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Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference

Kathleen Deska Pagana, Timothy J. Pagana

Amazon Price: $40.45 List Price: $44.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Mosby Amazon Marketplace: 36 new & used starting at $32.95

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 16 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

With up-to-date, clinically relevant information, Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference, 8th Edition is the perfect user-friendly guide to everything you need to know about laboratory and diagnostic tests. Test entries are organized alphabetically, making it perfect for quick reference, and extensive page references help tie together related tests and studies. Each test entry includes, where relevant: alternate or abbreviated test names; type of test; normal findings; possible critical values; test explanation and related physiology; contraindications; potential complications; interfering factors; procedure and patient care (before, during, and after); and abnormal findings. Related tests are extensively cross-referenced throughout the book. Plus, the book's small, portable size and durable cover make it a handy, on-the-spot reference.

• Possible critical values are highlighted to alert the reader to situations requiring immediate intervention.
• A symbol next to drug-related interfering factors highlight the effects of pharmacologic agents on tests.
• Increased and decreased abnormal findings are highlighted with directional arrows.
• Icon for patient teaching-related care indicates information that should be shared with patients and their families.
• Home Care Responsibilities boxes provide important patient teaching guidelines and instructions for patients outside of acute care settings.
• Each test concludes with a Notes section that enables readers to add their own information.
• User's Guide to Test Preparation and Performance provides an overview and guidelines for each type of laboratory test and diagnostic procedure to ensure safety and accuracy.
• Lists of tests by body system and test type allow the reader to quickly locate related studies.
• Abbreviations for tests are listed on the end papers and symbols and units of measurement are listed in an appendix.

• 17 new test entries-including Ductoscopy, Thyroglobulin, Lactoferrin, and Human Papillomavirus-present the latest tests and procedures.

Acsm's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription

List Price: $25.95 By: Lea & Febiger Amazon Marketplace: 56 new & used starting at $0.01

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

useful resource 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book appears to be a pretty darn good resource for fitness prescription and testing. I have read much of it and it is pretty well written and quite clinical. So if that's what you need, then this book is it.
However, I was intending to get books to study for the ACSM Personal Trainer certification. This is NOT the book for that. Now granted, they recommend this book on their website, and it may be helpful, but the intended primary study source is the ACSM's resources for the personal trainer...book. So if that's what you are trying to do (like i was) then get that book, not this one. If you want a bunch of cool knowledge about exercise prescription, then this is the book for you.

From the Author of Outstanding You 5 out of 5 stars.
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Outstanding You: Discover, Design and Achieve Ultimate Fitness

An excellent resource for any Personal Trainer. I carry mine with me every time I see a client. It's absolutely packed with excellent information. As an ACSM Certified Personal Trainer, I have found this book one of the best they offer and one of the best resources I've had as a Trainer overall.

Editorial Review:

The new edition of this classic resource continues to provide invaluable aid in recommending procedures for exercise testing and prescription in healthy and diseased patients.

Roget International Thesaurus Index 5E (Roget's International Thesaurus Indexed Edition)

Robert L. Chapman

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Total reviews: 53 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Roget's International Thesaurus®, fifth edition, is the original -- now completely expanded, reorganized, revised and updated -- the definitive thesaurus for the 21st century.While retaining Dr. Peter Mark Roget's fundamental and brilliant category concept which groups all synonyms, antonyms and related words together for quick and easy comparison without all the needless repetition and cross referencing of alphabetical thesauruses, this new fifth edition is:the most up-to-date -- with 1073 categories including 31 entirely new ones concerning such topics as the body, fitness and exercise, substance abuse, all kinds of sports, books, motion pictures and computer sciencedefinitive -- based on extensive word association research into how words are actually used, resulting in the most current reflection of the language today and including the latest phrases, slang and commonly used foreign terms the most comprehensive thesaurus available -- 325,000 words and phrasesan invaluable source book with many additional features -- boldface type for the most commonly used words in a category, usage and foreign language labels throughout and a unique and useful feature of word lists including lists for measurements, gods and goddesses, manias and phobias, groups and movements, state mottos and moretime-tested -- this definitive, updated edition retains the original time-tested format that allows much more depth of information

Understanding and Using English Grammar: Combined Workbook (Azar English Grammar Series)

Betty Schrampfer Azar

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 33 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good Reference for English 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I recommend this book to those who are seriously studying English as a foreign language. Not only does it explain the basics of grammar, but it also includes many drills that enable you to clearly understand each rule. The index in the back of the book is very useful.

