Buck: 2012 ICD-9-CM for Hospitals Volumes 1, 2 and 3

Elsevier and the American Medical Association have partnered to co-publish this ICD-9-CM reference by Carol J. Buck!

Learn to code more efficiently and effectively with Carol J. Buck's 2012 ICD-9-CM for Hospitals, Volumes 1, 2, & 3, Standard Edition. Combining Netter's Anatomy artwork and the 2011 Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (OCGR) with a format designed by coders for coders, this handy reference helps you easily access the information you need to stay up to date and ensure the most accurate billing and optimal reimbursement in physician-based and inpatient coding. Plus, you can take this resource into your certification exams for enhanced testing support!

Key Features

• Coverage of all three ICD-9-CM volumes includes both inpatient and outpatient codes.
• UNIQUE! Full-color Netter's Anatomy artwork clarifies complex anatomic information to help you appropriately code related procedures.
• Use Additional Digit(s) symbol in the index identifies codes that require an additional digit to remind you to check the tabular.
• The 2011 Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (OGCR) are listed within the lists of codes and in a separate index for fast, easy access to the coding rules when you need them.
• Items provide detailed information on common diseases and conditions, helping you code more effectively.
• Symbols throughout the text alert you to new, revised, and deleted codes and clearly identify codes that require special consideration before assigning symbols, including use additional, includes and excludes, code first, and codes that cannot be assigned as first-listed diagnoses.
• Additional hints, tips and definitions within specific codes provide extra guidance in coding anatomy, pathophysiology, or other coding directions.
• Guide to the Updates enables you to reference all annual coding changes at a glance.
• References to the American Hospital Association's Coding Clinics help you find expanded information about specific codes and their usage.
• Omit and Code Also codes highlight government text needing special attention.
• Coding updates on the companion coding updates.com website keep you informed of changes to ICD codes.
• Authorized support you can take into your certification exams to enhance your testing experience and help you ensure certification success.

Contents

Unit I: ICD-9-CM

Part I: Introduction

• ICD-9-CM Background
• Coordination and Maintenance Committee
• Characteristics of the ICD-9-CM
• ICD-9-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting

Part II: Alphabetic Index, Volume 2

• Section 1 Index to Diseases
• Section 2 Table of Drugs and Chemicals
• Section 3 Index to External Causes of Injury

Part III: Diseases: Tabular List, Volume 1

• 1. Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
• 2. Neoplasms
• 3. Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Immunity Disorders
• 4. Diseases of the Blood and Blood-forming Organs
• 5. Mental Disorders
• 6. Diseases of the Nervous System and Sense Organs
• 7. Diseases of the Circulatory System
• 8. Diseases of the Respiratory System
• 9. Diseases of the Digestive System
• 10. Diseases of the Genitourinary System
• 11. Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium
• 12. Diseases of the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue
• 13. Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue
• 14. Congenital Anomalies
• 15. Certain Conditions Originating in the Perinatal Period
• 16. Symptoms, Signs, and Ill-defined Conditions
• 17. Injury and Poisoning
• V-Codes-Supplementary Classification of Factors Influencing Health Status and Contact with Health Services
• E-Codes-Supplementary Classification of External Causes of Injury and Poisoning

Appendices

• A. Morphology of Neoplasms
• B. Glossary of Mental Disorders
• C. Classification of Drugs by American Hospital Formulary Services List Number and Their ICD-9-CM Equivalents
• D. Classification of Industrial Accidents According to Agency
• E. List of Three-Digit Categories

Part IV: Procedures, Volume 3

Index to Procedures

Tabular List of Procedures

• 0. Procedures and Interventions, Not Elsewhere Classified
• 1. Operations on the Nervous System
• 2. Operations on the Endocrine System
• 3. Operations on the Eye
• 4. Operations on the Ear
• 5. Operations on the Nose, Mouth, and Pharynx
• 6. Operations on the Respiratory System
• 7. Operations on the Cardiovascular System
• 8. Operations on the Hemic and Lymphatic System
• 9. Operations on the Digestive System
• 10. Operations on the Urinary System
• 11. Operations on the Male Genital Organs
• 12. Operations on the Female Genital Organs
• 13. Obstetrical Procedures
• 14. Operations on the Musculoskeletal System
• 15. Operations on the Integumentary System
• 16. Miscellaneous Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures

Unit II: Inpatient Procedures

• Inpatient Procedures

About the Author 

Carol J. Buck, MS, CPC, CPC-H, CCS-P, Former Program Director, Medical Secretarial Programs, Northwest Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN.  

Product Details

• Paperback: 1408 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 1 edition (August 31, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1455707147
• ISBN-13: 978-1455707140

List Price: $95.95 

 

Youngberg: Principles of Risk Management & Patient Safety

An earlier edition of this book, originally titled The Risk Manager’s Desk Reference, was released in the same year that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its groundbreaking report titled “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health Care System.” The authors began that report with some startling data regarding the number of preventable medical errors that occur within the U.S. healthcare system every year. The report cited many reasons for this, among them a punitive culture that punishes individuals when they are involved in mistakes, a level of complexity (both as related to the patients receiving care and the environment in which care is provided) that is now the norm in health care and that makes errors more likely to occur, and the fact that we fail to learn from our errors or to openly discuss the systemic vulnerabilities that manifest every day and predispose individuals to err.

For me as a risk manager, much in the report was not a surprise, but it was, in my mind, an accurate statement about the lack of sustainable success that we have been able to achieve as healthcare risk managers, clinicians, and healthcare administrators. I recalled the early days when I began my career as a lawyer managing medical-malpractice claims and being struck with how seldom organizations and providers asked about what could be learned from the claim. Once a claim was resolved, the risk manager, the clinicians, and the administrators were already involved in something else, usually the next bad claim. In addition, I was struck by how often in the debate around healthcare reform, which occurred almost 20 years ago and seems to be repeating itself now, there seemed to be a desire to blame the legal system for the malpractice problems when, in truth, many of the problems are ours alone to fix.

