Making the Most of Bed Rest: Tips, Tools, and Resources for a Rewarding Recovery from Any Health Challenge

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For the more than one million people who face an extended period of bed rest every year, this practical and reassuring guide turns recuperation into a productive and rewarding experience.

Forced to spend months in bed during her first pregnancy, author Barbara Edelston Peterson knows what it takes to triumph over a drawn-out confinement.

Find out how to transform a bed into "Command Central" beat loneliness by staying connected to the world via family, friends, and the Internet; plan weekly and daily schedules of tasks and events; start personal projects like reading, learning a craft, or volunteering; create special quality time in bed with your children; and maintain a warm relationship with your partner.

With firsthand accounts of people who have successfully come through a long-term confinement, plus helpful appendices offering sources for more information and support, Making the Most of Bed Rest transforms confinement into productive and fulfilling contentment.

What You have to do as Soon as you are Pregnant to Prevent Autism, Asthma, Allergies, Lung Problems, Schizophrenia and more in your Baby and how to Prevent Advice your Doctor is not telling you.

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More than 100 fact packed science filled pages of extreme interest to any expectant mother! but fun and easy to read! If you are pregant or thinking about getting pregnant, and you want to avoid many possible negative outcomes for you or your baby. You need to read this book.

There is something your doctor has been trained to not tell you...not his fault, just a major misunderstanding that has been drummed into med school students and doctors' brains for ages about a certain hormone that will affect your pregnancy and you can easily control.

That hormone is called "Vitamin D3" -it is not a vitamin-but the hormone your skin makes when you sit in the sun! The doctor thinks this hormone is dangerous.

And warns you to use sunscreen! What is dangerous , is not having enough of D3 while you are pregnant! Ample evidence and a long book full of facts and science studies shows you how to avoid almost all of the most risks of a negative outcome for your pregnancy!

It recommends much higher doses of Vitamin D3 than almost all doctors are comfortable with. This book presents the evidence..It is up to you-Not your doctor, to decide! Don't put your baby at risk, read this book.

Epilepsy in Women

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There are about 25 million women with epilepsy globally. About a third of them experience aggravation of epilepsy in and around their menstrual periods which is called catamenial epilepsy.

This comprehensive guide covers the diverse biological, clinical and psychosocial problems of women with epilepsy and their effective management.

Medical Disorders in Pregnancy: A Manual for Midwives

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Medical Disorders in Pregnancy: A Guide for Midwives, 2nd edition clearly outlines existing and pre-existing conditions which women can experience during pregnancy.

This comprehensive and practical handbook identifies issues for pre-conception care, defines the condition, explores possible complications, outlines recommended treatment and emphasizes specific midwifery care.

This fully revised and updated edition of Medical Disorders in Pregnancy: A Guide for Midwives builds on the success of the first edition by covering more subjects.

It includes physiology, more illustrations and algorithms and its accessible reference-style text enables information to be quickly and easily found.

Special Features

• A practical guide on medical disorders written specifically for midwives
• Jointly written by medical and midwifery experts in the field
• Accessible reference style format makes information easy and quick to find
• Emphasis on inter-professional working

Diary of a Complicated Pregnancy

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An emotional and inspiring journey through a complicated pregnancy involving placenta praevia, pre-eclampsia and 'HEELP' syndrome.

This book was written to raise awareness of some of the conditions that can arise during pregnancy. 50% of sales go to the charity APEC (Action on Pre-eclampsia). Registered charity number 1013557.

Obesity: A ticking time bomb for reproductive health (Elsevier Insights)

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Obesity is a continuing issue around the world and in many contexts. The growing number of obese people is an increasing concern for those in the medical profession, and obesity can pose specific challenges in relation to fertility and pregnancy.

Patients who are obese require specific considerations and knowledge. Bringing together experts from a variety of specialties to examine the issues and challenges of obesity, this book discusses how obesity affects fertility, reproduction, and pregnancy.

Beginning with an exploration of the epidemiology of obesity, further chapters focus on specific issues related to obesity and both male and female reproduction, the complications of obesity during pregnancy and labour, and the long term effects of obesity.

This is the most comprehensive resource to examine the topic of obesity and reproductive issues, making it invaluable for medical students, professionals, and researchers in public policy and medicine.

