epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2007-04-03 | Author:Atul Gawande [Gawande, Atul]

IT IS NOT easy to find answers to these questions. Medical personnel who help with executions are difficult to identify and reluctant to discuss their roles, even when offered anonymity. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2002-04-02 | Author:Atul Gawande [Gawande, Atul]

Crimson Tide In January of 1997, Christine Drury became the overnight anchorwoman for Channel 13 News, the local NBC affiliate in Indianapolis. In the realm of television news and talk ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Ruggieri M.D., Paul A. [Ruggieri M.D., Paul A.]

Chapter 6 Surgeons Hate Surprises “Dr. Ruggieri, please come to the emergency room stat.” I was in the middle of slicing through a buttock abscess the size of a tangerine ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Klingensmith, Mary E. & Aziz, Abdulhameed & Bharat, Ankit & Fox, Amy C. & Porembka, Matthew R. [Klingensmith, Mary E.]

ENDOCRINE PANCREAS I. EMBRYOLOGY, ANATOMY, AND PHYSIOLOGY A. Embryology. The pancreas originates from two diverticula in the foregut to develop the final adult form around the fifth and sixth weeks ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:Eugene Toy

TREATMENT AND PREVENTION Several antiviral drugs have been developed to treat HSV infections, including acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir. All of these drugs function as inhibitors of viral DNA synthesis and ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-26 | Author:Thorne, Charles H. [Thorne, Charles H.]

FIGURE 47.2. The anatomic layers of the face. Although the quality of the layers differs in various areas of the face, the arrangement of layers is identical. The facial nerve ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-14 | Author:Wiesel, Sam W. [Wiesel, Sam W.]

epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Paterson-Brown MBBS MPhil MS FRCS, Simon [Paterson-Brown MBBS MPhil MS FRCS, Simon]

10 Colonic emergencies David E. Beck Introduction Emergency conditions of the large bowel are common and changes in their evaluation and management have continued. Rather than rushing the patient to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-11 | Author:Velasco, Jose M. [Velasco, Jose M.]

Comments If a normal appendix is found at the time of laparotomy, other causes should be sought. If Crohn’s disease is encountered and the cecum and base of the appendix ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-30 | Author:Klamen, Debra & George, Brian & Harken, Alden & DaRosa, Debra [Klamen, Debra]

Removing only 20 mL should make a huge hemodynamic difference (see Figure 32-1). Conceptually, let’s take some impermissible physiological leaps: by removing 20 mL of pericardial fluid, you permit an ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-02-13 | Author:Colapinto, John [Colapinto, John]

* * * Upon entering Dr. McKenty’s office at the Child Guidance Clinic for her first session on 2 January 1979, Brenda was surprised by the sight of the smiling, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Gawande, Atul [Gawande, Atul]

This seemed like luck, as I say. But suppose it wasn’t. That’s what the checklists from Toronto and Hopkins and Kaiser raised as a possibility. Their insistence that people talk ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Judith Z. Kallenbach [Kallenbach, Judith Z.]

How is low potassium treated? Dietary intake of potassium may need to be increased and intravenous potassium may be given if a rapid rise in the serum potassium level is ...