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How to Make a Killing

Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine

by Tom Mueller ...

**As Featured on What Now? with Trevor NoahFinalist for the 2024 New York Public Library's Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismInspiring and deeply distressing.” —Ezekiel J. Emanuel, author of Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?How did a lifesaving medical breakthrough become a for-profit enterprise that threatens many of the people it’s meant to save?**Six decades ago, ... Read more

$16.46 CAD

**As Featured on What Now? with Trevor NoahFinalist for the 2024 New York Public Library's Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismInspiring and deeply distressing.” —Ezekiel J. Emanuel, author of Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?How did a lifesaving medical breakthrough become a for-profit enterprise that threatens many of the people it’s meant to save?**Six decades ago,
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Coping with Kidney Disease

A 12-Step Treatment Program to Help You Avoid Dialysis

by Mackenzie Walser, Betsy Thorpe ...

A revolutionary program that can indefinitely postpone the need for dialysisIf you've been diagnosed with kidney failure, this book could save your life. If you suffer from diabetes, hypertension, obesity, or any of a host of conditions that put you at risk for kidney disease, you owe it to yourself to read what is in this book. If you are among the 60,000 North Americans who go on dialysis each ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

A revolutionary program that can indefinitely postpone the need for dialysisIf you've been diagnosed with kidney failure, this book could save your life. If you suffer from diabetes, hypertension, obesity, or any of a host of conditions that put you at risk for kidney disease, you owe it to yourself to read what is in this book. If you are among the 60,000 North Americans who go on dialysis each
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Sorrow's Reward

by Robert Allan Bear, MD ...

Sorrow’s Reward takes place in a dialysis unit, where patients with kidney failure receive their treatment. Reflecting the spirit of Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology and employing fiction’s unique power, it gives voice to the silent ruminations of patients, doctors, health care workers, administrators, health care industry representatives, and family members as they reflect upon their ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

Sorrow’s Reward takes place in a dialysis unit, where patients with kidney failure receive their treatment. Reflecting the spirit of Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology and employing fiction’s unique power, it gives voice to the silent ruminations of patients, doctors, health care workers, administrators, health care industry representatives, and family members as they reflect upon their
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Edited by Caroline Gordon, David Isenberg ...

Series series Oxford Rheumatology Library
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (often abbreviated to SLE or lupus) is a systemic autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the body, causing the immune system to attack the body's cells and tissue, and resulting in inflammation and tissue damage. This new addition to the Oxford Rheumatology Library series provides a practical approach to the assessment and management of patients with this ... Read more

$31.67 CAD

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (often abbreviated to SLE or lupus) is a systemic autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the body, causing the immune system to attack the body's cells and tissue, and resulting in inflammation and tissue damage. This new addition to the Oxford Rheumatology Library series provides a practical approach to the assessment and management of patients with this
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Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed

The Complete Guide to Managing Kidney Disease and Avoiding Dialysis

by Susan Zogheib MHS, RD, LDN ...

Your new kidney-friendly diet made easy with meal plans and flavorful recipesWhen you've just been diagnosed with stage 1-4 chronic kidney disease, learning to follow diet restrictions can be a challenge. But your meals don't have to be complicated or boring to support your health and slow the disease's progression. Keep it simple and flavorful with the Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed. ... Read more

$12.23 CAD

Your new kidney-friendly diet made easy with meal plans and flavorful recipesWhen you've just been diagnosed with stage 1-4 chronic kidney disease, learning to follow diet restrictions can be a challenge. But your meals don't have to be complicated or boring to support your health and slow the disease's progression. Keep it simple and flavorful with the Renal Diet Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed.
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Handbook of Critical Care Nephrology

by Jay L. Koyner, Joel Topf, Edgar Lerma ...

Designed specifically for nephrologists and trainees practicing in the ICU, Handbook of Critical Care Nephrology is a portable critical care reference with a unique and practical nephrology focus. Full-color illustrations, numerous algorithms, and intuitively arranged contents make this manual a must-have resource for nephrology in today’s ICU. ... Read more

$90.71 CAD

Designed specifically for nephrologists and trainees practicing in the ICU, Handbook of Critical Care Nephrology is a portable critical care reference with a unique and practical nephrology focus. Full-color illustrations, numerous algorithms, and intuitively arranged contents make this manual a must-have resource for nephrology in today’s ICU.
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Handbook of Nutrition and the Kidney

by William E. Mitch, T. Alp Ikizler ...

