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From concept development to final production, this text examines the design, prototyping, and fabrication of engineering products and emphasizes modern developments in system modeling, analysis, and automatic control. It details various management strategies, design methodologies, and traditional production techniques.

Details symptom-specific strategies for the diagnosis and management of diabetic patients. This book emphasizes the exploration of therapeutic options available for the treatment of accelerated coronary complications associated with diabetes. It is a reference for primary care, family practice, and internal medicine physicians, amongst others.

Containing over 1900 references, this book focusses on individualized spinal injury assessments, immobilization techniques, nonoperative and operative indications, operative fixation strategies, and prognoses. It is useful for orthopedic, spinal, and trauma surgeons; emergency medicine physicians; and neurologists; and others of this discipline.

Presents the directions for the prevention and treatment of arterial and venous cardiovascular thrombotic and thromboembolic diseases. This book evaluates strategies for anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy to improve early clinical outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention. It is for cardiologists, vascular surgeons, and others.

Contains guidelines and recommendations on patient evaluation and optimal treatment for long-term care. Based on evidence from clinical research studies, this comprehensive reference provides the information on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of schizophrenia.

Sums up the mechanistic basis, status, and the prospects of steroid inhalation as the cornerstone of prophylactic asthma therapy. This book makes connections among the pharmacology, impact of simulation models, molecular targets, and therapeutic outcomes of short- and long-term steroid inhalation therapy.

Seeks to facilitate the selection, design and operation of large-scale industrial crystallizers that process crystals with the proper size distribution, shape and purity sought - including cooling, evaporation, drowning-out reaction, melt, and related crystallization techniques. This book offers results on direct-contact cooling crystallization.

Demonstrates how substitution of a variety of ligands can render albumin a targeting tool for selective drug accumulation in various cell populations of the liver! This book discusses physical, chemical, and biological approaches to drug targeting technology. It is for pharmacists, pharmacologists, and pharmaceutical scientists; and others.

Offers an introduction to differential geometry with applications to mechanics and physics. This title covers topology and differential calculus in banach spaces; differentiable manifold and mapping submanifolds; tangent vector space; and, tangent bundle, vector field on manifold, Lie algebra structure, and one-parameter group of diffeomorphisms.

Based on presentations from the symposium on the health effects of alcohol held in Titisee, Germany. This book examines the physical and psychological consequences of alcohol use and abuse, and considers environmental and ethnic factors that lead to addiction and dependence. It is for psychologists, geneticists, toxicologists, and others.

Provides disease-specific strategies for the management of patients receiving mechanical ventilation-emphasizing weaning processes, monitored sedation, minimization of complications and infection, and modes of treatment for patients in critical care. This book is for anesthesiologists, physiologists, respiratory therapists, and others.

Provides a coverage of the male and female sphincteric mechanisms and their connection to the pelvic floor as well as upper and lower urinary tract function. This book emphasizes approaches to the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormalities including incontinence, hypertonicity, retention, dyssynergia, and the overactive sphincter.

Combining elements of virology, epidemiology, immunology, oncology, endocrinology, neurology, psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences. This book clarifies substantive advancements in vaccine development, realistically assessing potential efficacy and limitations. It is for infectious disease specialists, epidemiologists, virologists, and others.

Addresses how to determine drug permeability across the blood-brain barrier. This book covers the research on the blood-brain barrier, the problems of and solutions to drug delivery to the central nervous system (CNS), existing strategies, and prospects for future research. It is for pharmacists, clinical and research pharmacologists, and others.

Summarizing state-of-the-art developments in mechanical ventilation use. This book reviews the applications, complications, and care of breathing disorders affecting the growing population of ventilation-assisted individuals. It is for pulmonary and thoracic specialists, chest physicians, anesthesiologists, physiologists, physiatrists and others.

Reviews the diagnosis and treatment of common surgical and medical emergencies in elderly patients. This book examines surgical interventions, drug therapies and drug prescribing protocols, life-threatening drug reactions, ethical issues, and methods of profiling patients for nursing care.

Addresses the challenges of drug development with assessments of the areas affecting the conduction of non-clinical and clinical studies. This book also addresses which decisions should be made during drug development. It guides readers through the trials and tribulations that emerge and are pertinent to drug management.

Detailing the need for, and stressing the importance of, an audit of clinical data to protect participants and validate study results. This book examines the use of computers, the Internet, and third-party organizations to assist in data validation. It positions the audit as a tool to verify that a drug is safe and effective in clinical trials.

Focuses on sterilizing grade filters in the biopharmaceutical industry, emphasizing practical applications of universal and dependable operational protocols, integrity testing, and others. This book considers how many filters should be in the process stream. It is for microbiologists; virologists; process and chemical engineers; and others.

Reflecting the 20 years of intense research in radioimmunotherapy. This surveys topics on the evolving developments in radiation therapy. It reviews dosimetric principles and clinical dosimetry of radioimmunotherapy in the targeting and delivery of radiation. It is for oncologists, radiologists, radiochemists, and radiopharmacists; and others.

Presents the risks and risk-prevention strategies of blood transfusions. This book compiles a information on the reactions, immunological complications, and potential for disease transmission related to blood transfusions. It is for hematologists, infectious disease specialists, blood bank personnel, public health officials, and others.

Provides a framework for drug metabolism in drug discovery and development. Bringing together collaborators from academic and industrial laboratories, this reference furnishes an overview of the subject from a historical, kinetic, and chemical context. It contains tables, drawings, photographs, and equations.

Integrates advances in molecular and cell biology of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) with developments in clinical research in stem cell-based therapy. This book examines key areas for treatment with HSC, including ambulatory care and monitoring, regimen-related toxicities, infection, and more. It is for hematologists, oncologists, and others.

Demonstrating the role of nuclear medicine as a complementary technique to mammography and other imaging modalities for the diagnosis of breast cancer, this book provides an overview of scintimammography - an imaging method for the evaluation of breast lesions and malignancies. It also reveals the results of clinical trials in the US and Canada.

A reference guide for health professionals confronting pulmonary disorders in children, this book offers the findings on this disease and related conditions. It focuses on drug administration-issues of compliance, aerosol delivery, and pharmacokinetic differences among children. It also provides an analysis for diagnosis of children with asthma.

A volume which brings together the basic and clinical insights on the cellular and mediator mechanisms involved in the induction and persistence of airway dysfunction of asthma by over 90 experts in the field - paving the way for developing novel and effective anti inflammatory therapeutic agents and strategies.

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A work which furnishes different perspectives on pharmaceutical information automation from industry and system automation professionals - demonstrating how to fulfil computer system validation requirements for hardware, applications, networks, data center operations, and complex software management practices in pharmaceutical manufacturing.