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ABC of Quality Improvement in Healthcare (Paperback): T Swanwick ABC of Quality Improvement in Healthcare (Paperback)
T Swanwick
R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Quality improvement (QI) is embedded in the fabric of successful healthcare organisations across the world, with healthcare professionals increasingly expected to develop and lead improvement as a core part of their clinical responsibilities. As a result, QI is rapidly becoming a feature of the education and training programmes of all healthcare professionals. Written and edited by some of the leading clinicians and managers in the field, ABC of Quality Improvement is designed for clinicians new to the discipline, as well as experienced leaders of change and improvement. Providing comprehensive coverage and clear, succinct descriptions of the major tools, techniques and approaches, this new addition to the ABC series demystifies quality improvement and develops a broader understanding of what constitutes quality in healthcare. With practical examples of improvement interventions and the common pitfalls that can befall them, this book will support and enable readers to manage change projects within their own organisations. Relevant to doctors, dentists, nurses, health service managers and support staff, medical students and doctors in training, their tutors and trainers, and other healthcare professionals at various levels, ABC of Quality Improvement will give readers the confidence to embark on their own improvement projects, whoever, and wherever they may be.

The Truth About COVID-19 - Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal (Paperback): Joseph... The Truth About COVID-19 - Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal (Paperback)
Joseph Mercola, Ronnie Cummins; Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Multiple New York Times best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, team up to expose the truth-and end the madness-about COVID-19. Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events-a global pandemic caused by what appears to be an engineered coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment; and an unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties and freedoms in the name of keeping people safe by locking them up in their homes. We are now living in a world that is increasingly ruled, not by our democratic systems and institutions, but by public health fiat, carried out by politicians who rule by instilling fear and panic. In The Truth About COVID-19, Dr. Mercola and Cummins reveal new and emerging evidence that: The SARS-CoV-2 virus was, indeed, lab-engineered and emerged from a negligently managed bioweapons lab in Wuhan, China The global pandemic was long anticipated by global elites who have used it to facilitate and hide the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history PCR testing, case counts, morbidity, and vaccine safety and efficacy data have been widely manipulated and misrepresented Obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are known to worsen COVID-19 outcomes, but the junk food industry continues to push its agenda at the expense of public health Safe, simple, and inexpensive treatment and prevention for COVID-19 have been censored and suppressed to create a clear path for vaccine acceptance Effectiveness of the vaccines has been wildly exaggerated and major safety questions have gone unanswered The good news in all of this is that we can take control of our health and that, together, we have the power to unite and fight back for our health, democracy, and freedom. The time is now for a global awakening. As Dr. Mercola and Cummins remind us, this is the fight of our lives.

Management, Organization, and Childbirth - Towards a New Model for the Birth Path (Paperback): Gabriella Piscopo, Margherita... Management, Organization, and Childbirth - Towards a New Model for the Birth Path (Paperback)
Gabriella Piscopo, Margherita Ruberto
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Management, Organization and Childbirth: Towards a New Model for the Birth Path explores the complex topic of the birth path with a multidisciplinary magnifying glass on the paradigms, languages, and tools critical to the organization, management, and clinical science. The work consists of five chapters. The first chapter provides a multidimensional analysis of childbirth. The second chapter presents an organizational analysis that moves in unison with different models of health. The third chapter studies the birth path in organizational and cynical terms by describing it in its core processes. The fourth chapter proposes a study conducted in the Italian context, which identifies some useful determinants for redesigning the birth path. The fifth chapter formulates a proposal for redesigning the birth path based on a new health paradigm. The proposed model offers useful insights for multiple categories of readers. To students of medicine and higher education tracks in healthcare management, it can offer opportunities to raise awareness not only regarding multi-professional practice but also regarding confrontation with complementary disciplines. To practitioners and policy makers, it can provide useful stimuli to promote rational and informed decisions around the childbirth. To researchers studying the health context within different disciplinary domains, the model can offer unexplored research spaces within the new business complex system.

