Quick Reference to Critical Care, Fourth Edition

Quick Reference to Critical Care, Fourth Edition

The fourth edition of this pocket-sized reference guide to procedures, treatments, and stabilization techniques for disorders, injuries, and patient situations commonly seen in the critical care setting is now updated for use by nursing students as well practicing critical care nurses. Featuring new information on new drugs, defibrillators and EECP therapy, this useful reference offers two sections providing quick access to need-to-know information. The first section is organized by body system, with problems of each system alphabetized. The second section contains essential information on drugs, dosing, conversions, calculations, compatibilities, laboratory tests, and more.

Quick Reference to Critical Care, Fourth Edition

Emerging Trends in Drug Use and Distribution

Emerging Trends in Drug Use and Distribution

This Brief explores emerging trends in drug use and distribution. This timely Brief examines recent examples of emerging drugs including salvia (from the plant Salvia divinorum), bath salts (and other synthetic stimulants) and so-called research chemicals (primarily substituted phenethylamines, synthetic cousins of ecstasy), which have tended to receive brief levels of high intensity media coverage that may or may not reflect an actual increase in their usage. Over the past decade in particular, new substances being used recreationally seem to come out of obscurity and gain rapid popularity, particularly spurred on by discussion and distribution over the internet. While changing trends in the drug market have always presented a challenge for law enforcement and public health officials, online forums, media coverage and other recent trends discussed in this Brief allow them to gain popularity more quickly and change more frequently. These rapid shifts allow less time for researchers to understand the potential health consequences of these substances and for law enforcement to stay abreast of abuses of legal substances. This work includes: 1) review of relevant research and literature, 2) review the Internet sources in which many deem important in influencing the emerging drug market, 3) discussion of national and international trends in use, abuse and distribution of these substances and 4) examination of current drug policy and recommendations for the future. This brief will be useful for criminology and criminal justice, sociology and public health. It will also be useful for those that deal with youth and the problems that may develop during adolescence and early adulthood.

Emerging Trends in Drug Use and Distribution

Targeted Cancer Treatment in Silico

Targeted Cancer Treatment in Silico

Countless medical researchers over the past century have been occupied by the search for a cure of cancer. So far, they have developed and implemented a wide range of treatment techniques, including surgery, chemo- and radiotherapy, antiangiogenic drugs, small molecule inhibitors, and oncolytic viruses. However, patterns of these treatments’ effectiveness remain largely unclear, and a better understanding of how cancer therapies work has become a key research goal. Cancer Treatment in Silico provides the first in-depth study of approaching this understanding by modeling cancer treatments, both mathematically and through computer simulations.

Targeted Cancer Treatment in Silico

The Year in Therapeutics, Volume 1

The Year in Therapeutics, Volume 1

Pharmacological research continues to make great strides forward, and innovative medicines are now being licensed and made available for inclusion in the hospital formulary. Decision makers, whether doctors, clinical pharmacologists or pharmacists must wade through a vast body of literature to properly assess the utility and benefits of new drugs.

The Year in Therapeutics, Volume 1

Beautiful Addictions

Beautiful Addictions

Josie Banks is a girl without a past. After being found unconscious with no memory, she was shuffled in and out of foster homes where she suffered years of abuse. An experience that left her broken, damaged, and clinging to drugs and meaningless hook-ups to numb her pain.

Beautiful Addictions

Boys Will Be Boys

Boys Will Be Boys

They were called America’s Team. Led by Emmitt Smith, the charismatic Deion ‘Prime Time’ Sanders, Hall of Famers Troy Aikman and Michael Irvinand lorded over by swashbuckling, power-hungry owner Jerry Jones and his two hard-living coaches, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzerthe Cowboys seemed indomitable on the football field throughout the 1990s. Off the field the ‘Boys were a dysfunctional circus, fueled by ego, sex, drugs, and jaw-dropping excess. What they achieved on game day was astonishing; what they did the rest of the week was unbelievable.

Boys Will Be Boys

Thorazine Beach

Thorazine Beach

Fiction. Mystery. Jack Minyard is a Private Dick down on his luck. He’s badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty. He’s lost his marriage, and maybe a little of his mind too. After narrowly escaping charges in a statewide fraud and money laundering scandal, Jack has been working private contracts and counting on the kindness of strangers to get by. (Not to mention a pile of prescription drugs.) In a last-ditch play to resurrect his career, Jack takes on a case that puts him on the wrong side of the tracks and in the midst of some of the roughest trade going. THORAZINE BEACH is a palpable and enthralling mystery.

Thorazine Beach

Prescription for Drug Alternatives

Prescription for Drug Alternatives

James Balch and Mark Stengler, coauthors of the hugely successful Prescription for Natural Cures, and Robin Young Balch have teamed up to create the most comprehensive and up-to-date book available on natural alternatives to prescription medications. The book provides natural, safe, and effective ways to treat a wide range of common ailments, including ADHD, allergies, diabetes, depression, erectile dysfunction, eczema, heart disease, headaches, and PMS. Youll read in-depth information, not found in any other popular book, about the pros and cons of prescription and over-the-counter drugs compared with natural treatment alternatives ranging from diet and lifestyle changes to supplements and herbal medicines.

Prescription for Drug Alternatives

Clinical Guide to the Use of Antithrombotic Drugs in Coronary Artery Disease

Clinical Guide to the Use of Antithrombotic Drugs in Coronary Artery Disease

Appreciation of the importance of platelets and coagulation factors in therothrombotic events has led to the widespread use and continuous development of new antithrombotic agents. This field of cardiovascular pharmacology has advanced at a very rapid rate.

Clinical Guide to the Use of Antithrombotic Drugs in Coronary Artery Disease

Chronology of Organized Crime Worldwide, 6000 B.C.E. to 2010

Chronology of Organized Crime Worldwide, 6000 B.C.E. to 2010

Organized crime has played a significant social role in cultures all over the world. This is the first book to establish a timeline of global organized criminal activity, which spans eight millennia. Entries are arranged chronologically and represent many facets of the criminal underground, including the birth of major players in crime as well as law enforcement officials, the discovery or invention of drugs and weapons, the creation of law enforcement agencies, and the passage of statutes relevant to the control of criminal activity. A broadly useful examination of organized crime, this book encompasses all nations, races, religions and political philosophies.

Chronology of Organized Crime Worldwide, 6000 B.C.E. to 2010