Pathology of the Human Placenta

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Pathology of the Human Placenta remains the most comprehensive and authoritative text in the field. It provides extensive information on the normal placenta, encompassing physiology, metabolism, and endocrinology, and covers the full range of placental diseases in great detail.

Further chapters are devoted to abortions, molar pregnancies, multiple pregnancies, and legal considerations. This sixth edition of the book has been extensively revised and expanded to reflect the most recent progress in the field, and a brand new chapter has been added on artificial reproductive technology.

Some 800 illustrations are included, many of them in color. The detailed index has been further improved and tables updated. Pathology of the Human Placenta will be of enormous value to pathologists and obstetrician-gynecologists alike.

Emergency Medicine Simulation Workbook: A Tool for Bringing the Curriculum to Life

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Medical simulation training involves simulated human patients, educational documents or computer models with detailed simulated animations and/or interactive functionality.

This book is written and designed to provide medical educators in emergency medicine with resource for integrating medical simulation into their teaching practices and includes cases drawn from a diverse group of faculty authors across a wide range of medical teaching centers.

Valuable “tips or tricks” accompany case images and other patient data and a companion website includes imaging and laboratory results pertinent to each case study.

Handbook of Anesthesia, 5e

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A practical reference for the clinical setting, Handbook of Anesthesia, 5th Edition puts key information at your fingertips. It's an ideal companion to Nurse Anesthesia, providing easy-access coverage of the subjects you look up most frequently, such as common diseases, common procedures, drugs, and protocols.

It also includes the most current information related to perioperative management and anesthetic care considerations for a wide variety of surgical procedures. Written by leading CRNA experts John Nagelhout and Karen Plaus, this compact handbook provides the up-to-date clinical and drug information you'll use in daily practice

• Convenient, quick-reference format is organized into three parts: common diseases, common procedures, and drugs.
• Disease monographs include definition, incidence and prevalence, pathophysiology, laboratory results, clinical manifestations, treatment, anesthetic considerations, and prognosis.
• Monographs of surgical procedures include a brief description, preoperative assessments (including health history, physical assessment, and patient preparation), anesthetic technique, perioperative management, and postoperative implications.
• Drug monographs include generic names, trade names, indications, anesthetic considerations, pharmacokinetics, dosages, and adverse effects.
• Expert CRNA authors provide the current clinical information you'll use in daily practice.
• UPDATED disease information includes the latest treatment and anesthetic considerations.
• NEW drug information includes interactions and effects of key new drugs with common anesthetic agents.
• NEW surgical procedures include up-to-date information on new minimally invasive and laparoscopic procedures.
• NEW appendices include drug, laboratory, and pediatric tables for easy reference.

Obstetric and Gynecologic Ultrasound: Case Review Series, 3e

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An outstanding title from the popular Case Review Series, Obstetric and Gynecologic Ultrasound provides 119 case histories, with over 300 corresponding images, questions, answers, commentary, references, and more, to enhance your imaging interpretation skills in obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound.

Its discussions incorporate the most recent knowledge from OB/GYN ultrasound literature, providing an excellent review for residents and practitioners alike.

• Turn to Obstetric and Gynecologic Ultrasound as excellent review for the Boards.
• Effectively prepare for certification, recertification, and practice with content that mimics the new format of board exams as well as the everyday clinical experience.
• Review the full range of imaging findings in obstetric in gynecologic ultrasound with the addition of fetal ultrasound and high-risk-pregnancy imaging.
• Access the most up-to-date information on fetal cardiac anomalies with expert guidance on the use of the 3-vessel view to access the outflow tracts; use of MRI in confirming and accessing fetal anomalies; ultrasound and MRI features of placenta accrete; and ultrasound evaluation of nuchal translucency, nuchal thickness, and fetal cystic hygroma.
• Boost your skills with 119 cases organized by level of difficulty, as well as multiple-choice questions, answers, rationales, and more.
• Alleviate exam anxiety and sharpen your clinical expertise with guidance from entirely new cases online at www.casereviewsonline.com, including ultrasound and MRI features of fetal Congenital High Airway Obstruction (CHAOS) and the variable ultrasound and MRI features of fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT).