Written by residents for residents, Pocket Neurology, 2nd Edition is your go-to resource for essential neurologic information in a high-yield, easy-to-use format. Concise and well organized, it provides must-know information on hospital- and clinic-based neurologic workup, diagnosis, and management. The second edition of this pocket-sized bestseller delivers highly relevant adult neurologic coverage in an easily portable source. Find what you need quickly and easily with concise text, numerous tables, and bulleted lists throughout. Progress logically from neurologic signs and symptoms to differential diagnosis, workup and diagnosis, assessment of risks and benefits of available treatments, to treatment and prognosis. Focus on the most important, highly relevant facts thanks to a, streamlined presentation that allows for more algorithms, tables, diagrams, and images. Stay up to date in every area of neurology with significantly revised chapters on stroke, epilepsy, dementia, and MS, and more drug dosing information regarding inpatient care. Consult this high-yield handbook by clinical presentation, such as coma, stroke, headaches, and seizures, or by special topic, such as neuroimaging, behavioral neurology, and sleep medicine. Learn from neurology residents and beginning neurology fellows in collaboration with attending neurologists at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

This card discusses the management of acute stroke, the localization of stroke based on clinical symptoms, various prognostic scores, and other management topics. Most of the management information on this card pertains to ischemic stroke. Specifics topics covered are as follows: * Guidelines for management of patients who are receiving tPA * Guidelines for intra-arterial thrombolysis and mechanical clot removal * Information on stroke localization and relevant syndromes * Illustrations with the vasculature and vascular territories of the brain * Definition and classification of TIAs * Information on the prognosis of stroke based on the NIH, (NIHSS) * Information on imaging modalities used in stroke diagnosis, their advantages and disadvantages * Stroke workup informations * General guidelines for hospital management and supportive care * Guidelines for the prevention of secondary stroke * Guidelines for the prevention of cardioembolic stroke * Guidelines for carotid endarterectomy

The Geriatrics pocketcard Set is a concise summary of essential information on the assessment of the eldeerly patient. The cards contain information on topics such as activities of daily living, cardiac risk, dementia, depression, incontinence, and alcohol abuse. A variety of scales useful in evaluating the patient's health status include: * 10-item Geriatric Impairment Inventory * Clock Drawing Test * Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living * Geriatric Depression Scale * Functional Assessment Staging in Alzheimer's Disease * Hachinski Ischemic Score * Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly * And many more... For Students, residents, nurses and all other healthcare professionals.

Get immediate access to crucial information about the most common EMG studies. This handy, practical resource designed for quick reference at the point of care covers a wide spectrum of electrodiagnostic tests. Written for both novice and experienced electromyographers, this at-a-glance guide is concise enough to fit in a pocket, yet replete with essential technical detail, pearls, and clinical photos to illustrate proper study set-ups. Pocket EMG covers what you need to know to successfully perform nerve conduction and needle EMG studies in a fast-paced clinical environment. It also includes helpful protocols for specific clinical problems. The first section is devoted to nerve conduction studies and covers sensory and motor studies of the upper and lower extremities, late responses, and other tests including facial motor nerves, blink reflex, and repetitive nerve stimulation. Section two covers needle electromyography and catalogs set-ups for upper and lower extremity tests, paraspinals, and facial muscles. The final two sections contain study protocols for presenting chief complaints or suspected diagnoses, normal values, and high-yield tables and lists. Each test includes a photograph of the proper set-up, indications for performing the test, technical pointers, and physiological considerations. Key Features: Organized consistently and pocket-sized for quick reference in the EMG lab Includes a photo of the proper set-up for each test, indications for performing the test, and clinical pearls and pointers to enhance skills Contains study protocols for common complaints, normal value ranges for individual tests, and high-yield tables and lists

Set of three ECG pocketcards including ECG pocketcard ECG Evaluation pocketcard ECG Ruler Pocketcard

Pocket-sized quick reference guide offers medical scores, criteria, and classification systems to help enable the clinician to predict outcome, stratify risk, access conditions, and diagnose diseases accurately. Includes practical scores, evidence-based criteria, and complex algorithms simplified whenever possible. For clinicians and residents. Softcover.

Designed for easy transport and quick reference, Pocket Anesthesia, presents essential information that residents, anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and medical students need on the wards and in the operating room. Edited by anesthesia faculty at Harvard Medical School, this pocket-size reference is ideally suited for today's fast-paced anesthesia environment--it is concise, easy to read, and evidence-based. Essential information is presented in a well-organized schematic outline format with many tables, algorithms, and diagrams. The book is filled with must-know facts about drugs, frequent intraoperative problems, differential diagnosis, common disease states, patient evaluation, and anesthetic considerations for each subspecialty. New to the revised, second edition, is the inclusion of ultraound-guided regional anesthesia procedures.

The Abdominal Ultrasound pocketcard Set is a comprehensive, pocket- sized, sonography report template. It describes normal ultrasound findings and the most common pathologies of the main abdominal organs as well as adjacent organs. The set includes: *Predefined building blocks for efficient and fast reporting *Precise measurements of organ sizes and volumes as well as pathological values * Various graphs and diagrams (i.e. liver segments, pleural effusion, hydronephrosis) * Various images (i.e. liver cyst, appendicitis, Ileus) * Criteria for differentiating cysts and masses For medical students, interns, residents, nurses and ultrasound technician students.