Need to Know Fertility and Conception and Pregnancy

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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to maximise your chances of having a baby and prepare week-by-week during your pregnancy for a relaxed and confident birth. Two reliable and accessible titles, complete with colour photos and expert advice throughout, combined into one ebook.

Need to Know Fertility and Conception answers all the questions you want to know the answers to, it also explains when you're most fertile and how often to have sex; what factors can prevent or reduce fertilization and conception; how to enhance your fertility; how to get the most out of your GP; how to overcome stress and other emotional blocks to pregnancy; the different fertility treatments and contains sources of information, suggestions for further reading, support groups and websites.

Need to Know Pregnancy gives a complete overview of baby development during pregnancy through to birth. Its combination of conventional mainstream and complementary medical info reflects the way most pregnant women approach their care today.

There’s also plenty of information for the father-to-be. Contents includes: week by week overview; what to expect at appointments; eating well; exercising and relaxing; labour and birth; A-Z of common problems.

Fertility Preservation in Male Cancer Patients

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Men with cancer rendered infertile by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and hormone therapy that are needed to control or cure their disease are increasingly being offered the chance to preserve their reproductive potential through artificial reproductive technologies.

Cryopreservation of sperm and testicular tissue have increasingly helped boys and men preserve their fertility. There is a growing subspecialty within reproductive medicine aimed at fertility preservation in this population.

Furthermore, strategies are being developed that may in the future revolutionize the approach to such patients. Written by international authorities in the field of fertility preservation, this comprehensive book is aimed at clinicians dealing with male cancer patients, in particular, urologists, andrologists, oncologists, pediatricians, nursing staff as well as clinicians in reproductive endocrinology.

The text reviews the impact of cancers and their treatment on male fertility, the available fertility preservation strategies and post-treatment management.

Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff

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Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff, Second Edition is the premier reference on shelter medicine. Divided into sections on management, species-specific animal husbandry, infectious disease, animal cruelty, shelter programs, behavior, and spay/neuter, the new edition has been reformatted in a more user-friendly design with briefer chapters and information cross-referenced between chapters.

Maintaining a herd health approach, new and expanded chapters address issues of husbandry, infectious disease management, behavior forensics, population management, forensic toxicology, animal cruelty and hoarding, enrichment in shelters, spay/neuter, and shelter design.

Now in full color, this fully updated new edition delivers a vast array of knowledge necessary to provide appropriate and humane care for shelter animals. Veterinarians, veterinary technicians and shelter professionals will find this to be the go-to resource on the unique aspects of shelter medicine that help facilitate operating a modern, efficient, and humane shelter.

Medical Terminology: A Review for Nurses, Medical Assistants, other Healthcare Professionals and Well Informed Patients

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Because of these occurrences, healthcare professionals are now situated across the globe. The demand for their services are so dynamic that healthcare technology is expanding, and so is the level of competency.

Don't be left behind. Review and refresh your medical terminology skills including abbreviations and laboratory values. Changes have occurred since the time you finished your Med Term class.

For patients who want to be well informed about their health condition, this is a good book for referencing the healthcare terminologies. This book is designed to review the competency of healthcare professionals in relation to medical terminologies. Tests are located at the end of every chapter.

Genitourinary Radiology: Kidney, Bladder and Urethra (The Pathologic Basis)

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Genitourinary Radiology: Kidney, Bladder and Urethra: The Pathologic Basis is the first volume in a set of books on the pathologic basis of genitourinary radiology.

Genitourinary Radiology: Kidney, Bladder and Urethra: The Pathologic Basis provides a lavishly illustrated guide to the radiologic and pathologic features of a broad spectrum of genitourinary diseases of the urinary tract, including the entities most commonly encountered in day to day practice.

The editors are authorities in the fields of genitourinary radiology and pathology, and the authors of each chapter are renowned radiologists, with pathology content provided by an internationally recognized genitourinary pathologist.

General, plain film, intravenous pyelography, ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine imaging and PET imaging of each disease entity are included.

Accompanying the majority of the radiological narratives are complementary descriptions of the gross and microscopic features of the disease entities.

Genitourinary Radiology: Kidney, Bladder and Urethra: The Pathologic Basis is aimed at radiologists in private and academic practice, radiology residents, urologists, urology trainees, pathology trainees and fellows specializing in genitourinary pathology.

Both experts and beginners can use this excellent reference book to enhance their skills in the fields of genitourinary radiology and pathology.

