Point-of-care tests for severe hemorrhage : a manual for diagnosis and treatment

Table of Contents: “…Pathophysiology of coagulation -- General aspects of viscoelastic tests -- General aspects of platelet function tests -- Other POC tests -- POC tests in clinical practice: history -- Blood derivates and prohemostatic drugs -- Clinical management of severe bleeding in trauma patients -- Clinical management of severe bleeding in cardiovascular patients -- Clinical management of post-partum hemorrhage -- Clinical management of severe bleeding in liver surgery -- Disorders of hemostasis in critically ill patients -- Assessment of the effects of antithrombotic drugs -- Practical issues in POC tests -- Clinical cases.…”
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Women filmmakers of the African and Asian diaspora : decolonizing the gaze, locating subjectivity by Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey

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Hopf algebras and generalizations : AMS Special Session on Hopf Algebras at the Crossroads of Algebra, Category Theory, and Topology, October 23-24, 2004, Evanston, Illinois

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Lincoln looks West : from the Mississippi to the Pacific

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Vernacular insurrections : race, Black protest, and the new century in composition-literacies studies by Kynard, Carmen, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : runnin with the rabbits, but huntin with the dogs : on the makings of an intellectual autobiography -- Teaching interlude I : method men and women. "Before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave" : Black student protest as discursive challenge and social turn in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literacies -- Teaching interlude II : through their window. …”
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Daoism explained : from the dream of the butterfly to the fishnet allegory by Moeller, Hans-Georg, 1964-

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Towards New Arrangements for State Ownership in the Middle East and North Africa (Arabic version)

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The capture and execution of John Brown : a tale of martyrdom by Avey, Elijah

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Cosmetics and toiletries.

The Herb companion.

The evolution of pharmacy in Britain ; [papers]

Understanding mental retardation by Ainsworth, Patricia, M.D, Baker, Pamela C., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- Normal development -- Evolving concepts of mental retardation -- The first six years: infants, toddlers, and preschool children -- School-aged children, adolescents, and teenagers -- The adult years -- The elderly -- Psychiatric illness and mental retardation -- Research on the future of prevention and treatment of mental retardation.…”
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Palliative Neurology. by Maddocks, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Note on drugs and abbreviations; SECTION I Palliative Management; SECTION II Major Discomforts in Advanced Neurological Illness; SECTION III Major Neurological Conditions Requiring Palliation; SECTION IV Ethical Issues; SECTION V Appendices; Index.…”
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Home health care provider : a guide to essential skills by Prieto, Emily

Table of Contents: “…Attitudes of aging -- Aging at home -- The companion home care provider -- Interpersonal skills and communications -- Common conditions and diseases of the aging body -- The terminally ill client -- Caring for couples -- About activities -- Planning and preparing meals -- Home safety and household management -- Legal authority and money matters -- Planning for placement.…”
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Understanding mental retardation by Ainsworth, Patricia, M.D, Baker, Pamela C., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- Normal development -- Evolving concepts of mental retardation -- The first six years: infants, toddlers, and preschool children -- School-aged children, adolescents, and teenagers -- The adult years -- The elderly -- Psychiatric illness and mental retardation -- Research on the future of prevention and treatment of mental retardation.…”
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Spiritual care with sick children and young people : a handbook for chaplains, paediatric health professionals, arts therapists, and youth workers by Nash, Sally, 1957-, Nash, Paul, 1959-, Darby, Kathryn, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to spiritual care -- Best practice principles for spiritual care -- Interpretive spiritual encounters -- Spiritual care, illness and identity -- Creating spaces for spiritual care -- Meaning making with children and young people -- Spiritual care with families -- Spiritual practices for spiritual care -- Tensions and issues -- Facilitating spiritual literacy.…”
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Nurses' guide to teaching diabetes self-management by Mertig, Rita G.

