Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple (MedMaster Series)
by Richard Arthur Preston
from Medmaster
A brief, highly readable book providing the clinician with a straightforward approach to solving even the most complex, acid-base, fluid, and electrolyte problems. Useful to medical students, interns and residents, nurses responsible for IV fluid therapy, and first year nephrology fellows
Vander's Renal Physiology (Lange Physiology)
by Douglas C. Eaton
from McGraw-Hill Medical
This concise overview of renal physiology introduces basic science principles and their relevance in the clinical expression of disease. Each chapter incorporates a wealth of pedagogical aids including: study questions, learning objectives, and clinical examples. Also serves as a good review for the USMLE Step 1.
The Renal Pathophysiology: The Essentials
by Helmut G Rennke
from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Handbook of Dialysis (HANDBOOK OF DIALYSIS)
from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Drug Prescribing in Renal Failure: Dosing Guidelines for Adults, Fifth Edition
from American College of Physicians
Here is the classic pocket guide to drug-dosing for patients with impaired renal function in a revised and updated New Edition! Easy-to-read tables put the information physicians need when determining dosages for more than 450 drugs at their fingertips. Plus, this New Edition features brand-new guidance on pediatric dosing, making it the most complete resource of its kind.
Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology: Text with CD-ROM (COMPREHENSIVE CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY)
by John Feehally
from Mosby
This fully revised new edition brings you today's best knowledge on every clinical condition encountered in nephrology in one concise yet comprehensive, clinically focused source. A team of international experts present the latest information on pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management for a full range of kidney disorders. A full-color, highly visual, meticulously crafted format makes this material remarkably easy for you to access and apply. Plus, a bonus CD-ROM containing all of the figures and tables from the book lets you create electronic presentations.
- Tap in to the best clinical advice from world leading authorities.
- Make informed decisions with the right amount of basic science and practical knowledge of clinical medicine for every disorder.
- Know exactly what tests to order to make a quick and accurate diagnosis.
- Create electronic presentations via the included CD-ROM featuring the complete collection of images and diagrams from the text.
Locate and digest information easily thanks to a highly templated, remarkably user-friendly format.- Get at-a-glance access to key information using two-color algorithms and abundant tables.
- Enhance your clinical acumen with new chapters, reflecting new advances in clinical practice: Pathophysiology and Etiology of Acute Renal Failure · ICU Nephrology · Pathophysiology and Epidemiology of Chronic Renal Failure · Neurologic Disease in Chronic Renal Failure · Dermatologic Manifestations in Chronic Renal Failure · and Renal Replacement in the ICU .
- Broaden your perspective with insights from New Editor and internationally recognized expert Dr. Jürgen Floege.
Obtain a firm understanding of complex concepts through updated text, tables, references, and more than 1,100 illustrations900 in full color.
Review of Hemodialysis for Nurses and Dialysis Personnel (Review of Hemodialysis for Nurses & Dialysis Personnel)
by Judith Z. Kallenbach
from Mosby
Using a practical, straight-forward introduction to dialysis, this text is a must-have reference for health care workers caring for hemodialysis patients. Assuming no prior knowledge of patient care, nursing procedures, or dialysis principles, it takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an overview of dialysis technology and the relationship of dialysis to nursing, nutrition, medicine, and psychosocial aspects of treatment. Each chapter is presented in a logical question-and-answer format that promotes critical thinking and engages the reader. Lifespan content, home dialysis considerations, and quick reference material enhance the text's comprehensive approach to care. Its up-to-date material and comprehensiveness also make it an excellent resource for dialysis technicians preparing for a certification examination.
- Features a question-and-answer format that streamlines the learning process and engages the reader.
- Offers comprehensive coverage including a review of fluids and electrolytes through transplantation, infection control and the important psychosocial aspects of dialysis treatment.
- Introduces new terms and concepts using simplified language style to assist the patient, novice health care worker, and technician with the learning process.
- Offers definitions of new terms and clear explanations of concepts along with the "how and why" of principles and effects to facilitate learning and foster critical thinking.
- Covers the lifespan with separate chapters on pediatric hemodialysis and end-stage renal disease in the elderly.
- Includes home dialysis therapies to provide instruction on this important aspect of care.
- Focuses on the roles of the multidisciplinary dialysis team, including the patient and the patient's family, to provide a comprehensive approach to dialysis and the related patient care.
- Provides an excellent resource for dialysis technicians preparing for a certification examination.
