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Procedures and Therapies

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For Adult Patients

A Guide for Patients: Burn Injuries
A Patient's Guide to Radiation Oncology Procedures
A Patients' Guide to Plastic Surgery Procedures
About Botulinum Toxin Treatment
About Physical Therapy: A Patient's Guide
Aging Begins at 30: A Chinese Root Untested for Centuries
Aging Begins at 30: A Few Useful Drugs Then and Now So Many
Aging Begins at 30: A Word About Peptides
Aging Begins at 30: Are Bacteria Winning the War
Aging Begins at 30: Aspirin and Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Aging Begins at 30: Beware the Lure of Herbs
Aging Begins at 30: Body Renewal
Aging Begins at 30: Botulism, the Good and the Bad
Aging Begins at 30: Brain Effects of Hormone Replacement in Women
Aging Begins at 30: Cancer Treatment Vomiting
Aging Begins at 30: Caveat Emptor. Is it Alternative And Is It Medicine?
Aging Begins at 30: Doctors Should Fight Junk Medicine
Aging Begins at 30: Effective Medications Can be Misused
Aging Begins at 30: Exploring the Liver
Aging Begins at 30: Good Medicine Overused Can Be Bad
Aging Begins at 30: Good News for Diabetics
Aging Begins at 30: Help Needed For New Drugs
Aging Begins at 30: Intelligent Choices in Medicine
Aging Begins at 30: Interferons
Aging Begins at 30: Lithium Continues To Work Well For Mania
Aging Begins at 30: Looking Inside the Body With the Help of Scans
Aging Begins at 30: Medical Care When You May be Dying
Aging Begins at 30: Medicine Can Come From Deadly Sources
Aging Begins at 30: Menopausal Women's Hormone Treatment
Aging Begins at 30: My Pharmacy Bill will Bankrupt Me
Aging Begins at 30: One Drug, Many Uses
Aging Begins at 30: Over the Counter "Miracle Drug
Aging Begins at 30: Pacemakers
Aging Begins at 30: Plant Sources of Useful Drugs
Aging Begins at 30: Safe Beds That Kill
Aging Begins at 30: Seeing Inside the Body Better Year by Year
Aging Begins at 30: So You Want To Look Younger
Aging Begins at 30: Swapping Pills or Diagnosing Yourself Can Be Harmful
Aging Begins at 30: The Antibiotic Resistance Problem
Aging Begins at 30: The Hottest Hormone in the Health Food Store
Aging Begins at 30: Treating Cancer With Chemicals
Aging Begins at 30: Treating the Bacteria that Bug Us
Aging Begins at 30: Treatments For Mentally Ill Have Endured
Aging Begins at 30: TV Advice for What Ails You
Aging Begins at 30: Unsung Heroes
Aging Begins at 30: Use Of Anesthesia Must Be Clearly Monitored
Aging Begins at 30: Warning on Kava Containing Products
Aging Begins at 30: Watching Cells Work Inside the Body
Aging Begins at 30: When You Can't Breathe for Yourself
Aging Begins at 30: Why Wonderful New Medicines Cost So Much?
Aging Begins at 30: Your Face Can Bloom Again
Analgesia and Anesthesia in Labor and Delivery
Anesthesia Health Prose
Avoid Overusing Antibiotics
Body Contouring: Frequently Asked Questions 1
Body Contouring: Frequently Asked Questions 2
Breast Augmentation: Frequently Asked Questions
Cancer Prevention Tips: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Cancer Prevention Tips: Hormone Replacement Therapy
Cancer Prevention Tips: New Tools to Diagnose Breast Cancer
Cancer Related Fatigue
Cardiac Catheterization: A Guide for Patients
Cerebral Angiogram Test
Chemotherapy: Treating Cancer
College Health 101: Choosing Over-the-Counter Drugs
College Health 101: St. John's Wort
Controlling Acute Pain
Controlling Chronic Pain
Daily Skin Care (Burns): Home Care Instructions for Patients
Dealing With Cancer Therapy Hair Loss
Diabetes Insulin Preparation--Two Kinds
Diabetes--Blood Sugar Testing
Diabetes--Injecting Insulin
Diabetes--Insulin
Diabetes--Urine Ketone Testing
Echocardiogram
Esophageal Surgery: A Guide For Patients and Their Families
Expanded MSAFP Screen
