Vitamin D in Chronic Kidney Disease

Vitamin D in Chronic Kidney Disease
Author: Pablo A. Ureña Torres
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2016-09-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319325078

Vitamin D deficiency, circulating levels lower than 15 ng/ml, is an epidemic disease worldwide with more than a billion people suffering of it in the beginning of the 21-century. Besides its impact on mineral and bone metabolism, these low vitamin D levels are also associated with a diversity of non-skeletal complications, among them cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis, cancer, tuberculosis, and immune system dysfunction. Chronic Kidney Disease is also a very common disease, affecting more than 10% of the world population, ranging from stage 1 to stage 5 before dialysis. Approximately 1% of the population in industrialized countries is affected by end-stage renal disease (ESRD), needing a renal replacement therapy either hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, and ultimately by renal transplantation. Those CKD patients are more susceptible to exhibit reduced vitamin D stocks. Consequently, more than eighty percent of CKD patients have either insufficient or deficient vitamin D levels for multiple reasons.

Advance Care Planning in End of Life Care

Advance Care Planning in End of Life Care
Author: Keri Thomas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2018
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0198802137

ACP is an essential part of end of life care with patients improving their chances of 'a good death' by creating plans with their families and carers. This new edition gives a comprehensive overview of ACP, explores a wide range of issues and practicalities in providing end of life care, and offers a worldwide perspective.

The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life

The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life
Author: Nancy Berlinger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013-04-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199974578

This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying. Like its predecessor, this second edition will shape the ethical and legal framework for decision-making on treatment and end-of-life care in the United States. This groundbreaking work incorporates 25 years of research and innovation in clinical care, law, and policy. It is written for physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals and is structured for easy reference in difficult clinical situations. It supports the work of clinical ethicists, ethics committee members, health lawyers, clinical educators, scholars, and policymakers. It includes extensive practical recommendations. Health care reform places a new set of challenges on decision-making and care near the end of life. The Hastings Center Guidelines are an essential resource.

Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)

Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)
Author: Bruno J. Vellas
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3805568037

This book is the first of a new series which will present the proceedings of the newly established Nestlé Nutrition Workshop Series: Clinical & Performance Programme aimed at adult nutrition. Undernutrition is a common phenomenon in elderly people, and malnutrition reaches significant levels in those being in hospital, nursing homes or home care programs. Consequences of malnutrition often go unrecognised owing to the lack of specific validated instruments to assess nutritional status in frail elderly persons. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) provides a single, rapid assessment of nutritional status in the elderly of different degrees of independence, allowing the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition to be determined and to evaluate the efficacy of nutritional intervention and strategies. Easy, quick and economical to perform, it enables staff to check the nutritional status of elderly people when they enter hospitals or institutions and to monitor changes occurring during their stay. Moreover, the MNA is predictive of the cost of care and length of stay in hospital. This publication will be of immense assistance to heads of geriatric teaching units, teachers in nutrition, clinicians general practitioners and dieticians, enabling them to better detect, recognise and start treatment of malnutrition in the elderly.

Teaching Tech Together

Teaching Tech Together
Author: Greg Wilson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000728153

Hundreds of grassroots groups have sprung up around the world to teach programming, web design, robotics, and other skills outside traditional classrooms. These groups exist so that people don't have to learn these things on their own, but ironically, their founders and instructors are often teaching themselves how to teach. There's a better way. This book presents evidence-based practices that will help you create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them. Topics include the differences between different kinds of learners, diagnosing and correcting misunderstandings, teaching as a performance art, what motivates and demotivates adult learners, how to be a good ally, fostering a healthy community, getting the word out, and building alliances with like-minded groups. The book includes over a hundred exercises that can be done individually or in groups, over 350 references, and a glossary to help you navigate educational jargon.

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
Author: Nathan I. Cherny
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1281
Release: 2015
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199656096

Emphasising the multi-disciplinary nature of palliative care the fourth edition of this text also looks at the individual professional roles that contribute to the best-quality palliative care.

Técnico/a en cuidados auxiliares de enfermería. Servicios de salud. Temario específico. Vol.II

Técnico/a en cuidados auxiliares de enfermería. Servicios de salud. Temario específico. Vol.II
Author: Varios autores
Publisher: EDITORIAL CEP
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2017-12-29
Genre:
ISBN: 8468186384

El presente manual contiene el material adecuado para la preparación eficaz de las pruebas de acceso a las plazas vacantes a Técnico/a en Cuidados Auxiliares de Enfermería en los distintos Servicios de Salud. El presente volumen desarrolla los temas específicos 17 a 29 de un total de 29 de los que habitualmente se solicitan en las pruebas de acceso para la categoría de Técnico/a en cuidados auxiliares de enfermería de los distintos Servicios de Salud. En el presente volumen encontrará: - Referencias legislativas al inicio de cada tema que proporcionarán al opositor las normas legales aplicables a cada materia. - Objetivos por alcanzar con el estudio de cada tema. - Desarrollo completo de todos los epígrafes. - Esquemas-resúmenes finales, que ayudan a recordar los conceptos más importantes. - Contenidos totalmente actualizados a la fecha de publicación. Productos relacionados