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Vital Signs
New on the bookshelf: Recent releases by DMS faculty authors
Heading Home with your Newborn: From
Birth to Reality. By
Laura A. Jana, M.D.; and Jennifer
Shu, M.D., instructor in pediatrics
at DMS; American Academy
of Pediatrics; 2005. This
handbook is intended to help
parents cope
with the first
few months of
their baby's
life, from feeding,
diapering,
and bathing to
using car seats
and traveling on planes. Combining
medical information with
practical advice (the authors are
parents, too), its amusingly titled
chapters include "Poop Happens,"
"Going with the Flow,"
and "Fever: Trial by Fire."
Dyspnea: Mechanisms, Measurement,
and Management. Edited
by Donald A. Mahler, M.D., professor
of medicine at DMS; and
Denis E. O'Donnell, M.B.; Taylor
& Francis;
2005 (second
edition). This
book, on relief
of breathlessness
in patients
with chronic
obstructive
pulmonary disease, covers the
causes of dyspnea, dyspnea in
asthma, the use of bronchodilators
and inhaled corticosteroids,
self-management strategies, and
instruments available to measure
the intensity of dyspnea.
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