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Child Abuse and its Mimics in Skin and Bone
By Tor Shwayder, B. G. Brogdon, Jamie Elifritz. 2012
Of all children reported to child protective services for suspected maltreatment in any form, the percentage of substantiated cases of…
actual physical abuse is quite small. There are a number of dermatological or radiologically demonstrable musculoskeletal lesions that have been, or could be mistaken for, intentional physical abuse by the inexperieHealthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements
By Mark Graban, Joseph E. Swartz. 2012
Healthcare Kaizen focuses on the principles and methods of daily continuous improvement, or Kaizen, for healthcare professionals and organizations. Kaizen…
is a Japanese word that means "change for the better," as popularized by Masaaki Imai in his 1986 book Kaizen: The Key to Japan‘s Competitive Success and through the books of Norman Bodek, both oProcess Improvement with Electronic Health Records: A Stepwise Approach to Workflow and Process Management
By Margret Amatayakul. 2012
Although physicians and hospitals are receiving incentives to use electronic health records (EHRs), there is little emphasis on workflow and…
process improvement by providers or vendors. As a result, many healthcare organizations end up with incomplete product specifications and poor adoption rates.Process Improvement with Electronic Health Records:Out of the Present Crisis: Rediscovering Improvement in the New Economy
By Terence T. Burton. 2012
Today, organizations have achieved an overall failure rate above 80 percent with Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, and continuous…
improvement in general. This is certainly not due to a shortage of books, consultants, and other online resources about the methodologies and tools, or the success stories of Toyota and others. However, it is due to a shortage of knowledge and practice about the most critical success factors of improvement: leadership, sustaining infrastructure, behavioral and cultural transformation, and now emerging technology. These factors produce 90 percent of the success with continuous and sustainable improvement; the methodologies and tools represent an irrelevant 10 percent. For decades, most organizations have focused on this quick and easy, irrelevant 10 percent through an endless series of fad, in-vogue improvement programs as they attempt to mimic the best-in-class practices of the most successful organizations.Out of the Present Crisis: Rediscovering Improvement in the New Economy is the contemporary version of Deming’s famous 1982 book, "Out of the Crisis." The author builds a solid case for organizations to aggressively pursue the next generation of systematic and sustainable improvement through a combined strategy of Deming’s back-to-basics, innovation and breakthrough thinking, integration of emerging and enabling technology, and adaptive improvement across diverse environments and industries. The book’s practical, pragmatic style is backed up by many real world examples and personal experiences.If you're looking for another book about Lean or Six Sigma "tools" this is not it. But it is a book about how to achieve lasting success by making improvement the cultural standard of excellence and living code of conduct in organizations. This popular book provides executives with an up-to-date and proven reference guide for rediscovering successful systematic and sustainable improvement in today’s economy. The author demonstrates the importance of viewing improvement as a continuous manageable "process" and covers the most critical success factors of leadership, sustaining infrastructure, behavioral and cultural transformation, and emerging technology in a practical, no-nonsense, "how-to-do" style. The book provides specific guidance for all industries including public and private corporations, hospitals, financial services, airlines, municipalities, and federal, state, and local governments.Forensic Toxicology: Medico-Legal Case Studies
By Kalipatnapu N. Rao. 2012
Modern technology using state-of-the-art equipment can now identify almost any toxin relevant to a legal issue. Techniques include gas chromatography,…
mass spectrometry, high-pressure liquid chromatography, and the combination of these methods. Forensic Toxicology: Medico-legal Case Studies demonstrates how the science of forensic toxicology acts aLean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future
By Naida Grunden, Charles Hagood. 2012
Instead of building new hospitals that import old systems and problems, the time has come to reexamine many of our…
ideas about what a hospital should be. Can a building foster continuous improvement? How can we design it to be flexible and useful well into the future? How can we do more with less?Winner of a 2013 Shingo Prize for Operational ExcellAfter nearly a year of debate, in March 2010, Congress passed and the president signed the Patient Protection and Affordable…
