary fats and lipids, exercise, and smoking cessation.

Evidence-Based Cardiology Practice: A 21st Century Approach
by Dayi Hu, et al.

This book introduces the concept of evidence-based patient care in cardiology, a method that encourages disease management decisions to be based on the highest level of evidence.

Adult Congenital Heart Disease
edited by Carole A. Warnes

Guides practicing physicians in the practical aspects of how to diagnose and treat patients with congenital heart disease.

Valvular Heart Disease: A Companion to
Braunwald's Heart Disease (3rd ed.)
edited by Catherine M. Otto, Robert O. Bonow

This third edition includes additional chapters written by experts on valvular heart disease during pregnancy and in childhood, subjects that are relevant because of the wide age range of patients who are affected by valvular heart disease.

Primary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction (2nd ed.)
edited by James E. Tcheng

In Primary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction, Second Edition, leading investigators and experienced clinicians collect and summarize the world's literature and augment this with practical wisdom concerning this critically important form of care.

Primary Angioplasty: Mechanical Interventions for Acute Myocardial Infarction (2nd ed.)
edited by David Antoniucci

The Second Edition of Primary Angioplasty provides an update on the rationale, techniques, and effectiveness of direct percutaneous mechanical revascularization for acute myocardial infarction.

Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside (5th ed.)
edited by Douglas P. Zipes, José Jalife

A remarkable book that lives up to the promise of its title. It is an encyclopedic review of all areas of adult and pediatric cardiac electrophysiology.

Kaplan's Clinical Hypertension (10th ed.)
by Norman M. Kaplan, Ronald G. Victor

This best-selling clinical reference by a world-renowned authority on hypertension was listed as the #1 reference book for hypertension by the American Society for Hypertension in 2006.

Leukemia (7th ed.)
edited by Edward S. Henderson, T. Andrew Lister, Mel F. Greaves

This classic provides comprehensive guidance on all aspects of leukemia, from etiology and biology to clinical features and therapy.

Practical Hemostasis and Thrombosis (2nd ed.)
edited by Nigel Key, et al.

This practical guide provides all the information necessary to understand the clotting mechanisms, as well as how to prevent, diagnose, and treat bleeding and clotting disorders.

Improved Outcomes in Colon and Rectal Surgery
edited by Charles W. Whitlow, et al.

Improved Outcomes in Colon and Rectal Surgery is a must read and essential reference for all colorectal surgeons, fellows and residents, as well as those working in gastroenterology and the medico-legal profession.

Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen (22nd ed.)
revised by William Silen

This classic text is much beloved by medical students and physicians-in-training throughout the English-speaking world, as its many editions indicate. It is chock full of the pearls of clinical wisdom that students and practitioners treasure, and many of these lessons apply to medicine in general.

Primer on Kidney Diseases (5th ed.)
edited by Arthur Greenberg, et al.

It covers the whole field of nephrology in concise and well-illustrated chapters and sections.

A Textbook of Neuroanatomy
by Maria A. Patestas, Leslie P. Gartner

This complete, yet concise text is designed to help students easily master the anatomy and basic physiology of the nervous system.

Merritt's Neurology (12th ed.)
edited by Lewis P. Rowland, Timothy A. Pedley

Merritt's Neurology demands a readily accessible place on the practitioner's shelf. Students and trainees will hone their neurologic skills by consulting the book, and those preparing for the neurology board examinations will find it a highly valuable resource.

Case Files: Surgery (3rd ed.)
by Eugene C. Toy, Terrence H. Liu, Andre R. Campbell

This is intended to emphasize the principles to be applied in managing general surgery patients.

Medical Management of the Surgical Patient (3rd ed.)
edited by Geno J. Merli, Howard H. Weitz

This is an absolute must for every physician who performs perioperative consultation services. It is an excellent compendium in a very easy to use format.

Perioperative and Critical Care Medicine: Educational Issues 2005
edited by A. Gullo, G. Berlot

Continuing medical education and specialty training procedures represent highly dynamical processes, with a continuously evolving content.

Glass' Office Gynecology (6th ed.)
edited by Michèle G. Curtis, Shelley Overholt, Michael P. Hopkins

Completely updated and reformatted for greater practicality, Glass' Office Gynecology, Sixth Edition guides practitioners through the full range of clinical problems in the ambulatory care of women.

