Books

STAT!Ref EBooks Updates

Our collection of eBooks from STAT!Ref has been updated. While we lost a few older books, we have added some newer ebooks on currently popular topics.

The new ebooks are:

Cancer Immunotherapy Principles and Practice – 2nd Ed. (2022)

Clinical Manual for the Oncology Advanced Practice Nurse – 4th Ed. (2022)

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groups – 2nd Ed. (2022)

Core Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Lactation Care – 2nd Ed. (2024)

Dimensional Analysis for Meds: Refocusing on Essential Metric Calculations – 6th Ed.

(2023)

Dossey & Keegan’s Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice – 8th Ed. (2022)

Extended Stability for Parenteral Drugs – 7th Ed. (2023)

Homelessness and Mental Health (2022)

Invasive Cardiology: A Manual for Cath Lab Personnel – 4th Ed. (2023)

Leadership in Nursing Practice: The Intersection of Innovation and Teamwork in

Healthcare Systems – 4th Ed. (2023)

LGBTQ+: Support and Care (2021)

Lubkin’s Chronic Illness: Impact and Intervention – 11th Ed. (2023)

Nancy Caroline’s Emergency Care in the Streets – 9th Ed. (2023)

Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook (2020-2021)

Quality and Safety in Nursing: A Competency Approach to Improving Outcomes – 3rd Ed. (2022)

Suicide Prevention (2021)

Treating Alcohol and Drug Problems in Psychotherapy Practice: Doing What Works – 2nd Ed. (2023)

The removals are:
Cancer Basics – 2nd Ed. (2017)

Davis’s NCLEX-RN Success – 3rd Ed. (2012)

Escourolle and Poirier’s: Manual of Basic Neuropathology 6th Ed (2019)

Evidence-based Emergency Medicine (2009)

HCPCS Level II (2023)

High-Risk & Critical Care Obstetrics – 4th Ed. (2019)

Labor and Delivery Nursing: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice – 2nd Ed. (2021)

Nurse’s Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales – 15th Ed. (2019)

Nursing Care Plans: Transitional Patient & Family Centered Care – 7th Ed (2017)

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine – 6th Ed. (2021)

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing – 5th Ed. (2019)

Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and Their Families – 3rd Ed. (2012)

Perinatal Nursing – 5th Ed. (2021)

Physical Rehabilitation – 6th Ed. (2014)

Sparks & Taylor’s Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual – 11th Ed. (2020)

Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook – 6th Ed. (2021)

Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing – 2nd Ed. (2013)

The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery – 5th Ed. (2020)

ClinicalKey EBooks: New Titles, New Editions, and a Few Removals

ClinicalKey has updated our eBook collection with some new titles and editions, but they have also done a little spring cleaning.
New to the ClinicalKey collection are:
Atlas of Reconstructive Surgery: A Case-Based Approach (Pu) 1st ed.

Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea (Sindwani) 1st ed.

Clinical Applications of 3D Printing in Foot and Ankle Surgery (Highlander) 1st ed.

Clinical Decision Support and Beyond (Greenes) 3rd ed.

Contact Lens Practice (Efron) 4th ed.

Differential Diagnoses in Surgical Pathology Tumors and their Mimickers (Abdul-Karim) 1st ed.

Emergency Department Technician Handbook, The (Shesser) 1st ed.

Fetal, Neonatal and Pediatric Neuroradiology (Kralik) 1st ed.

Handbook of Obesity in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Mahmood) 1st ed.

Human Histology: A Text and Atlas for Physicians and Scientists (Dudás) 1st ed.

Kanski’s Clinical Ophthalmology (Salmon) 9th ed.

Low Vision (Dickinson) 1st ed.

Manual of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies (Bashir) 1st ed.

Molecular Biology Techniques (Carson) 4th ed.

Neuromodulation Techniques for the Spine (Abd-Elsayed) 1st ed.

Palliative Radiation Oncology (Vapiwala) 5th ed.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Secrets (O’Young) 4th ed.

Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology: Hair Restoration (Alam) 1st ed.

Spinal Fusion Techniques (Abd-Elsayed) 1st ed.

Treatment of Acetabular Bone Loss and Chronic Pelvic Discontinuity (Sheth) 1st ed.

As is ClinicalKey’s policy with new editions of eBooks, the previous editions are usually still available for a few months after the new editions are published. New editions published this spring are:
Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine (Kryger) 3rd ed.

Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Tiwana) 2nd ed.

Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn (Gleason) 11th ed.

