This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the principles of cancer care and best practices for restoring function and quality of life to cancer survivors. Cancer rehabilitation interventions including physical, occupational, or speech therapy; exercise training; psychosocial and cognitive interventions; and physician-directed diagnostic imaging, injections, and pharmacologic symptom management have the potential to treat many impairments from cancer treatment, thereby improving functioning and quality of life. Multimodal rehabilitation interventions have also been shown to improve return to work compared to usual care. The chapters of the book review the latest evidence about which interventions should be used to treat specific impairments thereby constituting the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference on this topic. The book is organized into nine parts comprising 90 chapters. Part one presents history of cancer rehabilitation, cancer statistics, and principles of cancer care. Part two discusses various cancer types, which includes breast cancer, gastrointestinal malignancies, head and neck cancer, pediatric cancers, and primary bone tumors and their assessment and management. Parts three through six describe cancer pain, medical complications, neurological and neuromuscular complications, and musculoskeletal complications of cancer such as radiculopathy, plexopathy, autonomic dysfunction, and bone metastases and their management. Part seven discusses general topics related to cancer rehabilitation, which includes physical and occupational therapy, therapeutic modalities in cancer, therapeutic exercise in cancer, nutritional care of the cancer patient, sexuality issues, and distress and other psychiatric considerations in cancer rehabilitation. Part eight thoroughly explores the identification, evaluation, and treatment of specific impairments and disabilities that result from cancer and the treatment of cancer such as balance and gait dysfunction, cancer related fatigue, radiation fibrosis syndrome, and bowel dysfunction. Part nine discusses functional measurement in patients with cancer, health maintenance and screening in cancer survivors, research issues, barriers to accessing cancer rehabilitation, and building a cancer rehabilitation program.

This book presents readers with the essential aspects of the subspecialty infectious diseases. The second edition of the book includes new developments that are consistent with the published peer-reviewed medical literature and published relevant clinical practice guidelines. The book’s intended audiences are students and medical providers in training. It provides information evolved from prior formal didactic lectures or bedside clinical teaching on clinical infectious diseases, microbiology, and antimicrobial pharmacology that was delivered to help students, residents, fellows, and primary care physicians. Current basic science and clinical concepts regarding each relevant infectious disease topic are still written as a synoptic account to make these topics clear and practical for the readers. The book is organized into 18 parts containing 52 chapters. It adheres wherever possible to a standard pattern of description that aims to define the topic and provide an introduction that would include classification, pathophysiology, and epidemiologic information. The book also lists relevant causative microorganisms; describe the clinical aspects and approach to the topic with the physical examination and relevant laboratory methods, diagnostic imaging, and appropriate antimicrobial therapy. The first part provides introduction to clinical reasoning, antimicrobial stewardship, antimicrobial agents, and medical microbiology. The remaining parts describes the approach to various topics such as: fever of unknown origin, leukocytosis, bloodstream and cardiovascular infections, pulmonary infections, gastrointestinal infections, hepatobiliary infections, hepatic infections, renal–urinary infections, neurological infections, orthopedic-related infections, skin and soft-tissue infections, sexually transmitted infections, infections related to obstetrics and gynecology, eye infections, sepsis, transplant-related infections, ectoparasite-related infections, and infection control and epidemiology. The book’s goal is to help guide the reader through the diagnostic evaluation as well as the process of caring for the patient with an infection.

This book describes innovative, nurse-managed solutions for improving health care today. It addresses the key business, policy, medical, financial, and operational considerations necessary for successfully opening and operating nurse-led health facilities. With the mission to dramatically expand access to primary and preventive health care, these clinics provide a full range of services including primary care, health promotion, disease prevention, and behavioral health care to residents of underserved communities throughout the United States. The book provides a historical perspective on nurse-managed health centers (NMHCs), includes chapters on the practical aspects of starting and operating NMHCs, combined with case studies that illustrate the challenges, lessons learned, and successes of NMHCs, and deals with an assessment of the current status of NMHCs and a vision for their future. The book delivers a wealth of comprehensive information for nurses who are considering opening their own clinics. Reinforced with best-practice models and case studies, it discusses what it takes to successfully start and run a nurse-managed health center. The book addresses the history and growth of nurse-led clinics and describes the nurse-led paradigm of care. It identifies the different types of nurse-led clinics (primary care, school based, wellness, and more) and the clinical services offered within them. Also discussed are the requirements and mind-set of potential consumers and strategies for sustainability along with the role of the collaborative team. The pros and cons of a variety of business and operations models are examined along with quality metrics and initiatives. The book also covers various state and federal policy challenges and opportunities and explores the future of nurse-led care in view of ongoing health care reform.

