Critical-Care Books

this book was recommended to me and i love it!!! really fast and easy to find the info needed especially if your a new grad or an old nurse like me.

I saw a fellow nurse's copy of Porter's and was impressed with the size, easy to read layout and ease of finding information. Needless to say the version I saw was an older edition. What I got was a chunky "pocket book" that is difficult to read and as previously stated has an incorrect EKG. As far as fitting in a pocket, no way, this looks like a preschooler's chunky cardboard book. This is too bad as the older edition that made me want this book was excellent. Definitly getting a refund.

I've used Porter's Pocket Guide for years, buying and updating with each sucessive edition.
So sorry to see what the new owners have done to this book. The physical binding is bulky and it gets caught in everything. The eye chart is impossible to see.One of the EKG examples is wrong, I could go on and on, but I've lost my list of approx 10 things. After spending $$$ on the book order(and the new Pediatric book) I have made myself try to use them, but I've kept my most recent old edition in case I get frustrated. After years of never going to work without my trusty E.R. bible, I'm very dissapointed.
I'd like to have the company contact me.

I have used porter's pocket guides for several years. It is a great resouce. I highly recommend it for anyone who works in an ER or critical care setting.

I have read many parenting books; I was especially interested in books that help me to stimulate my child in early math and science. I spend money in books really silly and without information.
This small book point really good ideas to develop with your child and easy to implement. In just 3 or 4 pages I got all the information and more complete than in all other books that I bought.
My child is 3 and this book gives any way interesting information for him.

This book is terrific! A very quick read (especially important for new parents!) and full of very valuable information. This book is great because of the clear cut advice and practical, specific suggestions for enriching your child's early development.

Many of the suggestions are simple and easy to do, but will make a big difference in the lives of your children. Written with a respect for children that is often lacking in the way people tend to treat young children. This book is not about pushing your child to get perfect test scores. It shows how raise a child that is happy and secure who will want to pursue knowledge and creativity on their own.

This book is a quick read and wonderful for getting started on learning how to help your child develop into the best person they can be.

This book deals with the first three years of your child's life. It gives you ideas from playing with your children to sending your child to music classes. It breaks down the types of learning and how best to incorporate all into your child's daily activity. It also helps to break down the activities that are best for you child at certain ages.

I definitely suggest this book for parents beginning guide to the development of a child's learning processes.

This is also a great book for the parent who says they do not have enough time to read anything regarding their new baby. It is a quick read and very educational.

I had such high hopes for this book, but found myself sorely disappointed. Yes, it's a quick read (as one of the other reviews noted) -- that's because there's hardly any information in it! It basically offers the information one could find in just about any issue of just about any mainstream baby or parenting magazine: that children's intelligence is a combination of nature and nurture and that to maximize your child's brain development you should offer them a loving, stimulating environment. ... I find it difficult to imagine that any parent motivated enough to buy this book doesn't already know all that. There seemed to be very little practical advice (certainly almost nothing beyond what one could glean from common sense and a cursory reading of a few elementary magazine articles).

In short, spend your money on something else. Maybe a book to read with your baby...

This book is excellent for the nursing student. Give clear explanations and the pics are wonderful. I plan on keeping this book in my library as a reference once out of school.

Cardiovascular care made incredibly easy is a great buy. It definitely helps the novice nurse gain insight and give helpful hints to the longtime nurse needing a refresher.

It probably would be a good resource if it wasn't so annoying. Almost every single paragraph has a cutesy red-letter heading that interupts the flow of concepts. The result is a choppy presentation that interferes with reading and interpreting the material. The cartoons are over the top: almost every page has a cartoon, some pages have two. They are not funny, or purposeful, and there's so many of them that it is distracting. If you can get past all the formatting distractions, the book provides a solid basic coverage of the subject matter. I like the tables, the "Advice from the Experts" boxes, and the quizzes. It's a painful read though -- I can't get into study mode because all the distractions just overpower the content. My recommendation for the next edition: Give your target audience some respect: we can read more than one paragraph at a time! so get rid of the red-letter headings. And place the cartoons at the beginning and/or end of the chapter where they don't interfere with the reader's experience.