Series series Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Handbook Series
Thoroughly revised and updated for its Sixth Edition, this handbook is a practical, easily accessible guide to nutritional management of patients with acute and chronic renal diseases. Leading international experts present state-of-the-art information on these patients' nutritional requirements and offer dietary recommendations, with menus and lists of supplements to enhance patient compliance. ... Read more

$58.49 CAD

Thoroughly revised and updated for its Sixth Edition, this handbook is a practical, easily accessible guide to nutritional management of patients with acute and chronic renal diseases. Leading international experts present state-of-the-art information on these patients' nutritional requirements and offer dietary recommendations, with menus and lists of supplements to enhance patient compliance.
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Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

by John Kellum, Rinaldo Bellomo, Claudio Ronco ...

Series series Pittsburgh Critical Care Medicine
In the past decade, CRRT has moved from a niche therapy within specific specialty centers to the standard of care for management of critically ill patients with acute renal failure. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy provides concise, evidence-based, to-the-point bedside guidance about this treatment modality, offering quick reference answers to clinicians' questions about treatments and ... Read more

$32.39 CAD

In the past decade, CRRT has moved from a niche therapy within specific specialty centers to the standard of care for management of critically ill patients with acute renal failure. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy provides concise, evidence-based, to-the-point bedside guidance about this treatment modality, offering quick reference answers to clinicians' questions about treatments and
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Edited by Robert G. Lahita ...

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Fourth Edition, provides an understanding of the basic mechanisms as well as the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of lupus. Four-color illustrations throughout, this book is attractive to both the investigative community and clinicians. As lupus has become a paradigm for the study of autoimmune disease, immunologists investigating autoimmunity are becoming more ... Read more

$214.55 CAD

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Fourth Edition, provides an understanding of the basic mechanisms as well as the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of lupus. Four-color illustrations throughout, this book is attractive to both the investigative community and clinicians. As lupus has become a paradigm for the study of autoimmune disease, immunologists investigating autoimmunity are becoming more
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Uremic Toxins

by Toshimitsu Niwa ...

Series Book 50 - Wiley Series on Mass Spectrometry
Reviews all the latest basic and clinical research findingsWith contributions from leading international experts in the field, this book is dedicated to all facets of uremic toxins research, including low molecular weight solutes, protein-bound solutes, and middle molecules. Moreover, it covers everything from basic mass spectrometry research to the latest clinical findings and practices.Uremic ... Read more

$159.99 CAD

Reviews all the latest basic and clinical research findingsWith contributions from leading international experts in the field, this book is dedicated to all facets of uremic toxins research, including low molecular weight solutes, protein-bound solutes, and middle molecules. Moreover, it covers everything from basic mass spectrometry research to the latest clinical findings and practices.Uremic
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El sistema renal

by Vincent Lee ...

Presenta el conocimiento básico de la ciencia básica y las condiciones clínicas que necesitan los estudiantes de medicina, ofreciendo una visión concisa y totalmente integrada del sistema renal. Numerosos casos clínicos ayudan a relacionar los principios clave con la práctica actual, con vínculos a las habilidades clínicas, la investigación clínica y la terapéutica. Cada capítulo se basa en un ... Read more

$21.41 CAD

Presenta el conocimiento básico de la ciencia básica y las condiciones clínicas que necesitan los estudiantes de medicina, ofreciendo una visión concisa y totalmente integrada del sistema renal. Numerosos casos clínicos ayudan a relacionar los principios clave con la práctica actual, con vínculos a las habilidades clínicas, la investigación clínica y la terapéutica. Cada capítulo se basa en un
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Physiology of Membrane Disorders

Edited by Thomas Andreoli ...

$49.85 CAD
A Simple Guide To Urinary Stones, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions

by Kenneth Kee ...

This book describes Urinary Stones, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related DiseasesThe pain of a urinary stone stuck in the ureter (the tube from the kidney to the bladder) is so severe that it has been described as second in severity to pregnancy labor pains.The pains are usually down the flanks of the abdomen and accompanied by blood in the urine.Drinking lots of water usually clears the stuck ... Read more

$4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book describes Urinary Stones, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related DiseasesThe pain of a urinary stone stuck in the ureter (the tube from the kidney to the bladder) is so severe that it has been described as second in severity to pregnancy labor pains.The pains are usually down the flanks of the abdomen and accompanied by blood in the urine.Drinking lots of water usually clears the stuck
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Diabetic Nephropathy, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions

by Kenneth Kee ...

