Breakthrough pain (BTP) is episodic pain that emerges through the treatment of otherwise well-managed chronic background pain. Often called pain flare or transient pain, BTP negatively affects the function and quality of life of the patient and often results in a number of other physical, psychological and social problems. Breakthrough pain is a common occurrence affecting approximately two-thirds of the estimated 50 to 100 million chronic pain sufferers in the US.
Essential Surgery: Problems, Diagnosis & Management: Problems, Diagnosis and Management, 4 Ed
Essential Surgery is a comprehensive and highly illustrated textbook for clinical students as well as a practical manual for junior doctors and those preparing for postgraduate qualifications in surgery. The unique feature of the book is its problem-orientated nature as distinct to the traditional disease-based structure.
A collection of old and new problems, puzzles, games, and diversions based on probability, geometry, number patterns, magic squares, and the laws of physics.
Table of Contents:
1. Number Problems 2. Number Patterns 3. Magic and Party Tricks with Numbers
A collection of old and new brain teasers, tricks, puzzles, games of logic, and recreations. Table of Contents: 1. Flat and Solid Shapes 2. Routes, Knots, and Topology 3. Vanishing-Line and Vanishing-Square Puzzles 4. Match Puzzles 5. Coin and Shunting Problems 6. Reasoning and Logical Problems 7. Mathematical Games
To watch Bruce Lee on film is an amazing experience. Those who have read Tao of Jeet Kune Do, however, know that Lee's prose can also be exhilarating. This praiseworthy and enduring bestseller (mainly written over six months when Lee was bedridden with back problems) compiles philisophical aphorisms, explanations on technique, and sketches by the master himself.