Medical & Healthcare Practitioners
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Nurturing Your Autistic Young Person: A Parent’s Handbook to Supporting Newly Diagnosed Teens and Pre-Teens
As the parent of a child recognised as autistic as a pre-teen or teen, it can often feel difficult to find the answers you need. Children who make it to late primary/early secondary age before being picked up by the system tend to present with traits that are harder to spot, meaning it can be harder to engage professionals in the diagnostic process and gather the necessary support.
Cathy Wassell, CEO of Autistic Girls Network, has tailored this handbook to support parents with older children or teenagers who are at the identification stage, walking them through the basics in an engaging and accessible manner. She addresses key challenges for this age group, including co-occurring conditions, puberty, and safeguarding, as well as looking to the future, advising on schooling options, and beyond.
Designed to help parents become fully informed and ensure a nurturing and positive environment for our autistic young people, this is a guide with a focus on difference – not deficit.
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Critical Mental Health Nursing: Observations from the inside
The argument that propels this emphatic book is that mental health nursing cannot continue to pin the blame for its own actions and failings on the psychiatric hierarchy. As the editors point out, mental health nursing is a degree-level qualification; it has achieved its ambition to be `a profession in its own right’. But it has failed to find its own voice and identity or to challenge the coercive, invalidating and traumatising culture and practices within the mainstream mental health services. It has failed above all to subject itself to its own critical scrutiny. This is what these chapters set out to do, starting powerfully with an apology from the editors to all the many millions of users of mental health services who have been subjected to the profession’s failure to care: `We cannot think of a new knowledge, approach, skill or kind of empowerment that nurses have themselves forged as a “profession in our own right”, of which our service users are identifiably beneficiaries,’ they write. The editors and several of the 13 contributors to this book are members of the Critical Mental Health Nurses Network, formally launched in 2015. The aim of the network is to provide an identity and forum for shared experience for mental health nurses who are able to admit that the world is far more complex than many would prefer to believe, that people’s messy lives cannot be tidied away into discrete diagnostic categories, and who are, above all, `critical’. Chapters highlight the dilemmas and assumptions encountered daily in mental health nursing practice and ask readers to reflect and challenge them to take collective and individual action to bring about change. Topics include: * recovery and recovery colleges, written from very different viewpoints * rooting out the violence culturally embedded within mental health nursing * nurse education and how to translate theory into ethical best practice * negotiating the complex pressures of delivering frontline crisis care * playing the power game within the mental health system * how the Mental Health Act blocks creative nursing practice * embedding critical thinking and reflective practice within the profession * forming political alliances with social movement activists * the role of social contexts and cultures in shaping mental health and relationships * mental health nursing as a therapy. A continuing theme is the ubiquity of coercion both embedded within and perpetrated by the mental health nursing profession. In the editors’ words, it is time for the profession to `open new forums… share our honest experiences and fears and, above all, look to all of the places in which imagination has been reignited… [to find] new possibilities that make coercive options fall away.’Read more
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Medical Terminology For Dummies, 3rd Edition
Take the intimidation out of medical terminology
Every job in the medical field needs some background in medical terminology. From the check-in desk to the doctor to the pharmaceutical sales rep, and everyone around and in between, healthcare professionals and those in adjacent fields use a common and consistent vocabulary to improve quality, safety, and efficiency.
Medical Terminology For Dummies is a powerful resource for current and prospective healthcare professionals. It provides different ways to memorize the words and their meanings, including ideas for study materials, flash cards, quizzes, mind maps, and games. Plus, you’ll discover how to identify, pronounce, define, and apply words in proper context.
- Grasp the standardized language of medicine
- Find the easiest way to remember tongue-twisting terms
- Benefit from lots of definitions and examples
- Understand, retain, and put this knowledge to use
If you’re one of the millions of professionals hoping to succeed in this booming field, this book gets you talking the talk so you can walk the walk!
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Concussed: Sport’s Uncomfortable Truth: SHORTLISTED FOR WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
*SHORTLISTED for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2023*
*A WATERSTONES BEST SPORTS BOOK OF 2023*
*FOREWORD BY SIR CLIVE WOODWARD*
‘There is a real sense of mission in his voice – and vitriol for those who held back the sport for so long’ The Observer
The definitive account of sport’s concussion crisis, how its ‘dirty secret’ was finally made public and what rugby union must now do to save itself.
‘Peters’ work is in the greatest tradition of British journalism: fearless, unstoppable and committed to righting a profound wrong.’ DAN SNOW
‘Sam Peters has fought a truly magnificent campaign on concussion in rugby . . . sport will be safer because of it.’ STEPHEN JONES
By recounting the untold story of the most influential sports campaign in British newspaper history, which turned concussion in professional rugby from a niche issue into front and back page news, Concussed poses the questions all sports lovers need answering as evidence grows linking sports-related concussions to premature deaths and dementia.
Expanding his research from rugby to football, NFL and other contact sports, Sam Peters brings an unparalleled breadth of experience, depth of knowledge and journalistic rigour to a subject he has written about and campaigned over for a decade.
Now sport’s ‘dirty secret’ is out in the open, Peters asks: how can rugby and other sports save themselves from the vested interests which threaten their very existence?
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Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed: The Complete Guide to Managing Kidney Disease and Avoiding Dialysis
Your new kidney-friendly diet made easy with meal plans and flavorful recipesWhen you’ve just been diagnosed with stage 1-4 chronic kidney disease, learning to follow diet restrictions can be a challenge. But your meals don’t have to be complicated or boring to support your health and slow the disease’s progression. Keep it simple and flavorful with the Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed. This practical cookbook equips you with essential info, 4 weekly meal plans, and 100 easy, kidney-healthy recipes to kick-start your renal diet.