Advances in Mobile Health Technology - A Research Perspective (Paperback): Sinjini Mitra Advances in Mobile Health Technology - A Research Perspective (Paperback)
Sinjini Mitra
R1,316 Discovery Miles 13 160 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The COVID-19 pandemic upended the lives of many and taught us the critical importance of taking care of one's health and wellness. Technological advances, coupled with advances in healthcare, has enabled the widespread growth of a new area called mobile health or mHealth that has completely revolutionized how people envision healthcare today. Just as smartphones and tablet computers are rapidly becoming the dominant consumer computer platforms, mHealth technology is emerging as an integral part of consumer health and wellness management regimes. The aim of this book is to inform readers about the this relatively modern technology, from its history and evolution to the current state-of-the-art research developments and the underlying challenges related to privacy and security issues. The book's intended audience includes individuals interested in learning about mHealth and its contemporary applications, from students to researchers and practitioners working in this field. Both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in college-level healthcare courses will find this book to be an especially useful companion and will be able to discover and explore novel research directions that will further enrich the field.

New Drugs, Fair Prices - Managing the Pharmaceutical Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable and Affordable New Medicines... New Drugs, Fair Prices - Managing the Pharmaceutical Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable and Affordable New Medicines (Paperback)
Brian D. Smith
R1,113 Discovery Miles 11 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* The book is balanced and comprehensive, recognising that both affordability and investment into innovation are necessary * The book is original, using ecological concepts to understand pharmaceutical innovation as an ecosystem. * The book is unique in its research foundation, building on the views of more than 70 expert informants from all parts of the pharmaceutical innovation ecosystem and all sides of the debate about drug pricing.

Chronic Disparities - Public Health in Historical Perspective (Paperback): Sean Andrew Wempe Chronic Disparities - Public Health in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
Sean Andrew Wempe; Edited by Jesse Spohnholz, Clif Stratton
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Delivering Health Care in America:  A Systems Approach (Paperback, 8th edition): Leiyu Shi, Douglas A Singh Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach (Paperback, 8th edition)
Leiyu Shi, Douglas A Singh
R2,700 Discovery Miles 27 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Delivering Health Care in America, Eighth Edition is the most current and comprehensive overview of the basic structures and operations of the U.S. health system-from its historical origins and resources, to its individual services, cost, and quality. Using a unique "systems" approach, the text brings together an extraordinary breadth of information into a highly accessible, easy-to-read resource that clarifies the complexities of health care organization and finance while presenting a solid overview of how the various components fit together. The Eighth Edition of this highly current, forward-thinking text offers: - Updated new data for tables, charts, figures, and text based on the latest published data - New and emerging characteristics of the U.S. healthcare system such as 'accountable care,' 'integrated delivery,' and 'pay for value' - Coverage of COVID-19 topics in chapters 2, 5, 6, and 14 - The latest on the Affordable Care Act including its effects of insurance, access, and cost. - The latest in medical technology (artificial intelligence, electronic health records, Right to Try Act of 2018, etc.) along with integration of the digital environment throughout the text. - Current challenges and issues facing the U.S. health care system, such as care for populations with special needs and behavioral health services. - Navigate eBook access (included with each print text) provides entry to the enriched digital text, which includes chapter quizzes, interactive glossary and weblinks.

Healthcare Kaizen - Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements (Hardcover): Mark Graban, Joseph E Swartz Healthcare Kaizen - Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements (Hardcover)
Mark Graban, Joseph E Swartz
R5,262 Discovery Miles 52 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Healthcare Kaizen focuses on the principles and methods of daily continuous improvement, or Kaizen, for healthcare professionals and organizations. Kaizen is a Japanese word that means "change for the better," as popularized by Masaaki Imai in his 1986 book Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success and through the books of Norman Bodek, both of whom contributed introductory material for this book. Winner of a 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award! In 1989, Dr. Donald M. Berwick, founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, endorsed the principles of Kaizen in the New England Journal of Medicine, describing it as "the continuous search for opportunities for all processes to get better." This book shows how to make this goal a reality. Healthcare Kaizen shares some of the methods used by numerous hospitals around the world, including Franciscan St. Francis Health, where co-author Joe Swartz has led these efforts. Most importantly, the book covers the management mindsets and philosophies required to make Kaizen work effectively in a hospital department or as an organization-wide program. All of the examples in the book were shared by leading healthcare organizations, with over 200 full-color pictures and visual illustrations of Kaizen-based improvements that were initiated by nurses, physicians, housekeepers, senior executives and other staff members at all levels. Healthcare Kaizen will be helpful for organizations that have embraced weeklong improvement events, but now want to follow the lead of ThedaCare, Virginia Mason Medical Center, and others who have moved beyond just doing events into a more complete management system based on Lean or the Toyota Production System. It's often said, without much reflection, that people hate change. The experiences shared