Although the initial plan was to merely do a third edition of the Desk Reference, it soon became apparent that a more full-scale revision was required. Much has changed since the release of the IOM report 10 years ago. Many risk managers have been courageous enough to acknowledge specific aspects of the traditional risk management approach that were flawed and not yielding the desired results, and to embrace a new way of thinking about risk, error, transparency, and safety. The most successful risk managers realize that incorporating patient safety principles into risk management is about more than just changing the name of the department or adding an additional job responsibility to their business card. In fact, in many cases, it requires a reassessment of the long-held practices.

Risk managers often found it difficult to reconcile traditional principles of risk management, which frequently focused on protecting the financial assets of the organization through vigorous defense of all claims asserted against it, to limiting the sharing of information so that it could be shielded from discovery, to focusing more on the aftermath of a claim than on the development of why the claim occurred in the first place and, more importantly, how it might have been prevented. There was lack of synergy between departments that often resulted in duplicate or fragmented work, or work that never achieved its potential. In addition, even when results seemed positive, they were often isolated to the area where the problem arose and not applied across the organization.

There remains in some organizations a healthy debate about where risk management ends and patient safety begins. In addition, patient safety, although a concept now better understood, is still in need of operational traction. Many departments and individuals in healthcare organizations have tried to claim patient safety as their singular responsibility, artificially segmenting the activities in ways that make little sense and yield diminished results. Also, at a time when many healthcare employees attempt to justify their own existence and positions, it may be threatening to think that the best organizations decentralize both risk management and patient safety so that everyone in the organization feels that keeping patients and colleagues safe and keeping the environment free of risks is their job. When this happens, the role of the risk manager is not diminished, but certainly it does change. This book lays out the ways in which a risk manager thinks to conform to this new reality and, ideally, bring about the changes associated with patient safety that 10 years of research have identified as necessary.

Readers familiar with the first and second editions of The Risk Manager’s Desk Reference will notice a number of things. Firstly, this text is clearly divided into the three domains that remain a part of most risk managers’ job responsibility: claims management, risk financing, and proactive risk reduction or patient safety. In the first two domains there have been some changes, as certainly discussions about transparency, disclosure, and early-offer programs has dramatically changed the manner in which many risk managers now respond to errors. The most significant changes, however, are noted in the final section of the book where, instead of characterizing risks as unique in light of the clinical specialty where they originate, I organized the section based on what I have learned over the past 10 years as a result of analyzing patient safety and risk management data, that is, that regardless of the department where the error occurs, the root cause of the problem is often identified as a systemic problem often caused by workplace complexity, pressure within the system to do more with less, and a lack of focus on simple human interaction between provider and patient or provider and colleague. Indeed, problems such as poor communication, inadequate hand offs, and fatigue often appear as a root cause of the majority of problems that continue to occur. There is still a great deal of research done that, in the years to come, will continue to advance our knowledge about the etiology of risk and, more importantly, the best manner in which to intervene to reduce and ultimately eliminate the risks that are identified. It will be our job to acknowledge what is learned and apply it to our current practice. Our knowledge base, our style of collaboration, and our way of seeing our work will change, and I am hopeful that this book will help to prepare both, the risk managers working today and people who seek risk management as a profession, for the challenges of the future.

- The Author - 

Contents

Section 1 The Integration of Risk Management and Patient Safety

• Chapter 1 Risk Management and Patient Safety: The Synergy and the Tension
• Chapter 2 Integrating Risk Management, Quality Management, and Patient Safety into the Organization
• Chapter 3 Benchmarking in Risk Management
• Chapter 4 Risk Management Strategic Planning for a Changed Healthcare Delivery System
• Chapter 5 Setting Up a Risk Management Department
• Chapter 6 Patient Safety: The Past Decade
• Chapter 7 Using “Never Events” to Reduce Risk and Advance Patient Safety
• Chapter 8 The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act: Tension Between Improving Quality of Care and Acknowledging Responsibility for Error
• Chapter 9 The Role of Governance in Hospital Risk Management and Patient Safety
• Chapter 10 The Culture of Medicine, Legal Opportunism, and Patient Safety

Section 2 Risk Financing Issues

• Chapter 11 Enterprise Risk Management: The Impact on Healthcare Organizations
• Chapter 12 Developing a Request for Proposal and Working with Insurance Providers
• Chapter 13 The Importance of Developing a Medical Liability Cost-Allocation System
• Chapter 14 Managing the Risks of Workers’ Compensation

Section 3 Claims Management Issues: The Aftermath of Error

• Chapter 15 Guidelines for In-House Claims Management
• Chapter 16 Principles for Strategic Discovery
• Chapter 17 Full Disclosure as a Risk Management Imperative
• Chapter 18 The Development of Full-Disclosure Programs: Case Studies of Programs That Have Demonstrated Value
• Chapter 19 Developing Early-Offer Programs Following Disclosure
• Chapter 20 Criminalization of Healthcare Negligence
• Chapter 21 Preparing for and Limiting Potential Liability for Medical Care Provided During Disaster Events

Section 4 Proactive Loss Control: Applying Principles of Risk Management and Patient Safety to Change the Environment