Table of Contents: “…Diabetes : the basics -- Treatment : medical nutrition management -- Treatment : physical activity -- Treatment : medication -- Glycemic control -- Chronic complications -- The healthcare professional as teacher -- Teaching and motivating children with diabetes and their parents -- Teaching and motivating adolescents and their parents -- Teaching and motivating adults -- Diabetes and mental illness -- Client noncompliance (nonadherence).…”
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Complexity theory and the social sciences : an introduction by Byrne, D. S. (David S.), 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Understanding the complex -- The reality of the complex: the complexity of the real -- Complexity and the quantitative programme in social science -- Analysing social complexity -- Complex spaces: regions, cities and neighbourhoods in a complex world -- The complex character of health and illness -- Complexity, education and change -- Complexity and policy: the limits to urban governance -- Conclusion.…”
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The selfish gene by Dawkins, Richard, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…-- The replicators -- Immortal coils -- The gene machine -- Aggression: Stability and the selfish machine -- Genesmanship -- Family planning -- Battle of the generations -- Battle of the sexes -- You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours -- Memes: The new replicators -- Nice guys finish first -- The long reach of the gene.…”
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Alfred Jarry by Fell, Jill, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- From puppets to pataphysics -- Through the dimensions -- Journalism, Le Surmale and Brussels -- Poverty, illness and death.…”
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Neurological and Neurosurgical Intensive Care. by Ropper, Allan H.

Table of Contents: “…Persistent Vegetative State and Brain DeathII Specific Problems in Neurological Intensive Care; Postoperative Neurosurgical Care; Neurological Complications of Critical Medical Illnesses; Head Injury; Critical Care of Acute Stroke; Management of Nontraumatic Brain Hemorrhage; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; Intensive and Postoperative Care of Intracranial Tumors; Hypoxic-Ischemic Cerebral Injury; Critical Care of Guillain-Barré Syndrome; Treatment of the Critically Ill Patient with Myasthenia Gravis; Status Epilepticus; Viral Encephalitis and Bacterial Meningitis; Spinal Cord Injury.…”
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Cutting the cost of cold : affordable warmth for healthier homes

Table of Contents: “…Cold weather, cold homes and winter mortality -- Housing and winter death: epidemiological evidence -- Cold, cold housing and respiratory illnesses -- Cold stress, circulatory illness and the elderly -- Dust mite allergens, indoor humidity and asthma -- Impact of fuel poverty on health in tower hamlets -- Tolerant building: the impact of energy efficiency measures on living conditions and health status. …”
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Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice. by Carson, Verna Benner

Table of Contents: “…McMullen, Nayna Philipsen -- Spirituality: identifying and meeting spiritual needs / Verna Benner Carson -- The psychospiritual lives of ill or suffering children and adolescents: what we should know, what we should do / Pat Fosarelli -- Adult spirituality for people with chronic illness / Patricia E. …”
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Reading the psychosomatic in medical and popular culture : something. nothing. everything

Table of Contents: “…/ Louise Stone, Claire Hooker -- Feeding your feelings : emotional eating in mid-twentieth century America / Jessica Parr -- Impossible illnesses : decolonizing psychosomatic medicine / Amba J. …”

Emergency Medical Services for Children. by Staff, Institute of Medicine

Table of Contents: “…""General Inpatient Settings""""Intensive or Specialized Inpatient Care""; ""Rehabilitation Services""; ""COSTS OF INJURY AND ILLNESS""; ""Injury""; ""Illness""; ""Nonmonetary Costs""; ""SUMMARY""; ""NOTES""; ""3 Emergency Medical Services Systems: Origins and Operations ""; ""DEVELOPMENT OF EMS AND EMS SYSTEMS""; ""The 1960s and Earlier""; ""Recognizing a Need""; ""Initial Responses""; ""Other Activities""; ""The 1970s""; ""EMS in General""; ""Children and EMS""; ""The 1980s to the Present""; ""The Federal Role in EMS""; ""Other Developments into the 1980s""…”
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Hidden heroes : America's military caregivers by Ramchand, Rajeev, Tanielian, Terri L., Fisher, Michael P., Vaughan, Christine Anne, Trail, Thomas, 1967-, Epley, Caroline, Voorhies, Phoenix, Robbins, Michael William, Robinson, Eric, Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie

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Metaphorical Landscapes and the Theology of the Book of Job : an Analysis of Job's Spatial Metaphors. by Joode, de, Johan

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Hidden heroes : America's military caregivers by Ramchand, Rajeev, Tanielian, Terri L., Fisher, Michael P., Vaughan, Christine Anne, Trail, Thomas, 1967-, Epley, Caroline, Voorhies, Phoenix, Robbins, Michael William, Robinson, Eric, Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie

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Converts, heretics, and lepers : Maimonides and the outsider by Diamond, James Arthur

Table of Contents: “…The convert (ger): metaphor of Jewishness -- The leper: illness as contemplative metaphor -- Elisha ben Abuyah and the hubris of the heretic -- The king: the ethics of imperial humility -- The sage/philosopher: a solitude of universalism -- God, the supreme outsider: indwelling (shekhinah) as metaphor for outdwelling -- Deconstructing God's indwelling: the challenge to Halevi -- Sabbath: the temporal outsider.…”
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The river is in US : fighting toxics in a Mohawk community by Hoover, Elizabeth, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Driving tour through the political and environmental history of Akwesasne -- Environmental contamination, health studies, and mitigation politics -- "We're not going to be guinea pigs" : lessons from community-based participatory research -- Contamination, convenience, and a changing food culture -- Pcbs and thrifty genes : broadening the scope of illness explanation.…”
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Gerontological nurse certification review by Kris, Alison E.