Emergency Services Management - A Research Overview (Hardcover): Paresh Wankhade, Peter Murphy Emergency Services Management - A Research Overview (Hardcover)
Paresh Wankhade, Peter Murphy
R1,383 Discovery Miles 13 830 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Concise expert guide to important business research topic Summarises the state of the art in available and emerging research Includes references to key research publications in the field

Building and evaluating research capacity in healthcare systems - Case studies and innovative models (Paperback): Nancy... Building and evaluating research capacity in healthcare systems - Case studies and innovative models (Paperback)
Nancy Edwards, Dan Kaseje, Eulalia Kahwa
R329 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R72 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Over the past decade, there have been many international calls to strengthen and support/sustain research capacity in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This capacity is considered an essential foundation for cost-effective healthcare systems. While there have been long-standing investments by many countries and research funding organisations in the training of individuals for this purpose, in many LMICs research capacity remains fragmented, uneven and fragile. There is growing recognition that a more systems-oriented approach to research capacity-building is required. Nonetheless, there are considerable gaps in the evidence for approaches to capacity-building that are effective and sustainable. This book addresses these gaps, capturing what was learned from teams working on The Global Health Research Initiative. This book brings together the experiences of research capacity-building teams co-led by Canadians and LMIC researchers in several regions of the world, including Jamaica, Kenya, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Uganda.

Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market (Hardcover): Barbara Bridgman Perkins Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market (Hardcover)
Barbara Bridgman Perkins
R3,912 Discovery Miles 39 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each. Critics inside medicine called the widely-publicized proton-center boom "crazy medicine and unsustainable public policy." There was no valid evidence, they claimed, that proton beams were more effective than less costly alternatives. But developers expected insurance to cover their centers' staggeringly high costs and debts. Was speculation like this new to health care? Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market shows how the radiation therapy specialty in the United States (later called radiation oncology) coevolved with its device industry throughout the twentieth-century. Academic engineers and physicians acquired financing to develop increasingly powerful radiation devices, initiated companies to manufacture the devices competitively, and designed hospital and freestanding procedure units to utilize them. In the process, they incorporated market strategies into medical organization and practice. Although palliative benefits and striking tumor reductions fueled hopes of curing cancer, scientific research all too often found serious patient harm and disappointing beneficial impact on cancer survival. This thoroughly documented and provocative inquiry concludes that public health policy needs to re-evaluate market-driven high-tech medicine and build evidence-based health care systems.

International Examples of Lean in Healthcare - Case Studies of Best Practices (Paperback): Elaine Mead, Cameron Stark, Maimie... International Examples of Lean in Healthcare - Case Studies of Best Practices (Paperback)
Elaine Mead, Cameron Stark, Maimie Thompson
R1,475 Discovery Miles 14 750 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Typically entrenched and systemic, healthcare problems require the sort of comprehensive solutions that can only be addressed by a change in culture and a shift in thinking. Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. This book demonstrates how honest appraisal, intelligent planning, and vigilant follow-up have led to dramatic improvements in a variety of healthcare settings across the world. It teaches us how innovative organizations can find sustainable solutions to seemingly intractable problems by following a path guided by Lean Thinking. Lean methods may not solve every healthcare problem, but as these cases prove, changing a culture rather than personnel results in more effective sustainable change. This multi-authored book provides expert descriptions of Lean methods and their application in healthcare, written by the people who developed and tested the methods in healthcare settings. Each chapter brings together a description of the technique or approach, with examples of application in practice from the author's own practice. Authors use an engaging approach to their narrative, with examples from their personal experience or engagement being described to illustrate the practical application of theoretic approaches. In painting a picture of the environment in which these tools and techniques have been applied, readers will understand the transferability to their own workplace environment. This will be an opportunity to tell real stories of the application of Lean in healthcare and give readers the opportunity to learn from people from across the world, on subjects on which they are acknowledged topic experts, based on day-to-day Lean practice.

