Books on Medical Equipment and Techniques

A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known.

Designed to support the best-selling third edition of Medical Statistics at a Glance, this comprehensive workbook contains a variety of self-assessment methods allowing readers to test their statistical knowledge, put it into practice, and apply it to a medical context and when reading published literature.

This book details all aspects of simulation in medical education and evaluation. It details current techniques and technologies, including concepts and capabilities, and offers tips on funding, development, accreditation, and marketing of simulation centers.

An immersive, multimedia experience for students and an invaluable assessment and remediation tool for instructors. This comprehensive resource provides the theoretical and practical knowledge students need to be prepared for classroom tests and certification and licensure examinations.

Give your students everything they need to actively learn how to apply research to nursing practice....

"A thoughtful, thorough and readable account of the history and current practice of qualitative research in health." - Louise Keogh, Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . . .

This book reviews math topics relevant to non-mathematics students and scientists, but which they may not have seen or studied for a while. Almost every student or scientist, will at some point run into mathematical formulas or ideas in scientific papers that may be hard to understand, given that formal math education may be some years ago.

The second edition of Researching Health gives an overview of research methods in health looking at different qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods. Incorporating contributions from the UK, Australasia and Canada, the book offers depth and breadth when tackling the subject.

Suitable for student and qualified paramedics looking to understand the key elements of research, and what it means for their profession, this guide to the sometimes daunting world of research and evidence-based practice helps you get to grips with the nature of paramedic research and how it works in practice.

Packed with examples from across the social sciences, this book helps students and researchers alike in turning systematic reviews into recommendations for policy and practice.

Learn need-to-know information on more than 300 dental instruments! Dental Instruments: A Pocket Guide, 6th Edition, makes it quick and easy for dental assistants and hygienists to master the identification and use of instruments and equipment used in everyday practice. It includes nearly 700 photographs and illustrations along with monographs describing each instrument's use, characteristics,...

As online therapy becomes more mainstream, the importance of using a means of supervision which parallels this is increasingly being recognised by practitioners and the professional bodies. Very little has been written about this newly developing way of working, so this book is timely. Online Supervision: A Handbook for Practitioners covers a wide range of issues, from the practical aspects of how...

Despite advances in statistical approaches towards clinical outcome prediction, these innovations are insufficiently utilized in medical research. This book provides information on how modern statistical concepts and regression methods can be applied.

This book traces the story of bacteriophages from Paris, where they were discovered in 1917, through Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs stemming from phage research, to today's resurgent research, spearheaded by biotech startups and dedicated physicians.

This brand new, fully-updated user-friendly toolkit helps with searching for medical evidence, explaining how to learn simple search skills, directing the reader to the right resources to find the best evidence to support their decision-making an essential skill for everyone involved in health care research and development. .

This is the ideal step-by-step guide on how to write successful research proposals in the health sciences, whether it is for a thesis or dissertation review committee, an ethical review committee or a grant funding committee.

Keys to Running Successful Research Projects: All the Things They Never Teach You provides a step-by-step guide for the management of a successful research project or program. Through the use of illustrative case studies, the book covers all aspects of management that should be included during researcher training, helping researchers overcome the many challenges they face in their day-to-day...

Build a solid understanding of hematology in the context of practical laboratory practice and principles. Visual language, innovative case studies, role-playing troubleshooting cases, and laboratory protocols bring laboratory practice to life. Superbly organized, this reader-friendly text breaks a complex subject into easy-to-follow, manageable sections.