I truly recommended!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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For those, like me, who want to learn english as a second language, could not have a better english grammar than this. I recommend!!

Excellent backup for Foreign Students 4 out of 5 stars.
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Understanding and Using English Grammar, Third Edition (Full Student Book with Answer Key)
We have been using this book with Upper Intermediate and Lower Advanced Students for the past 3 years and recommend it to other teachers.

Great job 4 out of 5 stars.
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The package came on time as scheduled. That made me very happy.

Great job!

Good review tool 4 out of 5 stars.
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This workbook is a very good review tool for students learning English as a second language. It's also a big help for the teacher!

Editorial Review:

New Edition features an improved organization, expanded clarification of grammar points, new and more exercises.

Surgical Recall

Lorne H. Blackbourne

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Total reviews: 45 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Surgery Clerkship Bible 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is great! You can carry it around with you to quickly review before cases, or even in the clinic. Almost every pimp question I have gotten was in this book!!

Excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great for surgery because it goes over anatomy (perfect for OR days) and different diseases/pathophysiology (great for rounding). Must-have for surgery clerkship.

Excellent quick review 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is in short, Q&A style, and is excellent for quick review, especially when you have 10 minutes before a case starts. During surgeries, I got asked a lot of questions straight out of the book. A more thorough book is needed for in-depth info, but this book is great to carry around with you and read in those rare spare minutes.

Great book 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great book, great series. good to test what you know and some hit points that you might not find anywhere else.

A must have for a surgical rotation! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is not a detailed surgical text, but it is the book you will go to every night to read up before tomorrow's surgeries. Incredibly high- yield, focused book. It will teach you most of the basics your preceptors will pimp you on. I like the question/answer format... these "pearls" seemed to stick with me better than when you have to dig through pages of standard text. Quite a bit of overlap with others in the series, like ER Recall, but still worth it!

Editorial Review:

A concise guide to facilitate memorization of basic surgical principles and facts for surgery residents and medical students in surgical clerkships.

Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology

Klaus Wolff, Richard. Johnson, Richard Suurmond

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

"...should serve as a standard against which all future atlases will be measured..."* .
-New England Journal of Medicine, review of third edition.

. �...an excellent resource for all health care providers...".
-Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practioners, review of third edition.

. The best selling dermatology atlas in the medical market place!

This unique combination of text, clinical reference, and color atlas features the best quality and most varied photographs of skin conditions important to any health care professional. Features consistent 2-page disease coverage format with description on left and photos on the right.

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. NEW TO THIS EDITION.
*MORE photographs � more than 100 new illustrations, many focusing on conditions affecting people of color.
*MORE user friendly � color tabbing system for quick retrieval .
*NEW list of related web sites for physicians and patients at the end of diseases.
*NEW full-color schematic drawings of pathogenesis added to each section.
*NEW section on Bioterrorism.

Lexi-Comp's Drug Information Handbook

Charles F. Lacy, Lora L. Armstrong, Morton P. Goldman, Leonard L. Lance

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Total reviews: 29 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

wait, there's more 5 out of 5 stars.
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Lexi-Comp's Drug Information Handbook is the bomb. No nagging adds like the PDR; just the facts, ma'am. More eye friendly than previous editions, and still packed with about a gillion tables in the appendix. Drug names are now in red. This is the cat's meow; I probably use it once a day in patient care. Shipping and price are much better through Amazon than through the publisher.

Great classic pharmacy reference! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is great. It's too large to carry in your white coat, but as a desktop reference it's unbeatable. I am a student pharmacist on rotations and it has already helped me immensely. I don't have a PDA, so this book is great for looking up quick details. The new features (drug names in red, larger size, reference charts in the back) make this much better than previous editions. Usually I just buy books "to have" and never really use them, but I've used this countless times in the first month I've had it.

Editorial Review:

....quick access to all medications found in the Drug Information Handbook in a concise, abridged format...with a modified Adverse Reactions field that includes only those reactions >1%, unless significant or life-threatening.

