Short Text Book of Medicine Volume II

Therapeutics, Treatment and care to combat disease or alleviate pain or injury. Its tools include drugs, surgery, radiation therapy, mechanical devices, diet, and psychiatry. Treatment may be active, to cure a disease (requiring no further treatment after recovery), treat it long-term, or heal a wound; symptomatic, to relieve symptoms until the immune system heals the body; supportive, to keep body functions going until the disease clears; or palliative, to minimize discomfort for patients with no chance of recovery. It almost always includes prevention, usually tertiary

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• Authors: Muhammad Akr, Dr Muhammad Akram, Dr Ghazal Shaheen, Dr. Ghazala Shaheen, Dr.Ghazala Shaheen, Ghazala Shaheen, D Tahira Shamim, Dr Tahira Shamim
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2011
• EAN: 9783639377729
• ISBN: 978-3-639-37772-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine