Radiation Safety in Nuclear Medicine, Second Edition

Radiation Safety in Nuclear Medicine, Second Edition Review

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Recent advances in the field of nuclear medicine (NM) are expanding the role and responsibilities of the nuclear medicine technologist (NMT) to include more complex and detailed tasks. New technologies are making the diagnosis, management, and treatment of illnesses more sensitive, more specific, more accurate, and ultimately safer for both the patient and the technologist.

Radiation Safety in Nuclear Medicine, Second Edition provides the latest technological advances and expanded responsibilities of today’s NMT while laying a solid foundation for understanding the basic physics behind the technology. As with the original, this edition teaches the units of radioactivity, exposure, and dosimetry, along with the principles of instrumentation needed for detection and measurement. Focusing on the issues of safety, this volume devotes considerable attention to the science and practice of safety techniques and includes information on rules and regulations.

In keeping with the expanding nature of the field, the second edition incorporates many updates and additions such as,

Recent modifications to the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations specific to the use of radiopharmaceuticals in medicine

The growing popularity of metabolic imaging with positron emissions tomography (PET)

The benefits of merging two modalities, namely, the images of PET and computerized tomography (CT) into one short scanning procedure

The new role of therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals that use molecular targeting as a method of localization

Providing a basic understanding of nuclear medicine, its scientific basis, diagnostic and therapeutic applications, safety practices and regulations, and future directions, Radiation Safety in Nuclear Medicine, Second Edition is the comprehensive reference for technologists, students, researchers, and other professionals in the Nuclear Medicine.

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• Nuclear Medicine Technology: Procedures and Quick Reference
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Sep 01, 2011 08:31:08

Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out

Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out Review

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The inspiring story of how a leading innovator in patient safety found a simple way to save countless lives.

First, do no harm-doctors, nurses and clinicians swear by this code of conduct. Yet in hospitals and doctors' offices across the country, errors are made every single day - avoidable, simple mistakes that often cost lives. Inspired by two medical mistakes that not only ended in unnecessary deaths but hit close to home, Dr. Peter Pronovost made it his personal mission to improve patient safety and make preventable deaths a thing of the past, one hospital at a time.

Dr. Pronovost began with simple improvements to a common procedure in the ER and ICU units at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Creating an easy five-step checklist based on the most up-to-date research for his fellow doctors and nurses to follow, he hoped that streamlining the procedure itself could slow the rate of infections patients often died from.

But what Dr. Pronovost discovered was that doctors and nurses needed more than a checklist: the day-to-day environment needed to be more patient-driven and staff needed to see scientific results in order to know their efforts were a success. After those changes took effect, the units Dr. Pronovost worked with decreased their rate of infection by 70%.

Today, all fifty states are implementing Dr. Pronovost's programs, which have the potential to save more lives than any other medical innovation in the past twenty-five years. But his ideas are just the beginning of the changes being made by doctors and nurses across the country making huge leaps to improve patient care. In Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals, Dr. Pronovost shares his own experience, anecdotal stories from his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and other hospitals that have made his approach their own, alongside comprehensive research-showing readers how small changes make a huge difference in patient care.

Inspiring and thought provoking, this compelling book shows how one person with a cause really can make a huge difference in our lives.

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• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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• Health Care Will Not Reform Itself: A User's Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care

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Aug 30, 2011 23:19:49

Understanding Health Policy, Fifth Edition (LANGE Clinical Medicine)

Understanding Health Policy, Fifth Edition (LANGE Clinical Medicine) Review

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An engaging and clinically applicable work on the principles and structure of the U.S. healthcare system

A Doody's Core Title for 2011!

"Eminently readable...Anyone wanting to gain insight into the forces that shaping health policy and the future of health care will appreciate this book."--Critical Care Nurse Magazine

Understanding Health Policy is the best-written, most informative book available on the subject--and it's the #1 choice for healthcare students and professionals alike. The authors carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make important health policy issues both interesting and understandable.

Fully updated to reflect current issues in the ever-changing world of healthcare, the newest edition addresses all the topics that affect you most, from the structure and organization of the industry to issues regarding government and private insurance, to access to healthcare.

Everything you need to understand how the healthcare system works - and your role in it:

• Clinical vignettes in every chapter illustrate key points
• Detailed treatment of both U.S. and international issues
• A complete chapter of review questions
• NEW Expanded coverage of healthcare workers other than physicians
• NEW Closer scrutiny of the pharmaceutical industry
• NEW Brand-new chapter on the medical education system

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• Introduction to Public Health, Third Edition
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Aug 29, 2011 10:59:36

Security and Life Safety for the Commercial High-Rise

Security and Life Safety for the Commercial High-Rise Review

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Since September 11, 2001, the high-rise industry has been reviewing security and life safety procedures and practices and taking steps to improve security based on building size and importance, geographic location, potential risk to occupants, and risk of attacks. The risk assessment guidelines presented in this book are oriented toward protection of a site's personnel and physical assets. They would also generally apply to protection of computer data, hardware, and software. The security guidance discussed in this book will assist individual companies to assess their properties and determine how best to protect their assets.

