Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety

Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety
Publisher:National Academies Press | Pages:428 | 2009-04-30 | ISBN:0309127769 | PDF

Medical residents in hospitals are often required to be on duty for long hours. In 2003, the organization overseeing graduate medical education adopted common program requirements to restrict resident workweeks, including limits to an average of 80 hours over 4 weeks and the longest consecutive period of work to 30 hours in order to protect patients and residents from unsafe conditions resulting from excessive fatigue. "Resident Duty Hours" provides a timely examination of how those requirements were implemented and their impact on safety, education, and the training institutions. An in-depth review of the evidence on sleep and human performance indicated a need to increase opportunities for sleep during residency training to prevent acute and chronic sleep deprivation and minimize the risk of fatigue-related errors. In addition to recommending opportunities for on-duty sleep during long duty periods and breaks for sleep of appropriate lengths between work periods, the committee also recommends enhancements of supervision, appropriate workload, and changes in the work environment to improve conditions for safety and learning. All residents, medical educators, those involved with academic training institutions, specialty societies, professional groups, and consumer/patient safety organizations will find this book useful to advocate for an improved culture of safety.

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100 Questions & Answers About Bi-Polar

Ava T. Albrecht, Charles Herrick, "100 Q&A About Bi-Polar (Manic-Depressive) Disorder"

Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. | 2006 | ISBN: 0763732311 | 256 pages | PDF | 12,1 MB

EMPOWER YOURSELF! Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient, a friend, or relative, this book offers help. The only volume to provide both the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Bipolar (Manic-Depressive) Disorder gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, coping strategies, sources of support, and much more. Written by a prominent psychiatrist, with actual patient commentary, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the medical, psychological, and emotional turmoil of this debilitating condition.

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100 Q&A About Depression

Ava Albrecht, "100 Q&A About Depression"
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. | 2005 | ISBN: 0763745677 | 180 pages | PDF | 10,9 MB
Approximately 35 to 40 million Americans will deal with severe depression at some point in their lives. Whether you’re a newly diagnosed patient, or a friend or relative, this book offers help. The only volume available to provide the doctor’s and patient’s view, 100 Questions and Answers About Depression gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, coping strategies -- for both patient and caregiver, sources of support, and much more. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this debilitating condition.

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Clinical Pediatric Neurology

Ronald B. David "Clinical Pediatric Neurology | Demos Medical Publishing | English | 2009-04-30 | ISBN: 1933864222 | 656 pages | PDF | 10,4 MB

This new edition fills an important gap in the literature by providing a concise treatment of pediatric neurology that focuses on the most commonly seen diseases with clinical guidelines that help today´s busy practitioner find answers quickly. The book is divided into three sections starting with the tools required for a pediatric neurologic evaluation, then moving through classic disease states and disorders with the last section focusing on approaches to key clinical problems in children and adolescents. Each section is edited by the key opinion leaders in the field with dynamic features that get to the information quickly including:

* Tools for diagnosis
* Chapter opening outlines
* Disease ""Features"" tables
* "Pearls and Perils" boxes
* "Consider Consultation When" boxes
* Selected annotated bibliographies
* Key Clinical Questions

Ronald B. David, MD - Ronald B. David, MD, Child Neurological Services, Richmond, Virginia.

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Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference (4 Vol.Set)

John H. Byrne, "Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference (4 Vol.Set)"
Academic Press 2008 | ISBN-10: 0123705045 | 3200 Pages | PDF | 78,9 MB

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The study of Learning and Memory is a central topic in Neuroscience and Psychology. It is also a very good example of a field that has come into maturity on all levels - in the protein chemistry and molecular biology of the cellular events underlying learning and memory, the properties and functions of neuronal networks, the psychology and behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory. Many of the basic research findings are directly applicable in the treatment of diseases and aging phenomena, and have found their way into educational theory and praxis.
Learning and Memory - A comprehensive reference is the most comprehensive source of information about learning and memory ever assembled, and the definitive reference work on the topic. In four volumes, Editor-in-Chief John H. Byrne (University of Texas), together with volume editors Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University) for Systems and Neuroscience, Randolf Menzel (Freie Universität Berlin) for Behavioral Approaches, Henry Roediger (Washington University) for Cognitive Psychology, and David Sweatt (University of Alabama, Birmingham) for Molecular Mechanisms, have put together a truly authoritative collection of overview articles in 159 chapters on over 3000 pages. Learning and Memory - A Comprehensive Reference presents an extensive, integrated summary of the present state of research in the neurobiology and psychology of learning and memory and covers an enormous range of intellectual territory. With topics ranging from the neurochemistry and neurobiology of learning at the cellular and synaptic levels, systems neurobiology, the study of remarkable capabilities in animals (such as homing), ethological and behavioristic analyses, mechanisms, psychology, and disorders of learning and memory in humans, the work broadly covers all topics in the neurobiology and psychology of learning and memory. There is no other handbook with such a comprehensive coverage and depth. The authors selected are the leading scholars for the particular topics on which they write.

