Crisis management in anesthesiology

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The fully updated Crisis Management in Anesthesiology continues to provide updated insights on the latest theories, principles, and practices in anesthesiology. From anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists to emergency physicians and residents, this medical reference book will effectively prepare you to handle any critical incident during anesthesia.

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Very practical and useful.
A practical, objective, clear approach facing many kinds of critical situations in anaesthesiology. Recommended as a useful and rapid reading.

Anesthesiology
This new edition was very well written. I found it highly informative.The authors are the very best of the field of anesthesiology. I recommend this book for medical, as well as the novice to learn more about the field of anesthesiology.

Five Stars
Essential for every anesthesiologist.

書名 Crisis management in anesthesiology 
著者 editors, Gaba, David M., Fish, Kevin J, Howard, Steven K., Burden, Amanda R., Gaba, David M.

索書號 WO200/C932/2015

出版者 Elsevier/Saunders
ISBN 9780443065378

出版年 2015

Relational medicine

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In this book, we present a novel framework of high-tech modern medicine. Patients going through major high-tech medical interventions, e.g. Advanced Heart Failure (AdHF) patients undergoing left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation and heart transplantation, must integrate scientific and technological advances into personal life, including strong emotional experiences unthinkable thirty years ago, novel to themselves and their caregivers and unknown to physicians. Our book provides a theoretical framework for the patient-centered vision to "heal humankind by improving health, alleviating suffering and delivering acts of kindness, one person at a time". In the book, we develop the theoretical as well as practical concept of the "RelationalAct (RA)" as core concept to engage and participate in modern medicine.

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Essential Reading for Medical Professionals
Having taught an undergraduate and graduate course for 30 years in Group Processes for helping professionals, I appreciate the important focus of this book on the dyadic encounter between patient and doctor/healthcare caregiver in highly stressful situations. Drs Raia and Deng have captured a unique frame combining medical treatment, linguistics, philosophy, and literature (the Dante references are briiliant) in order to instruct practitioners in the various tools available for world-class care beyond quantitative thinking. Requiring this text (and those I hope will follow) for intern level deliverers would elevate significantly training effectiveness in the USA and globally. Families facing the difficult processes of surgeries for the critically ill are assisted in the decisions only they can make.

This book is a paradigm changer and should be required ...
This book is a paradigm changer and should be required reading for all providers of healthcare! The concepts presented, if integrated into daily practice will change and impact the all-to-common caregiver burnout and strengthen the human connections between providers and recipients of care (also known as patients). This work also firmly establishes the patient as the rightful decision-makers always for themselves and reconfigures the schema of providers to that of expert consultative guides and not decision-makers for patients.

Surviving a radical learning curve
Until I read Drs. Raia and Deng’s eye opening book “Relational Medicine” I didn’t fully understand why my almost daily encounters with Dr. Deng were so stress free. I assumed it was his natural way of dealing with patients, of explaining the gravity of their situation and exuding the confidence that all would again be well with the world. But now I understand it was a well thought out, studied and learned approach that made me, a recent heart transplant recipient, believe that what I was experiencing was simply a temporary setback and my odds of surviving were one hundred per cent. Because of Dr. Deng and his medical team I totally believed I was going to make it through. And I did.
I can’t say the experience was a walk in the park but it was made bearable by the conversations between myself and the medical team that took on the responsibility of keeping me alive. If how they handled my constant questions was a learned method, a planned approach to patient interaction, then “Relational Medicine” should be required reading and possibly an instructional course for all medical providers.
If assuming there are very few, if any, doctors or nurses that are organ transplant recipients, then I would assume correctly none of them know the experience first hand. They are on the outside looking in and their only way to get inside is through verbal and body language communication.
When Dr. Raia talks of dissimilitude I understood the word from two perspectives. From going from a whole human to a barely surviving human cannot be more dissimilar. Your world as you knew it had come unraveled. I understood the word to also refer to the separation of your mind from your body. Your mind is doing everything normally while your body is doing nothing normally. Your mind, totally fine, is dealing with the new reality of a body being constantly poked, prodded, punctured and cut on. I feel Dr. Deng somehow, without ever experiencing anything close, understood this and knew exactly the right thing to say at the right time. That understanding is a big part of the reason Dr. Raia’s book should not only be mandatory reading in med school but expanded upon in years to come.

書名 Relational medicine :personalizing modern healthcare : the practice of high-tech medicine as a RelationaAct
著者 Federica Raia

索書號 WG370/R258/2015

出版者 World Scientific
ISBN 9789814616300

出版年 2015

Felson's principles of chest roentgenology

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2015 BMA Medical Book Awards Highly Commended in Radiology Category! Popular for its easy-to-use format, Felson’s Principles of Chest Roentgenology remains the must-have primer of chest radiology. With the inclusion of the latest imaging approaches and terminology, its unique programmed learning approach-presented in a highly interactive style-demystifies reading and interpreting radiologic images. High-quality images and diagrams are accompanied by multiple-choice review questions to reinforce key concepts. Additional online images plus self-assessment tests help you sharpen your skills and build confidence!

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The online access is pretty nice and includes helpful adjunct information
I picked this up because I didn't have time in my 4th year schedule to pick up a radiology rotation. The book focuses on CXR interpretation and has some chest CT thrown in there as well. The online access is pretty nice and includes helpful adjunct information, including a glossary on thoracic imaging terms, a adjunct for interstitial lung disease (with helpful images and differentials), etc.
The text as you may have read is relatively interactive in a question-answer format and helps to reinforce key concepts. There are also quizzes at the end of each chapter and good "challenge" cases included with this book. Keep in mind the book is to learn the principles - as Dr. Felson says in the beginning of the book, "Principles are as important as facts. If you master the principles, you can make up the facts.". In other words, it will lay the groundwork for you to do more advanced learning on your own.
I would recommend the book if you can't make time in your schedule for a radiology rotation and you need something interactive (with quizzes) to take its place as a sort of interactive course. If not, there are good free sources online as well.

Highly recommend to anyone wanting to improve upon their CXR reading ...
Highly recommend to anyone wanting to improve upon their CXR reading skills, esp anyone going into pulm. Very easy to read.

書名 Felson's principles of chest roentgenology

著者 Lawrence R. Goodman

索書號 WF18.2/G653f/2015

出版者 Elsevier, Saunders
ISBN 9781455774838

出版年 2015

The Johns Hopkins manual of gynecology and obstetrics

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From the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine comes the Fifth Edition of this outstanding resource. The Johns Hopkins Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics is your on-the-spot reference for virtually any situation you’ll face in obstetrics, high-risk obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive endocrinology, infertility, and gynecologic oncology. It’s also highly effective as a review tool for certification or recertification exams.

• Find information quickly with an easy-to-use outline format, modeled after The Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics.
• Stay up to date with new information on minimally invasive surgical techniques; new diagnostic tools; and recent advances in conception, infertility, genetics, and prenatal diagnosis.
• Provide more effective patient care with a newly revised primary care chapter that reflects current practice standards and a new chapter on patient safety.
• Benefit from the knowledge and expertise of residents and attending physicians in obstetrics and gynecology at The Johns Hopkins University
• Trust the manual that’s been used with confidence for more than 15 years by house officers, medical students, and practitioners who deal with obstetric and gynecologic diseases and disorders.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Every labor and delivery nurse should read this book

Very nice, reached in time
Very nice , reached in time .. thank you

Awesome quick reference
Solid as always

書名 The Johns Hopkins manual of gynecology and obstetrics
著者 editors, Clark T. Johnson

索書號 WQ39/J648/2015

出版者 Wolters Kluwer
ISBN 9781451188806

出版年 2015