Pediatric Urology: A General Urologist's Guide (Current Clinical Urology)

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A vast number of children in the United States are evaluated and treated for urologic conditions by urologists practicing general urology due to the relatively few fellowship-trained pediatric urologists.

Pediatric Urology: A General Urologist’s Guide is written specifically for general urologists as a concise and comprehensive reference of the more common pediatric urologic conditions. Other health practitioners (i.e. pediatrician, family practitioner, residents, medical students, and mid-level providers) will also find this book a key reference.

Written by well-respected pediatric urologists, this volume will assist the health care provider to rapidly review the essential aspects of the physical examination, evaluation, diagnostic testing, and management while the patient is still in the office.

The chapters are arranged into four sections to allow for easier access to the information: office urology, genitalia, urinary tract, and miscellaneous topics.

Furthermore, the first chapter of the book will be dedicated to facts and figures (ex. normal penile and renal lengths based on age, dosing of common medications, and grading system for vesicoureteral reflux) that serves as a single source for this information.

Pediatric Urology: A General Urologist’s Guide offers the reader the essential information to assist them in the care of children.

Cryptorchidism and Undescended Testicles

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You are a medical student, resident, nurse, or other healthcare professional who has been tasked with learning about and reviewing the diagnosis and treatment of Cryptorchidism and Undescended Testicles

You need this information either for a board exam or to take care of patients. You need to know the associated eponyms, epidemiology, pathology, pathophysiology, pertinent history and physical exam findings, laboratory and radiologic workup, treatments, complications, and prognosis.

You also need specific multiple choice questions that test your knowledge on this topic and that will help you differentiate this topic from similar topics. You can find all of that information and more here.

This work will also be updated with relevant information from current journal articles and review books. Patients are welcome to use this resource as well.

Oxford Handbook of Urology (Oxford Handbook Series)

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Urology continues to be one of the most rapidly advancing specialities. Approximately 20% of all surgical operations and a similar percentage of surgical emergencies are urological in nature.

However, often doctors have very limited experience of the many common and varied conditions encountered in this important surgical specialty. For the doctor or nurse expected to provide the initial assessment and management of a condition with which he or she has had very limited experience, this handbook provides an invaluable source of information and advice.

Covering a wide spectrum of diseases and their treatment in the field of urology and surgical aspects of kidney, bladder, prostate and scrotal disorders, this handbook aims to give a brief overview of many different urological subjects including urological emergencies, cancers, infections, children's disorders and kidney stone disease.

It is designed so that it can be quickly and efficiently accessed by a range of professionals involved in patient care, including medical students, nurses, surgical and urology doctors and general practitioners.

Thoroughly revised for the third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Urology covers all recent guidelines and criteria including the significant advances in medical and surgical options that are now available to patients; key papers and national recommendations in the field of neurourology; expanded information on medical therapy of bladder overactivity with relevant anticholinergic drug trials and evidence; and brand new information on the subject of urethral diverticulum.

An invaluable tool relevant not only to specialist trainees and specialist registrars on urology and surgical rotations, but also to general practitioners, emergency staff and the growing number of urological specialist nurses.

Basic Techniques in Pediatric Surgery: An Operative Manual

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This unique manual is a “surgical cookbook” designed to provide clear and concise guidance for trainees in pediatric surgery. With the aid of simple line drawings depicting each operative step, more than one hundred frequently performed procedures are explained and demonstrated.

The reader will learn how to perform each procedure effectively and safely, avoiding potential complications. The full range of surgery is covered, including basic surgical skills, day surgery procedures, emergency surgery procedures and minimally invasive surgery.

The book will be of value not only to trainees in pediatric surgery but also to trainees in general surgery, theatre nurses, parents and carers.

Symptoms and Signs in Pediatric Surgery

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This concise textbook of pediatric surgery is designed to guide the reader logically from symptoms and signs to diagnosis and treatment. Each chapter is devoted to one of 35 key symptoms and signs, which are organized according to six body regions: head, neck, chest, abdomen, urogenital system, and back.

In each case, a brief assessment of the presenting sign/symptom and differential diagnosis is followed by discussion of occurrence, clinical presentation and significance, diagnostic work-up, treatment, and prognosis.

Informative tables, illustrations, and up-to-date references are included throughout. Readers will also have access to an e-learning tool developed in collaboration with the Institute of Medical Education, University of Bern, which highlights the characteristics of pediatric surgical disorders and their treatment and includes clinical, radiological, and intraoperative images.