Libros sobre CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD

Tercera edición en español de esta obra. Entre sus contenidos se incluye el uso de la angiografía TC multidetectora; el uso rutinario de endoprótesis vasculares con liberación de fármacos por intervención coronaria percutánea; el empleo de procedimientos de aislamiento de venas pulmonares para eliminar la fibrilación auricular; el incremento de la aceptación de estatinas, inhibidores de la ECA y desfibriladores, y la terapia de resincronización para tratar la insuficiencia cardiaca. Se ha puesto énfasis en los aspectos de genética molecular cardiovascular y hay nuevos contenidos referentes a los avances en cardiología molecular.

Concise and easy to read, this completely updated new edition correlates basic pathophysiologic principles with the radiologic, pathologic, and clinical aspects of disease to provide an integrated, user-friendly approach to the study of pulmonary medicine. In addition to detailed text, case-based questions cover topics including interpretation of pulmonary function tests, physiologic data, and results of arterial blood gas testing. More than 120 high-quality images complement the discussion of specific diseases and provide a clear framework for understanding difficult pulmonary concepts. The text provides updated coverage of diagnostic modalities in pulmonary disease, as well as management of asthma, lung cancer, respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension, and other important pulmonary diseases. A new, web-based interactive learning tool box offers additional radiographic images, audio clips of lung sounds, and self-assessment questions modeled after the questions found on the USMLE exams. In print and online, this is an essential resource for mastering the foundations of pulmonary medicine.

"A manual that covers everything piercers and piercees need to know about the process, from the woman who brought tongue-piercing into the mainstream and has performed over 40,000 piercings"--Provided by publisher.

Every chapter has been updated to reflect current thought and research in the field. Chapters devoted to specialized tests in neuropsychology have been updated to reflect new editions of these popular instruments. Special topic chapters have been added such as working in pediatric coma rehabilitation, using the planning, attention, sequential, simultaneous theory of neuropsychological processes, additions on ADHD, and more appear written by the leading experts and practitioners in these fields to reflect the demands of current practice in clinical child neuropsychology.

Nutritional counseling is taking on a larger and larger role in healthcare, especially with the management of chronic conditions and diseases. However, many medical practitioners lack sufficient disease-specific nutrition information and the in-depth understanding that allows them to integrate nutrition into specific treatment plans. Including research on nutrient-drug interactions, nutrient-gene interactions, and disease-specific interactions, this valuable resource incorporates nutritional medicine into clinical practice, emphasizing scientific evidence for whole foods and dietary patterns. Each chapter details how food and nutrition influence pathophysiology, presents relevant clinical information, and offers nutritional interventions and recommendations.

An overview of the state of the art in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Tissue engineering has grown tremendously during the past decade. Advances in genetic medicine and stem cell technology have significantly improved the potential to influence cell and tissue performance, and have recently expanded the field towards regenerative medicine. In recent years a number of approaches have been used routinely in daily clinical practice, others have been introduced in clinical studies, and multitudes are in the preclinical testing phase. Because of these developments, there is a need to provide comprehensive and detailed information for researchers and clinicians on this rapidly expanding field. This book offers, in a single volume, the prerequisites of a comprehensive understanding of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The book is conceptualized according to a didactic approach (general aspects: social, economic, and ethical considerations; basic biological aspects of regenerative medicine: stem cell medicine, biomolecules, genetic engineering; classic methods of tissue engineering: cell, tissue, organ culture; biotechnological issues: scaffolds; bioreactors, laboratory work; and an extended medical discipline oriented approach: review of clinical use in the various medical specialties).

Obra divulgativa sobre cuestiones extraídas de la práctica clínica relacionadas con las causas del asma, la sintomatología de esta patología y su tratamiento en niños y adolescentes.