Basic Immunology (Abbas) 7th ed.

Berne & Levy Physiology (Koeppen) 8th ed.

Bland and Copeland’s The Breast (Klimberg) 6th ed.

Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine (Ciottone) 3rd ed.

Clinical Lipidology: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease (Ballantyne) 3rd ed.

Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology (Johnson) 7th ed.

Coughlin and Mann’s Surgery of the Foot and Ankle (Haskell) 10th ed.

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry (Stefanac) 4th ed.

Elsevier’s 2024 Intravenous Medications (Collins) 40th ed.

Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine (Al-Shaikh) 6th ed.

Goldberger’s Clinical Electrocardiography (Goldberger) 10th ed.

The Harriet Lane Handbook (Anderson) 23rd ed.

Learning Radiology (Herring) 5th ed.

Little and Falace’s Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient (Kerr) 10th ed.

Macleod’s Clinical Examination (Dover) 15th ed.

Penn Clinical Manual of Urology (Guzzo) 3rd ed.

Plotkin’s Vaccines (Plotkin) 8th ed.

Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology: Soft Tissue Augmentation (Carruthers) 5th ed.

Weedon’s Skin Pathology Essentials (Johnston) 3rd ed.

Ebooks no longer available to us via ClinicalKey are:
Andrews’ Diseases of the Skin Clinical Atlas (Micheletti) 1st ed. We have the 2nd ed.

Atlas of Human Anatomy (Netter) 7th ed.  We have the 8th ed.

Body Contouring and Liposuction (Rubin) 1st ed.

Cardiology Secrets (Levine) 5th ed. We have the 6th ed.

Cornea Atlas (Krachmer) 3rd ed.

Coronary Stenting (Price) 1st ed.

Diagnostic Cytopathology Essentials (Kocjan) 1st ed.

Haematology: An Illustrated Colour Text (Howard) 4^tth ed.

Integrative Medicine (Rakel) 4th ed. We have the 5th ed.

Kaufman’s Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists (Kaufman) 8th ed. We still have access via ScienceDirect.  We also have the 9th ed.

Kirk’s General Surgical Operations (Novell) 6th ed.

Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures (Chernecky) 6th ed. While we do not have ebook access, we do have a print copy for this edition and the 7th and 8th eds. [QY 4 C81L 2013]

Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics (Marcdante) 8th ed. We have the 9th ed.

Netter’s Clinical Anatomy (Hansen) 4th ed. We have the 5th ed.

Netter’s Sports Medicine (Madden) 2nd ed. We have the 3rd ed.

Oncologic Imaging (Silverman) 1st ed. We have the 2nd ed.

The Ophthalmic Assistant (Stein) 10th ed. We have the 11th ed.

Otologic Surgery (Chernecky) 4th ed. We have the 5th ed.

Practical Skin Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach (Patterson) 1st ed.

Surgical Techniques of the Shoulder, Elbow, and Knee in Sports Medicine (Cole) 2nd ed. We have the 3rd ed.

Gahart’s Intravenous Medications Is Now Elsevier!

There is a new edition of Gahart’s Intravenous Medications but the author has changed and so has the title. Elsevier’s 2023 Intravenous Medications: a handbook for nurses and health professionals is now available via ClinicalKey.

This 2023 edition marks the fiftieth year of publication of Intravenous Medications. Betty L. Gahart has stepped away from the publication and the new author is Shelly Rainforth Collins. Betty Gahart originated the idea for this text and manned the helm for nearly 50 years with contributions from her her co-authors, Adrienne R. Nazareno and Meghan Q. Ortega.

New Ovid Ebooks!

The Library has added 11 new titles to our collection of ebooks from Ovid.

They are:
Grossman & Baim’s Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography, and Intervention
Ioachim’s Lymph Node Pathology
Josephson’s Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Techniques and Interpretations
Localization in Clinical Neurology
Mayhall’s Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention
Medical Marijuana: A Clinical Handbook
Nutrition in Clinical Practice
Pizzo & Poplack’s Pediatric Oncology
Shield’s Textbook of Glaucoma
Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic Approach
Wasserman & Whipp’s Principles of Exercise Testing and Interpretation

The hyperlinks above will take you to our catalog pages and you can click on the “Access” links to go to Ovid from there, or you can access the full ebook collection from our Database page.

Book Talk on the Evolution of Algiers General Hospital – Wednesday, September 28th

On Wednesday, September 28th, Frank Wagner, M.D., SoM Class of 1961, will present his book “Two Men and a Hospital: the Evolution of Algiers General Hospital Via Henry A. LaRocca, M.D. & Ernest A. Schiro M.D.” in the Moreau Center at the University of Holy Cross.