• Chapter 22 Creating Systemic Mindfulness: Anticipating, Assessing, and Reducing Risks of Health Care
• Chapter 23 Risk Management in Selected High-Risk Hospital Departments
• Chapter 24 Improving Risk Manager Performance and Promoting Patient Safety with High-Reliability Principles
• Chapter 25 The Benefits of Using Simulation in Risk Management and Patient Safety
• Chapter 26 Creating a Mindfulness of Patient Safety Among Physicians Through Education
• Chapter 27 Managing Patient Expectations Through Informed Consent
• Chapter 28 Improving Health Literacy to Advance Patient Safety
• Chapter 29 The Impact of Fatigue on Error and Patient Safety
• Chapter 30 Managing the Failures of Communication in Healthcare Settings
• Chapter 31 Improving Hand off Procedures in Health Care to Reduce Risk and Promote Safety
• Chapter 32 The Risks and Benefits of Using E-mail to Facilitate Communication Between Providers and Patients
• Chapter 33 Risk Management for Research

Index 

About the Author

Barbara Youngberg, JD, BSN, MSW, FASHRM has over 25 years experience helping academic medical centers and other complex healthcare organizations restructure quality, risk management, and patient safety programs to meet current needs and challenges. During her 20-year career at University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) she analyzed malpractice data and trends, quality and patient safety data, and best practice information to assist members in finding creative solutions to difficult risk and patient safety problems. As the Vice President of Insurance, Risk, Quality, and Legal Services and co-leader of UHC’s Patient Safety Net (PSN), Ms. Youngberg helped to develop a Web-based reporting tool utilizing standardized language to allow of analysis of events and their root causes and worked to help members integrate patient-safety activities into existing quality and risk-management structures. Often these efforts include helping members understand the way in which the legal climate could help or hinder them in their efforts.

Ms. Youngberg is a graduate of DePaul University College of Law (JD), University of Illinois–Jane Addams School of Social Work (MSW), and Illinois Wesleyan University (BSN). She is presently a Visiting Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago, Beazley Health Law Institute and helps to develop online curriculum for online health law MJ and LL.M degrees. She is also a professor of Law for Concord Kaplan University School of Law and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Patient Safety Foundation. She is the author of numerous articles and textbooks on quality management, risk management, and patient safety.

Book Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 1 edition (2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763774057
• ISBN-13: 978-0763774059
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1.2 inches

List Price: $89.95 

 

Bennett and Brachman's Hospital Infections 5th Edition

Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections or HAIs has become the focus of many efforts at the local, national, and international level. Although for decades, infection control professionals and others interested in healthcare epidemiology in healthcare facilities have focused their attention on surveillance and control of HAIs, it is only most recently that the public is demanding accountability for the prevention and control of preventable HAIs. This has led to a movement for public reporting of HAI rates, the passing of legislation in many states requiring public reporting of HAIs, and an intensification of efforts to prevent and control these infections. 

In the past, most in infection control used “benchmarking” to self-assess. That is, if their healthcare facilities HAI rate was at or below the median reported rate for other similar facilities (often compared with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's [CDC's] National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance [NNIS] system data), then no further action was necessary. However, recent interventions suggest that an even greater proportion of HAIs are preventable than previously estimated. The goal of this fifth edition of Hospital Infections is to provide the reader with the latest in the field of healthcare epidemiology and HAI prevention and control and to provide the tools to move the field of healthcare epidemiology and infection control to zero tolerance, i.e., the goal of preventing all the preventable HAIs that we possibly can. 

Over the past several decades, there have been tremendous advances in the field of healthcare epidemiology and infection control. Like the delivery of healthcare, the field of healthcare epidemiology and infection control has moved from surveillance and control of HAIs in hospitals to include all inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings, including long-term care, rehabilitative care, acute, acute step-down, transitional care, etc. Each of these settings has unique issues to address in healthcare epidemiology and infection control. In addition, the field of healthcare epidemiology has advanced to include infectious and non-infectious processes. In this new edition of Hospital Infections, we address many of these issues. 

Over half of the authors of chapters in this edition of Hospital Infections are new. Thus, the material is new and updated to include the latest in the field. We have tried to address healthcare epidemiology and infection control issues in surveillance, prevention, patient safety, and more in all settings from the small community hospital to large referral centers, inpatient and outpatient settings. We provide the approaches to surveillance as outlined from the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network or NHSN; approaches to cost and cost benefit analyses of HAI prevention programs; the risk factors for HAIs and the measures proven to prevent or reduce these infections—focusing on the evidence upon which these recommendations are based. 

Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens or ARPs have become a major public health crisis. Since the late 1970s, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become endemic in most healthcare facilities throughout the world (with a few exceptions—such as facilities in Northern Europe and West Australia). During the 1990s, we saw the emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) in the United States and, within a decade, it also has become endemic in many healthcare facilities. Increasingly HAIs are being caused by pathogens with greater and greater resistance to antimicrobials. We no longer can rely on the pharmaceutical industry to develop the next great antimicrobial to treat patients with ARP infections. We are returning to the pre-antibiotic era for some of our HAI pathogens—such as the emergence of vancomycin-intermediate or vancomycin-resistant S. aureus or pan-resistant Acinetobacter spp.! The prevention of transmission of these and other ARPs will be dependent upon the implementation of proven infection control measures. Improving the stewardship of antimicrobials may reduce the emergence of such strains, but only the complete adherence to proven infection control measures will prevent the transmission of such strains in our healthcare facilities. Because of the importance of this issue, we have included several chapters addressing the topic from the microbiologic (mechanisms of resistance and how to detect them), epidemiologic (risk factors and modes of transmission) and interventional (evidence-based methods to prevent the emergence or transmission of these pathogens) perspective. 