Find out how kidney disease works, and learn how diet plays a key role in keeping you healthy and avoiding dialysis. Explore at-a-glance food charts to help you regulate nutrients like sodium, potassium, phosphorus, and protein. All of the book’s recipes include nutrition facts, and many can be made in 30 minutes or less–accommodating your busy schedule and helping keep your kidney-friendly diet stress-free.
The Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed includes:
- 100+ Satisfying recipes–Enjoy Buckwheat Pancakes, Creamy Broccoli Soup, Lemon Garlic Halibut, Meatloaf with Mushroom Gravy, Strawberry Pie, and much more.
- 4 Weekly meal plans–Get started with four weeks of daily menus, complete with shopping lists, snack suggestions, and nutrition facts for every recipe.
- 5 Steps to a renal diet–Take your new diet one step at a time in five practical stages, including specific guidance for reading food labels and controlling portions.
Your proactive plan for your kidneys’ health starts now with the Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed.
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Fighting Parkinson’s…and Winning: A memoir of my recovery from Parkinson’s Disease
“After reading this book and following Howard’s recipe for some time now, I can only say this book is worth each and every word. It is highly valuable and, by the way, I feel much better now and my symptoms have almost disappear so far. I recommend to anyone who is seeking some alternative path to his treatment on Parkinson’s.” — Amazon Kunde, Amazon Verified Purchaser.“Howard’s Recipe For Recovery is a breath of fresh air; If you do the recipe you will be on the road to recovery, the same road the cured walked before us, six of them so far in the past seven years. How full of hope is that?! The first sign that things were turning around for me was that my sense of smell came back after twenty years. Now where before there was despair I’m so thankful to have hope and the means to make it happen…now there are tears of joy! It’s a great book…Don’t miss it! Hope fulfilled is priceless and it’s in your hand. Buy the book!!!!” — Thomas J., Amazon Verified Purchaser.
“This book is the fascinating story of his recovery, and the recovery of others over the years afterwards, using his Recipe…Although there are a few individual, poorly substantiated claims of curing Parkinson’s, this is the only one I know of that has cured multiple identified individuals of this “incurable” disease. We owe Howard a great deal of gratitude for his generosity in sharing his Recipe with us here and on his extensive website. His Recipe is likely to be the best cure available over the next decade.” — prestonpdx, Amazon Verified Purchaser.
Howard Shifke fully recovered from Parkinson’s Disease. This memoir presents Howard’s story of getting Parkinson’s and provides a detailed account of how he won the fight against it. The memoir tells the story of what it was like for Howard to live day-to-day with Parkinson’s, getting through the daily challenges and misgivings as well as how he looked toward the future with hope.
Howard suffered with internal tremors; extremely poor balance; Bradykinesia (walking — hunched forward, shuffled feet, arms did not swing); rigidity (arms, legs and upper back were tight and extremely painful); constipation; inability to stand up straight, to get out of a chair without using arms, to go up and down stairs without holding railing; difficulty getting a utensil to his mouth when trying to eat; falling asleep in middle of the day; frozen face; inability to write or to type with two hands; extreme fatigue.
In the fall of 2009, Howard Shifke was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. His mother had Parkinson’s for twenty-four years before dying in 2007, just two years prior to Howard diagnosis of Parkinson’s. Having watched her physically deteriorate from the disease and mentally deteriorate from the medications was difficult and frightening.Howard did not want to end up the way his mother had ended up with the disease.
Fortunately, in 1999, Howard had started studying alternative healing and Traditional Chinese Medicine. In the ten years leading up to his diagnosis, he had learned the body has the ability to heal itself. As a result, Howard decided he would endeavor to recover from Parkinson’s, and he developed an alternative treatment methodology called his Parkinson’s Recipe for Recovery®.
Nine months later, he won the fight against Parkinson’s with his full recovery. In Howard’s two neurologist visits subsequent to his full recovery, his neurologist put him through all of the tests used for the original diagnosis. Both times, his neurologist documented in Howard’s medical records that there were no signs or symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.Howard has been symptom free fully recovered from Parkinson’s since June 12, 2010.
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Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Get to know the ins and outs of BPD―and make the choice to change!
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is an extremely serious―and often seriously neglected―condition. Despite around 4 million diagnoses in the USA, BPD has attracted lower funding and levels of clinical concern than more “popular” conditions such as bipolar disorder. But there’s no need to lose hope! Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies, 2nd Edition was written to bridge this gap and help sufferers learn how to break the cycle to lead a full and happy life.
BPD impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others and can cause long-term patterns of disruptive relationships and difficulties with self-control. It often results from childhood abuse or neglect, as well as from genetic or brain abnormalities―particularly in areas of the brain that regulate emotion, impulsivity, and aggression. Knowing how it works means we know how to manage it, and Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies―written in a friendly, easy-to-follow style by two leading clinical psychologists―is packed with useful techniques to do just that: from identifying triggers to finding the right care provider.
- Get a compassionate, actionable understanding of the symptoms and history of BPD
- Acquire techniques to identify and halt damaging behaviors
- Evaluate providers and the latest therapies and treatments
- Set goals and habits to overcome problems step-by-step
BPD should never be allowed to dictate anyone’s existence. This reference gives you the tools to take your life back and is a must-have for sufferers and their loved ones alike.
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Fixing Your Feet: Injury Prevention and Treatment for Athletes
Get the book that covers what you need to know about foot care, including footwear, prevention, and treatment.