If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9 1/2 Things You Would Do Differently

Fred Lee

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

The Best Book on the Disney Approach...Period 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

"But I'm not in the hospital business." Neither am I. But I am a Disney Institute alumnus and an avid practitioner of the Disney Approach to People Management, Quality Service, and Loyalty; and I've found "If Disney Ran Your Hospital" more helpful than anything else in print. I think you will, too. Here's why. A number of books explain the principles and practices that drive Disney. Most are helpful, and one, "Be Our Guest" by the Disney Institute, is indispensable. But Fred Lee does one thing better than anyone else: he models how to transfer those principles to another industry. That's what he did at the Disney Institute and that's what he will help you do in your business. Granted, his applications come from healthcare. But along the way Fred Lee demonstrates how to translate and apply the Disney Approach outside of the Disney setting, and that's what's so helpful--he provides an example that the rest of us can follow. If you're interested in benchmarking the Disney Approach, you need this book. One more thing: Fred Lee can write. "If Disney Ran Your Hospital" is the best book on the Disney Approach...period.

Editorial Review:

A captivating book, filled with stories and examples, will leave its readers inspired with fresh insights and new hope. A must for every hospital manager's library and required reading in every health care curriculum.

Neuroanatomy: An Atlas of Structures, Sections, and Systems (Neuroanatomy: An Atlas/ Struct/ Sect/ Sys (Haines))

Duane E Haines

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

WARNING --EDITION #7 2 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

The 7th edition has inexplicably omitted most of the gross dissections of the previous editions!

Good Atlas, but hard to read 3 out of 5 stars.
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Haines Atlas has some strong points and some weak points. If the option was given, I would have given it 3.5 stars because it probably is above the average when it comes to atlases and I have not used a different atlas to compare it to.

Strong points:
-The real images are great (CTs and MRIs).
-Cross sections and coronal sections are also well done.
-USMLE style questions at the end of the book are great for medical students (such as myself) and helped me do very will on the NBME Neuroscience shelf exam.
- Online version is a great tool

Weak points:
- As a text, this atlas is VERY confusing.
- Although the diagrams are decent, the color scheme is not explained very well and they use a lot of abbreviations that aren't intuitive, constantly need to be checked, and often times differ from one diagram to the other

This atlas would be best used with a different textbook (I personally recommend Basic Clinical Neuroscience by Young, Young, and Tolbert).

Also, if you are a medical student, combine the two books above with the Pre-test for Neurosciences by Allan Siegel for review of NBME shelf exam and USMLE step 1 exam.

Editorial Review:

The Sixth Edition of Dr. Haines’s best-selling neuroanatomy atlas features a stronger clinical emphasis, with significantly expanded clinical information and correlations. More than 110 new images-including MRI, CT, MR angiography, color line drawings, and brain specimens-highlight anatomical-clinical correlations.

Internal spinal cord and brainstem morphology are presented in a new format that shows images in both anatomical and clinical orientations, correlating this anatomy exactly with how the brain and its functional systems are viewed in the clinical setting. A new chapter contains over 235 USMLE-style questions, with explained answers.

This edition is packaged with Interactive Neuroanatomy, Version 2, an interactive CD-ROM containing all the book’s images.

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology

Bertram G. Katzung

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Total reviews: 35 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Still the Best Basic Text 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Over the years I have purchased many editions of this classic text and have never been disappointed. Years ago I sat in Dr. Katzung's classes when he was a young man (and I was younger!) This book is invaluable because of its varied content--1. background physiology which is so important when one needs to review and keep up-to-date on new developments, 2. comparisons of chemical structures as new products come onto the market and 3. summary tables showing the different characteristics of the various drugs in any drug group and classification. This is the one clinical pharmacology text I wouldn't be without.

A tough read 3 out of 5 stars.
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This is one of those books where you have to read a paragraph again and again to actually get what it's saying. It's got great topics, if you can sift through the words! I don't love the writing style.

Editorial Review:

This valuepack includes a copy of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, 9/e and USMLE Road Map Pharmacology, 2/e packaged together with a $10 discount built into the price. A valuable resource with two proven resources that will forward the comprehension of material and provide excellent USMLE test preparation tools.