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Author | : Jacqueline A. Roemmele |
Publisher | : Avery Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : |
Two survivors of this 'flesh-eating' bacterium explain this horrific tissue-destroying disease. Known to the medical community as necrotizing fascitis (NF), this infection, commonly caused by Strep A bacteria, is often fatal. Until now, there has been no useful information available to the general public. This is the first comprehensive book geared to survivors of the disease, their families, and anyone wishing to learn more about it.
Author | : Susan J English |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781491733301 |
Tom English's surgeon delivered the official report to his wife Susan, ?We?re sorry to tell you, but the odds are against him. He has less than a 5 percent chance of surviving.? On July 14, the feast day of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Susan took Tom to the emergency room, where he was eventually diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, a life-threatening, ?flesh-eating? bacterial infection. At that point, Tom was so septic that all of his vital organs were shutting down and he was now relying on life support. In the hours and days that followed, friends and strangers stormed the heavens with prayers pleading for healing and grace while the hospital staff worked tirelessly to keep Tom alive. This true story recounts how powerful, persistent prayers and intensive medical intervention brought one man through the valley of the shadow of death. This personal narrative is a compilation of the web postings made during Tom's illness and includes his dreams while in a coma.
Author | : Colin G. Kaide |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 683 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3030224457 |
This book contains a variety of medical case studies from actual patients presenting to the emergency department. It includes not only typical cases that present to the ED but also less common, yet very important cases that one can't afford to miss. Each chapter begins with a case – or set of cases with typical and atypical aspects – of the disease in question. This is followed by high-value learning points on the condition with introductory/background points, physiology and pathophysiology of the disease, how to make the diagnosis, and finally how to initiate treatment. The cases provide expert discussion with tips and tricks, personal experience with management of each of the cases, and a follow-up description of the outcome of the cases to provide the reader with closure. To supplement each case study, all 67 chapters include a pattern recognition component that identifies the key diagnostic features of the disease discussed. The chapters conclude with a summary of the diagnostic and treatment details of each condition. Using a concise, easy-to-read, bulleted format, the book helps readers to learn, evaluate, adopt new practices, right now (LEARN). Emergency Medicine Case Studies - LEARNing Rounds: Learn, Evaluate, Adopt, Right Now is an essential resource for a variety of emergency medicine clinicians including experienced physicians, residents, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and medical students rotating in the emergency department. Finally, this book can be used as a basis for small group discussions, especially in emergency medicine training programs.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cells |
ISBN | : 9780815332183 |
Author | : Blythe Woolston |
Publisher | : Carolrhoda Lab ® |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1467731943 |
I should have died quick. But I didn't. I'm a miracle of modern medicine, only the medicine doesn't get much credit, I notice. People say I'm lucky, or I'm blessed, and then they turn away. I'm not the only miracle. There's Odd too. Polly Furnas had The Plan for the future. Get married to Bridger Morgan, for one. College, career, babies. Etc. All the important choices were made. It was all happily-ever-after as a diamond-ring commercial. But The Plan did not include a lethal drug-resistant infection. It did not include “some more reconstruction and scar revision in the future." And it certainly did not include Odd Estes, a trip to Portland in an ancient Cadillac to "tear Bridger a new one," fly fishing, marshmallows, Crisco, or a loaded gun. But plans change. Stories get revised and new choices must be made. Polly and Odd have choices. Surviving or not. Catch or release.
Author | : Carlos V. R. Brown |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2018-11-09 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3319962868 |
The field of emergency general surgery encompasses a wide array of surgical diseases, ranging from the simple to the complex. These diseases may include inflammatory, infectious, and hemorrhagic processes spanning the entire gastrointestinal tract. Complications of abdominal wall hernias, compartment syndromes, skin and soft tissue infections, and surgical diseases are significantly complex in special populations, including elderly, obese, pregnant, immunocompromised, and cirrhotic patients. This book covers emergency general surgery topics in a succinct, practical and understandable fashion. After reviewing the general principles in caring for the emergency general surgery patient, this text discusses current evidence and the best practices stratified by organ system, including esophageal, gastroduodenal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic, small and large bowel, anorectal, thoracic, and hernias. Chapters are written by experts in the field and present a logical, straightforward, and easy to understand approach to the emergency general surgery patient, as well as provide patient care algorithms where appropriate. Emergency General Surgery: A Practical Approach provides surgeons and surgery residents with a practical and evidence-based approach to diagnosing and managing a wide array of surgical diseases encountered on emergency general surgery call.
Author | : Craig H. Collison |
Publisher | : Llumina Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Necrotizing fasciitis |
ISBN | : 9781595261694 |
A physician becomes victim of flesh-eating bacteria, consuming his body, but not shaking his religious faith. A true dramatic account of how fluke bacteria transformed the author from healthy doctor to critically-ill patient and how friends and family kept believing
Author | : Atul Gawande |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003-04-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1429972106 |
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2004-10-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309091934 |
Almost all homes, apartments, and commercial buildings will experience leaks, flooding, or other forms of excessive indoor dampness at some point. Not only is excessive dampness a health problem by itself, it also contributes to several other potentially problematic types of situations. Molds and other microbial agents favor damp indoor environments, and excess moisture may initiate the release of chemical emissions from damaged building materials and furnishings. This new book from the Institute of Medicine examines the health impact of exposures resulting from damp indoor environments and offers recommendations for public health interventions. Damp Indoor Spaces and Health covers a broad range of topics. The book not only examines the relationship between damp or moldy indoor environments and adverse health outcomes but also discusses how and where buildings get wet, how dampness influences microbial growth and chemical emissions, ways to prevent and remediate dampness, and elements of a public health response to the issues. A comprehensive literature review finds sufficient evidence of an association between damp indoor environments and some upper respiratory tract symptoms, coughing, wheezing, and asthma symptoms in sensitized persons. This important book will be of interest to a wide-ranging audience of science, health, engineering, and building professionals, government officials, and members of the public.
Author | : Mark Walderhaug |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781495203619 |
The Bad Bug Book 2nd Edition, released in 2012, provides current information about the major known agents that cause foodborne illness.Each chapter in this book is about a pathogen—a bacterium, virus, or parasite—or a natural toxin that can contaminate food and cause illness. The book contains scientific and technical information about the major pathogens that cause these kinds of illnesses.A separate “consumer box” in each chapter provides non-technical information, in everyday language. The boxes describe plainly what can make you sick and, more important, how to prevent it.The information provided in this handbook is abbreviated and general in nature, and is intended for practical use. It is not intended to be a comprehensive scientific or clinical reference.The Bad Bug Book is published by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.