Table of Contents: “…Information for taking the certification exam -- Question dissection and analysis -- The aging population -- Assessment -- Health promotion -- Environments of care -- Spirituality and death and dying -- Acute and chronic physical illnesses -- Cognitive and psychological disorders -- Medication -- Special issues -- Organizational and health policy issues -- Scope and standards of geriatric nursing practice -- Posttest.…”
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Psychiatry under the influence : institutional corruption, social injury and prescriptions for reform by Whitaker, Robert, Cosgrove, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…A case study of institutional corruption -- Psychiatry adopts a disease model -- Economies of influence -- The etiology of mental illness is now known -- Psychiatry's new drugs -- Expanding the market -- Protecting the market -- The end product : clinical practice guidelines -- A society harmed -- Putting psychiatry on the couch -- Prescriptions for reform.…”
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Creatures of a day : and other tales of psychotherapy by Yalom, Irvin D., 1931-

Table of Contents: “…The crooked cure -- On being real -- Arabesque -- Thank you, Molly -- Don't fence me in -- Show some class for your kids -- You must give up the hope for a better past -- Get your own damn fatal illness : home to Ellie -- Three cries -- Creatures of a day.…”
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Noël Coward : in his own words by Coward, Noël, 1899-1973

Table of Contents: “…'Sigh no more' -- part seven. Envoi: 'I'll see you again'.…”
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The Lure of Long Distances : Why We Run. by Harvie, Robin

Table of Contents: “…PROLOGUE: LACING UP; 1 ORBITING; 2 FIRST STEPS; 3 MIGRATION; 4 THE PROVING GROUND; 5 ONE MORE MILE, THEN I'LL COME HOME; 6 METAMORPHOSIS; 7 THE JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT; EPILOGUE: NEVER AGAIN; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FURTHER READING; RUNNING WEBSITES; Robin Harvie.…”
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Healing crisis and trauma with mind, body, and spirit by Wainrib, Barbara Rubin

Table of Contents: “…Understanding crisis intervention and trauma response -- Understanding trauma and its impact -- Mass trauma : past and present -- Women and trauma -- Life threatening illness : cancer and the trauma from within -- Resilience and the phoenix phenomenon -- Trauma and the mind -- Trauma and the body -- Spirituality and trauma -- New sources of healing -- Forgiveness -- Final thoughts.…”
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Genius belabored : childbed fever and the tragic life of Ignaz Semmelweis by Obenchain, Theodore G.

Table of Contents: “…List of Figures; Introduction; Puerperal Fever; Prodrome; Old School; New School; Vienna General Hospital; Puerperal Fever Theories; Assistantship; Enlightenment; Revolution; Semmelweis Speaks; Budapest; Aetiology; Reaction to Aetiology; Open Letters; Illness and Descent; Lower Austrian Mental Asylum; Resurrection; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Health promotion : evidence and experience by Lucas, Kevin, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Health and health promotion : 'theory, ' models and approaches -- Health, disease and illness : the voice of authority -- Health, social indicators and the quality of life -- Social capital for all? …”
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Living on Death Row. by Lose, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Why and how -- The baptism -- James Goff: routine, rules and abject boredom -- Frances Anne [Frank] Spisak: gender and sex -- Jerry Hessler: violence and mental illness -- Gregory Esparza: survival -- Donald "Duke" Palmer: defense and salvation -- Ronald Ray Post: very stupid, very lucky or very smart?…”
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Yes/no medical Spanish comprehensive handbook of clinical Spanish by Kaufman, Tina M.

Table of Contents: “…Breaking down language barriers -- Pronunciation and grammar -- Vocabulary -- Meeting the patient -- History of present illness for common symptoms -- Active medical conditions -- Comprehensive adult history -- Review of systems -- Physical exam -- Questions for special populations -- Health behaviors history and education -- Special patient instructions -- End-of-visit instructions.…”
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