Don’t read this book at bedtime. Not that it’s frightening. It won’t give you nightmares. But it is so exhilarating, so stimulating, it’ll turn your mind into a whirling maelstrom of excitingly provocative ideas—you’ll want to rush out and tell someone rather than go to sleep. It is a victim of this maelstrom who writes […]
An important field of study of industrial and commercial activity lies between extractive metallurgy and physical metallurgy. This book is an attempt to fill the gap. This field, which we call metal refining and recycling, has become especially important due to the use of lower grade ores, increased recycling, and higher quality requirements. Our aim […]
In this twenty-first century, a typical science education oen leaves the philosophical underpinnings of science unstated, or relies on oversimplified definitions. As you contemplate a career in science, it may be useful to consider once again the terms science, scientist, and scientific method. Science is both a way of thinking about the natural world and […]
Many years ago when the American Acad emy of Ophthalmology began development of Basic Princi ples of Ophthalmic Surgery, respected educators immediately recognized the need for a comprehensive resource to aid in navigating the surgical learning curve ex-perienced by all ophthalmology residents. Led by Dr. Anthony Arnold in its inaugural edition and by Dr. Thomas Oetting in […]
Dear Reader, Thank you for opening this book. It offers an important message: your whole life up to this moment has been a dream. All your memories are false. Nothing around you really exists. Furthermore, your own body is part of the illusion. You have no idea who or where you really are. Nevertheless, the […]
No matter who you are or what you do for a living, quantum physics will change your life in so many ways that you will be unable to ignore it. Quantum physics is the basic foundation for natural laws that describe matter and energy behavior at the subatomic level. We all change to the quantum […]
THE usual point of view in the study of mechanics is that where the attention is mainly directed to the changes which take place in the course of time in a given system. The principal problem is the determination of the condition of the system with respect to configuration and velocities at any required time, […]
The Need for a Better Understanding of Contributions Made by the Nursing and Midwifery Professions to the Health of any Nation. This book seeks to meet the need for a better understanding of the many and varied very significant contributions made by the nurses and midwives within any country’s health system. The nursing and midwifery […]
It is my great pleasure as the Acting Chief Nurse of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust to introduce the tenth Student Edition of The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures. As a Royal Marsden cancer trained nurse, a contribu-tor and a clinical user of the manual for many years, I am hon-oured to […]
Preface Nurse anesthesia education and clinical practice continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Our professional degree has moved to the doctoral level, and the requisite knowledge needed to provide safe patient care is increasing sexponentially. Due to the complexity of modern surgical procedures, ensuring the highest-quality outcomes requires the need for lifelong learning. Anesthesia […]
This updated sixteenth edition of Alexander’s Care of the Patient in Surgery reflects new and essential key concepts in perioperative nursing practice and an increased sophistication and complexity in surgical procedures. Its multimedia resource, first introduced in the thirteenth edition, strongly enhances the elemental goal of this textbook: to provide a comprehensive foundational reference that […]
Evolution describes our past. Revolution defines our future. Surgical services are in a period of revo-lutionary change, and financial and operational effi-ciency will remain important. However, it is no longer sufficient to simply refine our current processes. We must reengineer our models, designing toward our future of bundled care, shared risk, and value- based payments […]
