This issue of Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, guest edited by Dr. Stephen Brigido, will cover a wide array of topics in new technologies in foot and ankle surgery. Some of the issues discussed in the volume will include: The Ideal Scaffold for Treating Full Thickness Wounds of the Lower Extremity; The Role of Polyvinyl Alcohol in Cartilage Repair of the Ankle and First Metatarsophalangeal Joint; Juvenile Particulate Cartilage; Platelet Rich Plasma for the Treatment of Enthesopathies of the Foot and Ankle; Allograft Bone; Rigid Fixation; The Evolution of Limb Deformity; New Fixation Methods for the Treatment of the Diabetic Foot; and Computed Navigation Guidance for Ankle Replacement in the Setting of Ankle Deformity, among others.

Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner is a key resource for advanced practice nurses and graduate students seeking to test their skills in assessing, diagnosing, and managing cases in family and primary care. Composed of more than 70 cases ranging from common to unique, the book compiles years of experience from experts in the field. It is organized chronologically, presenting cases from neonatal to geriatric care in a standard approach built on the SOAP format. This includes differential diagnosis and a series of critical thinking questions ideal for self-assessment or classroom use.

The third edition of Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot has been fully revised and updated, and continues to be the essential handbook on foot care and the treatment of the diabetic foot. The diabetic foot is typically the victim of nerve damage, micro- and macrovascular disease, and faulty healing, mechanisms that without proper care can lead to amputation. More than 80,000 diabetes-related amputations are performed in the United States each year, but non-specialist primary care providers, as well as residents, nurses, and diabetes educators, can help prevent this devastating, life-altering, and expensive complication. Healthcare professionals and medical students alike will find that this concise, well-indexed, and updated guide offers practical advice on detecting and managing diabetes-related foot complications.

Career profile comprising job descriptions on health and health service occupations for medical personnel in the USA - covers job requirements and employment opportunities for careers in health education and for physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists, surgeons, social workers, etc., And comments on career planning and financial aspects, and includes directories of relevant organizations. Photographs.

Not everyone is a friend of the manifold abbreviations that have by now beCome a part of the scientific language of medicine. In order to avoid misunderstanding these abbreviations, it is wise to refer to a reliable dic tionary, such as this one prepared by Heister. The abbreviation ED means, for instance, effective dose to the pharmacologist. However, it might also stand for emetic dose. Radiologists use the same abbreviation for erythema dose, and ED could also mean ethyl dichlorarsine. A com mon meaning of ECU is European currency unit, a meaning that might not be very often in scientific medical publications. ECU, however, also means environmental control unit or European Chiropractic Union. Hopefully, those making inventions and discoveries will make use of Heister's dictionary before creating new abbreviations when preparing manuscripts for scientific publications. It is a very worthwhile goal not to use the same abbreviation for several different terms, especially if it is already widely accepted to mean only one of them. It may be impossible, however, to achieve this goal in different scientific disciplines. Therefore, although it is wise for the abbreviations used in a publication to be defined, it is also very helpful for readers and writers to use a dictionary such as this one. The author deserves our warmest thanks since we know that compiling such a comprehensive dictionary is based upon incredibly hard effort.