Integrated Diabetes Care - A Multidisciplinary Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): David Simmons, Helmut Wenzel, Janice C.... Integrated Diabetes Care - A Multidisciplinary Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
David Simmons, Helmut Wenzel, Janice C. Zgibor
R4,859 R3,814 Discovery Miles 38 140 Save R1,045 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Integrating care across disciplines and organisations around the needs of the person with diabetes has been proposed as an approach that could improve care while reducing cost- but has it and can it? Integrated Diabetes Care- A Multidisciplinary Approach collates evidence of worldwide approaches to both horizontal integration (across disciplines) and vertical integration (across organizations) in diabetes care and describe what was done, what worked and what appeared to be the barriers to achieving the goals of the programmes. Evidence is sought from groups who have developed different approaches to integrating diabetes care in different health systems (eg insurance vs tax payer funded, single vs multiple organization, published vs unpublished). A final chapter brings the evidence together for a final discussion about what seems to work and what does not.

Challenging Perspectives on Organizational Change in Health Care (Hardcover): Louise Fitzgerald, Aoife McDermott Challenging Perspectives on Organizational Change in Health Care (Hardcover)
Louise Fitzgerald, Aoife McDermott
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume provides theory and research on organizational change and predominantly features the application of these ideas to the health care domain, broadly defined. It addresses enduring issues in advancing to an effective health care system. The aim of this book is to offer an accessible and readable text aimed at provoking thought and questioning, and aiding creativity. It proffers arguments and ideas which are firmly based in empirical data and evidence, so that the reader may make informed personal evaluations. This book is designed to furnish a comprehensive theoretical basis for understanding organizational change in health care, as well as selected core issues of contemporary and future importance to the provision of effective care within sustainable systems. A series of coherent themes are addressed throughout the book from differing perspectives. However, every chapter has been written to standalone and be read independently. Each offers resources relevant to its' focal topic, in the form of references, case studies and critique. Setting out a future research agenda, the book will be vital reading for organizational change researchers and practitioners in the healthcare industry.

Urinalysis and Body Fluids (Paperback, 7th Revised edition): Susan King Strasinger, Marjorie Schaub Di Lorenzo Urinalysis and Body Fluids (Paperback, 7th Revised edition)
Susan King Strasinger, Marjorie Schaub Di Lorenzo
R2,069 Discovery Miles 20 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Safely handle urine and body fluids | Process and analyze them effectively Here’s a comprehensive and highly visual introduction to the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to safely handle and analyze non-blood body fluids. The authors’ focused and reader-friendly approach begins with an emphasis on safety; introduces automation in urinalysis and body fluids analysis; and presents the foundational concepts of renal function and urinalysis. Then, step by step, you’ll learn the critical lab procedures for the examination of urine, cerebrospinal fluid, semen, synovial fluid, serous fluid, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, amniotic fluid, feces, and vaginal secretions.

Culture, Migration, and Health Communication in a Global Context (Hardcover): Yuping Mao, Rukhsana Ahmed Culture, Migration, and Health Communication in a Global Context (Hardcover)
Yuping Mao, Rukhsana Ahmed
R4,647 Discovery Miles 46 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Both international and internal migration brings new challenges to public health systems. This book aims to critically review theoretical frameworks and literature, as well as discuss new practices and lessons related to culture, migration, and health communication in different countries. It features research and applied projects conducted by scholars from various disciplines including media and communication, public health, medicine, and nursing.

