Child Abuse Medical Diagnosis & Management Review

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(More customer reviews)Among other things, this book has respectful pictures showing clearly both that physical abuse, and also sexual abuse including penetration by fingers and penises, is inflicted upon very small children, including those under three years old (see for example pages 764, 767, 768, 771, 772, 778,). Other pictures show that physical wounds can heal quickly, which I think implies that physical and sexual abuse can occur and be hidden in the household. Please read this book, EVERYONE, and not only professionals.

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Medical Evaluation of Child Sexual Abuse: A Practical Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)Definitely worth purchasing through Amazon.com. Money saving and as current as what is available through other outlets.

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This newly updated edition of the top-selling reference manual for the medical evaluation of suspected child sexual abuse has been expanded to reflect the increasing importance of properly performed, well-documented examinations. Not only does the book cover aspects of the physical examination and diagnosis for sexual abuse, its additional coverage of interviewing children and collecting evidence for criminal investigations makes it an inclusive guidebook for all aspects of the child sexual abuseevaluation process.

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Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice Review

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(More customer reviews)I have many books on TBI (traumatic Brain Injury) including some textbooks, and this is the best. It has everything you need to know about the brain and more importantly what happens when there is damage. It doesn't cover first hand experience, it is more of a encyclopedia of brain injury. Everyone who deals with patients should have one and I highly recommend survivors and thier families have one.

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Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the management issues involved in caring for the person with brain injury - from early diagnosis and evaluation through the post-acute period and rehabilitation. It is the definitive core text needed by all practitioners in this area, including physiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, nurses, and other health care professionals.
Written by over 100 acknowledged leaders in the field, and containing hundreds of tables, graphs, and photographic images, the text deals with issues of neuroimaging and neurodiagnostic testing, prognosis and outcome, acute care, rehabilitative care, treatment of specific populations, neurologic problems following injury, neuromusculoskeletal problems, and general management issues.
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Emphasis on a disease state management approach to patient assessment and treatment
Promotion of a holistic, biopsychosocial model of patient assessment and care
Review of current expert consensus on practice guidelines
Exploration of epidemiologic and basic pathophysiologic aspects of brain injury
Examination of clinical issues throughout the continuum of rehabilitative care
Cutting edge, practical information based on the authors' extensive clinical experience that will positively impact patients and families following brain injury
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Injured Brains of Medical Minds: Views from Within Review

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(More customer reviews)The book „Injured Brains of Medical Minds", compiled and edited by Narinder Kapur, gives an extraordinary insight into how brain damage affects the individual life. The book is very interesting and sometimes even amusing to read. For instance, Karl Lashley, one of the outstanding neuropsychologists of this century, reports in a chapter that his own migraine attack brought about blind spots, elementary visual hallucinations that included scintillating scotoma. Bryan Kolb, a well-known neuropsychologist and author of a standard textbook of neuropsychology describes in another self-report the consequences of his visual field defect due to a stroke as following: „I still miss capital letters when reading text ... and I am puzzled by the odd spellings or messages. For example a sign stating `women' can be misread as `men' or one saying `telephone' may be misread as `lephone'(...) I also decided to try skiing that week. I was able to ski without difficulty, although I tended to overcompensate for my field defect and actually ran into a tree in my good field whilst trying to avoid a bush several meters away on the left!" In another book-chapter, Prof. Harold Klawans tells us about his colleague, a general surgeon, who suffered from an attack of transient global amnesia during a resection of a gallbladder. Again and again the surgeon asked the nurse: „Did I take out the gallbladder?" In contrast to this severe memory deficits he was able to continue in his work without any problems. But, by the time he successfully had finished the operation, he added another fundamental question: „Where am I?". Lawrence Freedman, professor of medicine, suffered a cerebral concussion due to a bicycle accident. He tells us about his anxiety to leave his home and go for a simple walk around the block with his little daughter. Halfway around the block he tried to turn into the wrong direction. He was so absolutely sure to be right, that he bets a million dollar: He still owes this money to his daughter. Stories like this lead the reader to see not only the cognitive deficits, but also the difficulties in activities of daily living and the emotional problems of patients after brain damage. „Injured Brains of Medical Minds" is not a simple case book. An introduction to each section of the book provides background information to the topic of concern. A commentary accompanying each of the personal accounts puts the papers into the context of current theory and clinical practice, thereby making Narinder Kapur's book a highly recommendable textbook introducing the field of neuropsychology to specialists as well as to non-specialist readers. It is important for everybody who would like to understand not only the theory of a brain lesions but to get an additional touch of the „feeling" how it is to be a brain damaged patient.

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