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Veterinary Preventive Medicine
Margaret Root Kustritz · University of Minnesota
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Culinary Medicine 2025e
Stavroula N. Antonopoulos et al. · University of Arizona
In the contents: 02: Food as Medicine- Nutrients Dietary Supplements Bioactive Compounds and Popular Diets · 04: Implementing Culinary Medicine in Your Community · 4.03: Culturally Centered Approaches to Culinary Medicine
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Culinary Medicine
Cheryl Casey; Scott Going; Lauren McCullough; Melanie Hingle · University of Arizona · 2024
This peer-reviewed Culinary Medicine textbook is aimed at individuals and communities seeking to implement food-based disease prevention programs. While the primary audience is students taking a 400/500-level nutrition class, this book can be used and adapted by anyone. It includes recipes and case studies, as well as information on kitchen skills, food safety, menu planning, shopping and budgeting, popular diets, dietary supplements, food demonstrations, seed-to-table programs, community partnerships, and culturally centered approaches. There are also chapters on macronutrients, micronutrients, and bioactive compounds.
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Ultrasound Physics and its Application in Medicine
Arbin Thapaliya; Alec Sithole; Michael Welsh; Gaston Dana · PALNI · 2024
Ultrasound has a wide range of medical applications. Some of these include obstetrics (monitoring the progress of pregnancy), oncology (monitoring the growth of tumors), cardiology (visualizing the heart function and physiology), biopsy (guiding needles in various procedures), and physiotherapy. For example, today, an estimated 60-70% of pregnant women in the United States undergo ultrasound examination during pregnancy. An estimated 250 million fetal ultrasound examinations are performed every year in the USA. In the last few decades, ultrasound technology has expanded to medical imaging in various other specialties: Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, General Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB-GYN), Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Physiatry, Sports Medicine, and Surgery. The increasing demand in the use of ultrasound technology in various biomedical fields points to a future in which medical professionals will be required to possess a general knowledge of ultrasound technology. While currently most medical professionals rely on technicians to perform the imaging studies, there can be a high degree of operator dependent results. Therefore, a solid foundation of the technological properties of ultrasound would give health care providers a competitive advantage in the future. This is one of the first goals of this textbook. This textbook also covers general aspects of diagnostic ultrasound providing an excellent reference for both beginners and professionals. In addition, this textbook has end-of-the-chapter experiments that will help educators conduct labs for students and any other learners to enhance their learning and solidify the practical skills.
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Precision Nutrition and Advanced Culinary Medicine
Sara Police · UKnowledge · 2021
This electronic textbook (eBook) and/or eBook chapters are designed to accompany NS801, Precision Nutrition and Advanced Culinary Medicine, a 1-credit, 8-week online medical elective course for the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Office of Medical Education curricula. Reading for the course will be labeled to align with the content of the online course; such that Module 2 is aligned with Chapter 2, Module 3 with Chapter 3, and so on. As an open access textbook supported by the University of Kentucky Libraries Alternative Textbook program, all sources will be linked and readily available.
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Veterinary Preventive Medicine
Margaret Kustritz · University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing · 2022
Goals of preventive medicine are to protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being and to prevent disease, disability, and death. Veterinary preventive medicine is an important component of veterinary training not only to ensure animal health but also to help veterinary students learn necessary information and skills for participation in global animal and human health challenges and disease prevention.
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Kansas State University: Human Nutrition
Brian Lindshield · Kansas State University
This text is used for an intermediate-level, nutrition course taught on campus every spring semester, and all 3 semesters (fall, spring, summer) online. Ideally on-campus students take the course during the spring semester of their sophomore year. Most on-campus students in the class are majoring in Nutritional Sciences, Nutrition and Health (previously Public Health Nutrition), Sports Nutrition, or Dietetics.
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Caregiving for the Human Condition - An OER for Nursing Assistant Instruction
Lari Labello and Jessica Blackmore · Illinois Central College
This goal of this text is to serve as instructional material for nursing assistant training with a focus on providing holistic, person-centered care in geriatric long-term care facilities, although its contents will be broadly applicable across caregiving contexts.