Hiking, backpacking, running, walking, and other athletic endeavors, your feet take a beating with every step. Don’t wait until foot pain inhibits your speed, strength, and style. Learn the basics―along with the finer points―of foot care before pain becomes a problem. Foot expert and ultrarunner John Vonhof and physical therapist Tonya Olson share how the interplay of anatomy, biomechanics, and footwear can lead to happy (or hurting!) feet. Fixing Your Feet covers all that you need to know to care for your feet, right now and hundreds of miles down the road!
Inside You’ll Find
- Tried-and-true methods of foot care from numerous experts
- Tips and anecdotes about recovery and training
- Information about hundreds of foot-care products for nearly every foot ailment
- High-interest topics such as “Barefoot & Minimalist Footwear,” “Blister Prevention,” and “Providing Foot Care for Athletes”
- Discussions of individual foot care and team care
“From heels to toes, products to pathology, resources to rehabilitation, this book has it all. An essential guide.”
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Makeup: The Sunday Times Bestseller and practical step-by-step guide to makeup and beauty from much-loved makeup artist Hannah Martin
The go-to glow up handbook, this book is the one-stop shop for everything you need or want to know about makeup, and how to look good while caring for your skin.
YouTube sensation and the ‘queen of radiant skin and smoky eye tutorials’, brings us the ultimate guide to flawless makeup.
Hannah Martin has created amazing looks using top British beauty brands. Now she shares her expertise in this must-have resource, so you can master everything from everyday look to special-occasion glamour.
With step-by-step photography, quick tips, product lists and how-to advice, Hannah’s guide gives you the knowledge you need to create beautiful makeup applications that boost your confidence and give you a dazzling look.
Hannah shares everything you need to know about:
– Skincare: A look at all the routine basics
– Tools and kit: What do you need to own and what’s a waste of money
– The Basics: Prepping the skin, concealer, foundation.
– Glow up: Powder, bronzer, blusher, highlights.
– Lips: lip gloss, lipstick, differences between matte and gloss.
– Eyes: eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara
– Brows: How to shape a brow, and when to ask a pro!Makeup was number two in the Sunday Times Manuals chart on Sunday 4th June 2023
Hannah Martin’s book ‘Makeup’ was a No.2 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 22-05-2023.
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Managing your Mental Health during your PhD: A Survival Guide
This book explores the PhD experience as never before and provides a “survival guide” for current and prospective PhD students. The book investigates why mental health issues are so common among the postgraduate population, going beyond the statistics, looking at lived experience of both the author and as well as current PhD students, who have found balancing mental wellness with the PhD endeavour challenging.
The author discusses tips and tricks she wished she had known at the start of her PhD process for managing mental health, such as managing imposter feelings, prioritising workload, and self-care strategies to help others throughout their own journey.
The book goes beyond typical mental health discussions (where the focus for improving mental health is placed on PhD students to become “more resilient”) and explores some of the often unspoken environmental factors that can impact mental health. These include the PhD student-supervisor relationship, the pressure to publish, and deep systemic problems in academia, such as racism, bullying and harassment.
Finally, the book is a call to action, providing tangible improvements from the author’s perspective that university institutions can make to ensure that academia is a place for all to thrive.
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Crohn’s and Colitis Diet Guide: Includes 175 Recipes
Diet is a huge priority for anyone living with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. The authors provide crucial guidance for sufferers, families, friends and caregivers in helping to manage IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) symptoms. In a very informative and easy-to-understand manner, this updated third edition provides all the necessary guidelines regarding the specific foods that might cause problems, as well as IBD-tailored recipes that can be enjoyed without compromising taste and overall nutrition. The reliable answers from one of the world’s top gastroenterology teams cover everything from the facts, causes and symptoms of IBD to the latest and most relevant information on drug therapies and surgical therapies ― all in straightforward and easy-to-follow format. With its informative charts and graphs, the book’s additional 25 new recipes provide sumptuous breakfast ideas like Banana Cinnamon Quinoa Waffles, comfort foods like Old-Fashioned Tuna Noodle Casserole and vegetarian favourites like Slow Cooker Squash Couscous. And all with the most current nutritional information.Read more
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A Nurse of a Certain Age
An Interesting story about life growing up in the 50’s. Life Was so different then, almost easier when compared to today. There was a family friend I spent a lot of time with, I always remember watching her polish her white shoes. She was an emergency room nurse and told me many stories. Thanks to Beverly, I realized I wanted to be a nurse. I loved the school I chose, new friends, classmates and the nurses that taught us, instructors and hospital staff. My hope is you will be enlightened about nurses, understand what we did and why we loved our work. Thankfully most of us were able to retired before the change to managed care.
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The Gambling Disorder Treatment Handbook: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
This handbook provides mental health professionals with a thorough understanding of the biopsychosocial nature of disordered gambling and shares current evidence-based theories, interventions and strategies to use in clinical practice.
It provides guidance for working with individuals of any age and covers different gambling modes, activities and subtypes, including new forms of gambling through online and virtual platforms. Drawing on the authors’ substantial experience working with and researching gambling addiction, it considers how treatment can be specialized for particular client groups, including trauma survivors, military, older adults, adolescents and diverse communities. It provides detailed diagnostic and screening resources and includes important information on the financial and legal aspects.
This is essential reading for any therapist treating clients with gambling disorder.