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• High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety

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Aug 27, 2011 23:03:04

Unhealthy Work: Causes, Consequences, Cures (Critical Approaches in the Health, Social Sciences)

Unhealthy Work: Causes, Consequences, Cures (Critical Approaches in the Health, Social Sciences) Review

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Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more costly side. Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual counts of injuries that we think of as 'occupational health'. The ways in which work is organized - its pace and intensity, degree of control over the work process, sense of justice, and employment security, among other things - can be as toxic to the health of workers as the chemicals in the air. These work characteristics can be detrimental not only to mental well-being but to physical health. Scientists refer to these features of work as 'hazards' of the 'psychosocial' work environment. One key pathway from the work environment to illness is through the mechanism of stress; thus we speak of 'stressors' in the work environment, or 'work stress'. This is in contrast to the popular psychological understandings of 'stress', which locate many of the problems with the individual rather than the environment. In this book we advance a social environmental understanding of the workplace and health. The book addresses this topic in three parts: the important changes taking place in the world of work in the context of the global economy (Part I); scientific findings on the effects of particular forms of work organization and work stressors on employees' health, 'unhealthy work' as a major public health problem, and estimates of costs to employers and society (Part II); and, case studies and various approaches to improve working conditions, prevent disease, and improve health (Part III).

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• Healthy Work: Stress Productivity And The Reconstruction Of Working Life
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Aug 26, 2011 16:25:53

Annotated Dictionary of Construction Safety and Health

Annotated Dictionary of Construction Safety and Health Review

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The Annotated Dictionary of Construction Safety and Health covers the most common types of risks or hazards that impact the safety and health of construction workers. Arranged in alphabetical order for ease-of-use, the Dictionary meshes regulations, common sense, and practical construction work aspects in a logical style.
The author discusses a vast range of issues in construction safety. He covers the most common types of risks or hazards that impact the safety of construction workers, and includes the OSHA requirements where applicable. This comprehensive view of safety in the construction industry has its foundation in the author's belief that jobsite safety is a critical factor in good business practices, productivity, and cost containment.
The construction industry has always been viewed as an industry with unique hazards. The Annotated Dictionary of Construction Safety and Health provides you with a tool for addressing occupational safety issues in the construction industry. As a guide and reference, it will be the foundation upon which you can build stronger safety initiatives and prevent jobsite deaths and injuries.

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• Print Reading for Construction: Residential and Commercial

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Aug 25, 2011 02:50:38

The African American Guide to Personal Growth, Health, Safety, Sex and Survival : Living and Learning in the 21st Century

The African American Guide to Personal Growth, Health, Safety, Sex and Survival : Living and Learning in the 21st Century Review

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The African-American Teenager’s Guide will answer questions about sex, pregnancy, dating, rape, gangs, homosexuality, friendship, peer pressure and depression. It will teach teens the value of time and responsibility in relation to their family, friends, classmates, teachers, associates and give them information that helps them make the right decisions and handle situations completely on their own. Teens will learn the right way to change frightening situations to enlightening situations and they will be able to establish new ways to organize themselves and handle money matters, including planning, earning and saving toward their college expenses.

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• Don't Give It Away! : A Workbook of Self-Awareness and Self-Affirmations for Young Women
• No Mistakes! The African American Teen Guide to Growing Up Strong
• Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women
• Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
• Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny

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Aug 22, 2011 17:41:19

Handbook of Chemicals and Safety

Handbook of Chemicals and Safety Review

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A host of chemical substances have become essential parts of human activities and requirements for societal development. Any kind of misuse and/or negligence in handling these substances can cause health disorders, poisoning, and fatalities among unprotected workers and members of the public exposed to contaminated food, water, and air. Carefully organized for ease of use, Handbook of Chemicals and Safety provides a tool for the management of a range of chemical substances commonly used, handled, stored, transported, and disposed of as wastes. Written in an accessible style with just the right amount of technical rigor, the book covers:

• General fundamentals and specific hazards and effects of chemical substances
• The basics of exposures and responses to chemical substances in the work environment
• Toxic responses in different body systems
• General perspective on the problem of chemical exposures and the possible health effects

The author includes substances such as industrial solvents, pesticides, metals, air pollutants, toxic gases, drugs, and other items. He supplies the chemical abstract system (CAS) number, IUPAC name, molecular formula, synonyms and trade names, use and exposure, toxicity and health effects, and carcinogen factors. He also includes information on exposure limits, methods of proper storage, and waste disposal.

An important reference on exposure to different categories of chemical substances, the book stresses the importance of preparedness in any safety program. Taking a broad and interdisciplinary approach to chemicals and workplace safety, it provides guidance on the judicious management of chemical substances.

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Aug 21, 2011 13:33:36

Health, Safety, and Nutrition Activities A to Z

Health, Safety, and Nutrition Activities A to Z Review

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Health, Safety, and Nutrition A to Z gives teachers and parents a detailed lesson plan format of open-ended, age- appropriate activities for young children ages one and up. The activities are easy-to- understand and follow for children and adults alike. Each section helps teachers and parents find health, safety, and nutrition activities to support a theme-based curriculum, to incorporate a letter of the week, or to provide a spur-of-the-moment filler idea. Many activity choices are given for each targeted alphabet letter. This child-centered text focuses on health, safety, and nutrition as a process rather than as a product, giving children an appreciation for learning and creating. The author makes certain that teachers, parents and children will enjoy the activities as they explore new learning processes.

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• Art Activities A to Z (Activities a to Z Series)
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Aug 19, 2011 16:16:36

Principles of Health and Safety in Agriculture

Principles of Health and Safety in Agriculture Review

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This indispensible new text is a comprehensive treatment of health and safety problems in agriculture and related industries. Respiratory health risks, grain dust exposures, occupational asthma, chronic lung disease, chemical exposures, incidence of cancer in farmers, accidents and injuries, and stress and psychiatric problems are addressed, from basic science to practical clinical aspects. This useful handbook provides a wealth of information for practicing clinicians, researchers, public health workers, those engaged in occupational health, programming, private industry, governmental public health departments, and farmers themselves.

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• Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment
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Aug 18, 2011 01:32:05