Healthcare epidemiology and infection control activities no longer are just important in developed countries. Rather, the prevention and control of HAIs is a critical component of effective patient safety programs in all healthcare settings in the world. For that reason, we have invited renowned authors from around the world to address critical elements of successful infection prevention and control programs, such as hand hygiene, pandemic influenza, and patient safety. We hope that by including the perspective of those throughout the world that we can bring the healthcare epidemiology and infection control communities together and enhance the speed of improvement of infection control and healthcare epidemiology activities in all healthcare facilities throughout the world. 

Finally, over the last several years, two areas of infection control have surfaced with great fanfare and media attention. The first is medical errors and patient safety and the second is public reporting of HAI rates. Since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report on Medical Errors, greater emphasis has been focused in healthcare facilities on surveillance of and prevention of non-infectious disease adverse events. We have included a chapter on patient safety to increase knowledge in this area and to illustrate how healthcare epidemiology and infection control processes can easily be applied to non-infectious disease adverse events. Many healthcare epidemiology and infection control programs have assumed responsibility for the patient safety program. It is important to remember that HAIs are the major cause of adverse patient events causing morbidity and mortality and the advances made in infection control are testimony to the cost-efficacy of investing over the years in infection prevention and control programs. Despite these advances, the public demands more access to HAI rate data to make informed decisions about their healthcare. Thus, the movement for public reporting of HAI rates was born. We have included a chapter on public reporting of HAI rates. This chapter emphasizes the importance of providing the consumer with validated and risk adjusted rates. We should take the lead in educating legislators, consumers, and others on the advances we have made in the past two decades on calculating risk-adjusted HAI rates for valid inter- or intra-healthcare facility rate comparisons. We are entering an era of zero tolerance for HAIs. The healthcare epidemiology and infection control community should take the enormous advances in knowledge contained in this edition of Hospital Infections and insure that the prevention interventions are fully implemented, so that as many preventable HAIs as possible are prevented, with the ultimate goal being that all preventable HAIs are being prevented. If prevention is primary, action is essential!

Key Features 

• Thoroughly updated Fifth Edition of the most influential reference on healthcare-associated infections.
• Written by internationally recognized experts, many affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, consultants to the World Health Organization, and active members of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the Association of Professionals in Infection Control (APIC), Inc., and the International Foundation for Infection Control (IFIC).
• The most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to healthcare epidemiology and infection control in all types of healthcare facilities.

New to this edition

• More than half the chapters have new authors, who are recognized worldwide experts in their field.
• Important new chapters cover patient safety; public reporting; avian influenza; SARS; controlling antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, especially MRSA and VRE; healthcare-associated infections caused by newer invasive procedures and devices, including invasive cardiology; use of computers in infection surveillance and control; and the practice of healthcare-associated infection control and prevention in all types of settings, including acute, long-term care, outpatient, and dialysis centers.
• Many chapters are entirely new; all others have been updated to include the latest material.
• New two-color design.

Contents 
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS OF HOSPITAL INFECTIONS:

• Epidemiology of Healthcare-associated Infections
• The Healthcare Epidemiologist
• Hand Hygiene
• Personnel Health Services
• The Development of Infection Surveillance & Control Programs
• Surveillance of Healthcare-associated Infections
• Investigating Endemic & Epidemic Healthcare-associated Infections
• Statistical Considerations for Analysis of Healthcare-associated Infections Data
• Use of Computerized Systems in Healthcare Epidemiology
• The Role of the Laboratory in Control of Healthcare-associated Infections
• The Practice of Epidemiology in Community Hospitals
• The Role of Professional & Regulatory Organizations in Infection Control
• Antibiotics Control & Healthcare-associated Infections
• Multiply Drug-Resistant Pathogens: Epidemiology & Control
• Molecular Biology of Resistance
• Economic Evaluation of Healthcare-associated Infections & Infection Control Interventions
• Legal Aspects of Healthcare-associated Infections

FUNCTIONAL AREAS AND CONCERN:

• Infection Control in Developing Countries
• The Inanimate Environment
• Sterilization & Disinfection
• Foodborne Disease Prevention in Healthcare Facilities
• Clinical Laboratory-Acquired Infections
• Dialysis-associated Complications & Their Control
• The Intensive Care Unit, Part 1
• The Newborn Nursery
• The Intensive Care Unit, Part 2
• The Operating Room Ambulatory Care Centers

ENDEMIC & EPIDEMIC HOSPITAL INFECTIONS:

• Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities
• Incidence & Nature of Endemic & Epidemic Healthcare-associated Infections
• Urinary Tract Infections
• Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
• Tuberculosis
• Infectious Gastroenteritis
• Central Nervous System Infections
• Surgical Site Infections
• Infections of Burn Wounds
• Infections of Implantable Cardiac & Vascular Devices
• Infections In Skeletal Prostheses
• The Importance of Infection Control in Controlling Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens
• Healthcare-associated Respiratory Viral Infections
• Blood Borne Pathogen Prevention
• Infections Due to Infusion Therapy
• Healthcare-Associated Fungal Infections
• Infection in Transplant Recipients
• Other Procedure-Related Infections
• Public Reporting of Healthcare-associated Infection Rates
• Patient Safety

Book Details

• Hardcover: 816 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fifth edition (October 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781763835
• ISBN-13: 978-0781763837 
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 1.3 inches

List Price: $239.00

Dipchand: The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics 11th Edition: Expert Consult - Online and Print