Care Act to reform the U.S. health care system. The most significant social legislation since the civil rights legislation and the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, the bill‘s passage has been met with great controversy. PolPerformance-Based Medicine: Creating the High Performance Network to Optimize Managed Care Relationships
By MA, CMC, De Marco. 2012
With healthcare making the transition from volume-based reimbursement programs to value-based approaches, understanding performance measurement is vital to optimize payment…
and quality outcomes. Performance-Based Medicine: Creating the High Performance Network to Optimize Managed Care Relationships guides readers through the maze of definitions andAnalysis and Application of Analog Electronic Circuits to Biomedical Instrumentation, Second Edition helps biomedical engineers understand the basic analog electronic…
circuits used for signal conditioning in biomedical instruments. It explains the function and design of signal conditioning systems using analog ICs-the circuits that enable ECG, EEG,Movement Integration: The Systemic Approach to Human Movement
By Martin Lundgren, Linus Johansson. 2020
A paradigm-shifting, integrative approach to understanding body movement.The ability to move with efficiency and agility has been an essential component…
to our evolution and survival as a species. It has enabled us to find food, fight threats, flee danger, and flourish both individually and collectively. Our body's intricate network of bones, muscles, tissues, and organs moves with great complexity. While traditional anatomy has relied on a reductionist frame for understanding these mechanisms in isolation, the contributors to Movement Integration take a more systemic, integrative approach. Ensomatosy is a new paradigm for comprehending movement from the perspective of the body's entirety. The body's many systems are understood as synchronized both internally and externally. Drawing on expertise in physiotherapy, somatics, sports science, Rolfing, myofascial therapy, craniosacral therapy, Pilates, and yoga, the authors assert that a more comprehensive understanding of movement is key to restoring the body's natural ability to move fluidly and painlessly. With over 150 images, the Color Illustration Model of Relative Movement provides a visual tool for understanding how joints interact with surrounding structures (rather than in isolation). This is an ideal book for physiotherapists, massage therapists, structural integrators, coaches, as well as yoga and Pilates instructors.End Chronic Disease: The Healing Power of Beliefs, Behaviors, and Bacteria
By Kathleen DiChiara. 2020
Why do some people successfully overcome illness and others don't? Researcher and health advocate explores the healing power of our…
thoughts, habits, and microbiome.Millions of people are struggling through the vicious cycle of chronic symptoms that are associated with internal inflammation and immune dysregulation. And yet, determining the root cause of inflammation can be so challenging...until now!Nutrition educator, researcher, and health advocate Kathleen DiChiara aims to answer the question of what truly conditions the body to overcome illness. She shares her passion for functional medicine, microbiology, and growth mind-set, and helps readers discover the key strategies that impact the three driving forces for optimal health: beliefs, behavior, and bacteria.In this book, readers will find a health-conscious and practical guide to build physical health and immunity.Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry
By Angela Jones. 2019
The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living The erotic webcam industry, also known…
as “camming,” is a thriving global business. Angela Jones takes readers inside this multi-billion dollar industry, revealing how its workers experience intimacy, community, empowerment—and, as she compellingly argues, pleasure. Drawing on in-depth interviews, survey data, web analytics, and more, Jones highlights not only the dangers, but also the rewards, of working in one of the most taboo corners of the Internet. She provides an inside look at the public and private shows between cam models and their customers, from exotic dancing and pornographic videos, to masturbation shows and erotic chatrooms. A fascinating, much-needed glimpse into the lives of cam models, Camming takes us behind the webcam lens to experience the power of erotic labor in the twenty-first century.Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults
By Mitch Weiss, Holbrook Mohr. 2020
A PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020“I can’t imagine a more important book.”—Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling authorAn…