The book details, in part through personal interviews and illustrations, how Algiers got its first hospital after 200 years of existence due the efforts of two men, including Dr. Henry A. LaRocca, who was part of LSU School of Medicine’s first graduating class in 1933.

The presentation is being hosted by the Blaine S. Kern Library at the University of Holy Cross. For more information, email schaubhut@uhcno.edu.

ClinicalKey Updates for April

The following ebooks have recently been added to the ClinicalKey ebooks collection:

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (Li, Weiye) 1st ed. 2022

Atlas of Pediatric Laparoscopy and Thoracoscopy (Bishoff, Jay T.) 2nd ed. 2022

Atlas of Spinal Imaging: phenotypes, measurements and classification systems (Louie, Philip K.) 1st ed. 2022

Bradley and Daroff’s Neurology in Clinical Practice (Jankovic, Joseph) 8th ed. 2022

Clinical Cases in Uveitis: differential diagnosis and management (Sandhu, Harpal S.) 1st ed. 2021

Clinical Diagnosis in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: case by case (Nori, Subhadra) 1st ed. 2022

Cohen’s pathways of the pulp, (Berman, Louis H. [and] Hargreaves, Kenneth M.) 12^th ed. 2021

Complications in Endovascular Surgery: peri-procedural prevention and treatment (Dryjski, Maciej L.) 1st ed. 2022

Cornea: fundamentals, diagnosis, and management (Mannis, Mark J.); 5th ed. 2022

Distal Radius Fractures: evidence-based management (Jupiter, Jesse); 1st ed. 2021

Fuhrman and Zimmerman’s Pediatric Critical Care (Zimmerman, Jerry J.); 6th ed. 2022

Goodman’s Basic Medical Endocrinology (Holt, Elizabeth H.); 5th ed. 2022

Ham’s Primary Care Geriatrics: a case-based approach (Warshaw, Gregg A.); 7th ed. 2022

Handbook of Cancer Treatment-Related Toxicities (Velcheti, Vamsidhar); 1st ed. 2022

Mosby’s Dental Drug Reference (Jeske, Arthur H.); 13th ed. 2022

The opioid epidemic and infectious diseases, (Norton, Brianna L.) 1^st ed. 2021

Physical Diagnosis Secrets (Mangione, Salvatore); 3rd ed. 2021

Pickwell’s Binocular Vision Anomalies (Evans, Bruce J.W.); 6th ed. 2022

Pocket Companion to Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology (Hall, John E.); 14th ed. 2021

Psychotic Disorders: comorbidity detection promotes improved diagnosis and treatment (Veras, André Barciela); 1st ed. 2021

A Rational Approach to Clinical Infectious Diseases: a manual for house officers and other non-infectious diseases clinicians (Temesgen, Zelalem); 1st ed. 2022

Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: the biological basis of modern surgical practice (Townsend, Courtney M.); 21st ed. 2022

Sports Vision: vision care for the enhancement of sports performance (Erickson, Graham B.); 2nd ed. 2022

Stroke: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management (Grotta, James C.); 7th ed. 2022

Zika and Other Neglected and Emerging Flaviviruses: the continuing threat to human health (Beltz, Lisa A.); 1st ed. 2021

ClinicalKey Updates

Below are the newest updates to the ClinicalKey package:

Books Added

Atlas of Contemporary Aesthetic Breast Surgery (Pu, Lee L.Q.) 1st ed.

Atlas of Pelvic Anatomy and Gynecologic Surgery (Baggish, Michael S.) 5th ed.

Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics (Azar, Frederick M.) 14th ed.

Conn’s Current Therapy 2021 (Kellerman, Rick D.) 1st ed.

Evidence-Based Management of Complex Knee Injuries (LaPrade, Robert F.) 1st ed.

Gastroparesis (McCallum, Richard W.) 1st ed.

Handbook of Diagnostic Endocrinology (Winter, William E.) 3rd ed.

Manual of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (Brilakis, Emmanouil) 1st ed.

Netter’s Orthopaedic Clinical Examination (Cleland, Joshua A.) 4th ed.

Orthopedic Physical Assessment (Magee, David J.) 7th ed.

Pediatric Allergy: Principles and Practice (Leung, Donald) 4th ed.

Pediatric Liver Transplantation (Hadži?, Nedim) 1st ed.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Tsokos, George C.) 2nd ed.

