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Appleton & Lange Review for the Ultrasonography Examination (Appleton & Lange Review Book Series)

Carol A. Krebs, Charles S. Odwin, Arthur C. Fleischer

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Don't waste your money. 2 out of 5 stars.
45 of 45 people found this review helpful.

This review book was assigned to my senior ultrasound program in our last quarter of classes. A colleague of mine who is a radiologic technologist had used the A&L RT review book and found it helpful, so my expectations when it was assigned were to be able to learn and to have a good array of review questions.

However, this book seems to be a compendium of outdated information rife with typos that would be hilarious if they were not so frequent. I am finding that working through it is about a 75% waste of time. Who edited this?.... Anyone?...... Anyone?

Another problem is that images are labeled wrong, or not labeled (e.g.: "Name the structure with the arrow on example 5-113," and then there is no arrow. Or worse, the arrow clearly, unmistakably points to the aorta and the answer is IVC.).

The OB/GYN chapters are better than the physics and abdomen chapters; the latter have significant errors in them. My biggest problem is that as a whole these questions require very little critical thinking and are not "pitched" at a level commensurate with what I believe the ARDMS registries require (I will update this review after taking my registries in Mar.-April).

And now, for amusement value, some of the misprints:

"posterior urethral values"
for intussusception, "intersuppection"
"pleura effusion" --- and the list goes on.

For review I would recommend the following books:

Physics:

Physical Principles of General and Vascular Ultrasonography, Jim Baun, BA, RVT, RDMS http://www.jimbaun.com/jimbaunjan05_007.htm

Understanding Ultrasound Physics, Sidney Edelman, 2nd Edition

Abdomen:

Exam Preparation for Diagnostic Ultrasound, Sanderson/Dolk/Miner

Abdomen & OB/GYN:

Clinical Guide to Ultrasound, Charlotte Hennigsen.

Editorial Review:

The most current, comprehensive question-and-answer review of diagnostic medical sonography for national certification examination preparation. This popular review covers all facets of ultrasound, including basic physics, vascular sonography, ob/gyn, transvaginal, transrectal, adult and pediatric echocardiography, and neurosonography. Includes hundreds of images and 12 pages in full color.

12-Lead Ecg: The Art of Interpretation

Tomas B. Garcia

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Designed to bring you from your current level of knowledge to a fully advanced ECG interpreter, this book features 200+ full-size, real- life ECGs accompanied by thorough explanations and analyses. Presented in a clear and casual writing style, the book's leveled approach takes a complex subject and makes it simple. Whether you are an EMT, nurse, medical student, or physician wanting to learn or brush up on your knowledge of electrocardiography, this text will meet your needs. Containing more than 200 ECG strips, 12-Lead ECG is designed to be accessed by three different levels of readers--beginner, intermediate, and advanced--and is designed to grow with you as your knowledge of electrocardiography progresses. The text has been created to be continuously useful during your development and is intended to be read and reread as you advance in your knowledge and comfort level with the material. By rereading the material at increasingly advanced levels, you will get more out of the material and retain it with greater use.

Current Surgical Diagnosis And Treatment (Current Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment)

Gerard Doherty

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Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment (Current Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment) 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is great. I would recommend it to even medical students, interns and residents. It gave the current information on all the areas in Surgery.

Great for Surgical Clerkships! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Excellent resource for your surgical clerkship. A little bulky for the wards, but it does provide enough information to get through the tiring weeks without losing more sleep at home wading through unnecessarily verbose descriptions. There's enough information to cover patients pre-op to post-op, equally useful on the floors and in the ICU. I highly recommend this book for 3rd and 4th year med students and those beyond looking for something less weighty than Sabiston's but comparably dense with information.

PA student's review 4 out of 5 stars.
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Very helpful book. I use the book to look up the surgeries I'm observing the following day and I have developed a better understanding of what is going on in the OR.