explosive investigation into Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader is a master of manipulationIn 1979, a fiery preacher named Jane Whaley attracted a small group of followers with a promise that she could turn their lives around.In the years since, Whaley’s following has expanded to include thousands of congregants across three continents. In their eyes she’s a prophet. And to disobey her means eternal damnation.The control Whaley exerts is absolute: she decides what her followers study, where they work, whom they can marry—even when they can have sex.Based on hundreds of interviews, secretly recorded conversations, and thousands of pages of documents, Pulitzer Prize winner Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr’s Broken Faith is a terrifying portrait of life inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades.EMF*D: 5G, Wi-Fi & Cell Phones: Hidden Harms and How to Protect Yourself
By Dr Joseph Mercola. 2020
The dangers of electromagnetic fields are real--and now a renowned health authority reveals exactly what they are and how you…
can protect yourself.The hazards of electronic pollution may once have been the stuff of science fiction, but now we know they're all too real. And with the advent of 5G ultra-wideband technology, the danger is greater than ever.Dr. Joseph Mercola, one of the world's foremost authorities on alternative health, has mined the scientific literature to offer a radical new understanding of how electromagnetic fields impact your body and mind. In this first-of-its-kind guide, he reveals: • What EMFs (electromagnetic fields) actually are, where you find them in your daily life, and how they affect you • The toll that EMFs have been proven to take in conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and neuropsychiatric illnesses • Why you've been largely kept in the dark about this threat to your health • How you can actually repair the damage done by EMFs at a cellular level • Practical strategies to protect yourself and your loved ones from EMFs at home, at work, and out in the worldThe coming 5G technology will be pervasive and powerful. It will also be one of the largest public-health experiments in history-with no way of opting out. That's why you need to read this book. Now.Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture
By Lea Shaver. 2019
An eye-opening exploration of “book hunger”—the unmet need for books in underserved communities—and efforts to universalize access to print Worldwide,…
billions of people suffer from book hunger. For them, books are too few, too expensive, or do not even exist in their languages. Lea Shaver argues that this is an educational crisis: the most reliable predictor of children’s achievement is the size of their families’ book collections. This book highlights innovative nonprofit solutions to expand access to print. First Book, for example, offers diverse books to teachers at bargain prices. Imagination Library mails picture books to support early literacy in book deserts. Worldreader promotes mobile reading in developing countries by turning phones into digital libraries. Pratham Books creates open access stories that anyone may freely copy, adapt, and translate. Can such efforts expand to bring books to the next billion would-be readers? Shaver reveals the powerful roles of copyright law and licensing, and sounds the clarion call for readers to contribute their own talents to the fight against book hunger.Looking Within: Understanding Ourselves through Human Imaging
By Cullen Ruff. 2020
What would it be like to have x-ray vision?Beyond diagnosing illness or injury, can images of ourselves tell us more…
about life?What if you could see that an accident victim will never walk again; that a young mother has breast cancer; or that a teenager is brain-dead and will be removed from life support? Can imaging help us better appreciate the complexity of existence, our strengths and vulnerabilities? Does looking into the body give insight into what it means to be human? Would it allow you, at least indirectly, to glimpse evidence of the human soul?Looking Within is the first mainstream collection of dramatic non-fiction narratives about discoveries in patients found by medical imaging. Ruff highlights the wonder and mystery of the human body, literally and metaphorically looking inside of others. Each story describes a patient in whom a life-changing discovery is made: tumors, stroke, domestic violence, substance abuse, sterility, unexpected pregnancy, infection, surgical complications, evidence of criminal activity, mental illness, even impending death. Dr. Ruff’s words, images, and insights help us see ourselves like never before.Pathologie
By M.J. Zaagman-van Buuren, Ij. Jungen, De Jong Consulting B.V.. 2006