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Counselling, Class and Politics: Undeclared influences in therapy
Anne’s motivation for writing Counselling, Class and Politics back in 1996, was `to persuade readers to the view that politics and political ideas matter in counselling’. This new edition of the work contains a wide range of commentaries from practioners working in the world of counselling today, who all argue that Anne’s message is as relevant now as it has always been. So too is the driving belief of the author that counselling training, regulation and awareness in general too often fails to acknowledge the political environment that practitioners and their clients inhabit, and its influence on the counselling relationship. Anne’s book, accessible, unashamedly unapologetic and searching in the questions it asks of readers, is still a vibrant, challenging text for any student, practitioner or trainer today.Read more
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A Therapist’s Guide to Treating Eating Disorders in a Social Media Age
All humans need space to think, to be and to process without constant distraction. This is especially true of adolescents and young adults, for whom identity formation is a consuming task. Social media has generated both a place for the creation of identity and an audience. But constant connection leaves little space without intrusion from others. For those with body dissatisfaction and/or eating disorders, living in today’s world can be especially challenging, and viewing images on social media and other online formats can be devastating. Shauna Frisbie utilises phototherapy techniques to view client-selected images (whether they be of themselves or others) to help uncover underlying messages that are impacting their relationship to their bodies. Integrating concepts of healing narratives, neuroscience and phototherapy, this book will help any therapist promote self-compassion, self-reflection and healing in their clients.Read more
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Clinical Skills for Nurses (Student Survival Skills)
Clinical Skills for NursesA handy introduction to the essential practical procedures that nurses need to know
Clinical Skills for Nurses is designed to help student nurses understand the practice of common clinical skills and procedures in various healthcare environments, from the acute hospital ward to the community setting. Written by a highly experienced nurse and Practice Development Trainer, this pocket-sized guide covers 16 clinical skills in an accessible, step-by-step format. Numerous activities and exercises build your confidence and competence, whilst end-of-chapter questions test your understanding of intravenous therapy, tracheotomy care, bowel care, early patient assessment and response, basic life support, and more.
Now in its second edition, Clinical Skills for Nurses provides new and updated material throughout, including information about the PUREWICK female external catheter, constipation, moisture lesions, Aseptic Non-Touch Technique (ANTT), and the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2). This edition also includes more ‘Test Your Knowledge’ questions, new links to internet resources, and coverage of four additional clinical skills: stoma care, continence care, anaphylaxis, and performing an electrocardiogram (ECG).
- Reflects the current NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters
- Provides the underpinning knowledge of how each clinical skill should be performed
- Features valuable tips, hints, and advice from real-life student nurses
- Includes numerous examples drawn from a variety of real-world nursing and healthcare scenarios
- Contains a wealth of learning tools, including glossary boxes, key points, learning outcomes, illustrations, tables, and graphs
Developed by nursing students for nursing students, Clinical Skills for Nurses, Second Edition is a must-have guide for all student nurses as well as newly qualified or more experienced nurses looking to refresh their knowledge of clinical skills.
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Preventing & Reversing Heart Disease For Dummies
The safe and trusted way to prevent and reverse heart diseaseWritten in plain English and packed with tons of authoritative advice, Preventing & Reversing Heart Disease For Dummies includes the most up-to-date information on coronary heart disease and its treatment. This resource covers new ways to diagnose and treat both short- and long-term complications of heart disease, the latest medications, updated diet and exercise plans, the lowdown on recognizing the risk factors and warning signs of a heart attack, determining if you have heart disease, distinguishing between angina, heart attack, and stroke, and much more.
It is projected that by the year 2020, heart disease will be the leading cause of death throughout the world. As the magnitude of cardiovascular diseases continue to accelerate globally, the pressing need for increased awareness and a stronger, more focused national and international response has become more important than ever. Preventing & Reversing Heart Disease For Dummies tackles this vital subject with compassion and authority, outlining the steps you can take to help ensure you don’t become just another statistic.
- Helps you find the right doctor and handle a managed care plan
- Covers all thirteen types of heart disease and discusses the key differences that may determine their progression and treatment
- Illustrates how simple changes in diet may be enough to prevent heart disease
- Shows how you can reverse some of the effects of heart disease through exercise
If you’re suffering from or are at risk of heart disease―or love someone who is―Preventing & Reversing Heart Disease For Dummies empowers you to take control of heart health and get on a path to a longer, healthier life.
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Nurses! Test yourself in non-medical prescribing
This pocketbook for Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHP) is a useful guide, not only for social workers but also those in the social care profession considering a route into AMHP and doctors. It provides a quick reference tool for helping to conduct assessments and implement decisions quickly.Read more
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Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well, by the #1 bestselling author of SPOON-FED
‘No fads, no nonsense, just practical, science-based advice on how to eat well’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year
**AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST**
Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in the age of ultra-processed food has never seemed so complicated. Bestselling author and scientist Tim Spector offers clear answers in this definitive, easy-to-follow guide to the new science of eating well.
Tim Spector has pioneered a new approach to nutrition, encouraging us to forget misleading calorie counts and nutritional breakdowns. In Food for Life he draws on over a decade of cutting-edge scientific research, along with his own personal insights, to deliver a new and comprehensive approach to what we should all know about food today.
Investigating everything from environmental impact and food fraud to allergies, ultra-processed food and deceptive labelling, Spector also shows us the many wondrous and surprising properties of everyday foods, which scientists are only just beginning to understand.
Empowering and practical, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat – for our health and the health of the planet.
‘Life-changing’ DAVINA McCALL
‘Fascinating’ NIGELLA LAWSON
‘Empowering’ LIZ EARLE** A THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**
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Medical Terminology: The Best and Most Effective Way to Memorize, Pronounce and Understand Medical Terms: Second Edition
Medical Terminology
Let’s be very clear about this, if you want to feel proud of yourself and do a great job in the healthcare field, you need to learn and understand medical terminology! It is a fundamental part of the future of your career. As a healthcare professional, it’s essential to have a thorough understanding of medical terminology to communicate effectively with colleagues and provide quality care to patients.
Our medical terminology book is a must-have study guide for students looking to broaden or refreshen their skills of understanding medical terms. It is perfect for anyone who wishes to enter the medical field and is a great complementary tool to have when preparing for the NCLEX or MCAT!
