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ClinicalKey Content Updates: December 13, 2017

New Clinical Overviews (past 30 days) – CK Global
  • Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
  • Empyema
  • Exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • HIV and hepatitis B coinfection
  • Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
  • Opioid withdrawal
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Stable ischemic heart disease
  • Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis
Books Added – CK Global

Books Removed – CK Global
  • Atlas of Orthopedic Pathology (Wold, Lester) 3rd ed; ISBN: 9781416053286; Package/Collection: Flex Only; Out of print, no new edition. Recommended alternative – Bullough: Orthopaedic Pathology, 5e.
  • Mont Reid Surgical Handbook, The (Stehr, Wolfgang) 6th ed; ISBN: 9781416048954; Package/Collection: Surgery Extended; Old edition. Recommended alternative – Harken: Abernathy’s Surgical Secrets, 7e.
  • Pediatric Imaging: The Fundamentals (Donnelly, Lane) 1st ed; ISBN: 9781416059073; Package/Collection: Flex Only; Old edition. Recommended alternative – Walters: Pediatric Radiology: The Requisites, 4e.
  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Bergelson, Jeffrey) 1st ed; ISBN: 9780323020411; Package/Collection: Pediatrics; Out of print, no new edition. Recommended alternative – Cherry: Feigin and Cherry’s Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 7e.
  • Pediatric Respiratory Medicine (Taussig, Lynn) 2nd ed; ISBN: 9780323040488; Package/Collection: Pulmonary Disease; Out of print, no new edition. Recommended alternative – Turcios: Pulmonary Manifestations of Pediatric Diseases.
  • Practical Orthopedics (Mercier, Lonnie) 6th ed; ISBN: 9780323036184; Package/Collection: Internal Medicine Extended; Out of print, no new edition. Recommended alternative – Miller: Essential Orthopaedics.
  • Textbook of Clinical Hemodynamics (Ragosta, Michael) 1st ed; ISBN: 9781416040002; Package/Collection: Cardiovascular Disease Extended; Old edition. Recommended alternative – Mann: Braunwald’s Heart Disease, 10e.
  • Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual, The (Jong, Elaine) 4th ed; ISBN: 9781416026136; Package/Collection: Infectious Disease; Old edition. Recommended alternative – Keystone: Travel Medicine, 3e.

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