This book concentrates on board-related concepts in the field of Rehabilitation Medicine. It will appeal to medical students, residents, and practicing physiatrists. Residents will find the book essential in preparing for Part I and Part II of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Board Certification because it is one of the only books of its kind with major focus on board-related material giving a synopsis of up-to-date PM&R orthopedic, neurologic, and general medical information all in one place. Over 500 diagrams simplify material that is board pertinent. The topics are divided into major subspecialty areas such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, musculoskeletal medicine, electrodiagnostic medicine, prosthetics and orthotics, spinal cord injuries, physical modalities, pulmonary, cardiac, and cancer rehabilitation, pediatric rehabilitation, and pain medicine. All chapters are authored by physicians with special interests and clinical expertise in the respective subjects. Board pearls are highlighted with an open-book icon throughout the text. These pearls are aimed at stressing the clinical and board-eligible aspects of the topics. The content is modeled after the topic selection of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Self-Assessment Examination for Residents (SAE-R) Content Outline. This was done specifically to help all residents, post graduates in yearly preparation and carryover from the SAE preparation to board exam preparation. Practicing physiatrists should also find this book helpful in preparation for the recertifying exam.

Preparation for board examinations can be a daunting and an overwhelming process for many of us. Trainees are often busy with research projects, manuscripts, and a large clinical volume, making it difficult to find time to study for board examinations. Practicing physicians find it hard to keep up on material needed for board recertification. Questions on the board examinations are drawn from well-established, validated medical literature and widely accepted clinical guidelines. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of radiation oncology. The format has been designed to efficiently test and reinforce knowledge of key concepts, critical studies, and major clinical guidelines, with the most important radiation oncology citations included. From trainees preparing for their board exams to practicing physicians looking for a review or preparing for the maintenance of certification exam, whether it be a few minutes between patients or a dedicated study session, the book will an invaluable resource to the radiation oncology community. The book is organized into ten chapters. It covers oncology topics such as head and neck cancers, central nervous system cancers, breast cancer, thoracic cancers, gastrointestinal cancers, genitourinary cancers, gynecologic cancers, lymphomas, soft tissue sarcoma, and pediatric cancers. Each chapter has detailed questions covering natural history, epidemiology, diagnosis, staging, treatment options, and treatment-related side effects all in a newly configured format.

This book describes a collaborative effort by the students, staff, and faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine who worked to create a different approach to medical education—the Primary Care Curriculum (PCC). It is important to compare PCC with other programs to determine what elements in the implementation of problem-based learning are universal, and what elements are unique to PCC. Consequently, each chapter of the book illustrates various approaches to its topic with examples from select programs. After the first chapter on the inception of PCC and other key programs, each chapter will begin with a statement of the specific goals toward which a problem-based learning curriculum should strive. The PCC experience, in attempting to achieve these objectives, will then be presented with an analysis of successes and failures and a summary of the main points learned over the years. The curriculum should stimulate the student’s self-directed learning. Problems should be developed which introduce students to core scientific concepts deemed appropriate for that phase of study. The tutorial groups should provide an environment for the accomplishment of the several goals including self-directed learning and clinical reasoning and problem-solving. In many of the problem-based medical schools, the ability of students to identify and utilize appropriate learning resources including libraries is an established component of student assessment. Chapters also cover clinical skills, community preceptorship, and student performance with respect to problem-based learning. Finally, the book traces the processes whereby PCC, as an innovation in medical education, moved from an experimental to an accepted successful local program at the University of New Mexico.