Diabetic nephropathy is a form of kidney damage that often happens over time in people with diabetes.People with diabetes are at higher risk of renal atherosclerosis, urinary tract infections, papillary necrosis and glomerular lesions (e.g., from basement membrane thickening and glomerulosclerosis)Diabetic nephropathy may be diffuse or nodular (Kimmelstiel-Wilson lesion).The early stages produce a ... Read more

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Diabetic nephropathy is a form of kidney damage that often happens over time in people with diabetes.People with diabetes are at higher risk of renal atherosclerosis, urinary tract infections, papillary necrosis and glomerular lesions (e.g., from basement membrane thickening and glomerulosclerosis)Diabetic nephropathy may be diffuse or nodular (Kimmelstiel-Wilson lesion).The early stages produce a
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Pediatric Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

Principles and Practice

by Farahnak Assadi, Fatemeh Sharbaf ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
This book provides a current understanding of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapies (CRRT) techniques with a focus on drug dosing in critically ill children receiving CRRT. Strategies include the role of therapeutic drug monitoring, effect of CRRT on drug pharmacokinetics, variations in the drugs properties, newer kidney injury biomarkers and simple and easy methods for estimating drug clearance. ... Read more

$98.72 CAD

This book provides a current understanding of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapies (CRRT) techniques with a focus on drug dosing in critically ill children receiving CRRT. Strategies include the role of therapeutic drug monitoring, effect of CRRT on drug pharmacokinetics, variations in the drugs properties, newer kidney injury biomarkers and simple and easy methods for estimating drug clearance.
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Cardiorenal Syndrome in Heart Failure

Edited by W. H. Wilson Tang, Frederik H. Verbrugge, Wilfried Mullens ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
This comprehensive manual reviews the management of cardiorenal syndrome in heart failure. Chapters are structured in a practically applicable and easy-to-follow format with realistic case vignettes and key clinical management questions and answers, followed by a brief discussion of underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of a patient with cardiorenal syndrome. Building from this case, key ... Read more

$98.72 CAD

This comprehensive manual reviews the management of cardiorenal syndrome in heart failure. Chapters are structured in a practically applicable and easy-to-follow format with realistic case vignettes and key clinical management questions and answers, followed by a brief discussion of underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of a patient with cardiorenal syndrome. Building from this case, key
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Chronische Nierziekte Begrijpen

Een Praktische Gids voor CKD

by Hebe A.I. Salvie ...

Translated by Hebe A.I. Salvie ...

Series Book 1 - Nefrologie
De diagnose chronische nierziekte roept vaak veel vragen op. Deze gids, "Chronische Nierziekte Begrijpen", biedt u uitgebreide en gestructureerde informatie om u te ondersteunen op uw pad bij deze aandoening. Het boek behandelt het volledige spectrum van de ziekte, van de eerste onderzoeken in de nefrologie tot de overweging van een niervervangende therapie.U krijgt een helder inzicht in de ... Read more

$23.01 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

De diagnose chronische nierziekte roept vaak veel vragen op. Deze gids, "Chronische Nierziekte Begrijpen", biedt u uitgebreide en gestructureerde informatie om u te ondersteunen op uw pad bij deze aandoening. Het boek behandelt het volledige spectrum van de ziekte, van de eerste onderzoeken in de nefrologie tot de overweging van een niervervangende therapie.U krijgt een helder inzicht in de
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Urogynaecology for the MRCOG and Beyond

by Natalia Price, Simon Jackson ...

Series series Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Beyond
While the upper renal tract remains the sole preserve of the urologist, gynaecologists have traditionally been involved in the assessment and treatment of female lower urinary tract infection disorders. Childbirth is a major causal factor in urogynaecology, and women often present with a combination of menstrual, genital, urinary and colorectal symptoms which require a holistic approach. This book ... Read more

$33.83 CAD

While the upper renal tract remains the sole preserve of the urologist, gynaecologists have traditionally been involved in the assessment and treatment of female lower urinary tract infection disorders. Childbirth is a major causal factor in urogynaecology, and women often present with a combination of menstrual, genital, urinary and colorectal symptoms which require a holistic approach. This book
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Manual of Urodynamics for Gynaecologists

Edited by Ranee Thakar, Philip Toozs-Hobson, Lucia Dolan ...

This manual is a concise, straightforward guide for learning how to perform high-quality urodynamic investigations. Experienced editors and contributors provide easy-to-follow practical information on pre-test assessment of urodynamic function, how to set up urodynamic equipment, and how to perform individual urodynamic techniques, including cystometry, videocystourethrography and ambulatory ... Read more

$51.11 CAD

This manual is a concise, straightforward guide for learning how to perform high-quality urodynamic investigations. Experienced editors and contributors provide easy-to-follow practical information on pre-test assessment of urodynamic function, how to set up urodynamic equipment, and how to perform individual urodynamic techniques, including cystometry, videocystourethrography and ambulatory
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International Yearbook of Nephrology 1990

by Nobuhiro Sugino, C. M. Kjellstrand ...