With this book, you will learn and understand the basic concepts of medical terminology and how it is used in everyday life among healthcare personnel. Becoming familiarised with medical terminology is a fundamental part of any medical career.
With that many medical books to choose from, it can be hard to decide which one to buy.
This book focuses on the readability aspect, with each chapter created in such a way that it builds on the previous one. You will find plenty of charts and tables, which allows for an easy study guide and review. We have added multiple-choice questions after each chapter so that you can test your knowledge to see if you remember what you have just learned. The answers to these questions can be found at the very end of the book. By focusing on the important word parts — common prefixes, suffixes, and root words — the book goes to great lengths in simplifying the process of memorizing the medical language.
With this book, you will:
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The Top 100 Drugs: Clinical Pharmacology and Practical Prescribing
Now in its third edition, this small and accessible guide contains essential information for the safe prescribing of the most commonly used drugs in the NHS.
The Top 100 Drugs combines the best elements of a students’ textbook with those of a prescribers’ manual. It gives equal weight to essential information on the science of pharmacology as well as the real-world practicalities of prescribing, all in an accessible and clear format.
Written by leaders in the field of clinical pharmacology, this popular book has been fully revised and updated to include the drugs used today, including monoclonal antibodies and antiviral drugs for COVID-19. With common indications, mechanism of action, adverse effects, important interactions and a clinical tip for each drug as well as questions to test knowledge, this book is key to helping students understand everything they need to know about the drugs they are likely to use in practice.
- Compact and easy to follow – can be carried around on the wards
- Logically ordered – offers multiple ways to find the drug you are looking for
- A Clinical Tip for each drug, drawn from the authors’ experience
- 100 self-assessment questions to encourage integration and revision of knowledge and understanding
- Fully updated to include the most commonly prescribed drugs today, based on original research led by the authors of over 1 billion community prescriptions and approximately 1 million hospital prescriptions
- All drug monographs extensively reviewed and updated
- Dedicated section emergency drugs
- Updated self-assessment material, now including calculation and prescription-writing questions, in addition to single-best-answer questions
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Neurophototherapy: Playfully Unmasking with Photography and Collage
Neurophototherapy
‘A love letter to late discovery!’
This joyful and life-enhancing creative method offers a gentle invitation to ‘reconnect with the sparky kid who didn’t mask…’. Neurophototherapy is for neurodivergent people and anyone seeking to explore their true identity in new and creative ways with readily available materials. This method is suitable for artists and creative beginners alike.
Boué has identified a need for creative self-support strategies for people who discover their neurodivergent identities as adults. It is also a method that can be easily adopted by others.
This gorgeously illustrated publication includes explanatory texts, colour photographs, collage works and contextual essays by renowned author and poet, Dr. Joanne Limburg and Professor of Performance at the University of Kent School of Arts, Prof. Nicola Shaughnessy.
ND people, families, allies, arts and arts and health organisations, art lovers, photographers, collagists, therapists, community group leaders and academics alike will find this original, informative, and upbeat publication of interest and relevance.
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‘So that’s Neurophototherapy: therapeutic, empowering and – above all – FUN.’ Dr. Joanne Limburg
‘Neurophototherapy is the most emotionally immersive and satisfying thing I’ve ever done. I now know I need to put creativity at the heart of my well-being.’ Chloe Lawson
‘It’s a complicated process to unmask and there’s no doubt that the creative tools contained in Neurophototherapy enable this to happen iteratively, flexibly and intuitively.’ Prof. Nicola Shaughnessy
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Vicarious Trauma in the Legal Profession: a practical guide to trauma, burnout and collective care
Vicarious Trauma in the Legal Profession is a practical guide to trauma, burnout and collective care. Using case studies from lawyers in their own words, it provides the individual with tools for self-reflection and provides organisations with an understanding of trauma-informed working practices and guidance towards implementing collective care, training and support in the workplace.
Vicarious Trauma in the Legal Profession is essential reading for social justice lawyers across many areas of law and should be required reading for organisational leaders, HR managers, practice managers, representational and membership associations and those in charge of regulation of the professions.
Lawyers working in legal aid, social justice or with survivors of injury regularly work with traumatic and emotionally potent caseloads and often draw on skills for which they have had no formal training. They bear witness to the pain of clients, to the suffering that humans inflict upon each other, and to the incredible strength of survivors of violence, torture and abuse. They do this while dealing with the financial pressure of poor rates of pay, constantly overstretched resources and a relentlessly hostile political environment.
While there has been a growing conversation within the legal profession about the mental health of lawyers, much of it looks at mental health as a primarily personal issue: the individual s work/life balance and stress as a personal response. Vicarious Trauma in the Legal Profession draws focus to the impact of traumatic casework for lawyers and how collectively change can be made.
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Rapid Infection Control Nursing
The Rapids are a series of reference and revision pocket books that cover key facts in a simple and memorable way. Each book contains the common conditions that students and newly qualified nurses encounter on the wards, in the community, and on placements. Only the basic core relevant facts are provided to ensure that these books are perfect and concise rapid refreshers.
Rapid Infection Control Nursing is an essential read for all frontline nursing staff working in hospitals or community settings. Designed for quick reference, it explores the essential principles of infection control before moving on to an A-Z of the most commonly found infections. Each entry covers how the infection is spread, duration of the infectious period, key infection-control precautions, staff considerations, visitor information, and patient transfer advice.
Covering all the key topics in infection prevention and control, this concise and easy-to-read title is the perfect quick-reference book for the wards.
This title is also available as a mobile App from MedHand Mobile Libraries. Buy it now from iTunes, Google Play or the MedHand Store.
