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Fragility fracture nursing : holistic care and management of the orthogeriatr…
This open access book aims to provide a comprehensive but practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with or at risk of fragility fracture. It considers this from the perspectives of all of the settings in which this group of patients receive nursing care. Globally, a fragility fracture is estimated to occur every 3 seconds. This amount…
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- 9783319766812
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- xx, 158p. : ill.
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- 617.150846 FRA f
Primary angioplasty : a practical guide
This quick-reference handbook offers a concise and practical review of key aspects of the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in the era of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). In the context of STEMI, PPCI is the preferred mode of emergency revascularization. Access to PPCI is rapidly increasing and is now routinely practiced in both general and specia…
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- 9789811311147
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- xiv, 338p. : ill.
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- 617.413 PRI p
Care in healthcare : reflections on theory and practice
This book examines the concept of care and care practices in healthcare from the interdisciplinary perspectives of continental philosophy, care ethics, the social sciences, and anthropology. Areas addressed include dementia care, midwifery, diabetes care, psychiatry, and reproductive medicine. Special attention is paid to ambivalences and tensions within both the concept of care and care practi…
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- 9783319612911
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- xi, 298p. : ill.
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- 610.1 CAR c
X-ray contrast media : overview, use, and pharmaceutical aspects
This open access book is an overview on CT/X-ray contrast media designed for radiologists and other medical specialists who use contrast media in imaging and interventional procedures as well as related scientists on the use and pharmaceutical aspects of X-ray contrast media. The overall goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview relevant for the optimal use of x-ray contrast medi…
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- 9783662564653
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- 139p. : ill.
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- 616.0754 SPE x
Fundamentals of clinical data science
This open access book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of clinical data science, focusing on data collection, modelling and clinical applications. Topics covered in the first section on data collection include: data sources, data at scale (big data), data stewardship (FAIR data) and related privacy concerns. Aspects of predictive modelling using techniques such as classification, reg…
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- 9783319997131
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- viii, 219p. : ill.
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- 610.285 FUN f
Food anxiety in globalising Vietnam
This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further puts the eating bo…
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- 9789811307430
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- xix, 320p. : ill.
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- 307.76 FOO f
Evolutionary genomics : statistical and computational methods
This open access book addresses the challenge of analyzing and understanding the evolutionary dynamics of complex biological systems at the genomic level, and elaborates on some promising strategies that would bring us closer to uncovering of the vital relationships between genotype and phenotype. After a few educational primers, the book continues with sections on sequence homology and alignme…
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- second edition
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- 9781493990740
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- xvii, 780p. : ill.
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- 572.838 EVO e
The ethics of vaccination
This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally responsible for the realisation of herd immunity and what the implications of collective responsibility are for individual and institutional respon…
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- 9783030020682
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- xv, 126p. : ill.
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- 174.295372 GIU e
Sonic skills : listening for knowledge in science, medicine and engineering (…
It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists tune into sound recordings to understand birds, or that engineers have created Geiger tellers warning us for radiation through sound. But …
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- 9781137598295
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- ix, 174p. ill.
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- 501.4 BIJ s
Healthy minds in the twentieth century : in and beyond the asylum
This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional wal…
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- 9783030272753
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- xiii, 274p. : ill.
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- 362.1 HEA h
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