Medicine

How do you know your hospital is safe?

As a healthcare leader, are you confident that the health service you manage and operate is at the forefront of good clinical governance?

How can you introduce and foster systems to ensure the highest standards are preserved? 

This book offers a comprehensive and practical guide to developing and implementing clear strategies for ensuring best practice clinical governance in health services. Present and future healthcare leaders, health boards, executive teams, and clinician leaders can use this as a personal and instructional guide in building, monitoring, and improving the clinical governance systems that underpin their organizations. 

Using unique, expansive case study development techniques, each concept is fleshed out in an easy-to-understand format. Introducing the reader to crucial principles of clinical governance, each chapter builds on advanced concepts to crystallize a complete understanding from a practical perspective. Key learnings and common barriers to health service leadership that are explored in detail challenges and enables the reader to think laterally in overcoming these in their own organizations.  

The practicality of implementing clinical governance is presented from multiple stakeholder viewpoints within healthcare services. This allows the reader to appreciate the nuances and distinctions required when considering clinical governance systems from different perspectives and for different contexts.

The Tata Memorial Centre Textbook of Oncology is an authoritative and comprehensive book, meticulously compiled to cover contemporary issues in oncology. It features contributions from 189 authors, culminating in 76 chapters. Authored by faculty members from the renowned Tata Memorial Centre, this textbook offers a harmonious blend of detailed information and practical approaches. It serves as a comprehensive resource that contextualizes the practice of oncology in TMC and offers insights into delivering high-quality cancer care in diverse settings. It offers an authentic overview of the TMC approach to multidisciplinary cancer care.

The Textbook is designed to cater to a wide array of readers – from undergraduate medical students to postgraduates specializing in general surgery, general medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, radiation oncology, and other disciplines, and practicing community oncologists. A notable feature of the Textbook is its utility in preparing students for entrance and exit examinations. This book is an essential resource for established cancer specialists, including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and those in allied fields. It is also invaluable for super-specialty students and postgraduates with an interest in cancer management, offering a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of oncology.   

This book explores the history of meditation, including from a medical perspective, and describes its significance for the practice of medicine today. The first part of the book explains the concepts of mindfulness and meditation, places meditation in the context of different religious and philosophical traditions, and provides insights into its significance in relation to physiology, psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, and psychiatry in general. Many studies have demonstrated the clinical effects of meditation in various diseases, and the second part of the book is devoted to the psychiatric and medical applications of meditation. Current knowledge is presented on the role of meditation in depressive and anxiety disorders, psychosis, and physical illnesses. In addition, the value of meditation in specific age groups, the young and the elderly, is reviewed, and the use and benefits of meditation in the workplace and the community are discussed. The book will bean excellent resource for all psychiatrists with an interest in meditation as well as for general practitioners, meditation practitioners, and others wishing to learn more about this fascinating subject. 

This book covers the treatment of cruciate ligament injuries, with a particular focus on arthroscopic techniques using rounded rectangular or oval shaped dilators. It also addresses combined injuries, such as posterolateral corner injuries and anterolateral ligament injuries.

The book primarily discusses the causes of failure in anterior and posterior cruciate ligament surgeries, how to perform revision ACL and PCL reconstruction under various circumstances, the most common surgical mistakes, and the essential steps required to achieve successful outcomes. It also provides guidance on appropriate rehabilitation programs—especially PCL and posterolateral corner sling protocols for posterolateral rotatory instability of the knee—and explains the role of the meniscus in successful ACL and PCL reconstruction and revision.

In addition, the book highlights new techniques in ACL and PCL reconstruction, including the use of rounded rectangular and oval shaped dilators, as well as surgical approaches involving the anterolateral ligament complex and the posterolateral ligament complex.