- Includes useful quick reference content - including nephrology organizations and resources, conversion table, and a glossary.
- Provides updated information to reflect current changes and technological advances in dialysis therapy.
- Features two new chapters that offer up-to-date and comprehensive coverage: Clinical Manifestations of ESRD and Laboratory Data - Analysis and Interpretation.
- Includes updated HCFA requirements and guidelines and DOQI guidelines to promote standards of nephrology care.
- Offers new and expanded pharmacologic information to provide readers with a current and complete resource.
Primer on Kidney Diseases (Greenberg, Primer on Kidney)
by Arthur Greenberg
from Saunders
As an official publication of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), Primer on Kidney Diseases has received wide critical acclaim since it first published in 1994. Now in its 4th Edition, it continues to provide a current view of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of kidney disease, fluid and electrolyte disorders, hypertension, dialysis, and renal transplantation.
· Incorporates the latest NKF Kidney/Outcome Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) guidelines on chronic kidney disease staging and management.
· Delivers balanced and accurate cutting-edge management and treatment guidelines.
· Features over 70 international experts in all who offer fresh perspectives and a global view of kidney disease.
· Presents new chapters on pathogenesis and pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy and genetic basis of glomerular and structural kidney disorders. .
· Provides expanded coverage of the pathophysiology and management of chronic kidney disease.
· Includes a more colorful interior design plus redrawn artwork for ease of use.
The Analects of Confucius (Lun Yu)
by Confucius
from Oxford University Press, USA
In the long river of human history, if one person can represent the civilization of a whole nation, it is perhaps Master Kong, better known as Confucius in the West. If there is one single book that can be upheld as the common code of a whole people, it is perhaps Lun Yu, or The Analects. Surely, few individuals in history have shaped their country's civilization more profoundly than Master Kong. The great Han historiographer, Si-ma Qian, writing 2,100 years ago said, "He may be called the wisest indeed!" And, as recently as 1988, at a final session of the first international conference of Nobel prize-winners in Paris, the seventy-five participants, fifty-two of whom where scientists, concluded: "If mankind is to survive, it must go back twenty- five centuries in time to tap the wisdom of Confucius." This a man whose influence in world history is truly incomparable. His sayings (and those of his disciples) form the basis of a distinct social, ethical, and intellectual system. They have retained their freshness and vigor for two and a half millennia, and are still admired in today's China.
Compiled by pupils of Confucius's disciples half a century after the Master's death, The Analects of Confucius laid the foundation of his philosophy of humanity--a philosophy aimed at "cultivating the individual's moral conduct, achieving family harmony, bringing good order to the state and peace to the empire. Containing 501 very succinct chapters (the longest do not exceed fifteen lines and the shortest are less than one) and organized into twenty books, the collection comprises mostly dialogues between the Master and his disciples and contemporaries. The ethical tenets Confucius put forth not only became the norm of conduct for the officialdom and intelligentsia, but also profoundly impacted the behavior of the common people. The great sage's unique integration of humanity and righteousness (love and reason) struck a powerful chord in all who attempted to understand his moral philosophy. As translator Chichung Huang contends, "What ethical principle laid down by man could be more sensible that none which blends the best our heart can offer with the best our mind can offer as the guiding light for our conduct throughout our lives?" Ever timely, Confucius's teachings on humanity (family harmony in particular) and righteousness may well serve as a ready-made cure for today's ills in an era which human beings are blinded by force and lust, not unlike Confucius's own day.
Far more literal than any English version still in circulation, this brilliant new rendition of The Analects helps the reader not only to acquire and accurate and lucid understanding of the original text, but also to appreciate the imagery, imagery, parallelism, and concision of its classical style. The translator Chichung Huang, a Chinese scholar born in a family of Confucian teachers and schooled in one of the last village Confucian schools in South China, brings to this treasure of world literature a sure voice that captures the power and subtleties of the original. Vivid, simple, and eminently readable, this illuminating work makes the golden teachings of the sage of the East readily available to anyone in search of them.
Clinical Physiology of Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disorders (Clinical Physiology of Acid Base & Electrolyte Disorders)
by Burton David Rose
from McGraw-Hill Professional
This superbly written text gives students, residents, and practitioners the edge in understanding the mechanisms and clinical management of acid-base disorders. Presents the core information to understand renal and electrolyte physiology, and reviews the treatment rationale for all major acid-base and electrolyte disturbances. The entire text is exhaustively revised, and now includes questions and answers in each chapter.
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