Eye Donor Awareness: Frequently Asked Questions
Facelifts: Frequently Asked Questions
Facial Implants: Frequently Asked Questions
Facial Rejuvenation by Chemical Peels: Frequently Asked Questions
Fine Needle Aspiration & Biopsy: Frequently Asked Questions
Hair Removal: Frequently Asked Questions
Hair Transplants: Frequently Asked Questions
Health Prose: A Cup of Tea
Health Prose: Alternative Medicine: The Powers of Garlic
Health Prose: Anesthesiologists: Do You Know Them?
Health Prose: Antibiotic Resistance: It's growing
Health Prose: Aromas Can Be Therapy
Health Prose: Biofeedback Can Help Fight Disease
Health Prose: Breast Reconstruction: Making Yourself Whole Again
Health Prose: Donating Vital Organs: Giving the Gift of Life in the Wake of Death
Health Prose: Face Lifts: Turning Back The Hands Of Time
Health Prose: Ginko: A Natural Blood Thinner
Health Prose: Have You Heard of Reiki?
Health Prose: Laser Surgery: It May Be the Answer for You
Health Prose: Laughter Is Medicine from Within
Health Prose: Medication Use During Pregnancy, Breastfeeding
Health Prose: Medicine Cabinet Safety Guildlines
Health Prose: Ouch! What Works When it Hurts.
Health Prose: Polyherbacy Prompts Need for Physician
Health Prose: The Health Benefits of Yoga
Health Prose: The Hypnotic State of Mind
Health Prose: You Could Use a Massage
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Intimacy: Life After Burns
Iowa CHAMPS: Cardiac Rehabilitation Guide
Kidney Disease/Transplant: Frequently Asked Questions
Kidney Transplantation
Know the Changes to Your Body Created by Weight Control Surgery
Laser Surgery for Skin Problems and Tattoo Removal: Frequently Asked Questions
Liver Transplantation
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Medicines in Pregnancy
Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery: Frequently Asked Questions
Myocardial Perfusion Scan
New Developments in Heart Imaging: Frequently Asked Questions
Open Heart Surgery: Preoperative Sensory Information
Oral Agents For Type 2 Diabetes
Pancreas Transplantation
Pathology Health Prose
Patient Controlled Analgesia
Patient Guide to Shoulder Surgeries and Injuries
Patient Guide to Use of Acrylic Shells
Patient Information for Nerve/Muscle Biopsy
Pharmacy Services Health Prose
Psychiatric Medications Patient Information
Radiation Oncology: Frequently Asked Questions
Radiation Oncology: Treating Cancer
Radiation Therapy: What to Expect
Rejection: Organ Transplantation
Renal Disease Education
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
SOMI Brace: A Guide for Patients
Surgery Health Prose
Surgery Treatment for End Stage Heart Disease: Frequently Asked Questions
Surgery: Frequently Asked Questions
The CT: Computed Tomography Test
The EEG: Electroencephalogram Test
The EMG: Electromyography Test
The Lumbar Puncture Test
The MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Test
The MSLT: Multiple Sleep Latency Test
The NCV: Nerve Condition Velocity Test
The PSG: Polysomnography Test
The SEP: Somatosensory Evoked Potential Test
The VEP: Visual Evoked Potential Test
The Video - EEG Monitoring Test
Total Hip Replacement: A Guide for Patients
Total Knee Replacement: A Patient Guide
Treadmill Electrocardiogram (Stress EKG)
Tumor Marker Tests
Understanding Blood Tests: A Guide for Patients with Cancer
What You Should Know About Cervical Cancer and Pap Tests
Wound Care Instructions (Burns): Home Care Instructions for Patients
Your Doctor Has Ordered: A Myelogram
Your Doctor Has Ordered: An Angiogram
Your Doctor Has Ordered: An Enteroclysis
Your Doctor Has Ordered: An Upper GI Series (X-ray of Your Stomach)
Your Doctor Has Ordered: An X-ray of Your Chest, Skull, Extremity, Abdomen, Pelvis, etc.
Your Doctor Has Ordered: An X-ray of Your Colon (Barium Enema)
Your Doctor Has Ordered: An X-ray of Your Gall Bladder (Gall Bladder Series)

