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Rewritten and updated, this quick-reference guide to both medical and surgical intensive care distils the essential principles, protocols and techniques from the fourth edition of "Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine". The user-friendly format features tables, illustrations and annotated references to the key literature. This edition's highlights include: expanded coverage of all aspects of surgical intensive care; an updated atlas of procedures and techniques; and a complete 33-chapter guide to pharmacology, overdoses and poisonings. Sections on shock and trauma, coronary care, neurologic problems, rheumatologic and immunologic problems, and psychiatric issues have been fundamentally rewritten.

A distinguished cardiologist shares the principles of a heart healthy diet, along with more than 125 creative, healthful recipes for main dishes, soups, snacks, vegetarian dishes, and desserts, contributed by some of America's leading chefs, along with complete nutritional analyses and tips on adapting favorite dishes with a heart healthy touch. Original. (view table of contents)

Delivers information on heart disease, and discusses the causes and best treatments for this common and deadly ailment.

Includes ten simple tests to assess fitness levels and guidelines for tailoring individual fitness programs

Product Description: ...offers a systematic approach to nearly every disease entity in the critical care setting...incorporates a large internal medicine component with increased coverage of surgery and anesthesiology.

Product Description: Companion text to the main reference, "Intensive Care Medicine", 2nd edition, this text has an easy-to-use format for on-site reference, is well illustrated to help the novice understand procedures and coverss when, why and how to perform diagnostic / therapeutic manoeuvres. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The Exercise Exchange Program" is for anyone who has ever found diet and fitness programs restrictive, regimented, dull, and just plain ineffective. It's a proven and flexible alternative that adds variety and interest to your current plan, or helps you create one of your own...read more

Explains how to design an everyday workout regimen suited to individual needs that utilizes an exchange system for food, aerobic exercise, and strength training and includes recipes, a food-exchange list, and a thirty-day diet and exercise program. 20,000 first printing.

A survey of more than 1,000 American corporate executives reveals what they are doing to stay in shape and presents week-by-week fitness programs, nutrition and diet plans, and tips on managing stress

A guide to fitness walking provides advice on preventing injury, walking gear, stretching, hiking and backpacking, racewalking, and walking with weights

Designed for women at every fitness level, this illustrated guide provides day-to-day walking programs for weight loss, injury management, aerobic conditioning, muscle toning, and stress reduction

Explains how to improve one's aerobic condition, endurance, flexibility, nutrition, and mental attitude, gives advice on preventing sports injuries, and shows how to plan a training schedule