Expedition Medicine (Revised Edition)

Expedition Medicine (Revised Edition), D. Warrell and S. Anderson, eds. New York, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 398 pp, hardbound. Price: $55.

Henry M. Stanley, in his second trans-Africa expedition of 1874– 1877, lost 68% of his 356 men. Among the casualties, 58 died in battle or were murdered (several were cannibalized), 45 died of smallpox, 21 from dysentery, 14 drowned, and 1 was killed by a crocodile; several others died of starvation (all of this from the preface to this book). Modern-day expeditions—defined as organized and usu...

Christiaan Schiepers ( Ed . ) Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine 2 nd Revised Edition

Matroid Decomposition REVISED EDITION

Matrix We take a detour to introduce abstract matrices. We want to acquire a good understanding of such matrices, since they not only represent matroids, but 74 Chapter 3. From Graphs to Matroids also display a lot of structural information about matroids that other ways do not. An abstract matrix B is a {0, 1} matrix with row and column indices plus a function called abstract determinant and d...

Preface to the revised edition

In the first edition of this book the main attention was focused on the methods of solving the inverse problem of spectral analysis and on the conditions (necessary and sufficient) which the spectral data must satisfy in order to make it possible to reconstruct the potential of the corresponding Sturm-Liouville operator. These conditions imply that the spectral data (e.g. spectral function or s...

Handbook of Critical Care, Revised Edition

Written primarily for medical trainees or nurses to use during their first exposure to critical care medicine, this 278-page spiral bound book is a pocket-sized basic intensive care manual. The handbook is divided into 15 chapters, eight substantial ones covering the major organ systems, as well as infection, nutrition, physical injury and toxicology, and brief chapters on scoring systems and o...