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Helping Autistic Teens to Manage their Anxiety: Strategies and Worksheets using CBT, DBT, and ACT Skills
Drawing on the author’s extensive clinical and research experience, this book presents practical strategies purposefully developed for parents, therapists and teachers working with autistic adolescents experiencing anxiety. In addition, it features chapters dedicated to assisting parents in supporting their anxious child.
The book outlines the co-occurence of anxiety and autism, highlights specific anxiety risks and triggers, and presents practical solutions for overcoming barriers to therapeutic engagement. A collection of CBT, ACT and DBT-informed practical worksheets are included, making this book ideal for use at home, at school or in OT, Psychology and Speech sessions.
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Food as Medicine: A Handbook of Natural Nutrition
How to use your diet to heal your body
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Sports Injuries E-Book
Sports Injuries provides an indispensable self-help guide to all the common injuries that occur. This book will help to:•quickly pinpoint the source of the injury •know which conditions you can treat yourself and when to visit an expert •stay fit and flexible during recovery •encourage your body to heal fasterEasy-to-follow illustrations help you to locate the area of pain quickly then guide you through a range of simple self-diagnostic tests and medical options. Once the problem and course of care are determined, unique fitness ladders tell you what you can do to stay mobile and how to avoid further injury.- Clear illustrations delineate the anatomical area, joint or muscle under consideration
- Highly templated format gives diagnosis, cause, treatment (self or medical) and training points for each injury
- Includes self-tests with diagrams to help pinpoint the specific injuries
- Provides training ladders for safe rehabilitation of injury
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Essential Examination, 3rd edition: Step-by-step guides to clinical examination scenarios with practical tips and key facts for OSCEs
**Please note that the Kindle version of this title is a print replica, and readers may not be able to add notes to it**Now in full colour! Over 50,000 copies sold!
Essential Examination has been comprehensively revised and new sections added:
- Neonatal: the ‘baby check’
- Female genitalia
- Digital rectal examination
- GALS screening
- Foot and ankle
- Elbow
- Critically ill patient
- Confirming death
The new edition retains the unique format and approach of the original.
- Clear, step-by-step guides to each examination, including useful things to say to the patient (or an examiner), detailed descriptions of special tests, etc.
- In a separate column is a collection of key information: potential findings, differential diagnoses of clinical signs and practical tips.
- On the following pages there are facts relating to that particular examination and, in many sections, there are also tips on how to present your findings succinctly – a skill which is crucial to master for exam success.
If you are learning how to examine patients, or preparing for an OSCE, then you need Essential Examination!
Over FIVE HUNDRED five-star ratings of the second edition, including the following:
“I LOVE this book: it has all the key examinations with each fitting on a single double page spread.”
“Best preparation for OSCEs. Learn to do these steps within the time limits and you will pass!”
“I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend and it is the most comprehensive, logical, and concise summary of examination technique I have found presented in a clean and legible bullet point format. It even includes additional information (e.g. differential diagnoses, physiological changes in pregnancy) to help you answer the questions OSCE examiners like to ask to determine which candidates deserve the ever-elusive ‘marks for excellence’. Perfect for OSCEs, clinical years, and beyond.”
“Has everything you could possibly need in an examination textbook/revision guide, no need for any others. One of the best purchases I’ve made in med school. Highly recommended.”
“The book is well presented for learning examinations; using a table format, explanations are given without detracting from the process of the examination. It is far more than a checklist, it provides essential information without cluttering walls of text between one step and the next.”
“Pretty much THE essential text book for clinical examinations for all medical students. Good price and will take you from day one to qualifying as every colleague who has just graduated swears by this book for clinical OSCEs.”Contents
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular; Heart murmurs
Respiratory
Gastrointestinal
Chronic renal failure / renal transplant
Musculoskeletal
GALS screen; Hip; Knee; Foot and ankle; Shoulder; Elbow; Spine; Hands: general / musculoskeletal
Neurology
Hands: neurological; Upper limb neurology; Lower limb neurology; Cranial nerves; Extrapyramidal neurology / tremor; Cerebellar function
Endocrine
Cushing’s syndrome; Acromegaly
Circulation
Lower limb arterial system; Lower limb venous system
General lumps
Skin lesions
Groin hernia
Thyroid / neck lump / thyroid status
Stoma
Ventral hernia
Intimate examinations
Male genitalia; Female genitalia; Digital rectal examination; Breast
Pregnant abdomen
Neonatal
The critically ill patient
Confirming death
Appendices
Lymph nodes of the head and neck; Key differential diagnosesRead more
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The Encyclopedia of Ailments and Diseases: How to Heal the Conflicted Feelings, Emotions, and Thoughts at the Root of Illness
A comprehensive reference and healing tool to address the emotional and psychological causes of illness• Uncovers the conflicted conscious or unconscious feelings, thoughts, and emotions at the root of nearly 900 ailments and diseases
• Details a unique Integration and Acceptance Technique for accessing information through the heart and thereby starting the healing process for emotions and feelings
• Provides positive affirmations to effect change for each ailment and disease
What if your body used a secret language to talk to you? What if an ailment or illness was your body’s way to shout for help, to make you understand that you need to change your thoughts, emotions, feelings, and behaviors? Your body wants you to become aware of the stress that you carry, conscious or not, so you can release unmanaged past and present emotions and the physical complaints that accompany them.
Compiling years of research and the results of thousands of cases he encountered in his private practice and during workshops over the past 30 years, Jacques Martel explains how to read and understand the body’s language of disease and imbalance. In this encyclopedia, he shows how body language reveals specific thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are at the source of nearly 900 different ailments and diseases. The author also details his Integration and Acceptance Technique, which enables healing information to bypass the brain and connect directly with the heart. This technique disables the source of the conflict, conscious or not, that could be at the root of an illness, behavior, or condition and improves the chances of true healing.
