Radiation Therapy Treatment Effects: An Evidence-based Guide to Managing Toxicity

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Praise for the previous edition: “This book is a milestone and must-have for anyone involved in the care of those with cancer."" --American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation “This reference provides a comprehensive, pragmatic approach for physical medicine physicians; speech, occupational, and physical therapists; and nurses with cancer survivor responsibilities…[A]ny cancer program with significant rehabilitation services will find this a useful addition to its library.” --JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) This completely revised second edition of the gold-standard reference on cancer rehabilitation provides a state-of-the-art overview of the principles of cancer care and best practices for restoring function and quality of life to cancer survivors. Authored by some of the world’s leading cancer rehabilitation experts and oncology specialists, the book opens with primer-level discussions of the various cancer types and their assessment and management, including potential complications, as a foundation for providing safe and effective rehabilitation. Subsequent sections thoroughly explore the identification, evaluation, and treatment of specific impairments and disabilities that result from cancer and the treatment of cancer. Designed to serve the needs of the entire medical team, this singular resource is intended for any clinician working with cancer survivors to improve function and quality of life. With several new chapters on topics such as inpatient cancer rehabilitation, pediatric oncology, research issues, and barriers to accessing cancer rehabilitation and building a cancer rehabilitation program, the book keeps pace with recent advances in the growing field of cancer rehabilitation. This new edition features updates throughout and expansions to major topics, including imaging in cancer and key disorders such as aromatase inhibitor-induced arthralgias. Presenting the most current medical, clinical, and rehabilitation intelligence, this is a mandatory reference for anyone in the field. Key Features: <ul>
<li>New edition of the only contemporary comprehensive text covering the field of cancer rehabilitation</li> <li>Revised and updated to reflect current knowledge, practice, and emerging topics</li> <li>Covers essential aspects of oncology and medical complications of cancer to inform rehabilitation decisions and strategies</li> <li>Provides state-of-the-art reviews on all major topics in cancer rehabilitation, including pain assessment and management, neuromuscular and musculoskeletal dysfunction, neurologic, and general rehabilitation issues</li> <li>13 new chapters and expanded coverage of signature areas</li> <li>Key points are provided for each chapter to reinforce learning</li> <li>Digital access to the ebook included</li> </ul>

Cancer Rehabilitation 2E: Principles and Practice

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

“This is a high quality book with directions and guidelines on how to generate valid treatment plans in the modern era of radiation oncology. It is very useful for any student (dosimetry, therapy, physicist, or physician) who is entering a practical treatment planning rotation…It is written as a companion to the Handbook of Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology, 2nd edition, Videtic et al. (Demos Medical Publishing, 2015), and pairs very well with it.”
Score: 88, 3 Stars, Doody’s Medical Reviews
“Comparing with earlier published books about radiotherapy treatment planning, which are prone to the pedagogical side as textbooks, this new book serves an unmet need as a pocket-sized book with details and up to date information for user’s quick resource for treatment planning knowledge… “Strategies for Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning” is a handy and essential reference for modern treatment planning. It is therefore recommended as a valuable book for the bookshelf and pocket of everyone involved in radiotherapy treatment planning.”
-- Dr. Chengyu Shi of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Strategies for Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning provides radiation oncologists, physicists, and dosimetrists with a step-by-step guide to implementing external beam treatment plans that meet clinical requirements for each major disease site. As a companion book to the Handbook of Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology Second Edition, this book focuses on the technical aspects of treatment planning and the major challenges in creating highly conformal dose distributions, referenced to as treatment plans, for external beam radiotherapy. To overcome challenges associated with each step, leading experts at the Cleveland Clinic have consolidated their knowledge and experience of treatment planning techniques, potential pitfalls, and other difficulties to develop quality plans across the gamut of clinical scenarios in radiation therapy.
The book begins with an overview of external beam treatment planning principles, inverse planning and advanced planning tools, and descriptions of all components in simulation and verification. Following these introductory chapters are disease-site examples, including central nervous system, head and neck, breast, thoracic, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, gynecologic, lymphoma, and soft tissue sarcoma. The book concludes with expert guidance on planning for pediatric cancers and how to tailor palliative plans. Essential for all radiation therapy team members, including trainees, this book is for those who wish to learn or improve their treatment planning skills and understand the different treatment planning processes, plan evaluation, and patient setup.
KEY FEATURES:
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<li>Provides basic principles of treatment planning</li>
<li>Contains step-by-step, illustrated descriptions of the treatment planning process</li>
<li>Discusses the pros and cons of advanced treatment planning tools, such as auto-planning, knowledge-based planning, and multi-criteria based planning</li>
<li>Describes each primary treatment site from simulation, patient immobilization, and creation of various treatment plans to plan evaluations</li>
<li>Includes instructive sample plans to highlight best practices</li>
<li>Comes with access to the fully downloadable eBook</li>
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Strategies for Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Awareness and preparedness for potential complications in the aftermath of acute stroke is as important as initial treatment to achieve favorable clinical outcomes. Complications of Acute Stroke: A Concise Guide to Prevention, Recognition, and Management is the first book to focus exclusively on specific post-acute stroke complications that require timely and urgent attention. This practical, evidence-based guide is written for clinicians who provide in-hospital care to stroke patients and covers the broad range of medical and neurological issues that may manifest in the first 24 to 72 hours following ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke.
This book will assist neurologists, neurosurgeons, intensivists, hospitalists, and other team members in the optimal management of acute stroke patients. It provides a roadmap for assessing risk and monitoring, recognizing, and managing emergent problems that can lead to neurological deterioration or worsening. Chapters by specialists on the frontlines are formatted with structured headings that detail pathophysiology, preventive measures, identification, and management strategies. For quick and targeted reference at the point of care, boxed “Key Points”, tables, flowcharts or algorithms, and associated imaging are also included.
Key Features:
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<li>Practical guide to identify complications in acute stroke patients</li>
<li>Easy to understand description of the pathophysiology underlying various complications</li>
<li>Structured format for quick access to essential content</li>
<li>Three-pillar approach of prevention, recognition, and effective management</li>
<li>Detailed prevention strategies and treatment interventions for each complication</li>
<li>Purchase includes access to the eBook for use on most mobile devices or computer</li>
</ul>