In het basiswerk Pathologie worden de pathologische verschijnselen verklaard vanuit de fysiologie De student leert de verschijnselen en complicaties…
van ziekten te herkennen te interpreteren en er adequaat op te reageren Daarnaast wordt uitvoerig ingegaan op de werking en bijwerkingen van verschillende soorten medicatie om deze te kunnen herkennen en interpreteren Het basiswerk Pathologie is zorgvuldig afgestemd op Medische fysiologie en anatomie Het boek biedt de student en de al afgestudeerde beroepsbeoefenaar een gedegen basiskennis De opbouw van het boek ondersteunt het proces waarbij eigen observaties en interpretaties worden gekoppeld aan de medische kennis Studenten leren zo te beredeneren welke stappen genomen moeten worden in het verpleegkundig handelenObstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America
By Carole Joffe, David S. Cohen. 2020
It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and…
livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care. And yet it is no surprise that in many places throughout the United States, getting an abortion can be a monumental challenge. Anti-choice politicians and activists have worked tirelessly to impose needless restrictions on this straightforward medical procedure that, at best, delay it and, at worst, create medical risks and deny women their constitutionally protected right to choose. Obstacle Course tells the story of abortion in America, capturing a disturbing reality of insurmountable barriers people face when trying to exercise their legal rights to medical services. Authors David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe lay bare the often arduous and unnecessarily burdensome process of terminating a pregnancy: the sabotaged decision-making, clinics in remote locations, insurance bans, harassing protesters, forced ultrasounds and dishonest medical information, arbitrary waiting periods, and unjustified procedure limitations. Based on patients’ stories as well as interviews with abortion providers and allies from every state in the country, Obstacle Course reveals the unstoppable determination required of women in the pursuit of reproductive autonomy as well as the incredible commitment of abortion providers. Without the efforts of an unheralded army of medical professionals, clinic administrators, counselors, activists, and volunteers, what is a legal right would be meaningless for the almost one million people per year who get abortions. There is a better way—treating abortion like any other form of health care—but the United States is a long way from that ideal.Laparoscopic Anatomy of the Pelvic Floor
By Jean-Bernard Dubuisson, Jean Dubuisson, Juan Puigventos. 2020
Gynaecological surgery has made tremendous strides in the last 30 years, due to advances in medical imaging, operative laparoscopy, and…
new types of prosthesis. Reconstructive plastic surgery of pelvic organ prolapse and of urinary incontinence have benefited from these developments. The laparoscopic sacropopexy and laparoscopic lateral suspension with meshes are two excellent examples. In order to successfully perform these operations, detailed knowledge of the anatomy of the pelvic floor as “seen from above”, i.e., from the abdominal view, is an invaluable asset. Achieving perfect knowledge of the anatomical details is now possible, thanks to laparoscopy. With the aid of laparoscopy, following subperitoneal dissections, reconstructive surgery of the pelvic floor can be made substantially more precise, more exact, and also more anatomical. This atlas will allow gynaecologic surgeons to deepen and improve their anatomical expertise, with the aid of laparoscopy. It also describes in detail the most common laparoscopic operative techniques. The book represents a new and unique approach to anatomy studied in the living, and supplements the main content with a wealth of straightforward and clearly explained photographs.Atlas of Non-Invasive Imaging in Cardiac Anatomy
By Jagat Narula, Francesco F. Faletra, Siew Yen Ho. 2020
This atlas provides a detailed visual resource of how sophisticated non-invasive imaging relates to the anatomy observed in a variety…
of cardiovascular pathologies. It includes investigation of a wide range of defects in numerous cardiac structures. Mitral valve commissures, atrioventricular septal junction and right ventricular outflow tract plus a wealth of other structures are covered, offering readers a comprehensive integrative experience to understand how anatomic subtleties are revealed by modern imaging modalities.Atlas of Non-Invasive Imaging in Cardiac Anatomy provides a detailed set of visual instructions that is of use to any cardiovascular professional needing to understand the orientation of a patient’s imaging. Therefore this is an essential guide for all trainee and practicing cardiologists, cardiac imagers, cardiac surgeons and interventionists.