Drawn from questions asked by their patients with inflammatory bowel disease--IBD is the collective term for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, Drs. Warner and Barto (gastroenterologists with the Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts) answer questions about concerns ranging from treatment options and diet to IBD in pregnancy and children. The guide includes patients' perspectives about coping with IBD, resources, and a glossary.
Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease in which an abnormal immune system response causes chronic inflammation in the digestive tract. About 1.4 million Americans have Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. This essential volume explains this disease in detail, covering its diagnosis, treatments and therapies, and medical advances. Readers will also hear from individuals who live with this challenging disease.
Empower Yourself! More than half the general population suffers from a GI condition that needs medical attention. Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient or a loved one of someone suffering from a digestive disorder, this book offers help. The only text available to provide both the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Digestive Health, provides practical, authoritative answers to 100 of the most common questions asked. Written with commentary from actual patients, this is an invaluable resource for anyone struggling with the medical, physical, and emotional turmoil of this disease.
This book provides essential didactic content for the SAGES University Masters Program Colorectal Surgery Curriculum. Surgeons seeking to complete the competency, proficiency, or mastery curriculum of the MASTERS Colorectal Pathway for a particular anchoring colorectal procedure will find relevant educational content in this SAGES Manual. Written by experts in the field, each chapter provides detailed guidance on preoperative and peri-procedural considerations for right and left elective and emergency colorectal resections, for both benign and malignant pathologies. Technical pearls and strategies to manage pitfalls and complications are also extensively reviewed along with detailed guidance for both laparoscopic and robotic procedures. The SAGES Manual of Colorectal Surgery provides a wealth of practical guidance to surgeons along their journey to progress from competency to mastery in various minimally invasive approaches to colorectal surgery.
Contemporary Coloproctology covers colorectal surgery, as practiced today, in an easily accessible format with emphasis on bringing key facts rapidly into focus. It is ideal reading both for the medical trainee and the practicing colorectal surgeon. As well as a succinct presentation of the current colorectal knowledge base, each chapter contains practical advice and pearls of wisdom from established practicing clinicians. A unique feature of the format is the identification of key references and questions and scenarios that present real life decisions in colorectal surgery. Edited and authored by outstanding surgeons in their fields, this book brings the reader expertise in surgery and management across the various conditions encountered in coloproctology.
This text reviews the areas of colorectal surgery that are at the cutting edge of innovation, paradigm shift and controversy with regard to diagnosis, patient selection, treatment algorithm, and therapeutic approaches. From the impact of enhanced recovery protocols on traditional colorectal practices, to that of novel strategies merging endoscopic and surgical techniques, to recent paradigm shifts in the management of common colorectal disorders, this text provides readers with an update on current controversies and evolving treatment rationale in the management of common colorectal diseases. Current Common Dilemmas in Colorectal Surgery provides a guide for the current common dilemmas that caregivers encounter in their daily practice. It is of great utility to colorectal surgeons, surgical oncologists and general surgeons practicing colorectal surgery, senior residents in general surgery training or surgical oncology or colorectal fellowships, allied healthcare professionals involved in the care of patients with colorectal disease, pharma and biomedical technology industry with an interest in current care of patients with colorectal disease.
This third edition text provides a completely revised and updated new version of this unique, modern, practical text that covers the strategic evaluation, specific approaches, and detailed management techniques utilized by expert colorectal surgeons caring for patients with complex problems–whether they result from underlying colorectal disease or from complications arising from previous surgical therapy. The format follows that of both a “how to” manual as well as an algorithm-based guide to allow the reader to understand the thought process behind the proposed treatment strategy. By making use of evidence-based recommendations, each chapter includes not only background information and diagnostic/therapeutic guidelines, but also provides a narrative by the author on his/her operative technical details and perioperative “tips and tricks” that they utilize in the management of these complex surgical challenges. Distinctive to this book, is the reliance on experts in the field including past presidents of the ASCRS, as well as multiple other national and internationally recognized surgeons, to lend their personal insight into situations where data may be more sparse, but individual and collective experience is paramount to making sound decisions and thereby optimizing patient outcomes. The text includes chapters on the assessment of risk and methods utilized to minimize perioperative complications. In addition, it incorporates sections covering the medical and surgical therapies for abdominal, pelvic and anorectal disease. Moreover, the technical challenges of managing complications resulting from the original or subsequent operations is addressed. The underlying focus throughout the text is on providing pragmatic and understandable solutions that can be readily implemented by surgeons of varying experience to successfully treat complex colorectal problems. However, it also goes beyond the technical aspects of colorectal surgery and includes special sections highlighting the essence of a surgeon; covering aspects involving the medical-legal, ethical, and economic challenges confronting surgeons. Throughout the text, each author provides an ongoing narrative of his/her individual surgical techniques along with illustrations and diagrams to “personally” take the reader through the crucial steps of the procedure, and key points of patient care inherent to that topic. Additionally, where appropriate, links to online videos give the reader an up-front look into technical aspects of colorectal surgery.