Complications of Acute Stroke: A Concise Guide to Prevention, Recognition, and Management

Behrouz DO, Reza

Birnbaum MD, Lee

Nursing

Updated and expanded, the second edition of Neurocritical Care Board Review contains multiple-choice questions that cover the breadth of topics tested on the neurocritical care boards with answers and rationales for self-study. Completely and thoroughly revised to reflect the requirements for initial certification or recertification in Neurocritical Care with the latest findings of the most recent clinical trials in vascular neurology, neurocritical care, and critical care medicine incorporated. Organized to reflect the training curriculum and exam blueprint, this neurocritical care review book now contains 740 questions addressing both neuroscience critical care and general critical care core knowledge. Detailed explanations are provided for each question along with references for further study. Case questions with angiograms, EEG and monitoring waveforms, CT perfusion scans, and other images allow candidates to familiarize themselves with the tools that form a significant part of the exam. This neurocritical care study text is an excellent resource not only for board preparation but for topical review for residents and fellows from all disciplines of medicine rotating in the neurocritical care unit as it is easy to read, concise, and portable with case examples and imaging to further guide education. Trainees taking the surgical or medicine critical care boards will also find it useful as it covers the neurocritical care component of their board curriculums. Key Features: <ul>
<li>Over 90 entirely new questions added to ensure coverage of the full range of topics tested on neurocritical care boards and essential to training</li> <li>Revised questions, answers, and references to reflect current science and practice</li> <li>Comprehensive high-yield review of both neurological and general critical care topics</li> <li>New chapter on critical care EEG and more image-based case questions to augment learning</li> <li>Digital access to the eBook for neurocritical care review on any device</li> </ul>

Neurocritical Care Board Review: Questions and Answers, Second Edition – Comprehensive Neurocritical Care Review Book with 740 Practice Questions, Includes Digital eBook Access

Revised and updated second edition of Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders: Clinical Guide to Diagnosis, Medical Management, and Rehabilitation, the only comprehensive but practical source of core information on multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating disorders. Intended as a ready reference for clinicians who provide ongoing care to MS patients, this book combines evidence-based science with experience-based guidance to present current standards and management protocols from leading MS centers.
Beginning with the scientific underpinnings of MS for clinicians, the book proceeds through diagnosis, including initial symptoms, criteria and classification, imaging, and differential diagnosis, and onto approved treatments for the various MS types and emerging therapies. Later parts of the book discuss symptom management and rehabilitation with chapters focusing on specific side effects, along with considerations for special populations, comorbidities, societal and family issues, and related autoimmune disorders that are often mistaken for MS.
Throughout, chapters include lists of Key Points both for clinicians and for patients and families, and management pearls are boxed for quick reference and clinical utility. Illustrations, tables, algorithms, assessment scales, and up-to-date MRI imaging enrich the text, making this a wide-ranging clinical reference for all members of the MS care team.
New to the Second Edition:
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<li>Includes summary recommendations from new AAN practice guidelines for use of DMTs</li>
<li>All chapters updated to reflect the latest literature and diagnostic criteria</li>
<li>Five entirely new chapters added to expand coverage of treatment, rehabilitation and symptom management, and special issues related to MS</li>
<li>Treatment section has been completely revised to better capture current approaches to disease modifying therapies, with separate chapters devoted to injection and oral therapies, infusion therapies, and treatments for progressive forms of MS</li>
<li>Related diseases section significantly expanded to include transverse myelitis, autoimmune encephalitis, and neurosarcoidosis</li>
</ul>