PA Student

Editorial Review:

A new edition of the leading surgery text for medical students, residents, and surgeons. The extensively updated volume provides coverage of both general surgery and all surgical specialties..

Misdiagnosis And Dual Diagnoses Of Gifted Children And Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger's, Depression, And Other Disorders

James T. Webb, Edward R. Amend, Nadia E. Webb, Jean Goerss, Paul Beljan, F. Richard Olenchak, Paul Beljan, F. Richard Olenchak

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Total reviews: 27 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Our brightest, most creative children and adults are often being misdiagnosed with behavioral and emotional disorders such as ADHD, Oppositional-Defiant Disorder, Bipolar, OCD, or Asperger’s. Many receive unneeded medication and inappropriate counseling as a result.

Physicians, psychologist, and counselors are unaware of characteristics of gifted children and adults that mimic pathological diagnoses. Six nationally prominent health care professionals describe ways parents and professionals can distinguish between gifted behaviors and pathological behaviors.

Features include a Foreword by Ronald E. Fox, Psy.D., Ph.D., Past President of the American Psychological Association, and:

• Written for parents and professionals • Characteristics of gifted children and adults • Diagnoses most commonly given to gifted children and adults • Traits of diagnoses incorrectly given to gifted children and adults • Guidelines to avoid mislabeling gifted children • Parent-child relationship problems • Issues for gifted adults • Advice for selecting a counselor or health care professional

"Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults" has been endorsed by three past presidents of the American Psychological Association, two neurologists, and two family practice physicians.

CURRENT Obstetric And Gynecologic Diagnosis And Treatment (Current Obstetric and Gynecologic Diagnosis and Treatment)

Alan DeCherney, Lauren Nathan, T. Murphy Goodwin

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Best choice for medical students 5 out of 5 stars.
28 of 33 people found this review helpful.

Best choice for medical students who desire an introduction to Obstetrics an Gynecology. Includes guidelines for treatment. The first book at this speciallity for newcomers.

Great book for 3rd year med school 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

I used this book as a supplement to my 3rd year clerkship in med school. It is not a huge text, so it was great for looking up the details that were not found in Blueprints, especially if you are interested in OB for a career. The book is well organized and is easy to read. Too much to read for board review or shelf exams, but an excellent reference book for OB/GYN.

Editorial Review:

The leading single-source book in women's health care, reproductive medicine, and pelvic surgery

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Thorough review of all of obstetrics And gynecology.

Covers more than 1,000 diseases and disorders.

The latest screening and management guidelines.

More than 450 clear clinical photos and illustrations in two colors.

Formatted to facilitate quick retrieval of information.

Concise, current coverage of treatments for common gynecologic infections.

Extensively revised throughout.

Covers underlying pathophysiology when relevant to diagnosis and treatment.

Helpful references to classic and important new sources. . . (20070209)

Assessment Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series)

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Great book 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This book was so helpful to the new nursing student. Prior to exams I would read the chapter related to the topic and always receive further clarification. The diagrams and examples always helped things make sense. Other classmates ran out to buy this also as well as the visual assessment guide. I have since purchased more of the Incredibly easy series books and have been very pleased.

Editorial Review:

Completely updated, and now in full color, this Fourth Edition presents assessment skills in the reader-friendly Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. Using light-hearted humor, the text provides the know-how nurses need to obtain pertinent health histories, perform physical examinations, and recognize normal and abnormal findings. Abundant full-color illustrations, charts, memory joggers, and other special features help nurses master assessment techniques and remember key information. This edition includes additional coverage of obesity. A new logo, Handle with care, spotlights the unique needs of pediatric, geriatric, and bariatric patients. The Practice makes perfect self-test includes updated NCLEX®-style questions with rationales for correct and incorrect answers. A companion Website will offer ancillary materials such as an image bank and printable study cards.

Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Nursing Fundamentals (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Nursing Reviews & Rationales)

Mary Ann Hogan, Mary Jean Ricci, Donna Taliaferro, Sara Bolten

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Excellent Source! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This is a very good book. It gotten me through my Fundamentals class. This book was a life saver. Loved it.