This comprehensive text delivers cutting-edge scientific knowledge and expert clinical guidance on anesthesia for the vascular surgical patient or the patient with cardiac disease undergoing major noncardiac surgery. It covers cardiovascular anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology; preoperative assessment and management, specific perioperative considerations, and postoperative management. This 2nd Edition features eight completely rewritten chapters and six new chapters. Extensive updates throughout reflect all the new procedures, drugs, techniques, and monitoring modalities that have emerged over the last decade. Delivers cutting-edge scientific knowledge that serves as a basis for clinical practice. Provides comprehensive coverage of anesthesia, including cardiovascular anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology preoperative assessment and management specific perioperative considerations and postoperative management. Integrates recent developments from the fields of anesthesiology, cardiology, cardiovascular pharmacology, vascular surgery, and critical care medicine to present a complete clinical picture Offers fresh perspectives from many new contributors who are leaders in their fields. Explores all the new procedures, drugs, techniques, and monitoring modalities that have emerged over the last decade. Devotes more coverage to regional anesthesia or combined regional and general anesthesia for modification of stress responses, improved pain control, better wound healing, and control of inflammatory/immunomodulatory changes associated with surgery. Places increased emphasis on the physiology, diseases, and surgery of the peripheral vasculature throughout, including a new chapter on The Peripheral Circulation in Patients with Vascular Disease (Chapter 1). Includes a new chapter on Imaging of the Vasculature(Chapter 2), that is completely up to date and easy to read. Covers anesthesia and perioperative care for all of the latest procedures, including new information on minimally invasive techniques and new chapters on Interventional Vascular Radiologic Procedures (Chapter 4) and Choice of Invasive vs. Noninvasive Surgery (Chapter 7). Features expanded material on postoperative care, especially on new techniques for pain management, and includes new chapters on Respiratory Complications and Management (Chapter 18) and Ethical Decisions/End of Life Care in Patients with Vascular Disease (Chapter 20).
GAPS DIET COOKBOOK for Everyone on the Gaps Diet. Perfect cookbook for: GAPS Diet Recipes -- Gut Healing Recipes -- Autism Fighting Recipes -- Bland Diet Recipes -- Gastrointestinal Health Recipes -- Digestive Health Recipes Heal your gut and improve your health with Recover with GAPS cookbook "I have found that food is an extremely powerful way of dealing with disease-the most powerful way. Many people don't realize how powerful food is." -Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride MD, creator and author of Gut & Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Many people worldwide have struggled to heal their leaky gut. Even more so, many people have struggled to come up with the right recipe based on the foods allowed on the diet. Now, rather than being another statistic, you can improve your gastrointestinal system by using the healing recipes in this cookbook. Recover with GAPS Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of over 100 healthy and easy-to-follow recipes featuring gut healing breakfasts, salads, stews, soups, seafood and meat dishes, desserts, and more for all the stages of the diet. You'll be introduced to my personal "go-to" recipes that I've used to heal my gut based on the GAPS diet guidelines. I have done it-you can too!
Nutrition and Diet Therapy: Self-Instructional Approaches covers the fundamentals of basic nutrition, and then nutrition as therapy, in both adults and children. It is designed to work as a traditional text or a self-instructional text that allows for distance-learning and self-paced instruction. Progress checks throughout each chapter and chapter post-tests help students to evaluate their comprehension of key information. The Fifth Edition has been completely revised and updated to include My Pyramid and corresponding DRIs and all of the all figures and tables have been revised. Accompanied by A Comprehensive Companion Web site