As the field of intensive care unit (ICU) electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring evolves, the use of continuous EEG monitoring (cEEG) is expanding beyond seizure detection. EEG provides continuous and noninvasive monitoring of brain function and, coupled with quantitative EEG, enables clinicians to monitor for signs of acute and evolving cerebral injury. Early identification of these electroencephalographic biomarkers may, in turn, offer targets for therapeutic neuroprotective interventions. This book provides a contemporary and concise summary of important principles ranging from seizure identification and encephalopathy grading to advanced techniques of quantitative EEG and multimodality monitoring. These principles are important for current clinical care and advancement of the field. It includes 12 core chapters, each of which begins with text, tables, and figures and ends with a series of EEG images illustrating the concepts and principles discussed in the text. Each chapter is written by experts in the field. In addition, case-based approaches to common scenarios focus on EEG pattern recognition, diagnostic evaluation, and management. The cases not only build upon EEG skills learned in the chapters but also cover additional diagnostic and management principles. The book also includes chapter-based board-style multiple-choice questions and videos available online to elucidate important concepts. This atlas will benefit an audience ranging from novices to experts in the fields of neurology, epilepsy, neurophysiology, neurocritical care, neonatology, and cardiac and pediatric critical care medicine.

As incredible it is to us to consider how far the ketogenic diet has come in 100 years, it is equally amazing to realize that this Ketogenic Diets book is now in its seventh edition, 25 years after its first publication by Demos Health. This edition continues the recent tradition of updating us every five years on what’s new and noteworthy in the use of ketogenic diets, and the authors appreciate many comments from parents and patients that this book has become a “gold standard” guide. The author’s intention is to continue to make this book helpful for everyone on the ketogenic journey: parents, patients, caregivers for sure, but also physicians, dietitians, scientists, nurses, and social workers. They consider it a success if it helped make ketogenic diet therapies more approachable and effective for you, your family, and/or your ketogenic diet center. Now, with over 10 years of experience, this seventh edition includes all-new material and guidance for adults starting dietary therapies, including information from a recent international expert guideline publication. For children, the 2009 pediatric ketogenic diet consensus statement was recently revised in 2018; details and changes from this important paper will be seen throughout this book. New chapters include exogenous ketones, a fifth ketogenic diet entitled the “modified ketogenic diet”, intermittent fasting, the influence of ketogenic diets on the gut microbiome, and expanded use for infants. Much of the final editing of this edition occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the authors included information learned about how to manage ketogenic diet therapies in a crisis/pandemic situation. Finally, as ketogenic diets continue to be used by more countries every year, this book highlights some of the international recipes, cultures, and even scientific initiatives of this worldwide expansion.

This revised and updated second edition of Handbook of Hematologic Malignancies continues to be an essential and “go-to” resource for the busy hematologist, hematologic oncologist, hematopathologist, oncology advanced practice provider, oncology nurse, and trainee. Hematologic malignancies and their treatment have witnessed many changes in this past decade. Innovations from improved diagnostics to therapeutics have reshaped the ways in which these diseases are characterized and managed. This book highlights critical differential diagnoses to consider as well as provides the most current prognostication tables for each disease in order to facilitate direct extension of this information to the patients. In addition, it includes full-color pathology images that have been selected for their exceptional clarity to help the reader elucidate subtle morphologic differences between disease entities. Concisely organized, each chapter provides the most current, need-to-know points of diagnosis, prognosis, therapeutic management, and clinical trial opportunities for each hematological malignancy. The authors have created relevant clinical cases not only in the book but also in accessible online cases, supporting each chapter with corresponding questions to highlight important deliverables from every chapter. The book provides evidence-based algorithms guiding treatment recommendations for both frontline and salvage settings, with key references supporting each recommendation. The authors’ intention was to create a reference textbook that is concise and easy to read, serving the needs of the medical professional dealing with hematologic malignancies. They highlight current clinical trials that may alter our future practice decisions. Notably, in this 2nd edition, they not only provide major updates and insight into future practice-changing clinical trials but add numerous chapters, particularly those focused on novel cellular immunotherapy, which has been the most exciting revolution in the clinical care of patients with hematologic malignancies.