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Peterson's Master the Physician Assistant National Recertifying
Exam (PANRE) contains essential exam review tips and helps build
important test-taking skills for physician assistants to score
high, be recertified, and continue their professional careers. The
guide provides: One full-length practice test with comprehensive
answer explanations Extensive references to boost your knowledge of
areas outside your clinical specialization Peterson's Master the
Physician Assistant National Recertifying Exam (PANRE) offers
crucial test-prep strategies and exam reviews for physician
assistants to maintain or regain their certification by taking the
PANRE. This essential guide features hundreds of practice questions
with detailed answer explanations about: anatomy/physiology,
bleeding disorders, CDC prevention isolation guidelines, dementia,
HIV and AIDS, immune system, liver function, Maslow's hierarchy of
needs, multiple sclerosis, obstetrics/gynecology, pharmacology, and
surgical terminology. Every six years, all PAs must take and pass
the PANRE exam to maintain their certification to practice
medicine. Prepare for the comprehensive assessment of a practicing
physician assistant’s accumulated professional skills and
knowledge base by reviewing the materials in this thorough
user-friendly test-prep guide.
Spontaneous Pathology of the Laboratory Non-human Primate serves as
a "go to" resource for all pathologists working on primates in
safety assessment studies. In addition, it helps diagnostic
veterinary pathologists rule out spontaneous non-clinical disease
pathologies when assigning cause of death to species in zoological
collections. Primate species included are rhesus, cynomolgus
macaques and marmosets. Multi-authored chapters are arranged by
organ system, thus providing the necessary information for
continued research. Pathologists often face a lack of suitable
reference materials or historical data to determine if pathologic
changes they are observing in monkeys are spontaneous or a
consequence of other treatments or factors.
The workplace is where 156 million working adults in the United
States spend many waking hours, and it has a profound influence on
health and well-being. Although some occupations and work-related
activities are more hazardous than others and face higher rates of
injuries, illness, disease, and fatalities, workers in all
occupations face some form of work-related safety and health
concerns. Understanding those risks to prevent injury, illness, or
even fatal incidents is an important function of society.
Occupational safety and health (OSH) surveillance provides the data
and analyses needed to understand the relationships between work
and injuries and illnesses in order to improve worker safety and
health and prevent work-related injuries and illnesses. Information
about the circumstances in which workers are injured or made ill on
the job and how these patterns change over time is essential to
develop effective prevention programs and target future research.
The nation needs a robust OSH surveillance system to provide this
critical information for informing policy development, guiding
educational and regulatory activities, developing safer
technologies, and enabling research and prevention strategies that
serves and protects all workers. A Smarter National Surveillance
System for Occupational Safety and Health in the 21st Century
provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of OSH
surveillance. This report is intended to be useful to federal and
state agencies that have an interest in occupational safety and
health, but may also be of interest broadly to employers, labor
unions and other worker advocacy organizations, the workers'
compensation insurance industry, as well as state epidemiologists,
academic researchers, and the broader public health community. The
recommendations address the strengths and weaknesses of the
envisioned system relative to the status quo and both short- and
long-term actions and strategies needed to bring about a
progressive evolution of the current system. Table of Contents
Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 Building a "Smarter" National
Surveillance System 3 Overview of Agencies and Stakeholders 4
Current Status of Federal and State Programs and Cross-cutting
Issues 5 International Approaches to Occupational Health
Surveillance 6 Promising Developments and Technologies 7 Key
Actions to Move Forward with an Ideal National Occupational Safety
and Health Surveillance System 8 Next Steps for Improving Worker
Safety and Health Through a Smarter Occupational Surveillance
System Appendix A: Recommendations Appendix B: Committee
Biosketches Appendix C: Open Session Meeting Agendas Appendix D:
Updates on Recommendations from the 1987 National Research Council
Report "Counting Injuries and Illnesses in the Workplace: Proposals
for a Better System" Appendix E: OSHA Form 300 and Related Pages
From germ theory to plantation logic, this book charts the 528-year
legacy of global, colonial powers in the violent search for the
elusive Cinchona plant of South America, the only known natural
cure for malaria in the world. Stolen by the Jesuits in the 17th
century, smuggled abroad by Britain and Holland during the 18th
century, mapped by German explorer Alexander von Humboldt in the
19th century, and exploited by global pharma in the 20th century,
the Cinchona plant and the story of its powerful quinine extract
not only lie at the base of modern civilisation but trace the deep
roots of Indigenous, territorial resistance back to the Amazon and
the Andes. Using the unfamiliar format of an illustrated historical
timeline, the chronological organisation of images and stories
presented as unique spatial evidence offer counter-narratives to
the conventional bounded map of the nation state and the distancing
of the past that often overshadows and obscures realities of the
present-future.
This book offers a quick and memorable introduction to setting
multiple choice questions. It explains the requirements which a
good MC questions must fulfil and why MC questions have their place
in the clinical phase.