Medicines in China's National Health Insurance System (Hardcover): China Development Research Foundation Medicines in China's National Health Insurance System (Hardcover)
China Development Research Foundation
R4,600 Discovery Miles 46 000 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book presents the findings of systematic research into the healthcare medicine management policies of China. In-depth comprehensive research has been carried out, targeting multiple issues of particular importance in healthcare medicine management, such as the purchasing, pricing, payment, usage, and the function of commercial healthcare insurance in medical payment. The book goes on to put forward policy advice regarding the aforementioned issues.

Operations Management for Healthcare (Paperback, 2nd edition): Jan Vissers, Sylvia Elkhuizen, Nathan Proudlove Operations Management for Healthcare (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Jan Vissers, Sylvia Elkhuizen, Nathan Proudlove
R1,087 Discovery Miles 10 870 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Fully updated edition of the bestselling book in healthcare operations. Practical case studies are used throughout to provide invaluable resources for training students and practitioners in healthcare. An ideal resource for students of healthcare management at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It can also be used by practitioners. The book translates complex operational models for busy practising healthcare professionals so that the methods can be easily applied to a workplace scenario.

Professional Social Work Education and Health Care - Challenges for the Future (Hardcover): Mildred D Mailick, Phyllis Caroff Professional Social Work Education and Health Care - Challenges for the Future (Hardcover)
Mildred D Mailick, Phyllis Caroff
R3,834 Discovery Miles 38 340 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Professional Social Work Education and Health Care responds to critical concerns about the educational preparation of social workers within the rapidly changing health care environment. Contributors address issues and questions of importance to educators who are contending with the multiple challenges of rapidly changing institutions, fiscal constraints, and service to populations with complex social health care needs. This coverage provides you with important visions of the future education of leaders in health care social work. The editors of Professional Social Work Education and Health Care present information that looks to the future in order to open the floor for communication among the leaders in health care social work settings. Chapters explain the context of social work practice, exploe current social work practice issues, and look into continuing education and fieldwork. In doing so, they give you valuable information about imprtant issues such as: changes in social work department structure and function in challenging economic times collaborative efforts and reciprocal relationships in education and training emergence of networks that will join forces with hospitals preparation for short-term, solution-based social work the remaining need for traditional, long-term social work frameworks and values the shift in ideology to viewing clients as consumers rather than patients modification of curriculum to focus on parenting, health education, adolescent pregnancy prevention, and wellness programs emergence of a model for post-master's education field work in community-based health care placements versus inpatient hospital settingsThis book's model for making education and practice responsive to each other and for responding to the needs for collaboration makes it a valuable resource for social work educators, practitioners, and clinicians in health and mental health; advanced gerontologists in academic and practice agencies; and teachers of policy and research in health concentrations in schools of social work. Professional Social Work Education and Health Care is an excellent ancillary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in social work practice in health and mental health and is a strong addition to reading lists for classes on social work with the aged, social work research in health care, and field work seminars in health and mental health.

Public Health and Globalisation - Why a National Health Service is Morally Indefensible (Paperback): Iain Brassington Public Health and Globalisation - Why a National Health Service is Morally Indefensible (Paperback)
Iain Brassington
R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The author claims that there are good arguments for a public health service that do not amount to arguments for a national health service, but for something that looks far more like a transnational health service.

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover): Anne Case, Angus Deaton Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
Anne Case, Angus Deaton
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A New Statesman Book to Read From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row-a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism have risen dramatically, and now claim hundreds of thousands of American lives each year-and they're still rising. Anne Case and Angus Deaton, known for first sounding the alarm about deaths of despair, explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. They demonstrate why, for those who used to prosper in America, capitalism is no longer delivering. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline. For the white working class, today's America has become a land of broken families and few prospects. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. In this critically important book, Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and, above all, to a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. Capitalism, which over two centuries lifted countless people out of poverty, is now destroying the lives of blue-collar America. This book charts a way forward, providing solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.