Welcome to the new and improved 11th edition of the The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics! The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, affectionately known as “SickKids,” was established in 1875 and has become one of the top pediatric academic health science centers in the world, with an international reputation for excellence in health care, research, and education. The first 10 editions of the Handbook have set a high standard, which we hope that we have not only continued but also built upon to produce this 11th edition.
We know that the reader needs succinct, easily accessible, and evidence-based answers to the problems we all see regularly in pediatrics. Our goal in this edition of the Handbook is to provide practical, algorithmic, and system-based approaches to a wide range of pediatric diagnoses and scenarios. Every chapter has been extensively revised to reflect up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to pediatric clinical problems, using evidence-based guidelines wherever possible. A wide range of topics spanning primary to quaternary care pediatric medicine have been included, making this handbook an important reference for medical students and residents, practicing pediatricians, family doctors, emergency department physicians, nurses, and other interdisciplinary practitioners providing care to children.
We have reorganized and revised all urgent and emergent clinical scenarios, creating a new section on Acute Care covering key pediatric emergencies (e.g., anaphylaxis, status epilepticus, and status asthmaticus) and relocating this important section to the front of the Handbook for easy reference. Updated comprehensive chapters include Resuscitation, Emergency Medicine, Pain and Sedation, Poisonings and Toxicology, Anesthesia, and Procedures. We have also made readily accessible the key information for urgent situations, including all new Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) algorithms, as well as new topics like substance abuse, psychiatric emergencies, and the acute presentation of eating disorders. Common resuscitation drugs and useful calculations have been incorporated inside the front and back covers for rapid access.
In this edition of the Handbook, you will find several new chapters: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology, with practical approaches to ordering and interpreting imaging in key scenarios; Immunoprophylaxis, with comprehensive information on vaccinations and chemoprophylaxis; and Child Maltreatment, with vital points for the recognition and management of these difficult situations. Throughout the Handbook we have added all important normal reference values, including heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, ECG parameters, and body mass index, for the spectrum of ages and sizes making up the pediatric patient population.
Extensively revised chapters include Cardiology, with a more problem-oriented approach to common presenting complaints such as tachycardia and cyanosis; Fluids and Electrolytes, with user-friendly guidelines for maintenance fluid requirements and electrolyte disturbances; Genetics, with new diagnostic algorithms for common presenting problems (e.g., cleft lip and palate, microcephaly, and ear anomalies); Growth and Nutrition, including normal dietary intake and a guide to total parenteral nutrition; Hematology, with expanded sections on thrombosis, bleeding disorders, and transfusion medicine; Neurology and Neurosurgery, including a succinct guide to the pediatric neurologic examination; and Transplantation, with easy-to-refer-to tables for early recognition and management of post-transplant complications.
Included in the Handbook are multiple new algorithms for bedside diagnosis (e.g., thrombocytopenia, limping, and metabolic acidosis) and management of various urgent scenarios (e.g., increased intracranial pressure, febrile neutropenia, and head injury). Figures have been added to highlight both pathology (e.g., cardiomegaly, mediastinal masses, hypospadias) and normal landmarks (e.g., for tympanic membranes and chest X-rays). Multiple new tables, designed for ease of information retrieval, either outline practical diagnostic approaches (e.g., syncope, oncologic presentations, and immunodeficiencies) or contain easy side-by-side comparisons of differential diagnoses (e.g., common ocular complaints and congenital infections).
The comprehensive sections on The Hospital for Sick Children Formulary and Laboratory Reference Values have been thoroughly updated to reflect changing knowledge and clinical practice. We have included key Web sites so that the most up-to-date diagnostic methodology and interpretation of results can be readily accessed by the user (e.g., serologic testing). Along with the Useful Web Sites section, we have also included an expanded Further Readings section at the end of each chapter.
We trust that the 11th edition of the The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics will be an essential resource for many health care practitioners for years to come.

Anne I. Dipchand, Jeremy N. Friedman, Zia Bismilla, Sumit Gupta, Catherine Lam

Foreword
For more than 50 years now, The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics has been a mainstay quick-reference text for Canadian, American, and international medical students, residents, and fellows, as well as other health care professionals involved in the day-to-day care of neonates, infants, children, and youth. In the past, the handbook could be seen bulging out of the pockets of white coats all over The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) as well as other hospitals. In more recent times, as the white coat is being steadily phased out, the handbook is now seen attached to clipboards, kept in diagnostic bags, and even chained to desktops on wards and outpatient units.
The major purpose of The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics, 11th edition, is to provide “frontline” pediatric health care providers with the essential, up-to-date information required to meet the needs of the individual child and family in their care: assistance in making the diagnosis, ordering the appropriate tests, and developing the appropriate management strategy for both acute and chronic disorders of childhood. The development of the handbook was the result of the close collaboration between the residents or fellows and the staff pediatricians or pediatric subspecialists in SickKids who wrote the various chapters. The 11th edition has a state-of-the-art approach to pediatrics based on the knowledge and experience of pediatricians from one of the largest and best-known freestanding children's hospitals in the world (www.sickkids.ca).
Each year, SickKids cares for over 50,000 children and youth in its Emergency Department; more that 13,000 admissions are made to the in-patient services; and over 175,000 make ambulatory care visits. These children present with a wide range of childhood disorders—from the common to the exceedingly rare, and from the simple to the inordinately complex.
The 11th edition of The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics is the direct result of the dedication, skills, and leadership of its five Chief Editors—two of them faculty members and three trainees. Our enormous thanks are extended to them for producing such an outstanding edition, as well as to all of their section authors, both faculty and trainees. Soon work will begin on the 12th edition!

Denis Daneman, MB, BCh, FRCPC
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
University of Toronto, Pediatrician-in-Chief, The Hospital for Sick Children,
RS McLaughlin Foundation Chair in Pediatrics at The Hospital for Sick Children

Key Features

• A convenient, pocket-sized design allows for quick reference
• Provides the most up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to pediatric clinical problems using evidence-based guidelines
• Information for urgent situations is readily accessible and comprehensive
• All important normal reference values are included throughout the Handbook for various ages and sizes of pediatric patients
• Abundant algorithms for bedside diagnoses and management of various scenarios
• Listings of key Web sites and Further Readings allow users to research important information further

Website Features

• Consult the book from any computer at home, in your office, or at any practice location.
• Instantly locate the answers to your clinical questions via a simple search query.
• Quickly find out more about any bibliographical citation by linking to its MEDLINE abstract. 