One of the Financial Times' Best Summer Books of 2022 'A compelling
account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of life as a vet -
and a lesson to us all on how we should treat the animals with
which we share our lives.' - Stephen Moss, naturalist and author of
The Robin: A biography 'If you love animals, read this book' - Jay
Griffiths, author of Wild: An elemental journey Our lives are
intrinsically linked to those of animals - whether that's the
animals we farm for food, those living in the wild, those we use
for sport or the ones we choose to keep as pets. We all have a
responsibility to consider our impact, and even small changes in
our own lives could significantly improve the quality of theirs. Dr
Sean Wensley is an award-winning vet and lifelong naturalist,
advocating animal wellbeing around the world. Fusing keen
scientific insight with tender meditations on the natural world,
Through a Vet's Eyes reveals the injustices which animals
experience every day and raises an important question: how can we
choose a better life for animals? Compelling and compassionate,
Through a Vet's Eyes helps us to see things from the animals'
perspectives, and illuminates the ways we can better care for our
fellow creatures.
The diagnostic investigation of menstrual dysfunction and sterility
is a routine part of gynecological practice. Hysteroscopy can
expand the spectrum of diagnostic possibilities. The 2nd revised
edition of this handbook aims to familiarise the gynecologist with
diagnostical hysteroscopy.About 100colour plates facilitate the
acquisition of this technique as well as the correct assessment of
findings. The book is conceived for newcomers to hysteroscopy and
should contribute to the further establishment of this method.
In "Enlightenment and Pathology" Anne Vila surveys the various
understandings of sensibility that passed back and forth between
different professional modes of discourse in eighteenth-century
France. The thrills of the nervous system, the delectations of
taste, and the pangs of the heart mattered as much in the
laboratory as in literature. Vila shows that the multiple junctures
between the body and the mind promoted a steady commerce between
science and the salons.
Vila looks deeply into that commerce and its changing purposes
in the course of the eighteenth century. She examines key works by
influential authors--Diderot, Rousseau, de Laclos, Sade--to
determine the significance of the sentimentality which they both
absorbed and helped to define. But she also steps beyond belles
lettres and investigates the medical, biological, and philosophical
literature of the period to reveal deep and continuous
interrelations. If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness
is as debilitating as a bad diet, the inquiries of the eighteenth
century still have much to tell.
This book is the 5th in an exceptional series which, in a most
uncommon way, constitutes an original encyclopaedia of
esophagology. It is devoted to a single subject: the
esophagogastric junction. These few centimetres are dissected into
420 questions which call on all the disciplines involved by its
physiology, its diverse diseases and their various treatments. 450
answers, provided by the most renowned experts, each one shedding
light on one small, but essential, fragment of the subject. The
book offers: A succesion of syntheses; A profusion of targeted
bibliographical references; An access, now made easy, to highly
elaborated knowledge; A precious volume for researchers,
specialists, departments heads, general practitioners and students.
This book is a selective, revised and annotated compendium of the best presentations at the prestigious National Symposium on Healthcare Design. It includes a major introduction by Wayne Ruga, the guru of international healthcare facilities design, as well as chapters on medical offices, new technologies, healing environments, and acute, long-term, ambulatory, and pediatric facilities.
Found in two-thirds of the world, rabies is a devastating
infectious disease with a 99.9 percent case-fatality rate and no
cure once clinical signs appear. Rabies in the Streets tells the
compelling story of the relationship between people, street
animals, and rabies in India, where one-third of human rabies
deaths occur. Deborah Nadal argues that only a One Health approach
of “interspecies camaraderie” can save people and animals from
the horrors of rabies and almost certain death. Grounded in
multispecies ethnography, this book leads the reader through the
streets and slums of Delhi and Jaipur, where people and animals,
such as dogs, cows, and macaques, interact intimately and sometimes
violently. Nadal explores the intricate web of factors that bring
humans and animals into contact with one another within
these urban spaces and create favorable pathways for
the transmission of the rabies virus across species. This book
shows how rabies is endemic in India for reasons that are as much
social, cultural, and political as they are biological, ranging
from inadequate sanitation to religious customs,
from vaccine shortages to reliance on traditional
medicine. The continuous emergence (and reemergence) of infectious
diseases despite technical medical progress is a growing concern of
our times and clearly questions the way we think of animal and
environmental health. This original account of rabies challenges
conventional approaches of separation and extermination, arguing
instead that a One Health approach is our best chance at fostering
mutual survival in a world increasingly overpopulated by humans,
animals, and deadly pathogens.
The updated, fifth edition of the widely used introductory Spanish
textbook designed specifically for health care professionals
Nurses, physicians, dentists, and other health care professionals
increasingly need to communicate with patients in Spanish. Formerly
titled An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers, the
fifth edition of this popular textbook is designed for students
with little or no formal background in Spanish. It uses text,
audio, video, classroom activities, and electronic exercises to
teach basic grammar, specialized medical vocabulary, and colloquial
terms as well as customs and communication styles. An interactive
companion website features video clips that demonstrate
practitioner-patient interactions and offers self-correcting
exercises, an audio program, and flash cards. The fifth edition is
also updated with * New topics, including muscles, pediatrics,
heart disease, neurologic exams, and zika * Nearly 300 classroom
activities, including exposition activities to develop the
presentational mode of communication * Expanded vocabulary lists,
sorted by frequency
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