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Histology and Embryology for Dental Hygiene
Laird C. Sheldahl · Mt. Hood Community College
This eBook makes use of animated images to focus on concepts in histology and embryology, as well as hyperlinks to promote non-linear reading and learning. It is aimed at college students in a dental hygiene program.
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Value-based Healthcare
Hanan Khalil · La Trobe University
This open textbook presents a contemporary overview of Value-based Healthcare: a healthcare delivery and reimbursement model that focuses on achieving the best possible health outcomes for patients while controlling costs. It represents a shift of focus from quantity to quality, and aims to align incentives to bring together the interests of patients, healthcare providers, and payers.
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Localization and Treatment Procedures in Radiation Therapy
Jared Stiles · University of Iowa
Localization and Treatment Procedures in Radiation Therapy provides an overview of patient simulation, treatment planning, and treatment delivery. The goal of the book is to educate learners on conventional and modern simulation procedures, treatment planning fundamentals and considerations, and treatment delivery techniques and technologies in an ever-evolving field. The content is designed for radiation therapy students, professionals, and all communities of interest.
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NUTRI 300: Nutrition
Rose Giordano · Folsom Lake College
This course examines nutrition as a science and the chemical properties of nutrients in foods, the sources and functions of the nutrients in all stages of the life cycle, as well as nutrition as a world problem, and consumer problems related to food. Topics emphasized include nutrient metabolism, weight loss, sports nutrition, food safety, the diet-disease relationship, global nutrition and analysis of special nutritional requirements from the prenatal period through the geriatric years.
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The Language of Medical Terminology
Lisa Sturdy and Susanne Erickson · NorQuest College
In the contents: 8.03: Diagnostic Imaging- Nuclear Medicine Ultrasound and MRI
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Basic Lab Skills
Kari Christenson · Western Technical College
This is the course text for Basic Lab Skills, a first year, first term course for Medical Laboratory Technician students.
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Nursing Pharmacology
Ernstmeyer & Christman (Eds.) · Chippewa Valley Technical College
This open access Nursing Pharmacology textbook is designed for entry-level undergraduate nursing students. It explains basic concepts of pharmacology and describes common medication classes. This book is not intended to be used as a drug reference book, but direct links are provided to DailyMed, which provides trustworthy information about marketed drugs in the United States.
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Veterinary Histology
Ryan Jennings and Christopher Premanandan · Ohio State University
Veterinary Histology is a microscopic anatomy textbook focused on domestic species, including the dog, cat, cattle, horses, swine, and camelids. This digital textbook provides comprehensive, system-specific text as well as high-resolution, annotated images along with chapter-specific glossary of terms and learning objectives.
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A Laboratory Guide to Clinical Hematology
Valentin Villatoro and Michelle To · Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
This text explores the principles of clinical hematology and is written for aspiring clinical laboratory professionals who perform a wide variety of basic and advanced hematology testing on whole blood, serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluids and other body fluids.
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Evidence-Based Massage Therapy
Richard Lebert · Lambton College
This clinical practice handbook will prove essential to healthcare providers interested in non-pharmacological management of musculoskeletal pain.
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Manchester Community College: Introduction to Nutrition
Andrea Ackerson · Manchester Community College
An introduction to the study of human nutrition with an emphasis on the scientific bases of facts and controversies surrounding foods and diets. This text incorporates nutrition science fundamentals as well as nutrition's role in prevention and management of chronic disease.
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Essentials of Exercise and Sport Psychology
Zachary Zenko and Leighton Jones · Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kinesiology
This text represents the collaboration of more than 70 authors from multiple countries. Essentials of Exercise and Sport Psychology: An Open Access Textbook brings this diverse set of experts together to provide a free,open,accessible textbook for students studying exercise and sport psychology. Primarily directed at undergraduate students, this well-referenced book is also appropriate for graduate students.