Medicine Surgery

Life and Death in Intensive Care offers a unique portrait of the surgical intensive care unit (SICU), the place in medical centers and hospitals where patients with the gravest medical conditions - from comas to terminal illness - are treated. Author Joan Cassell employs the concept of moral economies to explain the dilemmas that patients, families, and medical staff confront in treatment.

Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of fewer than a dozen female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group - those surgeons who perform heart transplants. Healing Hearts is the story of the making of a surgeon who also calls herself a wife and mother.

The laparoscopic adjustable gastric band, or Lap-Band, can be the weight loss tool you need to overcome obesity - but only if you use it right. The Big Book on the Lap-Band: Everything You Need to Lose Weight and Live Well with the Adjustable Gastric Band! is your complete manual, from considering surgery until maintaining your goal weight - and everything in between.

In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a surgical resident working in Baghdad when the military police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the team to mutilate army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed. Munjed's choices were stark - comply and breach the medical oath, refuse and face death or flee. That day, Munjed's life changed forever. He escaped to Indonesia and boarded a boat to Australia.

A set of powerful experiences to achieve the maximum benefit and a speedy recovery from surgery through conditioning your mind and body. Techniques in this program have been shown to speed up post surgery healing by up to 25 percent! Use before and after surgery to reduce swelling, pain, bleeding, infection, and the side effects of anesthesia.

Bienvenido al mundo de Enfermera Saturada, un mundo donde el delirio se mezcla con el humor, a veces negro y siempre muy fino, pero donde el día a día del hospital siempre supera a la ficción.

In this groundbreaking book, the Queen of Cosmetic Marketing Huyen Truong, founder of the leading patient-generating agency Online Marketing for Doctors, reveals her secrets and step-by-step formulas to becoming the celebrity authority in any cosmetic surgery niche and generating an endless stream of new patients to your practice.

This book will give you the tools, knowledge, and healing energy you need to recover from illness or surgery faster, better, and with less pain and fewer side effects. It’s your “get out of the hospital fast” toolkit! It will provide you with 12 powerful, proven ways to help you heal faster and more completely by improving upon the care you are already receiving—by optimizing and enhancing the outcome of your surgery or treatments.

Ein einzigartiges Hörbuch, das Sie nicht gleichgültig lassen wird! Von den dunklen Anfangszeiten der Chirurgie, als noch ohne Betäubung amputiert wurde, über königliche Operationen bis zu den heutigen High-Tech-OPs – der Chirurg Arnold van de Laar beschreibt in seinem Hörbuch so packend wie allgemeinverständlich die Geschichte der Chirurgie, und gibt einen spannenden Einblick in sein Fach. In 28 Kapiteln erzählt van de Laar anhand berühmter Operationen, was genau im Operationsaal geschieht.

Dr. Sâra Aytaç, Oberärztin in der Unfallchirurgie, liefert einen schonungslosen Bericht aus ihrem Klinikalltag: Sie berichtet von den vergessenen Alten, deren adäquate Behandlung keinen Profit verspricht. Sie erzählt von lebensgefährlichen Kommunikationsproblemen im Schmelztiegel Krankenhaus, ebenso fatalen Personalengpässen, unqualifizierten Aushilfskräften und dem Ausverkauf des ärztlichen Ethos.

Our bodies are programmed to heal, but too often we are unaware that we are working against our own healing. The damaging effects of incisions, anesthesia, antibiotics, and opioids demand that you Optimize before and after surgery for your best recovery. No matter how perfect the surgery, your surgeon needs your commitment and help to achieve your goal of a pain-free life.

Do you want to live a naturally healthy lifestyle and promote wellness from within? Would you like to lose weight fast and get into the best shape of your life without complex and expensive surgeries? One of the best ways to lose weight and keep it off is by using the gastric band hypnosis method. In effect, every time you feel an unnecessary craving for food, your mind instructs your body that you don’t need it. This audiobook will guide you on how you can achieve a healthy and happy life by losing weight without surgery even if you have never done it before.

In Pain Free Everyday, medical researcher and personal trainer Eileen Paulo-Chrisco, once a chronic pain sufferer herself, shows you how to restore your body’s innate ability to heal from chronic pain and discomfort before they progress to dysfunction. In Pain Free Everyday, you will find relatable examples and inspiring stories that will shine a ray of hope in the dark world of chronic pain. It’s time to get rid of your chronic pain and stiffness once and for all!

Would you like to lose weight quickly and shrink your stomach without dangerous surgery, a restrictive diet, or an exhausting exercise program? Let me tell you something: As you have planned so far, your mind will eat more than it should and consequently you will be overweight. Starting today, you can convince your mind to create a virtual gastric band on your stomach and reduce the food storage capacity. Finally, you can keep your appetite under control, and limiting portions will be simple and easy.