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders: Clinical Guide to Diagnosis, Medical Management, and Rehabilitation

Praise for the previous edition:
“Approaches near perfection…This is an excellent introduction to infectious diseases by a group of authors who take a straightforward and bullet-point approach to thinking and talking about clinical issues…”―Doody’s Reviews
Updated second edition of the concise but comprehensive handbook of clinical infectious disease for students, residents, primary care medical providers, nurses, and PAs. Written in outline format with short, focused chapters, the book presents a systematic method for understanding basic mechanisms, establishing a diagnosis, and implementing appropriate treatment for commonly encountered problems.
Essentials of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Second Edition begins with a general framework covering clinical reasoning, antimicrobial agents and microbiology, and antimicrobial stewardship. Individual chapters devoted to the broad range of infectious diseases are organized by body system and feature targeted presentation of pathogenesis and risk factors, microbial causes, clinical manifestations, patient work-up, diagnostic criteria, and medical, antimicrobial, and surgical management. The book also addresses important related topics including fever and neutropenia, approach to evaluating ectoparasite-related infections, sepsis and travel medicine, infection control, and hospital epidemiology. Designed for busy practitioners at any level looking to sharpen the clinical problem-solving skills required to provide the highest quality care to patients with infectious diseases.
Key Features:
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<li>Presents core clinical infectious disease topics in concise easy-to-read format</li>
<li>Revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the field consistent with evidence-based literature and current clinical practice guidelines</li>
<li>Six new chapters on Lyme disease, anorectal infections, travel medicine, dental infections, antimicrobial stewardship, and clinical reasoning and statistics</li>
<li>Focus on the approach to evaluation and management of the patient</li>
<li>Incorporates essential antimicrobial therapy information with adult, pediatric, and OB-GYN dosing considerations</li>
</ul>

Essentials of Clinical Infectious Diseases

Handbook of Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care is a practical guide to providing evidence-based and value-based care to adult and pediatric cancer patients experiencing severe symptoms and stressors due to cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment, and comorbid conditions. This accessible reference provides the art and science behind the whole-person and family approach to care by delivering the best practices to relieving a cancer patient’s symptoms across physical, psychosocial, and spiritual dimensions. Unlike other resources, this book covers all dimensions of palliative care but with a special emphasis on primary palliative care. Part One of the handbook provides the essential background and principles of supportive oncology and palliative care, including chapters on understanding the adult and pediatric patient and family illness experience, the roles and responsibilities of the palliative care team, and the art of the palliative care assessment interview. Part Two covers symptom management and includes ten chapters considering the major physical and psychosocial symptoms a cancer patient may face―neurologic, cardiac, respiratory, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, psychiatric, sleep and fatigue, pain, and psychosocial and spiritual distress. Part Three addresses special considerations and issues that an oncologist, physician, nurse or other healthcare provider often face in these settings, including chapters on intimacy, sexuality, and fertility issues, grief and bereavement, running a family meeting, care for the caregiver, and survivorship.
Written by expert clinicians, this state-of-the-art handbook is a necessary resource for any oncologist, nurse, primary care physician, psychosocial expert, or related practitioner who endeavors to improve quality of life and provide healing to those suffering from cancer and its treatment.
Key Features:
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<li>Provides the binding principles of palliative care for pediatrics, adults and families from diverse cultures and spiritual beliefs</li>
<li>Easy-to-read format makes extracting content fast and convenient for both the clinical and educational setting</li>
<li>Guides the clinician and practitioner through the palliative care assessment process, including the appropriate questions for the palliative care interview</li>
<li>Interdisciplinary team approach to psychosocial and spiritual care</li>
<li>Includes access to the fully searchable downloadable eBook</li>
</ul>

Handbook of Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care: Whole-Person Adult and Pediatric Care

