Goldman-Cecil Medicine Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 25th Edition
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Since 1927, Goldman-Cecil Medicine has been the world’s most influential internal medicine resource. In the ground-breaking 25th edition, your original purchase ensures you will be up-to-date without the need for a subscription. Through the new, more powerful Expert Consult eBook platform, this "living text" provides continuous updates that will integrate the latest research, guidelines, and treatments into each chapter, ensuring that the content is as current as the day this edition was first published.
Goldman-Cecil Medicine offers definitive, unbiased guidance on the evaluation and management of every medical condition, presented by a veritable "Who's Who" of modern medicine. A practical, straightforward style; templated organization; evidence-based references; and robust interactive content combine to make this dynamic resource quite simply the fastest and best place to find all of the authoritative, state-of-the-art clinical answers you need.
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VOLUME I
SECTION I: SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICINE
1 Approach to Medicine, the Patient, and the Medical Profession: Medicine as a Learned and Humane Profession
2 Bioethics in the Practice of Medicine
3 Care of Dying Patients and Their Families
4 Cultural Context of Medicine
5 Socioeconomic Issues in Medicine
6 Global Health
SECTION II: PRINCIPLES OF EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT
7 Approach to the Patient: History and Physical Examination
8 Approach to the Patient with Abnormal Vital Signs
9 Statistical Interpretation of Data
10 Using Data for Clinical Decisions
11 Measuring Health and Health Care
12 Quality of Care and Patient Safety
13 Comprehensive Chronic Disease Management
SECTION III: PREVENTIVE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
14 Counseling for Behavior Change
15 The Periodic Health Examination
16 Physical Activity
17 Adolescent Medicine
18 Immunization
19 Principles of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
20 Radiation Injury
21 Bioterrorism
22 Chronic Poisoning: Trace Metals and Others
SECTION IV: AGING AND GERIATRIC MEDICINE
23 Epidemiology of Aging: Implications of an Aging Society
24 Geriatric Assessment
25 Common Clinical Sequelae of Aging
26 Incontinence
27 Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Aging
28 Delirium or Acute Mental Status Change in the Older Patient
SECTION V: CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
29 Principles of Drug Therapy
30 Pain
31 Biology of Addiction
32 Nicotine and Tobacco
33 Alcohol Use Disorders
34 Drugs of Abuse
35 Immunosuppressing Drugs Including Corticosteroids
36 Biologic Agents and Signaling Inhibitors
37 Prostanoids, Aspirin, and Related Compounds
38 Antithrombotic Therapy
39 Complementary and Alternative Medicine
SECTION VI: GENETICS
40 Principles of Genetics
41 Gene, Genomic, and Chromosomal Disorders
42 The Inherited Basis of Common Diseases
43 Application of Molecular Technologies to Clinical Medicine
44 Regenerative Medicine, Cell, and Gene Therapies
SECTION VII: PRINCIPLES OF IMMUNOLOGY AND INFLAMMATION
45 The Innate Immune System
46 The Adaptive Immune System
47 Mechanisms of Immune-Mediated Tissue Injury
48 Mechanisms of Inflammation and Tissue Repair
49 Transplantation Immunology
50 Complement System in Disease
SECTION VIII: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
51 Approach to the Patient with Possible Cardiovascular Disease
52 Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease
53 Cardiac Function and Circulatory Control
54 Electrocardiography
55 Echocardiography
56 Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging
57 Catheterization and Angiography
58 Heart Failure: Pathophysiology and Diagnosis
59 Heart Failure: Management and Prognosis
60 Diseases of the Myocardium and Endocardium
61 Principles of Electrophysiology
62 Approach to the Patient with Suspected Arrhythmia
63 Approach to Cardiac Arrest and Life-Threatening Arrhythmias
64 Cardiac Arrhythmias with Supraventricular Origin
65 Ventricular Arrhythmias
66 Electrophysiologic Interventional Procedures and Surgery
67 Arterial Hypertension
68 Pulmonary Hypertension
69 Congenital Heart Disease in Adults
70 Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
71 Angina Pectoris and Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
72 Acute Coronary Syndrome: Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
73 ST Segment Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction and Complications of Myocardial Infarction
74 Interventional and Surgical Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease
75 Valvular Heart Disease
76 Infective Endocarditis
77 Pericardial Diseases
78 Diseases of the Aorta
79 Atherosclerotic Peripheral Arterial Disease
80 Other Peripheral Arterial Diseases
81 Peripheral Venous Disease
82 Cardiac Transplantation
SECTION IX: RESPIRATORY DISEASES
83 Approach to the Patient with Respiratory Disease
84 Imaging in Pulmonary Disease
85 Respiratory Function: Mechanisms and Testing
86 Disorders of Ventilatory Control
87 Asthma
88 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
89 Cystic Fibrosis
90 Bronchiectasis, Atelectasis, Cysts, and Localized Lung Disorders
91 Alveolar Filling Disorders
92 Interstitial Lung Disease
93 Occupational Lung Disease
94 Physical and Chemical Injuries of the Lung
95 Sarcoidosis
96 Acute Bronchitis and Tracheitis
97 Overview of Pneumonia
98 Pulmonary Embolism
99 Diseases of the Diaphragm, Chest Wall, Pleura, and Mediastinum
100 Obstructive Sleep Apnea
101 Interventional and Surgical Approaches to Lung Disease
SECTION X: CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
102 Approach to the Patient in a Critical Care Setting
103 Respiratory Monitoring in Critical Care
104 Acute Respiratory Failure
105 Mechanical Ventilation
106 Approach to the Patient with Shock
107 Cardiogenic Shock
108 Shock Syndromes Related to Sepsis
109 Disorders Due to Heat and Cold
110 Acute Poisoning
111 Medical Aspects of Injuries and Burns
112 Envenomation
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