Contact Urticaria Syndrome
Contact Urticaria Syndrome

Author: Ana M. Giménez-Arnau

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 3319897640

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Contact urticaria is an immediate but transient localized swelling and redness that occurs on the skin after direct contact with an offending substance. It is caused by a variety of compounds, such as foods, preservatives, fragrances, plant and animal products, metals, and rubber latex and the mechanism by which these provoke an immediate urticarial rash at the area of contact can be divided into two categories: non-immunological contact urticaria and immunological (allergic) contact urticaria. Non-immunological contact urticaria typically causes mild localized reactions that clear within hours, e.g. stinging nettle rash. This type of urticaria occurs without prior exposure of a patient's immune system to an allergen. Immunological contact urticaria occurs most commonly in atopic individuals (people who are prone to allergy). Hence prior exposure to an allergen is required for this type of contact urticaria to occur. While there have been other texts written on the subject over the last decade, this book is intended as an easily accessible guide for dermatologists and residents, as well as general practitioners, summarizing the most important concepts that will help physicians identify the signs and symptoms of Contact Urticaria Syndrome in their daily clinical practice. Each chapter is laid out in the following format: Concepts, Tools and Algorithms of Diagnosis and Management, a Clinical Case for each entry, and Recommendations. Additionally, the Volume Editors have worked to provide a global approach to this syndrome using internationally standardized requirements for diagnosis.

Artificial Intelligence in Project Management and Making Decisions
Artificial Intelligence in Project Management and Making Decisions

Author: Pedro Y. Piñero Pérez

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 3030972690

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This book presents new developments and advances in the theory, applications, and design methods of computational intelligence, integrated in various areas of project management and BIM environments. The chapters of the book span different soft computing techniques, such as: linguistic data summarization, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms, estimation distribution algorithms, computing with words, augmented reality, and hybrid intelligence systems. In addition, different applications of the neutrosophic theory are presented for the treatment of uncertainty and indeterminacy in decision-making processes. Several chapters of the book constitute systematic reviews, useful for future investigations in the following topics: linguistic summarization of data, augmented reality, and the development of BIM technologies. It is a particularly interesting book for engineers, researchers, specialists, teachers, and students related to project management and the development of BIM technologies.

Técnicas de prevención de riesgos laborales. Seguridad e higiene en el trabajo (9a edición)
Técnicas de prevención de riesgos laborales. Seguridad e higiene en el trabajo (9a edición)

Author: José María Cortés Díaz

Publisher: Editorial Tebar

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 8473602722

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Este manual da respuesta a los contenidos requeridos por el Reglamento de los Servicios de Prevención para la formación de Nivel Superior en Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, habiendo sido adoptado por numerosas entidades formativas como texto de referencia y bibliografía básica. Además de estudiar las tradicionales técnicas preventivas de seguridad e higiene en el trabajo, esta obra aborda el aprendizaje de los conocimientos básicos relativos a medicina del trabajo, ergonomía, psicosociología y otras actuaciones como formación, información, comunicación y negociación, aspectos que, unidos a los relativos a la organización y gestión de la prevención en la empresa, deben ser tenidos en cuenta en el control de los riesgos laborales. La selección de los temas, el enfoque y el tratamiento de los mismos, así como la constante actualización de la obra, hacen de ésta, la primera publicación técnica sobre esta materia tras la aprobación de la Ley de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, referencia obligada tanto para el profesional como para el alumno universitario o el estudiante de formación superior en prevención de riesgos laborales. El texto se completa con la publicación, como anexo al mismo, de Cuestionarios de Autoevaluación y Aprendizaje sobre Prevención de Riesgos Laborales (2a Ed.) donde se incluyen cuarenta cuestionarios, con mil doscientos items correspondientes a los diferentes temas, con el fin de facilitar el autoaprendizaje del usuario de la obra.

Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management
Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management

Author: Liam Donaldson

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-14

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 3030594033

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Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.