Tachdjian’s Pediatric Orthopaedics (Herring, John A.) 6th ed.

Books Removed

Problem Solving in Musculoskeletal Imaging (Morrison, William) 1st ed; – no recommended alternate

New Ebooks Available

Below is a list of new ebooks now available via the Library catalog.

AccessNeurology:

Neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology: principles and practice

AccessSurgery:

Liver transplantation: operative techniques and medical management

EBSCO:

Play therapy: the art of the relationship

Play therapy by Virginia M. Axline

Advanced pediatric assessment, 3^rd ed. 2019

Pediatric acute care: a guide for interprofessional practice

Budgets and financial management in higher education, 3^rd ed. 2018

Stress & health: biological and psychological interactions

LWW Health:

Principles of Rubin’s pathology, 7^th ed. 2019

Studying a study & testing a test: reading evidence-based health research

West’s respiratory physiology: the essentials, 11^th ed. 2021

OVID:

Manual of Clinical Anesthesiology, 2^nd ed. 2021

Rogers’ textbook of pediatric intensive care, 5^th ed. 2016

Thieme Clinical Collection:

Handbook of reconstructive flaps

Surgical decision making in acute care surgery

Thieme MedOne:

Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, and genetics: an integrated textbook

Medical biochemistry: an essential textbook and illustrated review, 2^nd ed. 2021

Orthodontic aligner treatment: a review of materials, clinical management, and evidence

Pharmacology: an essential textbook, 2^nd ed. 2020

Recently Added Print Books

Below is a selection of print books recently added to the Library’s collection.

Physical Rehabilitation

45 Techniques Every Counselor Should Know

Stuttering: foundations and clinical applications

The Voice and Voice Therapy

The Body Keeps the Score

Essentials of Family Medicine

Pathology for the Health Professions

Behavior and Medicine

WHO Classification of Tumours. Female Genital Tumours

Basic Life Support: Provider Manual

Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children

Atlas of Anatomy

Thieme Atlas of Anatomy. Head, Neck, and Neuroanatomy

Introduction to Critical Care Nursing

Anatomy for Dental Medicine

Pediatric Advanced Life Support: Provider Manual

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support: Provider Manual

Protocols for Mobile Dental Photography with Auxiliary Lighting

Janeway’s Immunobiology

Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Interprofessional Team Training and Simulation

Mims’ Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Comprehensive Review of Infectious Diseases

Book request form

The Collection Development Department is pleased to offer a new online book request form here.

The form is also available on the Collection Development web page where you can find more information about reserves and donations. Feel free to reach out and let us know how we can help you!

ClinicalKey Updates for November

The following are changes to the ebooks offered through the ClinicalKey database:
Books Added:

Atlas of Diagnostic Hematology (Salama, Mohamed)

Atlas of Pediatric Echocardiography (Kucera, Filip)

Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine (Rothe, Camilla)

Dermatology: An Illustrated Colour Text (Gawkrodger, David)

Diagnostic Ultrasound for Sonographers (Kamaya, Aya)

Diastology (Klein, Allan L.) 2nd ed; ISBN: 9780323640671; New edition

Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics: Metabolic Disorders (Pyeritz, Reed E.)

The Eye (Forrester, John V.)

Imaging in Abdominal Surgery (Federle, Michael P.)

Imaging in Gastroenterology (Federle, Michael P.)

Imaging in Neurology (Osborn, Anne G.)

Imaging in Otolaryngology (Gurgel, Richard K.)

Imaging in Pediatrics (Merrow, A. Carlson)

Imaging in Spine Surgery (Ross, Jeffrey S.)

Imaging in Urology (Tublin, Mitchell)

Interventional Management of Chronic Visceral Pain Syndromes (Pak, Daniel J.)

Neuro-Oncology for the Clinical Neurologist (Strowd, Roy E.)

Robbins and Cotran Atlas of Pathology (Klatt, Edward C.)