The purpose of the book is to teach healthcare professionals how to communicate, in Spanish, with Hispanic patients. This highly practical text is designed to help students and practicing professionals develop their oral communication skills. Basic grammar explanations and relevant vocabulary, with an emphasis on the construction of yes/no questions, are provided. The text focuses on highly applicable and relevant material. The exercises in each chapter begin with simple drills testing the readers recognition and comprehension of the material learned, culminating in more involved exercises (such as role-playing) geared towards the practice of Spanish in real-life scenarios. Furthermore, a CD that can be used for at-home practice accompanies the text to help improve ones listening comprehension skills.This book is adaptable to classes of different types and lengths. Some hospitals are providing six to eight-week Spanish courses of levels 1 and 2, with a total of twelve hours of instruction per level. This book is ideal for such a setting, as it could be divided into two parts: the first part for level 1, and the second part for level 2. For other types of courses, such as semester-long classes offered at community colleges or universities, this book is equally as ideal because, in its entirety, it provides more than enough material for such a class.In the second edition, students will find pre- and post-reading activities for every cultural reading selection. The pre-reading activities will help students brainstorm about their own culture and experiences; the post-reading activities will ask students to apply what they learned in the reading to different real-life scenarios, and to compare and contrast their own culture to the Hispanic one. In addition, we have added Study Tips throughout the chapters and developed a PowerPoint presentation for instructors to use in the classroom.Qu le Duele? will serve as a traditional textbook for students and as a reference tool for healthcare professionals who must speak with Hispanic patients. Emphasizing practicality, this relatively small book with a soft cover and index will allow readers to locate needed material "on the spot."

This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are overlapping disciplines. It claims that the philosophical lessons to learn from the twentieth century are not that nature is a 'social construction' and that 'anything goes' with respect to methodological and moral rules. Instead, it claims that there is scientific knowledge, but that it is never completely secure; that there are norms, but that they are situation-bound; and that, therefore, it makes good sense to search for scientific truths and try to act in a morally decent way. Using philosophical catchwords, the authors advocate 'fallibilism' and 'particularism'; a combination that might be called 'pragmatic realism'.

En esta obra, el profesor Delgado realiza una aproximación sobre los avances en el conocimiento del cerebro aunando para ello la precisión característica de una publicación científica con un lenguaje accesible. El autor afronta cuestiones tan aparentemente simples como la razón por la cual nuestra cara es capaz de expresar nuestro estado emocional interno, o abordar asuntos tan complejos como el origen evolutivo de los estados mentales, o el diseño sensorial y motor que nos permite movernos en un espacio de tres dimensiones de forma eficaz y automática. El profesor José María Delgado García es investigador de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide, catedrático de Fisiología y director del Laboratorio de Neurociencias de esta institución.

El objetivo de este libro de Francisco Javier Cudeiro Mazaira, es realizar una revisión científica actualizada de las terapias encaminadas a la reeducación funcional y a la rehabilitación de los enfermos de Párkinson, con énfasis especial en aquellas de reciente aparición. El libro cuenta con un prólogo del presidente de la Federación Española de Parkinson, Carles Guinovart Centelles. Tras él encontramos una introducción a la Enfermedad de Parkinson (EP) que revisa aspectos epidemiológicos y sociales.La obra se divide en dos grandes bloques. El primero, incluye una introducción a las bases fisiopatológicas de la EP y a los distintos tratamientos disponibles, incluyendo los experimentales. En el segundo, se revisan las distintas terapias de apoyo disponibles en la actualidad, desde las utilizadas de manera tradicional, como la fisioterapia o la logopedia, hasta las más novedosas, como la estimulación magnética transcraneal o la estimulación sensorial. En el libro, desarrollado por los especialistas e investigadores nacionales más punteros en este tipo de técnicas, se explican de manera accesible las bases fisiológicas de esos tratamientos y se explora de forma objetiva su potencial terapéutico, de forma que pueda ayudar al especialista a conocer y proponer terapias combinadas y al estudiante a entender el porqué de los tratamientos que se prescriben. También se puede encontrar un capitulo dedicado a las asociaciones de párkinson como recurso terapéutico.

