Facing surgery can be daunting. This guide unravels the mysteries of anesthesia, providing clear, compassionate answers to your questions. Learn what to expect before, during, and after your procedure and navigate the experience with confidence and a sense of control.
Phytomolecules as a Source for Drug Discovery
This book provides comprehensive knowledge of medicinal plants as a rich, sustainable source of novel antimicrobial agents. It is a valuable resource for researchers and healthcare professionals seeking to combat antibiotic resistance and emerging infectious diseases.
A temporary heart valve is a novel, lifesaving option during acute valvular failure when open-heart surgery is not readily available. This textbook introduces a first-of-its-kind temporary aortic valve catheter, providing a summary of its modeling and preclinical validations.
This clinical guide focuses on oral medicine and oral radiology. Divided into sections on medicine, radiology, and tools for detection, and rich with photographs and radiographs, it is an essential reference for undergraduates, postgraduates, and general practitioners.
Master the adult thoracic surgery exam with this definitive SBA revision guide. Packed with questions covering the full new curriculum, it focuses on clinical scenarios to test your knowledge, improve exam technique, and maximise your chances of success.
For centuries, smallpox devastated humanity until it was eradicated in 1980. The development of its vaccine served as a model for immunology, providing insights that guide research today. This book explores these discoveries, highlighting the vaccine’s enduring legacy.
This book summarizes Professor Zhengping Liu’s research on complete placenta previa and the clinical application of Liu’s incision. It discusses advanced approaches in surgery, diagnosis, and anesthesia, combining images and 3D videos to help clinicians master clinical practice.
This evidence-based, outcome-focused book addresses every area of pharmacology, providing a solid foundation for medical and paramedical students. It includes flowcharts, diagrams, and tables that present the subject’s contents in an understandable way for undergraduates.
Based on years of original research, this book explores how hormones affect brain activity, behavior, and adaptation. It uncovers the origins of mental disorders in hormonal diseases and proposes the purposeful synthesis of new oligopeptide drugs for treatment.
This book delves into neurodegenerative illnesses like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, exploring molecular targets for therapy. By analysing neural circuits, protein misfolding, and genetics, it unravels the mind’s complexities, offering optimism for millions worldwide.
This book establishes the relationship between systemic diseases and oral diseases, focusing on their genetic and environmental causes. Each chapter covers a different disorder, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and periodontitis.
This book challenges the modern doctrine of pneumonia. Based on decades of research, it substantiates new principles of treatment clinically proven to be effective without the usual emphasis on etiotropic agents, and analyzes the causes behind widespread medical misconceptions.
Oxidation and Reduction Processes in Vivo and in Vitro
This book introduces a novel electrochemical method for assessing oxidative stress and antioxidant activity. It presents potentiometric determination as a preferred tool for monitoring health, disease, diet, and sports, with future applications in wearables and telemedicine.
This book covers new artificial intelligence methods for medical image processing. It presents and analyzes new, more efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures aimed at increasing the accuracy of tumour detection and cancer classification, with proven results.
This book brings together expert writings on herbal nanoproducts, covering pharmacological, clinical, safety, and regulatory aspects. It will assist researchers in capturing holistic knowledge on this intriguing subject.
Hepatitis C is a significant cause of mortality in hemodialysis patients. This book analyzes the “two sides of the same coin”—the benefits and adverse effects of peginterferon alpha therapy. Based on a unique national study, it raises awareness of HCV prevention.
This book explores an organism’s development in health and disease from the viewpoints of biochemistry, biophysics, and thermodynamics. It offers a broad perspective on the interaction between an organism and its environment and the mechanisms that maintain its internal energy.
How do we make rational decisions in medicine with contradictory data? This interdisciplinary book explores the scientific and ethical issues of proof, questioning the value of physicians’ experience, the relevance of data, and the reliability of biomedical knowledge.
Lessons in Practical Clinical and Operative Surgery
Through his own life, surgeon Salah Abbas reveals the trials of medicine: the difficult decisions and consequences surgeons face daily, the influence of global regimes on medical professionals, and the effects of emigration on their lives.
Helicobacter pylori is a common infection linked to gastric problems and cancer, affecting millions worldwide. This book details the bacterium’s pathophysiology, transmission, and treatment, serving as an essential guide for students and healthcare workers.