Medical Procedure Books

Pocket Guide to the Operating Room (Pocket Guide to Operating Room)

Maxine A. Goldman

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Be prepared with this handy, pocket guide to more than 400 surgical procedures. For each procedure, you'll find a definition and description preparation of the patient skin preparation draping technique equipment needed instrumentation supplies and special notes. Among the topics covered are charting as a legal document patient teaching anesthesia laser application robotics endoscopic (including laparoscopic) procedures microsurgery use of the harmonic scalpel and the argon beam coagulator and care of the pediatric patient, including anesthesia considerations and surgical procedures. All aspects of patient care are addressed, including psychological care of the patient in surgery safety measures for the patient and the operative team the written record of intra-, pre- and postoperative care and the application of JCAHO Universal Protocols for correct identification of the patient including correct site and laterality.This guide: covers more than 400 surgical procedures, including more than 40 new and significantly amended procedures, complying with information mandated or recommended by JCAHO, AORN, and other regulatory organizations; features extensive coverage of limited minimal access surgery, including endoscopic procedures for multiple specialties, microsurgical techniques, and instrumentation for these procedures; updates the section on anesthesia and anesthesic drugs; describes equipment trays, including pediatric trays; addresses the needs of both surgical technologists and perioperative nurses; provides charting/documentation of care information to comply with medicolegal requirements; includes a written care plan, adaptable to the individual patient, complete with areas for focus of nursing care and desired outcomes; and, fits in a lab coat pocket or locker for on-the-fly review.

Phlebotomy Essentials, Fourth Edition, Workbook

Ruth E McCall, Cathee M Tankersley

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

PHLEBOTOMY ESSENTIALS 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

A GREAT TRAINING TOOL FOR PHLEBOTOMY TRAINING!
INFORMATIVE! CONCISE! EASY TO UNDERSTAND!

1 star 1 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Honestly, I am not satisfied with this book at all. How can I check if I am right or wrong if there are no answers either in the book or online? I bought it because the teacher demanded this but it's useless for me and I don't recommend this book to anybody. (May be it's OK not to have answers if you care only about grades, but if you care about knowledge, you must understand what your mistakes are. The book "Phlebotomy exam review" by the same authors is MUCH BETTER.

Editorial Review:

Designed to be used in conjunction with Phlebotomy Essentials, Fourth Edition, this Workbook provides students with chapter-by-chapter exercises to reinforce text material, assessment tools to evaluate their skills, realistic scenarios to gauge their grasp of key concepts, and skills logs to chart their progress. The Workbook includes key terms matching exercises; chapter review questions; crossword puzzles; skill and knowledge drills; requisition activities; competency checklists; case studies; concept mapping exercises; procedure evaluation forms; venipuncture practice logs; and the lab tests and departments appendix from the text.

Foundations of Manual Lymph Drainage

Michael Foldi, Roman Strossenreuther

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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This manual lymph drainage guide covers the anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology of the lymphatic system, providing key background information necessary for effective treatment. Chapters are structured according to anatomic regions, focusing on the lymphatic knots and their tributary regions in the throat, armpit, trunk, and groin. Photographs illustrate the lymphatic knots and lymphatic courses, which are drawn on the human body, and provide a clear picture of the structures to be treated. Designated points are numbered to illustrate the progression of treatment in each region. Also includes coverage of complete decongestive therapy (CDT).

• Explains procedures in a detailed, step-by-step format.
• Features a helpful chart of lymph node groups and their tributary regions that outlines each lymph node as it pertains to a specific anatomical region.
• Key information is summarized in the margins, making it easier for readers to review what they've read and focus on important topics.
• Self-test questions provide an excellent means for readers to assess their comprehension and review key material in the book. These questions are also helpful in preparing for exams.
• Two-color illustrations help the reader visualize and learn theoretical aspects of this therapy.

• The text has been completely updated to reflect the latest techniques in lymph drainage therapy.
• Coverage of individual treatment strokes and stroke sequences have been updated, with more comprehensive descriptions and detailed photos that illustrate proper hand placement, pressure, and movement.
• Expanded coverage of complete decongestive therapy, including a CDT survey - consisting of the case history, examination, and palpation - that can be used to gather valuable information to formulate therapeutic goals and evaluate treatment results.