This comprehensive manual offers a tool to help each of us become, to some extent, our own doctor or therapist, get to know ourselves better, and recover health and well-being physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. For practitioners and therapists, this remarkable reference tool provides invaluable insights and prompts for healing.
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The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
‘Extraordinary… Magisterial… A remarkable meditation on friendship, success, madness and violence that refuses to oversimplify’ Guardian (Book of the Day)
‘The darkest of literary triumphs, and the most gripping of unbearable reads’ Telegraph (5 stars)A novelist’s gripping investigation of the forces that led his childhood best friend from academic stardom to the psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved
When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, New York in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of professors, the boys were best friends and fierce rivals who soon followed each other to Yale University.
Michael blazed through Yale in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. Then one day, Jonathan received a devastating call: Michael had suffered a psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.
Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Michael was still in hospital when he learned he’d been accepted to Yale Law School, and living in a halfway house when he decided, against all odds, to enroll. Still battling delusions, he managed to graduate, and after his triumphant story was featured in The New York Times, sold a memoir for a vast sum. Ron Howard bought film rights, completing the dream for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie, and Brad Pitt was set to star. But then Michael, in the grip of psychosis, committed a horrific act that made him a front-page story of an entirely different sort.
The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen’s powerful account of an American tragedy, set in the final decades of the American century, an era that coincided with the emptying out of state mental hospitals. It is a story about the bonds of friendship, the price of delusion and the mystery of identity. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The Best Minds is both a beautifully rendered coming of age story and an indictment of the profound neglect of mental illness in our society.
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The Moral Injury Workbook: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills for Moving Beyond Shame, Anger, and Trauma to Reclaim Your Values
Introducing the first self-help workbook on moral injury, featuring a powerful approach grounded in
acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you heal moral pain and connect with a deeper sense of
meaning and purpose.If you’ve experienced, witnessed, or failed to prevent an act that violates your own deeply held values-such as accidentally harming someone in an automobile accident, or failing to save someone from a dangerous situation-you may suffer from moral injury, an enduring psychological and spiritual pain that is often accompanied by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, substance abuse, and other mental health conditions. In order to begin healing, you need to reconnect with your values and what really matters to you as a human being. Written by a renowned team of PTSD and trauma professionals, this workbook can help. The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Moral Injury is the first workbook of its kind to offer a powerful step-by-step program to help you move beyond moral pain. With this guide, you’ll learn to work through difficult thoughts, emotions, and spiritual troubles; reconnect with your deeply held sense of self, values, or spiritual beliefs; and gain the psychological flexibility you need to begin healing and live a full and meaningful life. Links to downloadable worksheets for veterans and clinicians are also included.Read more
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A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life: Self-Reflection Using Photography, Art, and Writing
An award-winning psychologist and professional photographer co-author this unique creative guide to exploring and understanding your life: who you are, what you value, and what you wish to achieve. A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life brims with imaginative exercises and examples that use the power of photography, art, and writing as tools for self-discovery. It provides clear and accessible guidance on how to explore different parts of your identity: take a photograph of yourself in a role you don’t typically play, draw a visual timeline of your life and consider its key turning points; explore your sense of place in history by writing about a major historical event that has changed your life. Exercises are accompanied by searching questions for self-reflection, and are complemented by examples of each exercise to provoke ideas and inspiration. Featuring additional guidance for teachers, counselors, and other professionals running the exercises in group settings, this book offers a dynamic and enjoyable way for you to explore different aspects of your lifeRead more
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Nephrology: A Comprehensive Guide to Renal Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide to Renal Medicine (Lecture Notes)
Lecture Notes: Nephrology is a concise introduction to the fundamental principles of nephrology. An ideal study guide for medical trainees, this accessible resource combines the depth of a textbook with the accessibility of a handbook. Succinct chapters describe the clinical implications of renal physiology, examine major renal disorders and diseases, and explain a wide range of management and treatment options.
A new addition to the popular Lecture Notes series, this handbook provides trainees in nephrology with core subject knowledge and enables medical students to gain a more comprehensive understanding of this complex specialty.
- Offers clear, easy-to-understand coverage of all relevant nephrology topics
- Includes MCQs and discussion around the answers, ideal for those preparing for written Internal Medicine examinations, including the certification examination of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the UK-based MRCP and the Australia and New Zealand-based FRACP examinations
- Features chapter summaries and numerous infographics, tables and figures
- Emphasises core management skills needed by medical students and junior doctors
- Is presented in the consistent and well-recognised Lecture Notes format
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Good Autism Practice for Teachers: Embracing Neurodiversity and Supporting Inclusion
This is an accessible guide for all trainees and teachers, providing practical, evidence-informed ways to support neurodivergent learners that will also benefit all pupils.
It takes a close look at the theory around autism, including procedural /semantic memory, executive functioning, expressive/receptive language, sensory integration, behaviour as communication, and the importance of emotional literacy, co-regulation and resilience. It then delivers plenty of practical advice and suggestions to incorporate these ideas into day-to-day teaching, presenting high quality strategies to promote positive relationships and maximise teaching and learning outcomes. The book moves away from labels and encourages good inclusion practice to address the full range of needs in both mainstream primary and secondary classrooms.
