Authors
- Annita WATSON
- Kathleen S. Osborn
Publication date: 2009-03-11
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Review ECG Interpretation / Prentice Hall:The ECG Interpretation course is a standalone CD product, packaged with a workbook. The course is divided into seven modules. Each module contains the following components: Objectives, Assignments, Lecture Notes, Practice Rhythm Strips/Practice Learning, and a Quiz. *The lecture note portion includes illustrations, some animations, and text. *The practice rhythm strips will be interactive, with students answering questions for which they will receive immediate feedback. *The quiz provides a review of the material, and it also provides immediate information about correct and incorrect responses.
Publication date: 2007-03-02
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $42.00
Price: $42.00
Review MRI Review: Questions and Answers / BookSurge Publishing:This MRI review book is primarily focused on the registry and written for the MRI student or Technologist preparing to become MR certified. It's also a great source of review for already certified MR techs in the field who would like to stay sharp and refresh their basic knowledge of MRI.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-07-27
Dewey code: 660
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.79
Review A Short Introduction to Biomedical Engineering / CRC:Presenting a bird's eye view of the important components in biomedical engineering, this book explores how bioengineering has emerged as an important aid to diagnosis, therapy, and rehabilitation. The author discusses the application of electrical, mechanical, chemical, optical and other engineering principles to understand, modify or control biological systems. He covers the design and manufacture of products for monitoring physiological functions, assisting in diagnoses, assessing prognoses, and helping in treatment of patients. It also provides a glimpse of emerging trends in biomedical engineering like telemedicine and the wider use of computers in health care.
Authors
- E. Paul Kerens
- Philip L. Beard
Dewey code: 501
List Price: $37.00
Price: $37.00
Review How to Negotiate Capitation for Laboratory Services / AACC Press:A guide to help develop a capitation reimbursement and negotiation strategy.
Publication date: 1999-12
Dewey code: 378
List Price: $44.00
Price: $37.99
Review Quick Review Cards for the Clinical Laboratory Science Examinations / F. A. Davis Company:- Offers a quick and efficient way to review for the CLS examinations- Presents essential facts from the fields covered in the examination: general lab practice, hematology, immunology/serology, immunohematology, clinical chemistry, body fluids, and clinical microbiology; includes a bonus section on management and education review- Cards are portable
Publication date: 1991-07-11
Dewey code: 610.28
List Price: $53.00
Price: $42.87
Review Biomedical Equipment: Use, Maintenance and Management / Prentice Hall PTR:Thoroughly covers the management of medical instrumentation systems with a strong emphasis placed on safety. Coverage includes data communications within hospitals and mobile emergency units, including ambulances and other medical squads. Contains a wealth of practical, how-to advice including and selecting the best desktop computer for biomedical systems, repair methods for water damaged medical equipment, determining what test equipment tools are needed, choosing the right solid-state replacement components, and many others. Provides a vitally important section on preventative maintenance and proper program design. This handy reference is ideal for the clinical technician.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-01
List Price: $495.00
Price: $190.00
Review Direct Smear CD Institutional Version: A CD-ROM Atlas of Gram Stained Clinical Specimens / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins:
Authors
- Patricia Sedlak
- Nancymarie Phillips
List Price: $37.95
Price: $37.95
Review Surgical Instrument Flashcards / Cengage Learning:
Publication date: 2008-03-18
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $50.00
Price: $37.35
Review A Future With Immense Opportunity: The Molecular Revolution / Raider Publishing International:Preparing for a future of unseen opportunity in healthcare requires a profound shift in thinking from all the stakeholders: A new era of personalized medicine, ushered in by advances in biotechnology and genetic engineering (among other technologies), will radically transform the nature of the healthcare systems world-wide. From the economies of healthcare to biotechnology, and the ethics of genetic testing to ethnicity and individualized medicine, this book explores the new relationships that are being forged across the social, political, medical-industrial sectors of the healthcare environment. Packed with scientific information, details on research, drug development, therapeutic progress and medical industry strategies, "Targeting a Future of Immense Opportunity" is a sourcebook of data and profound analysis for all those who wish to master the intricacies of this vast and complex terrain. This is an in-depth, wide-ranging, fact rich and thought provoking analysis of the issues and dynamics driving Healthcare stakeholders towards a future of unseen therapeutic, preventive and predictive opportunities in healthcare. It masterly synthesizes future scenarios in a promising, fast changing health & wellness-care environment, and the credibility aspect of targeted medicines' claim of efficacy, created by advances in medical care. It is highly valuable and very timely. Over the past two years, the author has talked to nearly 100 key healthcare professionals, scientists, politicians, medical industry executives, regulators and opinion leaders. The result is a title that lays bare the progress in medicine and reveals the opportunities there for the seizing. "Targeting a Future of Immense Opportunity" offers you an inside view into the workings and the various survival approaches of today's primary care "blockbuster" model focused pharmaceutical companies. [+]For many years, companies have mass-produced medicines for the population at large. Tomorrow's individualized healthcare asks for a novel approach in the form of "marketing to the individual". This book explains how an industry in turmoil can take a different perspective and identify enhanced opportunities by looking at new niche markets for "tailor-made" drug therapies, preventive treatments and new disease areas. By 2012, and largely due to the billion dollar cost of basic drug research, only five of today's major Western pharmaceutical companies, joined by a few newly arrived industry giants from India and China, are expected to be responsible for 80% of global innovative drug research. Society will have to decide if this is in the world community's interest? Will the world leave the choice of therapeutic research areas to a handful of company CEO's? To justify its existence, what future role can the industry play in the healthcare value chain? The medicines currently marketed reach only about 10% to 20% of the body's possible drug targets, or 400 to 500 protein receptors and enzymes out of an estimated 5. 000. In the next twenty years, all 5. 000 targets will be accessible. Nanotechnological advances will allow the effective introduction of personalized therapy, such as administration of a small dose of a drug to obtain maximum effect; the reduction of secondary effects by means of drugs that act only on the therapeutic target; or the development of new more effective administration routes. With the first generation of individualized cancer therapies about to become reality, are you prepared to better understand tomorrow's medicines markets? Are you prepared for exciting new technologies that will increasingly, and rapidly play a role in revolutionizing the fields of oncology, immunology, degenerative diseases and other targeted therapy segments? If not, then you need this book now.