Nursing Procedures Made Incredibly Easy!

Michael Shaw

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Nsg. procedures 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This is a great, consice review for state boards or day to day practice in nursing procedures.

Editorial Review:

This entertaining, practical, and highly informative reference uses animated characters to guide the nurse, step by Incredibly Easy step, through more than 200 nursing procedures, from the most basic to the most advanced. Along with a thorough description of each procedure, the reader will find indications, necessary equipment and how to prepare it, potential complications, nursing considerations, age-related pointers for pediatric and geriatric patients, and more. Clear, simple explanations and concise summaries throughout the text make learning a breeze. Special features include memory joggers, quick quizzes, scores of illustrations, and two four-color miniguides.

A Manual of Simulation in Healthcare

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Medical simulation is a relatively new science that is achieving respectability among healthcare educators worldwide. Simulation and skills centres have become established to integrate simulation into mainstream education in all medical, nursing, and paramedical fields. Borrowing from the experience and methodologies of industries that are using simulation, medical educators are grappling with the problem of rapidly acquiring the skills and techniques required to implement simulation programmes into established curricula. This book assists both novice and experienced workers in the field to learn from established practitioners in medical simulation. Simulation has been used to enhance the educational experience in a diverse range of fields; therefore a wide variety of disciplines are represented.
The book begins with a section on the logistics of establishing a simulation and skills centre and the inherent problems with funding, equipment, staffing and course development, and promotion. Section two deals with simulators and related training devices that are required to equip a stand-alone or institution-based centre. The features, strengths, and weaknesses of training devices are presented to help the reader find the appropriate simulator to fulfil their training requirements. There is a guide to producing scenarios and medical props that can enhance the training experience. The third section covers adult education and it reviews the steps required to develop courses that comply with 'best practice' in medical education. Teaching skills, facilitating problem-based learning groups and debriefing techniques are especially important to multidisciplinary skills centres that find themselves becoming a centre for medical education. The manual concludes with guides for the major specialties that use simulation, including military, paediatrics, CPR and medical response teams, obstetrics, and anesthesia.

An Introduction to Craniosacral Therapy: Anatomy, Function, and Treatment

Don Cohen

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Grounded in ancient hands-on methods of diagnosis and treatment while encompassing the innovations of the early experimental osteopaths, craniosacrally-based treatment is now one of the most successful and fastest-growing approaches to mind-body healing. Providing access to the unity of structure and function in the organism, such therapy offers a simple, direct, and non-dogmatic means for tapping the body’s inherent intelligence in a fluid and spontaneous way. We should not presume that the techniques in this book deal solely with the bones of the cranium, the spine, and the lower back. The craniosacral system is no less than the structural aspect of the central nervous system. Its methods originate in neural behavior and emotional energy and include their manifestations throughout the tissues and organs of the body. Both a medical system with precise anatomical criteria and a therapeutic art requiring a practitioner to feel, interpret, and move energy, modern craniosacral therapy offers a unique way to perceive and influence the structural configuration of the brain itself in its relationship to the body’s architecture.

Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex

Peter R. Breggin

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From the author of Toxic Psychiatry and Talking Back to Prozac:

"Peter Breggin is the conscience of American psychiatry. Once more he updates us on the real evidence with respect to the safety and effectiveness of specific psychiatric medications and ECT. This information is needed by all mental health professionals, as well as patients and families." --Bertram Karon, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University, Author of The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia

"Nowhere does false medical thinking do more harm than in the modern psychiatric argument that mental illness is easily diagnosed and then cured by a side-effect free drug. Nowhere is the correct psychiatric thinking more evident than in the books by Peter Breggin." -- William Glasser, MD, psychiatrist, author of Reality Therapy

In Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry, renowned psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., presents startling scientific research on the dangerous behavioral abnormalities and brain dysfunctions produced by the most widely used and newest psychiatric drugs such as Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Cymbalta, Effexor, Xanax, Ativan, Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta, Strattera, Risperdal, Zyprexa, Geodon, Abilify, lithium and Depakote.

Many of Breggin's earlier findings have improved clinical practice, led to legal victories against drug companies, and resulted in FDA-mandated changes in what the manufacturers must admit about their drugs. Yet reliance on these drugs has continued to escalate in the last decade, and drug company interests have overwhelmed psychiatric practice.