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A Practical Guide for Teachers of Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in Secondary Education
Students on the autism spectrum often face difficulties in the secondary education environment that result from a lack of awareness on the part of their teachers and peers. This guide acquaints teachers with all the information and practical tools needed to understand and support their students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The book presents specific, ready-to-use classroom initiatives with example worksheets, checklists and timetables to help students keep organised with their school work. It also covers general obstacles such as social situations, anxiety, mental health issues and extracurricular activities and how adults can help. Guidance about the leaving school stage and how to ensure the teen is equipped to make the best possible decisions about their future is included. Packed with useful information and examples, this book will be a lifesaving resource for teachers, and everyone else working in secondary education, who want to help their students with autism to stay focused and positive at school.Read more
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Biochemistry For Dummies
It’s alive! It’s alive! (Thanks to biochemistry, that is.)
Biochemistry is the science of the chemical processes that allow for…well…life. If it moves, breathes, eats, or sleeps, biochemistry can probably explain how. So, it stands to reason that the fundamentals of biochemistry can get a little complicated.
In Biochemistry For Dummies, you’ll explore the carbons, proteins, and cellular systems that make up the biochemical processes that create and sustain life of all kinds. Perfect for students majoring in biology, chemistry, pre-med, health-services, and other science-related fields, this book tracks a typical college-level biochemistry class. It simplifies and clarifies the subject with easy-to-follow diagrams and real-world examples. You’ll also get:
- Explorations of cell biology, carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and other fundamental building blocks of life
- Discussions of the basic structures common to all living organisms
- Treatments of the microscopic details of life that make us all tick
If you’re looking for a hand with some of the trickier parts of biochemistry―or you just need an accessible overview of the subject―check out Biochemistry For Dummies today!
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Critical Thinking and Reflection for Mental Health Nursing Students (Transforming Nursing Practice Series)
The ability to reflect critically is a vital nursing skill. It will help your students to make better decisions, avoid errors, identify good and bad forms of practice and become better at learning from their experiences. The challenges they will face as a mental health nurse are complex so this book breaks things down to the foundations helping them to build critical thinking and reflection skills from the ground up.
Key features:
· Covers the theory and principles behind critical thinking and reflection
· Explores the specific mental health context and unique challenges students are likely to face as a mental health nurse
· Applies critical thinking to practice but also to academic study, showing how to demonstrate these skills in assignments
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Netter’s Anatomy Coloring Book (Netter Basic Science)
Reinforce your knowledge of structures, pathways, and relationships with this active and engaging review tool! Netter’s Anatomy Coloring Book, 3rd Edition is cross-referenced to the bestselling Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy, 8th Edition, so you know you’re benefiting from reliable, up-to-date anatomical information. This comprehensive book is a fun and easy way to trace arteries, veins, and nerves through their courses and bifurcations, reinforce your understanding of muscle origins and insertions, and develop a better understanding of the integration of individual organs in the workings of each body system throughout the human form. Whether you are taking an anatomy course or just curious about how the body works, you’ll learn and master anatomy with ease.
Netter’s Anatomy Coloring Book is a perfect companion to the Atlas of Human Anatomy by Frank H. Netter, MD, as well as Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards and Netter’s Clinical Anatomy textbook.
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Presents each topic in two-page spreads-with outlines of Netter anatomical illustrations for coloring accompanied by high-yield information-that give context to the structures.
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Features illustrations small enough for quick coloring, but large enough to provide you with important details, as well as multiple views/planes for better understanding of spatial relationships.
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Offers tips for coloring key structures that emphasize how a coloring exercise can reinforce learning.
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Contains helpful tables that review muscle attachments, innervation, action, and blood supply.
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Features expanded Clinical Notes which highlight the importance of anatomy in medicine.
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Includes Summary Exercises and Review Questions at the end of each system to reinforce learning.
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Provides online access where you can search the complete contents of the book and view completed coloring pages-done by other students-for reference.
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Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
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Adjusting to Brain Injury: Reflections from Survivors, Family Members and Clinicians (After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories)
This important book in the After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories Series tells the story of four people who suffered acquired brain injuries: Karl Hargreaves and Ashraf Sheikh as a result of road traffic accidents, Lisa Summerill because of a stroke and Meg Archer as a result of meningitis.
Each person tells their story in their own words, describing what happened to them, how they dealt with it and how they experienced the recovery process. The cases represent very different types of people and severity of injury but are alike in providing raw accounts of the challenges faced whilst also highlighting their resilience and determination to carve out new lives. Alongside these inspirational stories are contributions by friends and family, as well as several members of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team to give a broader view of the whole process of recovery. By combining expert commentary with real life experiences, this book points towards sources of support, normalises the experience and provides a context for understanding the challenges and successes in each case.
This book provides support, understanding and hope for patients who have suffered a brain injury. It is valuable reading for any professional involved in neurorehabilitation and students of clinical neuropsychology.
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Skipper’s Medical Emergency Handbook: First Aid at Sea 3rd Edition
The Skipper’s Medical Emergency Handbook is designed to assist all who go to sea – whether on a day excursion, a holiday cruise or an even longer trip.This essential book provides practical advice, boosts confidence and helps you to solve problems and minimise danger for all on board. Written by two medical experts and hugely experienced sailors, this third edition has been thoroughly updated throughout in line with new practices, procedures and treatments, reflecting the ever-evolving practice of medicine in the 21st century. It includes the latest developments in the treatment of medical conditions, and also the latest improvements in the emergency treatment of trauma.
Step-by-step instructions, explanatory illustrations and flow charts create an essential at-a-glance reference on how to prevent, treat and care for the sick and injured at sea. There is clear advice on pre-voyage preparations, establishing emergency procedures, first response and assessment of illnesses and injury, as well as offshore aftercare and recovery. The book’s durable waterproof binding protects against the marine environment making it ideal to use at sea. The Skipper’s Medical Emergency Handbook is a comprehensive and practical resource for novices or experienced sailors and motorboaters.
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