Series Book 2 - International Yearbooks of Nephrology
After the great success of the fIrst issue of the series, the International Yearbook of Nephrology 1989, we were encouraged to proceed in our editorial venture to update nephrologists yearly, on all rapidly-changing areas of nephrology. Thus we have chosen new topics and appointed experts in the fIeld, asking them to give an objective review of the topic, up-dating the readers on the world-wide ... Read more

$139.67 CAD

After the great success of the fIrst issue of the series, the International Yearbook of Nephrology 1989, we were encouraged to proceed in our editorial venture to update nephrologists yearly, on all rapidly-changing areas of nephrology. Thus we have chosen new topics and appointed experts in the fIeld, asking them to give an objective review of the topic, up-dating the readers on the world-wide
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KIDNEY DISEASE FOOD CHART

Authorized Foods for the Renal Diet - A Compilation of 300+ Low Sodium, Potassium, Phosphorus, and Protein-Rich Options Along with 30 Wholesome Recipes to Support Chronic Kidney Disease Management

by Felicia O. Pace ...

Are you ready to take control of your kidney health and embark on a transformative journey towards vitality? Introducing the ultimate guide, your compass to optimal well-being: "Kidney Disease Food Chart." Prepare to revolutionize the way you nourish your body and manage chronic kidney disease.A robust and convincing statement: Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and uncertain about how to ... Read more

$5.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Are you ready to take control of your kidney health and embark on a transformative journey towards vitality? Introducing the ultimate guide, your compass to optimal well-being: "Kidney Disease Food Chart." Prepare to revolutionize the way you nourish your body and manage chronic kidney disease.A robust and convincing statement: Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and uncertain about how to
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Pediatric Dialysis

Edited by Bradley A. Warady, Richard N. Fine, Steven R. Alexander, Franz S. Schaefer ...

The provision of optimal dialysis therapy to children requires a thorough understanding of the multi-disciplinary manner in which the pediatric patient is affected by renal insufficiency. Knowledge of the technical aspects of peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis and continuous renal replacement therapy must be complemented by attention to issues such as anemia, renal osteodystrophy, hypertension, ... Read more

$49.85 CAD

The provision of optimal dialysis therapy to children requires a thorough understanding of the multi-disciplinary manner in which the pediatric patient is affected by renal insufficiency. Knowledge of the technical aspects of peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis and continuous renal replacement therapy must be complemented by attention to issues such as anemia, renal osteodystrophy, hypertension,
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Approccio ai disordini dell'EAB

L'Equilibrio Acido-Base nella pratica clinica

by Nicola Maria Vitola ...

Vengono presentati in maniera semplice e facilmente comprensibile gli elementi più importanti sulla corretta definizione dell’equilibrio acido-base. Sono particolarmente evidenziati i percorsi efficaci per l’individuazione dei disordini semplici e misti e tutte quelle nozioni essenziali, utili ad orientarsi al loro interno. Il manuale si rivolge soprattutto a chi si avvicina alle problematiche ... Read more

$7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Vengono presentati in maniera semplice e facilmente comprensibile gli elementi più importanti sulla corretta definizione dell’equilibrio acido-base. Sono particolarmente evidenziati i percorsi efficaci per l’individuazione dei disordini semplici e misti e tutte quelle nozioni essenziali, utili ad orientarsi al loro interno. Il manuale si rivolge soprattutto a chi si avvicina alle problematiche
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Success is just Running out of Mistakes

A Lifelong Quest to Make Hemodialysis Simple, Safe, and Effective

by Dr. Stephen Ash ...

Success is Just Running Out of Mistakes is about a lifelong quest to improve the therapy of kidney failure, especially with hemodialysis technology. Dr. Ash began to write this because of a lack of progress in dialysis therapy. He is tired of physicians and politicians saying that there is a "lack of innovation" among nephrologists. The problem isn't a lack of innovation, but rather a failure to ... Read more

$5.66 CAD

Success is Just Running Out of Mistakes is about a lifelong quest to improve the therapy of kidney failure, especially with hemodialysis technology. Dr. Ash began to write this because of a lack of progress in dialysis therapy. He is tired of physicians and politicians saying that there is a "lack of innovation" among nephrologists. The problem isn't a lack of innovation, but rather a failure to
... Read more

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