New to this edition 

• Comprehensive 6-chapter Acute Care section covers key pediatric emergencies.
• Up-to-date Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) algorithms.
• Resuscitation drugs featured on inside back cover for easy access.
• Common equations and normal vital signs featured on inside front cover for quick reference.
• New and revised coverage on substance abuse, psychiatric emergencies, and acute presentation of eating disorders.
• New chapters include: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Immunoprophylaxis, and Child Maltreatment.
• Free and fully searchable online access to the full contents of the book.

Contents

Section I - Acute Care Pediatrics

• Chapter 1 - Resuscitation
• Chapter 2 - Anesthesia
• Chapter 3 - Emergency Medicine
• Chapter 4 - Poisonings and Toxicology
• Chapter 5 - Pain and Sedation
• Chapter 6 - Procedures

Section II - Subspecialty Pediatrics

• Chapter 7 - Adolescent Medicine
• Chapter 8 - Allergy and Immunology
• Chapter 9 - Cardiology
• Chapter 10 - Child Maltreatment
• Chapter 11 - Dentistry
• Chapter 12 - Dermatology
• Chapter 13 - Development
• Chapter 14 - Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology
• Chapter 15 - Endocrinology
• Chapter 16 - Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acid–Base
• Chapter 17 - Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Chapter 18 - General Surgery
• Chapter 19 - Genetics
• Chapter 20 - Growth and Nutrition
• Chapter 21 - Gynecology
• Chapter 22 - Hematology
• Chapter 23 - Immunoprophylaxis
• Chapter 24 - Infectious Diseases
• Chapter 25 - Metabolic Disease
• Chapter 26 - Neonatology
• Chapter 27 - Nephrology
• Chapter 28 - Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Chapter 29 - Oncology
• Chapter 30 - Ophthalmology
• Chapter 31 - Orthopedics
• Chapter 32 - Otolaryngology
• Chapter 33 - Plastic Surgery
• Chapter 34 - Respirology
• Chapter 35 - Rheumatology
• Chapter 36 - Transplantation
• Chapter 37 - Urology

Section III - Laboratory Reference Values

• Clinical biochemistry
• Hematology
• Toxicology
• Therapeutic drug monitoring
• Cerebrospinal fluid
• Stool
• Urine
• Microbial serology
• Blood products

Section IV - Pediatric Drug Dosing Guidelines

• Body surface area nomograms
• Ideal body mass nomogram
• Dose equivalents of commomly used steroids
• Endocarditis prophylaxis
• Guidelines for warfarin therapy
• Alternative medicine interactions
• Drug infusion calculations

Product Details 

• Paperback: 1088 pages
• Publisher: Saunders Canada; 11th edition (April 9, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1897422040
• ISBN-13: 978-1897422045
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.5 x 1.2 inches

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Charney: Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety 2nd Edition

Working in health care is certainly dangerous to your health. Every day in the United States, 9000 health care workers sustain disabling injuries on the job. Every 30 seconds a health care worker is stuck by a needle, and one out of every 10 health care workers has developed an allergy to latex. This is just the beginning of the roll call of exposures. In many states, health care workers incur more lost time due to a violent act committed against them than law enforcement personnel. According to another book just published, Th e Epidemic of Health Care Work Injury: An Epidemiology, working in health care is more dangerous than working in a coal mine. And as a study conducted by the Minnesota Nurses Association has recently proved, managed care with its associated downsizing and de-skilling is turning an already bad/epidemic situation worse.
The Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety has been compiled to not only outline the problems that health care workers face, but also to show that there are solutions to the problems. This book covers the major exposures health care workers face; however, since the medical technology is always evolving, new problems have surfaced that did not make it into this book. For example, sonographers (ultrasound technicians), according to anecdotal information, have developed high rates of ergonomic injuries. In fact, the majority of the medical and clinical methods employed today were developed without any thought or a priori testing for occupational eff ects. And now, as there seems to be ever-increasing peer review evidence de ning the occupational threats to health care workers, there are ongoing obstacles to the implementation of the solutions that are both economic and political.

Contents

• 1 Overview of Health and Safety in the Health Care Environment
• 2 Epidemiology
• 3 Back Injury Prevention in Health Care
• 4 Emerging Infectious Diseases
• 5 Disinfection and Infection Control
• 6 Progress in Preventing Sharps Injuries in the United States
• 7 Violence in the Health Care Industry
• 8 Prevention of Slip, Trip, and Fall Hazards for Workers in Hospital Settings
• 9 Ergonomics
• 10 Chemodrugs
• 11 Tuberculosis Engineering Controls
• 12 Electrocautery Smoke: Reasons for Scavenging
• 13 Safe Use of Ethylene Oxide in the Hospital Environment
• 14 Monitoring Aldehydes
• 15 Pentamidine
• 16 Ribavirin
• 17 Trace Anesthetic Gas
• 18 Cost–Benefit
• 19 Clinical Approach to Glove Dermatitis and Latex Allergy
• 20 Latex Glove Use: Essentials in Modern Hospital Safety
• 21 Health and Safety Hazards of Shiftwork: Implications for Health Care Workers and Strategies for Prevention
• 22 Radiation Protection in Hospitals
• 23 Reproductive Hazards in Hospitals
• 24 Medical Waste
• 25 The Occupational Hazards of Home Health Care
• 26 Caring Until It Hurts: How Nursing Work Is Becoming the Most Dangerous Job in America
• 27 Laboratory Safety
• 28 Biological Exposure Index Testing: Two Case Studies
• 29 Functions and Staffing of a Hospital Safety Office
• 30 Education for Action: An Innovative Approach to Training Hospital Employees
• 31 Stress Factors
• 32 Case Studies of Health Care Workers in the Compensation System
• Index 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1226 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 2 edition (July 28, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 142004785X
• ISBN-13: 978-1420047851