Bioinformatics Tools and Big Data Analytics for Patient Care (Hardcover): Rishabha Malviya, Pramod Kumar Sharma, Sonali... Bioinformatics Tools and Big Data Analytics for Patient Care (Hardcover)
Rishabha Malviya, Pramod Kumar Sharma, Sonali Sundram, Balamurugan Balusamy, Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj
R3,126 Discovery Miles 31 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Nowadays, raw biological data can be easily stored as databases in computers but extracting the required information is the real challenge for researchers. For this reason, bioinformatics tools perform a vital role in extracting and analyzing information from databases. Bioinformatics Tools and Big Data Analytics for Patient describes the applications of bioinformatics, data management, and computational techniques in clinical studies and drug discovery for patient care. The book gives details about the recent developments in the fields of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data analytics. It highlights the advances in computational techniques used to perform intelligent medical tasks. Features: Presents recent developments in the fields of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data analytics for improved patient care. Describes the applications of bioinformatics, data management, and computational techniques in clinical studies and drug discovery. Summarizes several strategies, analyses, and optimization methods for patient healthcare. Focuses on drug discovery and development by cloud computing and data-driven research The targeted audience comprises academics, research scholars, healthcare professionals, hospital managers, pharmaceutical chemists, the biomedical industry, software engineers, and IT professionals.

Life in the Balance - A Doctor's Stories of Intensive Care (Hardcover): Jim Down Life in the Balance - A Doctor's Stories of Intensive Care (Hardcover)
Jim Down
R455 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R92 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam Kay In these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit - the section of the hospital where the sickest patients are brought to be cared for until their condition improves. With honesty, humility and a streak of dark humour, Dr Down describes the quietly heroic work of doctors and nurses on the ICU, a place which sits at the cutting edge of medical technology and where a split-second decision can make the difference between life and death. From headline-grabbing cases like that of Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned by Russian agents and admitted to Down's ward, to the appalling aftermath of a train crash, Life in the Balance offers an inside glimpse of intensive care medicine, its immense challenges, deleterious effects on doctors' mental health and enormous rewards. Its profundity will make you reconsider the fragility of life and reframe your understanding of what it means to care.

Emergency Management of the Hi-Tech Patient in Acute and Critical Care (Hardcover): I Koutroulis Emergency Management of the Hi-Tech Patient in Acute and Critical Care (Hardcover)
I Koutroulis
R2,248 Discovery Miles 22 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF THE HI-TECH PATIENT IN ACUTE AND CRITICAL CARE Emergency Management of the Hi-Tech Patient in Acute and Critical Care helps practitioners stabilize and care for pediatric and adult patients who have specialized medical devices such as prosthetic valves, cochlear transplants, insulin pumps, orthopedic hardware, and ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts. Using a step-by-step approach to acute presentations of patients with clinical hardware, this concise yet comprehensive guide provides specific instructions for the initial evaluation and management of numerous clinical scenarios including device malfunctions, infections, trauma, surgical complications, and more. Encompassing management of both the patient and the device, the guide enables emergency and critical care clinicians to rapidly make appropriate treatment decisions without the immediate need for extensive research, extended discussions with subspecialists, or recalling complex diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms. Clear, concise, and easy-to-follow chapters--written by a panel of highly experienced experts across specialties--include numerous algorithms, figures, tables, diagrams, and color illustrations and clinical images. An invaluable resource for improving the quality of care for the unique hi-tech patient population, this advanced practical manual: Provides algorithms for the most common clinical scenarios of device malfunction and related complications Covers management of patients who have undergone major operations such as organ transplantation or complex congenital heart disease repair Presents detailed management plans for a wide range of hardware types and medical conditions Offers expert guidance to practitioners in settings where not all specialties are readily available, such as rural and remote areas or community hospitals Features contributions from a team of experts in various areas of adult and pediatric emergency and critical care medicine Emergency Management of the Hi-Tech Patient in Acute and Critical Care is a must-have clinical reference and guide for pediatric and adult emergency medicine physicians, general pediatricians, internists, general practitioners, critical care specialists, and allied health practitioners.

Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care and Home Health (Paperback, 3rd ed.): Susan Alvare Hedman Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care and Home Health (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
Susan Alvare Hedman
R1,947 Discovery Miles 19 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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