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Clear and concise, The Only Neurology Book You'll Ever Need provides a straightforward and comprehensive overview of neurology. It covers all of the important neurologic diagnosis and management issues, along with clinically relevant anatomy and physiology. Written by Drs. Alison I. Thaler and Malcolm S. Thaler, this new title is packed with full-color illustrations, real-world clinical scenarios, and up-to-date guidelines and recommendations —giving you all the practical advice you need to master the challenging world of neurology.  Features a lighthearted, lively writing style that is compelling and gets right to the heart of what you need to know.  Discusses the elements of the neurologic exam and what symptoms do and don’t suggest a neurologic disorder.  Covers key topics such as stroke, headache, concussion, dizziness, seizures,  dementia, meningitis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, and much more.  Abundant illustrations, charts, and tables, help you easily understand and retain complex material.  Ideal for medical students, medicine and neurology residents, nurses, and PAs, as well as any and all practitioners who need a concise, easy-to-read review of clinically- relevant neurology. This book covers everything you need for the medical student shelf exam in neurology.  The VST Ebook contains digital flash cards you can use to quiz yourself or friends to help retain information.  Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience Read directly on your preferred device(s), including computer, tablet, or smartphone.  Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

Concise, conversational, entertaining, and easy to use at any level of healthcare experience, The Only Diagnostic Lab Book You’ll Ever Need clarifies the when, where, why, and how of laboratory testing to help you make informed testing decisions and draw confident clinical conclusions.  This approachable how-to guide focuses on the most common and clinically useful diagnostic tests and panels employed in everyday healthcare practice, regardless of specialty, making it the ideal introduction for medical, PA, nurse practitioner, and nursing students embarking on their healthcare education. Residents, fellows, and practicing clinicians will find many new insights and clinical pearls that can immediately improve their practice and teaching.Straightforward, clinically oriented coverage walks you through selecting and employing the right diagnostic tests from the thousands available. The result is an informative, engaging text that will help you hone your clinical reasoning and streamline your approach to ordering and interpreting lab tests in the clinical decision-making process. Abundant illustrations, tables, and flow charts highlight key concepts in selecting and interpreting diagnostic lab tests. Lively, lighthearted text gets right to the point without compromising clarity or detail. Discussions emphasize what the tests actually mean within the relevant clinical context, stressing understanding over memorization; you will know what to do next, what to avoid, and why.

For more than 30 years, health care providers have turned to The Only EKG Book You’ll Ever Need for Dr. Malcolm S. Thaler’s clear and concise guidance on EKG use in everyday practice. Ideal for readers at all levels of experience, the tenth edition of this straightforward, highly visual resource presents must-know information on using an EKG to diagnose cardiac and non-cardiac conditions, with numerous EKG strips, clear illustrations, clinical examples, and case studies throughout. From cover to cover, Dr. Thaler’s commitment to “keeping simple things simple and making complicated things easy to understand” helps you learn and understand how to best use an EKG in actual clinical settings. Provides more than 200 EKG strips, including many new to this editionIncludes updated clinical scenarios and case studies, step-by-step instructions, newly clarified concepts, and high-quality illustrations throughoutUses a lighthearted, lively writing style designed to be compelling and minimize confusion of principles discussedOutlines processes for identifying and interpreting arrhythmias, myocardial infarctions, hypertrophy, atrial fibrillation, and other disordersAdvises on the dangers of over-reliance on computer interpretations and includes many other practical considerations that other books leave out Enrich Your eBook Reading ExperienceRead directly on your preferred device(s),such as computer, tablet, or smartphone.Easily convert to audiobook,powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

Ideal for readers at all levels, The Only EKG Book You’ll Ever Need, 11th Edition, is a clear, concise guide to EKG use in everyday practice. Dr. Malcolm S. Thaler’s bestselling text is a go-to resource for students, residents, fellows, and practitioners, as well as NPs, PAs, and EKG technologists—anyone who needs a straightforward, highly visual resource on using an EKG to diagnose cardiac and non-cardiac conditions. Numerous EKG strips, clear illustrations, real-life clinical scenarios and case studies reflect Dr. Thaler’s commitment to “keeping simple things simple and making complicated things easy to understand.”Helps you learn and understand how to best use an EKG in clinical settings, using a light-hearted, conversational tone that makes this challenging topic fun to learnUses an updated, highly visual approach, with high-quality illustrations as well as hundreds of higher-resolution EKG stripsFeatures learner-friendly aids like clinical scenario case studies, chapter summaries, and review questions to test your knowledge and apply what you’ve learnedOutlines processes for identifying and interpreting arrhythmias, myocardial infarctions, hypertrophy, atrial fibrillation, and other disordersAdvises on the dangers of over-reliance on computer interpretations and includes many other practical considerations that other books leave out

Durante más de 30 años, El libro del ECG se ha mantenido como la guía y referencia fundamental para estudiantes y profesionales de la salud, para obtener el conocimiento y la orientación clara y concisa del Dr. Thaler sobre el uso del electrocardiograma (ECG) en la práctica diaria. Al igual que otras ediciones, esta 10.ª edición es ideal para lectores de todos los niveles de experiencia, ya que es un recurso sencillo y completamente visual que presenta información imprescindible sobre el uso de esta invaluable herramienta diagnóstica para identificar alteraciones en el sistema de conducción eléctrica del corazón.La obra incluye una gran cantidad de ejemplos clínicos, ilustraciones claras y estudios de casos. De principio a fin, cumple con el compromiso del Dr. Thaler de “mantener las cosas simples y hacer lo complicado fácil de entender” ya que ayuda a aprender y comprender cómo utilizar mejor un ECG en entornos clínicos reales.