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Williams: Comprehensive Hospital Medicine: Expert Consult Premium Edition - Enhanced Online Features and Print

 More than 20,000 physicians now practice as hospitalists across the United States. The specialty of hospital medicine is also spreading through Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. Hospitalists are caring for patients 24 hours a day, every day of the year. While delivering individualized hospital care with increasingly sophisticated diagnostic and treatment regimens, hospitalists are also partnering with other members of the hospital team—nurses, pharmacists, dieticians, physical and occupational therapists, administrators, non-hospitalist physicians, and nurse-practitioners and physicians' assistants—to improve the system of care delivery. This reference, Comprehensive Hospital Medicine, was developed for both hospitalists and members of the inpatient care team. Recognizing that about one third of all U.S. health care expenditures go to the care of hospitalized patients, we need evidence-based recommendations and guidance on optimizing hospital care delivery.
Comprehensive Hospital Medicine represents a major step in the journey to provide hospital-based practitioners with an inclusive, practical reference that covers all the diverse aspects of hospital medicine. The desire for a comprehensive resource for the field of hospital medicine drove the contributors to generate what we hope is a useful, frequently utilized tool.

Comprehensive Hospital Medicine is separated into three major parts. The first part (General Hospital Medicine Care) addresses common clinical issues that hospitalists encounter in the care of hospitalized patients, while the second (Consultative Hospital Medicine) focuses on the increasingly important role of hospitalists in perioperative care and providing consultative services. This reference text finishes with an entire part (System Issues) of 20 chapters devoted to explaining how best to organize and operate hospitalist programs, conduct hospital performance improvement projects, and address legal and ethical concerns.
We begin the approach to general hospital medicine care with chapters on applying evidence-based principles, communication and cultural competence, nutritional assessment and support, optimizing care of the frail elderly (typically our most frequent patients), and hospital discharge. Following a section devoted to preventive care in the hospital, subsequent chapters cover medical conditions and situations hospitalists commonly encounter, ranging from cardiovascular disorders to infectious, oncologic, and critical-care conditions. Chapters employ liberal use of tables, diagrams, algorithms, and pictures to distill information into readily accessible formats. We standardized chapters on common medical conditions so you can access the information when you need it. A Background section includes basics of epidemiology and pathophysiology when appropriate, but the primary focus is on Assessment of patients' clinical presentation and Management. Chapters in this part typically finish with discharge and follow-up plans with primary care providers. This structure will assist clinicians in quickly finding relevant information for diagnosis and treatment.
The second major part, Consultative Hospital Medicine, covers both preoperative evaluation and care of postoperative complications. The part is complemented with chapters on management of the medical complications of pregnancy and medical consultation for patients with psychiatric disorders necessitating hospitalization. The third and final part, System Issues, emphasizes the importance of attending to nonclinical issues to optimize the operations of a hospitalist program and the system of hospital care delivery. Topics covered include scheduling, compensation, coding and billing, leadership, managing patient transitions of care, staff performance improvement, establishing a team-work model with hospital staff, patient safety, and quality improvement.
All of the authors and editors sought to make Comprehensive Hospital Medicine useful to clinicians caring for hospitalized patients. In undertaking such a complex endeavor, we recognize that improvements in subsequent editions will be made. The patient-safety movement sweeping the medical world accepts that humans are not infallible, and though we tried our best to ensure the accuracy of the content of this reference, we certainly accept this axiom. Additionally, new scientific advances in diagnosis and treatment are reported every day. So we encourage and appreciate your feedback on how we may improve Comprehensive Hospital Medicine. The entire content of the book will also be on the web (hospitalisttext.com), and all the footnoted references are located there. We placed only suggested readings in the textbook version. The web-based version of Comprehensive Hospital Medicine will be updated regularly, so we can respond quickly to your feedback and new advances in hospital care.
We hope this reference will serve as an authoritative resource for hospitalists and members of the hospital team seeking to improve the overall delivery of hospital care. It was developed for you, and we look forward to continuing to enhance it so you can optimize care for your patients needing hospital care.