Great questions 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I am using this book to help me for my Fundamentals nursing class. The questions are really great as well as the rationales. There are 20 questions per chapter, as well as 10 more on the CD (per chapter). It also has a nice review of the section that the questions are based on.

Editorial Review:

Essential for NCLEX, course and competencey review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of medical-surgical nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post chapter tests with comprehensive rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts and new test-taking strategies. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" facts covering the nursing process, physical assessment, communication, professional standards, health promotion through the lifespan, and more

The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging (2nd Edition)

Jerrold T. Bushberg, J. Anthony Seibert, Edwin M. Leidholdt Jr., John M. Boone

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Excellent for Physicist 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

We recently purchased this book and I find it extremely well written and useful. I would call it super for a physicist doing medical imaging research. The book reads like a reference text for a researcher. There are no cartoons or homework problems. The second edition is very up to date. The book could use some references to advanced information sources as it is a bit short on physics/mathematics details.

Editorial Review:

Developed from the authors' highly successful annual imaging physics review course, this new Second Edition gives readers a clear, fundamental understanding of the theory and applications of physics in radiology, nuclear medicine, and radiobiology. The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging, Second Edition provides key coverage of the clinical implications of technical principles--making this book great for board review. Highlights of this new edition include completely updated and expanded chapters and more than 960 illustrations. Major sections cover basic concepts, diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine, and radiation protection, dosimetry, and biology. A Brandon-Hill recommended title.

Stealth Germs in Your Body: How Hidden Infectious Organisms Can Jeopardize Your Health

Erno Daniel

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Would you have suspected that your stomach ulcer was due to bacteria, or that a viral infection causes cervical cancer? Faced with mounting evidence that “stealth germs”—smoldering chronic infections in the body (some treatable or even preventable)—are at the root of numerous health problems, Dr. Erno Daniel provides the first-ever medical reference book on the subject for the general public. Dr. Daniel is a recognized expert in the field who specializes in diagnosing such illnesses, so he has both the scientific background and illuminating case studies to offer. Organized by type of germ and where in the body each manifests itself, this invaluable guide will help patients overcome their lack of medical awareness; understand the variable ways individuals react to such infections; and navigate the complexities of physician-patient communication about multiple symptoms. It’s all done with an important life-saving goal in mind: helping people know more so they can get an accurate diagnosis of their ailments and get the treatment they need. Weaving cutting-edge scientific research together with a fascinating history of infectious disease and practical guidelines for collaborating with your doctor to avoid misdiagnosis, Stealth Germs is that rare health book that’s also a fascinating reference. Readers will turn to it again and again for valuable insight.

Lab Notes: Guide to Lab and Diagnostic Tests

Tracey B. Hopkins

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Lab Notes 3 out of 5 stars.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful.

A nice pocket size with good information. Would be more helpful to students if "causes" of high or low values were included.

Great Resource 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Great resource! Handy with a ton of information packed into the pocket-sized format. Thorough and organized in a way that is extremely clear and easy to use. Explains abnormal ranges of laboratory results without giving way too much information like the big lab books do. It's great for clinicals, too!

KEEP it in your pocket! 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This is such a great resource - I left it at the charge nurse desk so we could ALL use it and it "took a walk" - even with my name plastered all over it! Sooo-o-o, I'm buying another one because I can't live without it. Great for finding tests in the computer that the doctor ordered but you can't read exactly what he/she wrote. Alphabetical - easy to find tests. Tells what color lab tube and any special handling (if needed) and the indications for the tests (what they're looking for). Also, the significance of ABNLs in brief concise form. A must have for quick, easy-to-understand reference and a good "look-through read" just for the 'fun of it'.

Editorial Review:

Printed on rewritable, waterproof paper, this pocket sized quick reference tool for nurses covers explaining, preparing and caring for patients before, during and after common diagnostic testing.