Creator: Andrew J. Shaw
Publication date: 1996-07-11
Dewey code: 611.0187
List Price: $105.00
Price: $59.95
Review Epithelial Cell Culture: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series) / Oxford University Press, USA:Cell culture has progessed to the point where cells can be grown into tissue-like structures in vitro, but these tissues often bear little resemblance to the same tissue in a living organism. This book describes methods of culturing epithelial cells so as to mimic accurately their behaviour in vivo, and the resulting model systems can be used in a wide range of research areas: pharmaceutics, pharmacology, toxicology, and cell biology. Written by an international panel of researchers, the book details the methods used to reconstruct epithelia in vitro, the procedures used to characterise these model systems, and the research applications for which these cultures are becoming so important.
Authors
- Catherine W Johnson
- Daniel L Timmons
- Pamela E. Hall
Publication date: 2002-08-19
Dewey code: 610.284
List Price: $64.95
Price: $48.47
Review Essential Laboratory Mathematics: Concepts and Applications for the Chemical and Clinical Laboratory Technician / Delmar Cengage Learning:This manual offers a clear review of basic mathematical topics most often used in clinical and medical laboratories. It is the perfect refresher for participating technicians and will be a handy on-site reference tooll users can go directly to the material that they need to review. Application problems and hands-on laboratory exercises at the end of each chapter reinforce material and give users the opportunity to assess their mastery of the presented skills.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2002-01-15
Dewey code: 001.4
List Price: $59.00
Price: $43.95
Review At The Helm: A Laboratory Navigator (Handbooks) / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press:Newly appointed principal research investigators have to recruit, motivate, and lead a research team, manage personnel and institutional responsibilities, and compete for funding, while maintaining the outstanding scientific record that got them their position in the first place. In this book, the author provides a guide for newly appointed leaders of research teams, and those who aspire to the role. With extensive use of interviews and a text accompanied by quotes and real-life examples, Dr. Barker discusses a wide range of management challenges and the skills that promote success.
Authors
- A. R. Kirby
- A. P. Gunning
- V. J. Morris
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 502.82
List Price: $51.00
Price: $36.72
Review Atomic Force Microscopy for Biologists / World Scientific Publishing Company:Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an emerging microscopic method for biologists which offers the magnification range of both light and electron microscope, but allows imaging under the "natural" conditions associated with the light microscope. To biologists, AFM offers the prospect of high resolution images of biological material, images of molecules and their interactions even under physiological conditions, and the study of molecular processes in living systems. This text provides a realistic appreciation of the advantages and limitations of the technique, and the present and future potential for improving the understanding of biological systems.
Edition: 5
Publication date: 2006-09-12
Dewey code: 616.075
List Price: $64.95
Price: $39.95
Review Linne & Ringsrud's Clinical Laboratory Science: The Basics and Routine Techniques / Mosby:Now in full color, this market-leading text has been updated and streamlined! New to this edition, author Mary Louise Turgeon maintains the book's clear, simple writing style, but condenses the material to include only the most relevant information. The text provides both a fundamental overview of the field of clinical laboratory science and a discipline-by-discipline approach to each of the clinical lab science areas. It stresses laboratory skills and techniques throughout - providing the general background knowledge necessary for working in a clinical laboratory and performing routine clinical laboratory tests. A broad scope and "must-know" information makes this text perfect for introductory clinical laboratory science courses at several levels, such as CLS/MT, CLT/MLT, and Medical Assisting. Basic Laboratory Techniques (Part I) includes fundamentals of the clinical laboratory such as safety, measurement techniques, and quality assessment. Clinical Laboratory Specializations (Part II) covers the various disciplines in the field. Chapter Objectives show what readers will achieve by the completing the material. Hands-on Procedures describe exactly what takes place in the clinical lab. Review Questions at the end of each chapter represent the core information, allowing students to evaluate their mastery of the material. A Glossary lists all key terms with their definitions at the end of the text. [+]Updated information includes new content on point-of-care testing and laboratory automation. Full-color design provides new color photos and line drawings, a feature not offered by other introductory books in this field. Mary Louise Turgeon is an experienced medical educator and author in this rapidly changing field. Streamlined "specialization" chapters provide an overview of key information. Expanded ancillaries offer more test bank questions, PowerPoint® slides, and additional instructor materials, all available via Evolve.