FOREWORD
By now hospital medicine is no longer an interesting sideline in medical practice but an established part of health care. The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), as the professional medical society for hospitalists, has been involved in defining hospital medicine. There is enormous promise for what this new specialty can do as part of the evolution of health care.
At the forefront of the change is a reordering of medical practice to a system that is patient centered and emphasizes measurable quality delivered by true teams. The themes of Comprehensive Hospital Medicine further define the elements that will be crucial to this transition.
Hospitalists have been portrayed by some as simply replacing internists, family practitioners, and pediatricians in the inpatient setting. While this is true on the face of it, hospitalists bring much more to the table. Certainly, hospitalists need to be experts in the common medical conditions that acutely ill patients bring to the hospital. These illnesses (e.g., heart failure, pneumonia, stroke, deep vein thrombosis) are delineated in the table of contents of this book, and the thorough chapters in this reference provide content to the SHM's Core Competences for Hospital Medicine.[1]
Because hospitalists devote most if not all of their professional focus to inpatient care, they will certainly be called upon to see greater numbers of all of these clinical conditions. Practice does make perfect, but more to the point, hospitalists can and must be experts in the nuances of acute care.
In my medical career as a busy internist in the “old days” it was enough to make the right diagnosis and order the correct therapy. Today's hospitalists must be aware of disease-specific performance standards and must even participate locally in implementation strategies to define what will be measured. The third part of Comprehensive Hospital Medicine, System Issues, covers essential nonclinical aspects of the hospitalist's role and provides tools for their measurement. In addition to helping measure the effectiveness of current hospital care, hospitalists are critical team members who will work with nurses, pharmacists, case managers, and other physicians, as well as the hospital administration, to develop changes in health care work flow to improve performance.
Hospitalists will also need to be prepared to look at how the hospital functions. When is the antibiotic actually received by the patient? How can we improve the way patients move through the emergency department (ED) to allow the ED physicians to do their job more efficiently? How can we work with the intensivists and the ICU staff to transition patients out of crowded ICUs when there is so much demand to create available ICU capacity? Providing comprehensive information and guidance, Comprehensive Hospital Medicine can be a resource for hospitalists wanting to know how best to manage patient flow.
Because hospitals are concerned with both effectiveness and efficiency, hospitalists need to maximize the skills of the entire inpatient team. Working with pharmacists, hospitalists need to be well versed in pharmacoeconomics, using not necessarily the least expensive therapeutic agent, but the one that has the best chance of getting the patient better quicker and keeping them out of the hospital. Working with the nurses and the case managers, hospitalists need to fashion the ideal hospitalization for each inpatient they see. Where do diagnosis and therapy intersect with patient education and the important transition from inpatient to outpatient, especially in today's health care world where patients are often discharged not fully cured, but well enough to leave the hospital and the expense of inpatient care?
Hospitalists are also bringing their new and improved vision of health care to many other parts of the hospital. Surgeons and medical subspecialists now routinely rely on hospitalists to co-manage their patients, freeing them up to concentrate on their specialty expertise. Hospitalists need to be experts in perioperative care and palliative and end-of-life care as well as certain aspects of critical care.
We have moved from the lone-ranger physician, operating individually to cure his or her patients, to health care delivered by teams, as well described in Comprehensive Hospital Medicine's chapter on teamwork. Because of this, hospitalists need information and training to manage groups of hospitalists and provide leadership for other health professionals. Unfortunately, most of these skills are not taught in medical schools or residency programs. Yet they are essential if hospital medicine is to realize the promise of this new specialty.
This textbook takes a giant step toward bringing together the current body of knowledge to help hospitalists succeed in this challenging environment. It complements web-based tools developed by SHM for education and to improve quality as well as SHM courses on practice management and leadership to train the next generation of physician leaders. This combination of a comprehensive reference textbook written by leaders in hospital medicine and interactive resources developed by SHM can allow us to close the knowledge gap.
We are entering a new day in health care where there are increased expectations for better quality outcomes, delivered in an efficient hospital setting. We want more for our health care dollar. No physician specialty has ever been asked both to improve measurable quality and save the system money while they do it.
Soon there will be hospitalists at most if not all hospitals. They will be called upon to play a significant role in improving the health of their patients and leading their institutions into the future. Hospitalists bring the enthusiasm and energy to take this on. Hospitalists need to rely on textbooks like this one for comprehensive information designed to help them succeed. SHM will do our part to provide additional resources specific to hospitalists. Together we will meet the challenge and take health care to a new level.

Laurence D. Wellikson, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Chief Executive Officer, Society of Hospital Medicine

Features 

• Access to the entire contents of this Expert Consult title online permits speedy consultation from any computer with an Internet connection.
• The Premium Edition includes regular online updates reflecting the latest clinical developments ... all of the artwork from the text, downloadable for use in PowerPoint® presentations ... evidence-based admitting orders for over 100 conditions ... and the ability to load all of the admitting orders from the web site onto your handheld device.
• State-of-the-art, evidence-based, hospital-focused guidelines on clinical assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and discharge/follow-up planning help you to effectively manage all of the key disorders in every body system.
• 20 chapters focused on peri-operative care assist you in navigating this increasingly important component of hospital medicine practice.
• Expert advice on systems issues explores how to establish and enhance a hospitalist program, provide leadership, manage patient transitions of care, establish a teamwork model with hospital staff, promote patient safety and staff performance improvement, standardize care, and navigate legal and ethical concerns.

Contents
PART ONE - GENERAL HOSPITAL MEDICINE CARE

• Section 1 - General Approach to a Hospitalized Patient
• Section 2 - Preventive Services in the Hospitalized Patient
• Section 3 - Cardiovascular
• Section 4 - Infectious Diseases
• Section 5 - Pulmonary
• Section 6 - Nephrology
• Section 7 - Gastroenterology
• Section 8 - Endocrinology
• Section 9 - Oncology
• Section 10 - Hematology
• Section 11 - Rheumatology, Immunology, and Dermatology
• Section 12 - Critical Care
• Section 13 - Neurology

PART TWO - CONSULTATIVE HOSPITAL MEDICINE

• Section 14 - Consultative Hospital Medicine
• Section 15 - Preoperative Assessments and Preparation
• Section 16 - Postoperative Evaluation and Care
• Section 17 - Medical Complications of Pregnancy
• Section 18 - Consultation for the Psychiatric Patient

PART THREE - SYSTEM ISSUES

• Section 19 - Hospitalist Program Operations
• Section 20 - Hospital Performance Improvement
• Section 21 - Legal and Ethical Issues

APPENDICES

• APPENDIX ONE: NIH Stroke Scale
• APPENDIX TWO: Eligibility Criteria Indications for tPA Administration/Treatment
• APPENDIX THREE: RASS and CAM–ICU Worksheet 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1072 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 1 Har/Psc edition (September 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416002979
• ISBN-13: 978-1416002970
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.9 x 1.9 inches

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