This greatly expanded second edition, supported by the latest evidence-based research, shows that psychiatric drugs achieve their primary or essential effect by causing brain dysfunction, and that they tend to do far more harm than good.

New scientific analyses in this completely updated edition include:


• Chapters covering every new antidepressant and stimulant drug
• Twenty new guidelines for how to conduct non-drug therapy
• A chapter describing how to safely withdraw from psychiatric drugs
• A discussion of "medication spellbinding," explaining how patients fail to appreciate their drug-induced mental dysfunctions
• Documentation of how the drug companies control research and the flow of information about psychiatric treatments

Nursing Procedures (Books)

Springhouse Publishing, Springhouse

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Excellent Book with Step-by-Step Explanations of procedures. 5 out of 5 stars.
33 of 34 people found this review helpful.

This is an excellent book! I may not have made it through my first year of nursing school without it! Each procedure is clearly explained using photos, diagrams, and checklists.

Each procedure lists the equipment needed, implementation, special considerations and complications to look for as well as what to document after the procedure is completed.

I would recommend this book to all nursing students and nurses who are looking for a refresher guide. You won't be disappointed!

"An in-depth study for any nursing student..." 5 out of 5 stars.
16 of 17 people found this review helpful.

As a first year nursing student, my critical skills practice was at a self-study pace. With this book I was able to master the skills needed to give quality health care.

Editorial Review:

Textbook on how to perform virtually every nursing procedure. Including signal-averaged ECG, automated external defibrillation, vascular access devices, PICCs, chemotherapeutic drug preparation and handling, retrograde intubation, latex allergy protocols, and functional assessment of elderly patients. For nursing students. Previous edition: c1996. DNLM: Nursing care.

12-Lead EKG Confidence: Step-by-Step to Mastery

Jacqueline M. Green, Anthony J. Chiaramida

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The Only EKG Book Worth Purchasing! 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 15 people found this review helpful.

This book is the only one I have found that taught me the entire method of analyzing an EKG from start to finish. I have numerous EKG books and have never learned as much from them as I did with this interactive book. Excellent!!!!

Great for reinforcement 4 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This book reinforced and provided missing ECG information. It's organized very well, and each chapter builds cumulatively on the previous lessons. The worksheets at the end of each chapter are excellent.

finally a book that really teaches ekg's 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Used a few books before this and while other books teach simple patterns; this is the only book that really goes through the trouble of actually "teaching ekgs". Step by step process and workbook ekgs make the whole process easy and pleasant. Perfect for the med student or other healthcare professional

Editorial Review:

Copiously illustrated and written in a friendly and supportive tone, this self-study text and workbook teaches the EKG as a practical tool used to formulate comprehensive, well-informed interpretations in any clinical setting. Readers learn to develop sophisticated analytical skills by implementing axis methodology presented in a step-by-step manner, along with hundreds of practice EKGs and full answers at the end of each chapter.

A Concise Guide to Intraoperative Monitoring

George Zouridakis, Andrew C. Papanicolaou

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Covering both the applications and the related theory, A Concise Guide to Intraoperative Monitoring provides a general but comprehensive introduction to IOM. Unlike existing texts that typically report the results of specific studies, this book presents comprehensive coverage of the entire procedure, as well as the specific protocols used in hospital practice, examples of typical recordings, possible problems, and recommended solutions. At the end of each chapter the author poses several questions for review. These questions help technologists and medical residents in their preparation for the board exams. Taken together, these features make the book an ideal reference or training manual. A Concise Guide to Intraoperative Monitoring begins by discussing the basic principles underlying the generation of bioelectrical signals. It then describes the electronic equipment and the various electrophysiological procedures involved in IOM. From this foundation, the book gradually advances to more specific topics, such as surgical procedures, neuronal structures at risk, the optimum combinations of tests to administer, and the proper interpretation of test results. The material also provides you with a background on general anesthesia and analyzes the effects of various drugs on electrophysiological recordings. A Concise Guide to Intraoperative Monitoring also discusses the proper placement of stimulation and recording electrodes, as well as intervention strategies and equipment troubleshooting.