Authors
- Robin N. Stephens
- Eddie F. J. Van Eeckhoven
Dewey code: 681.76102184
List Price: $179.00
Price: $264.24
Review Medical Device Vigilance/Monitoring: European Device Directives Compliance / Interpharm Press Inc:
Creator: John Paul Vetter
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-03
Dewey code: 610.28
List Price: $190.00
Price: $190.00
Review Biomedical Photography / Butterworth-Heinemann:
Publication date: 1996-02-23
Dewey code: 616.0194
List Price: $41.95
Price: $68.82
Review Clinical Virology / Saunders:Organized for quick reference, this practical text guides the reader through the principles of clinical virology with an emphasis on contemporary techniques and practice. Each facet of clinical laboratory practice is examined from specimen collection to isolation and definitive identification of the virus. Learning aids include essential helpful hints for laboratory organization and management, educational objectives, and study questions.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-02-05
Dewey code: 616.1207547
List Price: $57.33
Price: $45.20
Review 12-Lead ECG for Acute and Critical Care Providers / Prentice Hall:For EMS Education/Paramedic Programs, Critical Care, and Nursing Programs. Written by a paramedic with experience teaching at all levels (EMT-P, nurses, etc. )-this user-friendly text presents a practical, easy-to-understand system for 12-Lead ECG interpretation and assessment. Based on the nationally reknown 12-lead ECG workshop, "Multi-Lead Medics. " A focus on the "need to know" information and a large number of practice cases-with over 400 actual 12-leads-provides students with the solid background and extensive hands-on practice that will help them gain confidence and build competence quickly.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-06-30
Dewey code: 362.1969897
List Price: $99.95
Price: $39.98
Review Job Satisfaction And Alienation Among Medical Imaging Specialists: A Field Study / Edwin Mellen Press:Research on the effects of technology in the workplace has resulted in a still-unresolved de-skilling versus upgrading controversy. This study examines the hypothesis that mechanization and automation have become increasingly sophisticated and are replacing the skilled sector of the workforce, leading to alienation and job dissatisfaction.
Publication date: 2002-08-26
Dewey code: 610.28011
List Price: $135.00
Price: $38.78
Review System Theory and Practical Applications of Biomedical Signals / Wiley-IEEE Press:System theory is becoming increasingly important to medical applications. Yet, biomedical and digital signal processing researchers rarely have expertise in practical medical applications, and medical instrumentation designers usually are unfamiliar with system theory. System Theory and Practical Applications for Biomedical Signals bridges those gaps in a practical manner, showing how various aspects of system theory are put into practice by industry. The chapters are intentionally organized in groups of two chapters, with the first chapter describing a system theory technology, and the second chapter describing an industrial application of this technology. Each theory chapter contains a general overview of a system theory technology, which is intended as background material for the application chapter. Each application chapter contains a history of a highlighted medical instrument, summary of appropriate physiology, discussion of the problem of interest and previous empirical solutions, and review of a solution that utilizes the theory in the previous chapter. Biomedical and DSP academic researchers pursuing grants and industry funding will find its real-world approach extremely valuable. Its in-depth discussion of the theoretical issues will clarify for medical instrumentation managers how system theory can compensate for less-than-ideal sensors. With application MATLAB® exercises and suggestions for system theory course work included, the text also fills the need for detailed information for students or practicing engineers interested in instrument design. An Instructor Support FTP site is available from the Wiley editorial department: ftp://ftp. [+]ieee. org/uploads/press/baura.
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ECG Interpretation, MRI Review: Questions and Answers, A Short Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, How to Negotiate Capitation for Laboratory Services, Quick Review Cards for the Clinical Laboratory Science Examinations, Biomedical Equipment: Use, Maintenance and Management, Direct Smear CD Institutional Version: A CD-ROM Atlas of Gram Stained Clinical Specimens, Surgical Instrument Flashcards, A Future With Immense Opportunity: The Molecular Revolution, Epithelial Cell Culture: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series), Essential Laboratory Mathematics: Concepts and Applications for the Chemical and Clinical Laboratory Technician, At The Helm: A Laboratory Navigator (Handbooks), Atomic Force Microscopy for Biologists, Linne & Ringsrud's Clinical Laboratory Science: The Basics and Routine Techniques, Medical Device Vigilance/Monitoring: European Device Directives Compliance, Biomedical Photography, Clinical Virology, 12-Lead ECG for Acute and Critical Care Providers, Job Satisfaction And Alienation Among Medical Imaging Specialists: A Field Study, System Theory and Practical Applications of Biomedical SignalsTop headlines: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? 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