New Title, New Edition and Supplemental Updates: What's New in September 2009
New Titles:
Trauma Care: Initial Assessment and Management in the Emergency Department
©2008 Wiley-Blackwell
The often complex problems of the trauma patient present many challenges to front line emergency staff. Multiple injuries involving many systems of the body require careful and timely prioritization and intervention in the emergency department. Trauma Care provides emergency nurses with a practical guide to the systematic assessment and management of trauma patients, equipping them with the clinical knowledge and practical skills necessary to initially assess and care for the trauma patient in the emergency department trauma environment.
Atlas of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Vol. 1
2nd Edition ©2007 People's Medical Publishing House, USA
This is a beautiful, color surgical atlas, which will complete any surgeon's online library. The first edition was published 14 years ago, and this new edition reflects advances in surgical care, as well as improved illustrations and text.
The authors are authoritative leaders in surgery from the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The title describes the operative techniques on the foregut employed at this august institution. Many of the operations described were developed at Johns Hopkins. The atlas vividly depicts in color illustrations and clear language these surgical techniques, bringing them alive for the reader.
New Edition:
Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology
23rd Ed. ©2010 McGraw Hill Companies, Inc.
The field's most complete, current and engagingly written title on medical physiology -- now in full color. For more than four decades, Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology has been the leader in helping medical students and clinicians understand the fascinating subject of human and mammalian physiology. Concisely covering every important topic without sacrificing depth or readability, Ganong's delivers more detailed, clinically relevant, high-yield information per page than any similar title or review.
Supplemental Updates:
©2009 by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc.
AHFS DI® Essentials™ offers healthcare professionals easy access to knowledge that is critical at the point of care. Essentials™ monographs draw on the meticulously evidence-based guidelines in the full AHFS DI® database, distilling essential information on prescription and key over-the-counter (OTC) drugs in an easy-to-use and highly structured outline format.
ACP PIER, Journal Club & AHFS DI® Essentials™
©2009 by the American College of Physicians
A pre-appraised, evidence-based clinical tool that defines the standard of care, including value-added abstracts of original journal articles and drug treatment information.
•PIER (Physicians' Information and Education Resource) Integrated and authoritative EBM resources for the point-of-care and background reference.
•ACP Journal Club is the quintessential EBM journal that summarizes original research applicable to clinical cases.
•AHFS® DI Essentials™ distills the essential information from the larger AHFS Drug Information database.
ACP PIER & AHFS DI® Essentials™
©2009 ACP PIER: American College of Physicians
©2009 AHFS DI® Essentials™
PIER© is a collection of over 400 evidence summaries published by the American College of Physicians. Each module provides authoritative guidance to improve the quality of care.
ACP PIER®: Physicians' Information and Education Resource
©2009 ACP PIER: American College of Physicians
PIER© is a collection of over 400 evidence summaries published by the American College of Physicians. Each module provides authoritative guidance to improve the quality of care.
©2009 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
With the 2009 edition, the American Hospital Formulary Service® (AHFS™) marks over 50 years of continuous publication by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). Each year, an average of over 60% of AHFS content is revised to help you provide the most accurate recommendations for your patients’ drug therapy.
Medical Letter® On Drugs and Therapeutics, The
©2009-1995 The Medical Letter, Inc.
The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics is an independent, nonprofit publication that offers unbiased critical evaluations of drugs for physicians and other members of the health professions. This resource evaluates virtually all new drugs and also reviews older drugs when important new information becomes available on their usefulness or adverse effects.
©2009 American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
APhA DrugInfoLine® is a monthly newsletter of interpreted drug and pharmacotherapeutic information designed to keep frontline pharmacists current on the latest trends in the biomedical literature.
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