Case Files: Obstetrics and Gynecology (3rd ed.)
by Eugene C. Toy, et al.

You need exposure to high-yield cases to excel on the Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship and the shelf-exam. Case Files: Obstetrics and Gynecology presents 60 real-life cases that illustrate essential concepts in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Obstetrics and Gynecology Recall (3rd ed.)
edited by F. John Bourgeois, et al.

This is a review for medical students rotating through their obstetrics/gynecology clerkship, structured in a question and answer format, with some additional figures and tables to highlight important concepts.

Mosby's Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring: A Multidisciplinary Approach (3rd ed.)
by Susan Martin Tucker, Lisa A. Miller, David A. Miller

Instantly access the latest information on evaluating fetal status in a practical, portable format perfect for use in the clinical environment!

Hacker and Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology (5th ed.)
edited by Neville F. Hacker, Joseph C. Gambone, Calvin J. Hobel

The 5th Edition of this popular and practical resource features additional clinical photos and material on vaccination and disease prevention.

Psychosocial Adaptation to Pregnancy: Seven Dimensions of Maternal Role Development (3rd ed.)
by Regina Lederman, Karen Weis

The proposed book presents an original analysis of seven dimensions of maternal psychosocial development during pregnancy that serve as the foundation for assessment of maternal prenatal adaptation and for psychoeducational and counseling intervention to enhance maternal adaptation.

Diseases, Complications, and Drug Therapy in Obstetrics: A Guide for Clinicians
edited by Gerald G. Briggs, Michael P. Nageotte

Created by a multi-disciplinary team of pharmacists and physicians specializing in maternal-fetal medicine, Diseases, Complications, and Drug Therapy in Obstetrics: A Guide for Clinicians is a new resource that provides answers to your most challenging questions.

Management of High-Risk Pregnancy: An
Evidence-Based Approach (5th ed.)
edited by John T. Queenan, Catherine Y. Spong, Charles J. Lockwood

This book is a must-have for all health professionals involved in the care of women with high risk pregnancies.

Cervical Ripening and Induction and Augmentation of Labor (3rd ed.)
by Kathleen Rice Simpson

Cervical Ripening and Induction and Augmentation of Labor explains in detail and gives definition on labor and birth delivery process. Association of Women's health Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses do a great job in providing information on health care to women and newborns in hospital.

Treatment of Skin Disease: Comprehensive Therapeutic Strategies (3rd ed.)
edited by Mark G. Lebwohl, et al.

Treatment of Skin Disease: Comprehensive Therapeutic Strategies has been thoroughly revised to give you the latest treatment options for dermatologic conditions.

Pediatric Bioethics
edited by Geoffrey Miller

It serves as a fundamental handbook and resource for pediatricians, nurses, residents in training, graduate students, and practitioners of ethics and healthcare policy.

Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession (6th ed.)
by Ruth A. Lawrence, Robert M. Lawrence

Delivers complete, authoritative, evidence-based information on all of the scientific and clinical topics related to breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence (2nd ed.)
by Marsha Walker

Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence, Second Edition is an evidence-based guide that provides current and relevant information on breastfeeding and lactation blended with clinical suggestions for best outcomes.

Primary Care of the Premature Infant
edited by Dara Brodsky & Mary Ann Ouellette

The book emphasizes specific diseases that affect premature infants and focuses on two primary categories: background and management in the NICU, and management of specific illnesses after discharge from the NICU.

Otologic Surgery (3rd ed.)
edited by Derald E. Brackmann, Clough Shelton, Moisés A. Arriaga

Otologic Surgery—the third edition of this invaluable surgical reference—has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest advances in the field and covers all aspects of surgery of the ear and skull base.

Bennett & Brachman's Hospital Infections (5th ed.)
edited by William R. Jarvis

The most influential reference in the field for nearly thirty years, Bennett and Brachman's Hospital Infections is in its thoroughly updated Fifth Edition.

The Infection Prevention Handbook (5th ed.)
by Libby Chinnes

The Infection Prevention Handbook is a core training resource that offers practical references to help infection prevention and control professionals understand the fundamentals, effectively train staff members, and build a successful program from a strong foundation.

Patient Safety in the Intensive Care Unit
by Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

This guide outlines ways to administer an efficient intensive care unit (ICU) and provides tools to improve patient safety.

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