Sobotta Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy (Hombach-Klonisch, Sabine)

Books Removed:

Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease (Theroux, Pierre) 2nd ed; ISBN: 9781416049272

Atlas of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS) (McKenna, Robert) 1st ed; ISBN: 9781416062639

Atlas of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS (Morse, Stephen) 4th ed; ISBN: 9780702040603

Cerebral Revascularization: techniques in extracranial-to-intracranial bypass surgery (Abdulrauf, Saleem) 1st ed; ISBN: 9781437717853

Comprehensive Treatment of the Aging Spine, The (Yue, James Joseph) 1st ed; ISBN: 9781437703733

Endovascular Surgery (Moore, Wesley) 4th ed; ISBN: 9781416062080

Netter’s Correlative Imaging: Musculoskeletal Anatomy (Major, Nancy) 1st ed; ISBN: 9781437700121

Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Peri-Operative Pain Relief (Harmon, Dominic) 2nd ed; ISBN: 9780702031489

ClinicalKey Ebooks Updates for September

ClinicalKey has added 6 new ebooks to their database:

Anesthesia Equipment: principles and applications (Ehrenwerth, Jan) 3rd ed.; New edition

Breast Cancer and Gynecologic Cancer Rehabilitation (Cristian, Adrian) 1st ed.; New to CK

Drug Repurposing in Cancer Therapy: approaches and applications (To, Kenneth K.W.) 1st ed.; New to CK

Fitzgerald’s Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience (Delaney, Conor P.) 8th ed.; New edition

Netter’s Surgical Anatomy and Approaches (Delaney, Conor P.) 2nd ed.; New edition

Pediatric Secrets (Sperling, Mark A.) 7th ed.; New edition

New Print Books Available

The following print books have been added to the Library’s collection:

Financial management for public, health, and not-for-profit organizations, by Finkler, et al., 6^th ed 2020

Managing contraceptive pill patients and managing hormone replacement, by Dickey, 16^th ed. 2020

WHO classification of tumours.  Soft tissue and bone tumours, by Antonescu, 5^th ed. 2020

Planning health promotion programs: an intervention mapping approach, by Bartholomew Eldredge, et al., 4^th ed. 2016

Trail guide to the body: a hands-on guide to locating muscles, bones and more, Biel, 6^th ed. 2019

ACSM’s guidelines for exercise testing and prescription, 10^th ed. 2018

Dutton’s orthopaedic examination, evaluation, and intervention, 5^th ed. 2020

A sonographer’s guide to the assessment of heart disease, 2014

Sonography: principles and instruments, by Kremkau, 10^th ed. 2021

All of these are either on reserve or shelved in our secure shelving area. If you are interested in any of these books, please inquire at the Circulation Desk.

2020-2021 List for Diversity & Inclusivity Book Club

In support of the Diversity & Inclusivity Book Club, the Library has electronic copies of all 2020-2021 reading list materials:

August 2020 – Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

September 2020 – Disability Visibility: first-person stories from the Twenty-first century, edited by Alice Wong

October 2020 – Pushout: the criminalization of Black girls in schools, by Monique W. Morris

November 2020 – The New Trail of Tears: how Washington is destroying American Indians, by Naomi Schaefer Riley

December 2020 – Our Women on the Ground: essays by Arab women reporting from the Arab world, edited by Zahra Hankir

January 2021 – Food in Cuba: the pursuit of a decent meal, by Hanna Garth

February 2021 – Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein

March 2021 – Solito, Solita: crossing borders with youth refugees from Central America, edited by Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman

April 2021 – Medical Apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present, by Harriet A. Washington

May 2021 – The Stonewall Reader, from the New York Public Library

The first meeting is August 19th, 2020 at 12PM via Zoom: https://lsuhsc.zoom.us/j/95020137085
Meeting ID: 950 2013 7085

For more information, please email Hasheemah Afaneh at hafane@lsuhsc.edu.

ClinicalKey EBooks Updates for May 2020

New eBooks have been added by ClinicalKey to our collection. Some of these are new editions and some are new to the list.

Baxter’s The Foot and Ankle in Sport (Porter, David A.) 3rd ed; New edition

Harriet Lane Handbook, The (The Johns Hopkins Hospital) 22nd ed; New edition

Image-Guided Interventions (Mauro, Matthew A.) 3rd ed; New edition

Park’s Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners (Park, Myung K.) 7th ed; New edition

Proton Therapy (Frank, Steven J.) 1st ed; New to CK

For the new editions, previous editions are usually still available for the next few months. The following are ebooks that have been removed, with ClinicalKey’s recommended alternatives.

Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer: Breast Cancer, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Diseases

 Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer: Colorectal Cancer, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Colorectal Surgery: A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice

Essential Applications of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatology, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Fundamentals of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

High-Yield Orthopaedics, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Orthopedic Secrets

Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Competency-Based Companion, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Essential Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Primer of Arthroscopy, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Campbell’s Core Orthopaedic Procedures

Teaching Files: Pediatrics, The, 1st ed. Title discontinued. Recommended alternative – Caffey’s Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging