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UNISA996208662703316 |
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Advanced digestive endoscopy [[electronic resource] ] : practice and safety / / edited by Peter B. Cotton |
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Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., c2008 |
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1-282-01321-1 |
9786612013218 |
1-4443-0026-1 |
1-4443-0027-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Collana |
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Advanced digestive endoscopy |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Endoscopy |
Digestive organs - Diseases - Diagnosis |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Overview / Peter B. Cotton -- Design and management of gastrointestinal endoscopy units / Bret T. Petersen and Beverly Ott -- Sedation, analgesia, and monitoring for endoscopy / John J. Vargo -- Endoscopic equipment / Gregory Ginsberg -- Digital documentation in endoscopy / Lars Aabakken -- Principles of electrosurgery, laser and argon plasma coagulation with particular regard to colonoscopy / Guenter Farin and Karl Ernst Grund -- Infection control in endoscopy / Alistair Cowen and Dianne Jones -- Risks, prevention, and management / Peter B. Cotton -- Pathology / David Lewin -- Pediatric gastrointestinal endoscopy / Jonathan S. Evans and Lori Mahajan -- Training and credentialing in gastrointestinal endoscopy / Jonathan Cohen -- Towards excellence and accountability / Peter B. Cotton and Roland Valori. |
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Essential new title in the Advanced Digestive Endoscopy series Advanced Digestive Endoscopy: Practice & Safety provides a practical manual on how to perform techniques safely and effectively in order to maximise value, and to reduce risks. Clearly structured, it covers training, endoscopy and imaging equipment, infection control, patient preparation and monitoring, complications and how to avoid and deal |
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with them. Expanding on the content of Peter Cotton's best-selling Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, this instructive volume contains information and guid |
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UNINA9910783272103321 |
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Autore |
Verschuur Gerrit L. <1937-> |
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Titolo |
Impact! : the threat of comets and asteroids / / Gerrit L. Verschuur |
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Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997 |
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©1996 |
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0-19-756123-3 |
1-280-47127-1 |
0-19-802617-X |
9786610471270 |
1-4237-3904-3 |
0-19-535327-7 |
1-60256-270-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256p. ) : ill., facsims., map |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Comets |
Asteroids |
Impact |
Evolution (Biology) |
Earth (Planet) |
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Previously issued in print: 1996. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Content -- 1: The Killer Strikes -- 2: The Saga of the Chicxulub Crater -- 3: Solar System Debris -- 4: Something About Comets -- 5: The Birth of the Earth -- 6: The Nineteenthcentury Perspective -- 7: Twentieth-Century Rumblings -- 8: Comet Impacts in History -- 9: On the Edge of Extinction -- 10: Reconstructing the Crime -- 11: Death Star or Coherent Catastrophism? -- 12: Craters and |
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Tsunamis -- 13: Offering Odds on Impact -- 14: The Great Comet Crash of 1994 -- 15: The Aftermath -- 16: The Search -- 17: Dodging the Asteroids? -- 18: Our Place in Space -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index. |
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Until recently collisions between the Earth and a comet were thought to be so rare that the threat to life on Earth from such objects was dismissed as being too unlikely to worry about. This book shows the threats and precarious nature of life here. |
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