For Adult Providers

3D Reconstructed Images of Spiral CT for Maxillofacial Tumor Measurements
3D Reconstructions
Adult Critical Care Core Curriculum
An Approach to the Analysis of Arterial Blood Gases and Acid-Base Disorders
Anatomy of the Pelvis and Perineum: A Multimedia Textbook and Teaching Module
Arterial Blood Gas Analysis
Atlas of Human Anatomy in Cross Section
Atlas of Liver Pathology: A Multimedia Textbook of Liver Pathology
ATS Radiology for Chest Physicians Conference: Continuing Medical Education Testing Modules
Bronchoscopy in Thoracic Patients: An Emphasis on Postthoracotomy Bronchoscopy
Case Review Sessions of the Radiology Short Clerkship (074:006)
Clinical Psychopharmacology Seminar
Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening
Department of Radiology: Introduction to Radiology Lectures
Diagnosis of Disk Disease
Electric GINucs: Nuclear Medicine Imaging of the Gastrointestinal Tract
Esophageal Carcinoma
Evaluation and Management of Blunt Cardiac Injury
Evaluation of Maxillofacial Neoplastic Lesions Using Computer Graphics from 3D-CT
Functional Anatomy of Basal Ganglia
Gastroesophageal Reflux
Gastrogram: A Joint Publication of the Department of Pharmaceutical Care and the Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology
GI Endoscopy Atlas
Guidelines, Education, and Testing for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia
Human Organ Systems Imaging in Medicine: Bone 2
Imaging of Muscle Injuries
Interpretation of Pulmonary Function Tests: Spirometry
Introduction to Clinical Medicine: Radiology
Joint Fluoroscopy: A Multimedia Textbook and Teaching Module on Anatomy Using Joint Fluoroscopy
LASIK: Improved Technology for Surgical Vision Correction
Lung Anatomy
Lung Tumors: A Multidisciplinary Database
M3-M4 Teaching Modules: Section of Chest Radiology
Metastases to the Breast: The Diagnosis and Management of Extramammary Tumors Metastatic to the Breast
Midwest Midwinter Lung Conference: CPC Session: Case Studies
New Drugs for Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Normal Radiologic Anatomy: X-Ray,CT, MRI and Ultrasound
Obstetric Anesthesia Update
P & T News: A Pharmacy and Therapeutics Newsletter Published by the Department of Pharmaceutical Care
Pathology of the Kidney: Glomerulonephritis
Radiology on Call
Radiology Residents Case of the Week
Rx Update: A Pharmacotherapy Evaluation Newsletter Published by the Department of Pharmaceutical Care
Stereotactic Core Biopsy for Breast Cancer
The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) and the Physician's Office Laboratory - A Computer-Assisted CME Course
The Decline of the Autopsy
The Diagnosis of Diffuse Lung Disease
The Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolus
The International Thoracic Teaching Resource: A Chest Imaging Database
Topics in Thoracic Surgery: Lung Transplantation
Total Parenteral Nutrition: Policies, Procedures, and Prescribing Information
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: Cardiac Arrhythmias
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: Cesarean Section
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: Chapter 15: General Surgery
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: Chronic Renal Failure
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: Obstetric Anesthesia And Analgesia
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: Principles Of Culturing
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: Prophylaxis Against Bacterial Endocarditis
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: Renal Failure
University of Iowa Radiology On-Call Handbook

For Pediatric Patients

Barium Enema
Chest X-ray or Abdomen X-ray
Children and Heart Disease: Frequently Asked Questions
Delayed Cystogram or VCUG
Enteroclysis
Helping Children Cope with the Intensive Care Unit
Helping Your Child with Pain Control
Hip Spica Cast: A Guide for Patients
Implantable Ports
Intravenous Pyelogram (IVP)
Kids Talk: Advice from Other Kids
Modified Barium Swallow/Esophagram
Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant: A Guide for Families
Pediatric Use of Patient Controlled Analgesia
Pediatrics Common Questions, Quick Answers: Acetaminophen
Pediatrics Common Questions, Quick Answers: Antibiotics and Kids
Pediatrics Common Questions, Quick Answers: EKG
Pediatrics Common Questions, Quick Answers: Heart Murmurs and Arrhythmias
Pediatrics Common Questions, Quick Answers: Ibuprofen
Pediatrics Common Questions, Quick Answers: Lumbar Puncture (Spinal Tap)
Pediatrics Common Questions, Quick Answers: Preparing Your Child for Procedures or Tests
Pediatrics Common Questions, Quick Answers: Splints and Casts
Pediatrics Common Questions, Quick Answers: Urinary Catheter
Pediatrics Common Questions, Quick Answers: X-Rays
The Use of Distraction Osteogenesis in Oral Surgery: Frequently Asked Questions
Upper GI or Barium Swallow
What is Biofeedback?

For Pediatric Providers

Acute Pain Management for Pediatric Patients
Anatomy of the Unilateral and Bilateral Cleft Lip and Nose
Back Pain in Children - A Common Clinical Problem in Children
Clinical Genetics: A Self-Study Guide for Health Care Providers
Correlapaedia - a Correlative Encyclopedia of Pediatric Imaging, Surgery, and Pathology
Denial of Critical Care
ElectricAirway: Upper Airway Problems in Children
MetaTextbook of Pediatric Radiology
Neonatal Chest: Imaging for Respiratory Distress
Paediapaedia: An Imaging Encyclopedia of Pediatric Disease
Pediatric Abdominal Mass Imaging: Imaging a Child With an Abdominal Mass
Pediatric Non-Breath-Hold Cardiac MR Imaging
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Seminar
Pediatric Radiology Teaching Files
Pulmonary Developmental Anomalies
Surgical Correction of Congenital Heart Disease
Thoracopaedia - An Imaging Encyclopedia of Pediatric Thoracic Disease
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: Pediatric Laboratory Results

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