Aimed primarily at postgraduate students and residents. Collection of focused articles from much sought after teachers and authors who bring decades of experience and expertise in their respective fields. Each chapter focuses on traditional concepts.

Sixth edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of Midwifery and Gynecological Nursing retained all the previous contents and added notes on additional diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which are based on evidence-based information. Revised National Immunization schedule and updated Nursing Diagnosis Taxonomy are added. Knowledge of special investigations and diagnostic procedures included would enable every nurse identify pregnancy-related and associated health problems and gynecological disorders in order to identify and provide need-based care, attention and support to clients in different stages of pregnancy and following child-bearing age. Nursing students of all levels and nurse educators who have well accepted the previous editions of the book are hoped to find the sixth edition a useful source for learning and teaching midwifery and gynecological nursing.

This book on Practical Histology for Medical Students is in its fourth edition. This edition has been published after many valuable suggestions have been considered. In this book, a new chapter on history of histology and its essentials has been added.

The second edition of Textbook of Physiology for Nursing Students strictly follows the syllabus set by Nursing Council of India. As this syllabus effectively covers all paramedical courses, the book can be used as a reference for the same. The second edition covers all the necessary points of the relevant topics. Hence, the book is written in simple and easy-to-follow language with adequate hand drawn diagrams, tables and flowcharts to help the students follow the topic and memorize key points. At the end of each section, important exam-oriented questions are added Key Features Contains hand drawn figures that can be easily and effectively reproduced Provides examination-oriented questions at the end of each section Includes flowcharts and tables to illustrate the subject matter Highlights important terminologies and nomenclatures in bold Gives clinical application box at the end of each topic Useful for other paramedical courses as well Simple and lucid language for better understanding.

A comprehensive textbook on Perioperative care Provides comprehensive evidence -based aesthetic management of patients undergoing complex surgeries of all organ systems Topics cover all age groups; neonates, paediatric as well as adults undergoing all surgeries: trauma to cancer and vascular as well as transplant surgeries It also covers general critical care for the anaesthesiologists looking after the Critical Care of patients who had undergone supramajor surgeries Evidence is presented where available and guidelines where necessary and available Covers administrative aspects for the seniors setting up new postanaesthetic care units (PACUs) and Postsurgical intensive care units (ICUs)

With the established use of ultrasound and advancement in technology in various systems of the body, this is the only book available covering scanning techniques, pathologies of the various systems of the body. It will be beneficial for postgraduate students, radiologists, sonologists, obstetricians and practitioners to update their knowledge. A new chapter on Elastography has been added and many illustrations have been updated. This book will serve a larger purpose for the interest of the medical fraternity.

Published under the banner of Indian Psychiatry Society. Contains the basics of psychiatry from the masters of psychiatry. First multiauthor textbook of psychiatry for the undergraduate medical students from the best faculty of the country. Begins with a discussion of the nature of mind, basic principles of psychosocial and biological sciences, clinical evaluation, and classification; further goes on to cover all the major psychiatric syndromes and diagnostic categories; also covers various psychiatric subspecialties and ends with a discussion of the history and future of psychiatry. Its strengths are simplicity, lucidity and authenticity. Intended to empower all clinicians with insights from the field of mental health to enable them to deliver comprehensive healthcare to their help-seekers. It also covers various psychiatric subspecialties and ends with a discussion of history and future of psychiatry. Designed for the undergraduate medical students and also as a gateway textbook for those planning to enter this field as a specialist. Surely, this book is going to give an experience of enrichment.

The Principles of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology depicts legal procedure, medical jurisprudence, medical evidence, legal aspects of medical practice related to forensic medicine and toxicology. The third edition is prepared as per revised undergraduate curriculum 2019 prescribed by National Medical Commission (NMC) and includes competency based medical education (CBME). Many chapters include ClinicalForensic Correlation to facilitate easy learning of the subject. Considering the recent amendments in various Acts and number of landmark judgements given by honorable Supreme Court of India, the text has been updated extensively.The text is presented in a point-wise manner and numerous photographs, line diagrams, flowcharts, tables and boxes are included. This book will serve the purpose and help students to learn the subject in an easy and practical manner.

The Practice Manual of Illustrative Anatomy is a meticulously updated anatomy guide geared to meet the requirements of undergraduate medical students, in alignment with the competency based medical education guidelines set by the National Medical Commission (NMC). The content is organized regionally, covering the upper limb, lower limb, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perineum, head and neck, and neuroanatomy, and more recent editions add a section on perforated form to detail muscle origin, insertion, action, and innervation. Each topic is fully revised to reflect up to date anatomical knowledge and includes key questions for students to test their understanding. The authors have tried to create and develop interest and holistic understanding of the subject through a slightly unconventional approach. The relevant information expected from the students has also been incorporated.

Useful for all practitioners of acute care medicine, including the postgraduate trainees of critical care medicine, emergency medicine and others. Covers all important aspects of mechanical ventilation Physiology of respiration Heart-Lung interactions Artificial airway uses and complications How, what and why of mechanical ventilation? Starting from basic and ending with advanced modes of ventilation Use of extracorporeal therapies in acute respiratory failure How do you get your patient to speak, while being ventilated? Much more

This book has been an all-time favorite of medical teachers, both at entry level as well as for those conducting faculty development programs. Written in the form of an instructional manual, this edition retains the conversational style to take the readers through the basic requirements of becoming a good teacher and makes them think about their teaching strategy. Many chapters have been updated to help the teachers effectively delivers the new competency-based curriculum.

It is the first comprehensive textbook on critical care from India, written by prominent intensivists of the country. The book covers day-to-day challenges in management faced by intensivists in India/Low Medium Income Country (LMIC), where delivery of healthcare is variable, resources finite, and manpower challenges enormous. Therefore, to guide, each section starts with an approach to organ failure related to the section. Section and chapters have been devoted on critical care of obstetrics to help reduce maternal mortality, geriatrics due to marked increase in their population and admission in ICUs. High velocity trauma and poisoning are of epidemic proportion and major causes of unnatural deaths and admission in intensive care. Adequate space has been given with emphasis on snake envenomation, organophosphate compounds, aluminum phosphide poisoning, and alcoholic intoxication. It also covers critical care management aspects of solid organ and bone marrow transplantation, as organ transplantation is well established and expanding. It highlights adequately general critical care, ethical and administrative issues, especially end-of-life (EOL), latter still evolving in India, where physicians continue to have an ethical and moral dilemma. Section on sepsis not only deals with the traditional aspects but also covers adequately tropical infections (travel medicine), deluge of which we see commonly post-monsoon. It can be one-time reference for managing COVID-19, where from immunobiology to management is discussed in detail. Additional details as on vaccination and long COVID is also provided for interested readers. It also introduces and gives insight into the concept of chronic critical care, which is a new jargon in the specialty of critical care medicine, to make practitioners aware about its identification, diagnosis, and catastrophic effects. The language of the book has been kept simple and easy to make it readable and have better understanding with a hope to fulfill the long-felt need of intensivists of the country.