Berger MD MSN, Ann

Hinds PhD RN FAAN, Pamela

Puchalski MD MS FACP FAAHPM, Christina

This fourth edition of the incomparable review bible for the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Board Examination has been thoroughly updated to reflect current practice and the core knowledge tested on the exam. Recognized for its organization, consistency, and clarity through editions, this PM&amp;R book distills the essentials and provides focused reviews of all major PM&amp;R topics including stroke, traumatic brain injury, musculoskeletal medicine, spinal cord injuries, pain management, and more. Every chapter in the fourth edition has been rigorously evaluated and refreshed to ensure that the information is accurate and up to date. Sections on cancer treatment and rehabilitation, rheumatologic disease, and ultrasound have been significantly upgraded to incorporate new board requirements and changes in criteria for diagnosis and management. Written in outline format for easy access to information, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Board Review, Fourth Edition is modeled on the content blueprint for the Self-Assessment Examination for Residents (SAE-R) used by residents nationwide. Board pearls are indicated with an open-book icon to highlight key concepts and flag important clinical and board-eligible aspects of each topic. The topics are divided into major subspecialty areas written by author teams with clinical expertise in the subject and reviewed by senior specialists in each area. More than 500 signature illustrations―now with color added―clarify and reinforce concepts. In addition to its proven value as the primary resource for PM&amp;R Board preparation and MOC, the book is also a trusted clinical reference for day-to-day practice needs. New to the Fourth Edition: 
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<li>Thoroughly reviewed, revised, and updated to reflect current practice and core knowledge tested on Boards</li> <li>Significant upgrades to ultrasound content</li> <li>Expanded sections on cancer treatments and rehabilitation along with rheumatologic guidelines and treatments, including new criteria for diagnosis</li> <li>Addition of color to highlight artwork and content areas</li> <li>Purchase includes access to the eBook for use on most mobile devices and computers</li>
</ul>
 Key Features: <ul>
<li>Board ""Pearls"" are highlighted with an open-book icon to flag key concepts and stress high-yield aspects of each topic</li> <li>Covers all topics on the content outline for the Self-Assessment Examination for Residents (SAE-R) used by residents nationwide</li> <li>Authored by physicians with special interest and expertise in their respective areas and reviewed by senior specialists in those areas</li> <li>Organizes information in outline format and by topic for easy reference</li> <li>Includes over 500 detailed illustrations to clarify concepts</li> <li>Provides updated epidemiologic and statistical data throughout</li> <li>Publisher: Springer Publishing</li>
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 Praise for the Third Edition: “This book does an excellent job and is currently the only known review book for physiatrists. The author has done it again, producing an excellent, concise resource that provides clinicians with an optimal solution for studying for the written board examination."" –Doody’s Reviews

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Board Review, Fourth Edition (Paperback) – Highly Rated PM&R Book

Cuccurullo MD, Sara J

"Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller.\nPraise for the First Edition\n""The word textbook conjures up images of dusty volumes sitting in my office that are never touched. This is not that kind of textbook. It is marketed as the first fully electronic neurology text. Videos show patients describing symptoms in their own words. This is a wonderful idea to teach how symptoms, pathologies, and exam findings are correlated... Overall, this is an excellent reference and teaching tool. I hope Dr. Howard’s vision is contagious and we will see many more publications like this in the near future.""\n--The Neurodiagnostic Journal Reconfigured and completely updated second edition of the first interactive and fully electronic neurology textbook, now web-enabled for immediate access on mobile devices or computer. This innovative neurology tool weaves together narrative text, clinical vignettes, imaging, anatomy, pathology, and hundreds of exam videos to convey the rich and varied presentation of the full spectrum of neurologic disease. Whether you’re a medical student studying clinical neurology, a resident, or an experienced neurologist, this video textbook is an excellent resource.\nThis fully revised second edition picks up where the first edition left off. With all the original videos and over 100 newly added clips to capture manifestations not already represented, the text serves as a comprehensive visual tool and library for students, instructors, and practitioners at any level. The latest diagnostic and treatment information is integrated throughout to reflect the current literature and evidence-based practice guidelines. Such a unique approach brings users closer than ever to real experience, hearing patients describe symptoms in their own words and seeing neurologic exams, pathologies, and findings demonstrated on screen. No other text provides such a rich and varied presentation of neurologic disease and the art of diagnosis and management as this contemporary second edition of Neurology Video Textbook.\nKey Features: 
Learn neurology by seeing and doing Hundreds of videos―over 100 new to this edition―shot at a major city hospital put you in the exam room with actual patients Text covers all areas of neurology with an integrated presentation of history and diagnosis, exam findings, and management for common and rare conditions Incorporates over 2,300 anatomical, pathological, and radiographic images, with many new examples to enhance representation of neurology topics All content reviewed, revised, and updated for the Second Edition to ensure currency\nSupported Browsers: Chrome version 56 or higher, Safari version 10 or higher, Firefox version 59 or higher, Microsoft Edge latest version, and Internet Explorer version 11, 10, and 9"

Neurology Video Textbook, Second Edition

Howard MD, Jonathan

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