* The most comprehensive and authoritative resource available on the topic of learning and memory and its mechanisms
* Representing outstanding scholarship, each chapter is written by a leader in the field and an expert in the topic area
* Relevant and useful for newcomers and advanced researchers alike
* All topics represent the most up to date research
* A must have set for all medical, neuroscience and psychology libraries, and of great value to neighbouring disciplines, including education
* Selected chapters from the on-line version can be used to great effect in teaching
* Full color throughout, hundreds of illustrations, four volumes, 159 chapters, 3000 pages

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An interactive Online Guide to the Neurologic Examination with Video Demonstrations – Companion to “Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases”

The NeuroExam Video demonstrates how to perform a complete neurologic examination. It is intended for medical students, residents, and other students in the health care professions. We recommend that this video be used in the classroom setting, where it can be shown in its entirety or using selected excerpts. Students can then review the exam by visiting neuroexam.com, and can learn about the neuroanatomical interpretation of the exam by reading the textbook Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases.
The NeuroExam Video introduces the neurologic exam, and then presents a detailed demonstration of the exam consisting of the following six subdivisions:

1. Mental status

2. Cranial nerves

3. Motor exam

4. Reflexes

5. Coordination and gait

6. Sensory exam

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In the era of modern neuroimaging methods, the neurologic exam remains an essential diagnostic tool. It is a critical way station in the clinical decision making process, dictating whether imaging studies or other tests are required. In addition, the neurologic exam enables the clinician to decide what regions should be imaged, and when emergency therapeutic interventions are needed prior to any diagnostic tests. By understanding how to perform and interpret the neurologic exam, health care professionals in all specialties can help preserve the functioning of the nervous system, vastly improving patient quality of life.
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List of all Videos Names
· INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
2. General Exam
· MENTAL STATUS
3. Mental Status Introduction
Level of Alertness, Attention & Cooperation
4. AttentionOrientation
5. OrientationMemory
6. Recent Memory
7. Remote MemoryLanguage
8. Spontaneous Speech
9. Comprehension
10. Naming
11. Repetition
12. Reading and WritingCalculations, Right-Left Confusion, Finger Agnosia, Agraphia
13. Calculations
14. Right Ear Left ThumbApraxia
15. PraxisNeglect & Constructions
16. Neglect Drawing Tests
17. Copy DrawingSequencing Tasks & Frontal Release Signs
18. Grasp Reflex
19. Manual Alternating Sequence Task
20. Written Alternating Sequence Task
21. Auditory Go-No-GoLogic & Abstraction
22. Analogies, LogicDelusions & Hallucinations
23. PsychiatryMood
· CRANIAL NERVES
Olfaction (CN I)
24. OlfactionOphthalmoscopic Exam (CN II)
25. Ophthalmoscopic ExamVision (CN II)
26. Red Desaturation
27. Visual Fields
28. Blink to ThreatPupillary Responses (CN II, III)
29. Pupil Light Reflex
30. Swinging Flashlight
31. AccomodationExtraocular Movements (CN III, IV, VI)
32. Smooth Pursuit
33. Saccades
34. OKNs
35. Oculocephalic TestingFacial Sensation and Muscles of Mastication (CN V)
36. Facial Sensation
37. Corneal Reflex
38. Masseter
39. Jaw Jerk ReflexMuscles of Facial Expression and Taste (CN VII)
40. Facial Muscles
41. TasteHearing and Vestibular Sense (CN VIII)
42. Hearing
43. Positional Vertigo TestPalate Elevation and Gag Reflex (CN IX, X)
44. Palate ElevationMuscles of Articulation (CN V, VII, IX, X, XII)
45. ArticulationSternocleidomastoid and Trapezius Muscles (CN XI)
46. CN XI TestingTongue Muscles (CN XII)
47. Tongue Protrusion
· MOTOR EXAM
Observation
Inspection
48. Atrophy? FasciculationsPalpationMuscle tone
49. Upper Extremity Tone
50. Lower Extremity ToneFunctional testing
51. Drift
52. Rapid Hand Movements
53. Rapid Foot TappingStrength of individual muscle groups
54. Upper Extremity Strength
55. Detailed Hand Test
56. Lower Extremity Strength
57. Foot Eversion, Inversion
· REFLEXES
Deep Tendon Reflexes
58. Deep Tendon ReflexesPlantar Response
59. Plantar ResponseFinger Flexors
60. Finger FlexorsReflexes Tested in Special Situations
61. Special Reflexes
· COORDINATION AND GAIT
Appendicular Coordination
62. Rapid Alternating Movements
63. Precision Finger Tap
64. Finger-Nose-Finger
65. Heel-Shin
66. OvershootRomberg test
67. Romberg TestGait
68. Ordinary Gait, Tandem Gait
69. Forced Gait
· SENSORY EXAM
Primary sensation — asymmetry, sensory level
70. Pin Prick
71. Temperature
72. Vibration Sense
73. Joint Position Sense
74. Two-Point DiscriminationCortical sensation, including extinction
75. Graphesthesia
76. Stereognosis
77. Tactile Extinction

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Genetics For Dummies by Tara Rodden Robinson, PhD.

Genetics For Dummies

Genetics For Dummies by Tara Rodden Robinson, PhD.
Wiley Publishing, Inc. (Sept. 2005) | 384 Pages
ISBN: 978-0-7645-9554-7
PDF | English | 7.41 MB

Want to know more about genetics? This non-intimidating guide gets you up to speed on all the fundamentals. From dominant and recessive inherited traits to the DNA double-helix, you get clear explanations in easy-to-understand terms. Plus, you'll see how people are applying genetic science to fight disease, develop new products, solve crimes... and even clone cats.
Discover:
* What geneticists do
* How traits are passed on
* How genetic counseling works
* The basics of cloning
* The role of DNA in forensics
* The scoop on the Human Genome Project

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