Multi-agent systems are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence. In the last ten years there has been a growing interest in the application of agent-based systems in health care. Moreover, a growing European community of researchers interested in the application of intelligent agents in health care emerged as a result of the activities within the AgentCities.NET European network and the AgentLink III Technical Forum Group on Healthcare Applications of Intelligent Agents. And specially in R&D projects funded during the FP6. Thus, this book reports on the results achieved in this area, discuss the benefits (and drawbacks) that agent-based systems may bring to medical domains and society, and also to provide a list of the research topics that should be tackled in the near future to make the deployment of health-care agent-based systems a reality. Current topics of research include communication and co-operation betweendistributed intelligent agents to manage patient care, information agents that retrieve medical information from the Internet, and multi-agent systems that assist the doctors in the tasks of monitoring and diagnosis. A lot of methodological and technical problems are beginning to be discovered by the researchers that attempt to deploy agent-based systems in the medical area; just to name a few, there does not exist a universally accepted standard medical ontology, it is difficult to integrate new agent systems with legacy software, and these new agent-based systems should take into account rapidly changing national and international laws and regulations concerning the privacy of medical data and the security of the transaction of patientinformation between agents. The reader will find a comprehensive view of the field and up-to-date state-of-the-art of the research in this field in Europe.

Manual divulgativo sobre la hemocromatosis, hereditaria y secundaria. Obra editada con el respaldo de Novartis Oncology, con el aval de la Asociación Española de Hematología y Hemoterapia.

Il volume intende far conoscere agli andrologi le cause genetiche della infertilita maschile e le malattie genetiche in cui si manifesta una infertilita maschile. Di queste malattie sono riportate in un CD le caratteristiche cliniche, i modelli di ereditá, le possibilita diagnostiche.

Este libro de divulgación examina los efectos mentales y físicos de la anorexia, bulimia y el comer compulsivo. Lleno de testimonios personales, esta guía práctica pretende ayudar a reconocer los síntomas, fomentar un conocimiento de los desórdenes y trazar un camino práctico hacia la recuperación.

Two oncologists and the medical director of a sexual health and survivorship program answer questions women typically have after being diagnosed with preinvasive changes or invasive cervical cancer. Simple language sheds light on risk factors, screening, abnormal pap results, the different types of cervical cancer, treatment of locally advanced disease, sexuality after cervical cancer, and fertility.

Aegean Conferences is an independent, nonprofit, educational organization directed and managed by the scientific community. The board is made up of nine researchers/scientists in various disciplines from Harvard, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, UCSD, Princeton, Biovista and the Foundation for Biomedical Research Academy of Athens. The board both invites and approves unsolicited proposals for Conferences in all fields of Science, Engineering, Arts, and Humanities. The purpose of the Conferences is to bring together individuals with common interests to examine the emerging and most advanced aspects of their particular field.The Symposium on Ovarian Cancer: State of the Art and Future Directions intends to bring together international experts interested in the development of novel diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic tools for ovarian cancer. The meeting will function as a think tank where clinicians, translational and basic scientists, and parties from the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry will get together to review recent advances in clinical research and translational science in ovarian cancer and define areas of future research opportunities and priorities.

Según la nota promocional de la obra, dos especialistas en el tratamiento y la investigación sobre la psoriasis responden en este título a un centenar de preguntas para conocer el alcance de esta patología dermatológica sin cura permanente, a través de una exposición sencilla y directa que responde a las cuestiones que formulan a diario sus pacientes.

La obra ofrece información práctica sobre los medicamentos homeopáticos más utilizados. Está escrita por Jean Louis Masson, médico general y especialista en homeopatía y vicepresidente del Colegio Francés de Médicos Homeópatas. Obra respaldada por Laboratorios Boiron.