Wonderful book for ER rotation as well as for brushing up on emergency skills for Primary Care. Condensed, high-yield reading. Covers lots of what your preceptors will pimp you on, as well as what will be on your boards.

I am currently doing my ER rotation as a PA student and I am finding this book to be very helpful. It is a great book that focuses on specific need to know areas and they have great questions that the ER physicians like to pimp you on. It is a great book if you already have some foundational knowledge and just need to be reminded of some key facts.

This book may not be as unique as others in the "Recall" series but is still worth getting. If you have Surgical or Medicine Recall", many facts in this book are repetitions. But there is no point buying a huge comprehensive text if you're not going to read it. With this concise book that highlights what is most important, I have learnt more than many of my larger texts. It is very enjoyable to read and there is no need to scribble your own summaries.

Several Days in the Life of a surgeon. His anxieties, dilemmas, confidence levels and opinions of what happens in the ICU of a hospital. I think that this book might be best suited for other doctors to co-experience the thought processes of a fellow surgeon and not feel alone in their own mental traumas.

As an ICU nurse, I am often disturbed by the average person's expectations when a family member is treated in our intensive care unit. Too often, we are expected to perform miracles when at best all we can do is delay the course of nature for a few days or weeks while the family adjusts to the concept that their loved one is dying. This is frequently at the expense of the patient who is subjected to a long and uncomfortable death. Dr. Murray paints a true to life picture of what happens in the ICU by providing a day by day journal covering four weeks at San Francisco General Hospital. He provides an enlightening view of critical care that is both compassionate and accurate. His writing style is easy to understand, and the stories he tells of each patient he meets are compelling. He covers all; the successes, the failures, and those in between. Dr. Murray also addresses the ethical dilemmas facing us today regarding self determination and the allocation of scarce resources. A must read if you really want to know what happens to your loved ones in the ICU.

This is a clear, honest look inside the world of ICU. Concise, well-written, without the glitz and exaggeration served up by commercial TV in shows such as ER. This gifted physician shares his world view and realistically portrays the complexity and stresses of the day to day operation of an urban intensive care unit. Don't look for sentimentality here, this is more in the realm of science. Good job.

As a teacher of nursing assistants, I find the book to be the most helpful. Easy reading, descriptive drawings for the procedures they must learn and practice. I am looking forward to an addition of a "student Workbook". Although this textbook does has excellent chapter reviews with practice questions and answers. The State exam is 100 questions long and this helps them with not fearing answering multiple choice questions.

I bought this book along with other recommended reference books for CNAs, and in my opinion this one is the best. It is absolutely a pleasure to read, easy to follow procedures, great color pictures and illustrations. Very user-friendly format. I was actually looking forward to study time using this book.
I would also recommend the Workbook that supplements this textbook.

As a nursing instructor working closely with rehab we found this book out of date, with no changes in transfers, body mechanics that have been updated for safety throughout the years. The demos show transfers with staff using poor body mechanics, leaning over residents, not using lower legs using lower back muscles. Moving a person to the side of the bed technique demonstratess segmental movement taking the resident out of body alignment. There are up to date techniques for this. Mercury thermometers are no longer used. A two person transfer to the wheelchair in this book involves picking up the resident from the back and lifting with someone in the front with the legs. if a resident needs this then a hoyer a must. For back safety! The Essentials of Nursing Assistants by Mosby Second Edition, includes the same outdated pictures and demonstrations.

The content of the book is very useful for anyone who has taken the course and has used the companion text and workbook series. The questions are written coming from the angle of taking the Boards. However - the cost doesn't justify the content. Also, in other program's (nursing, MA ...) exam prep. books, I have seen where listed with the answers, corresponding answers referring back to the text book. That is NOT the case in this book. Would have been helpful in this book as well since each chapter has over 100 questions.

This book offered me all I needed to prepare for the state and national exam. I am confident since studying from the book...I wonder why didn't my instructors tell us about it?? Love the CD!!

This is an excellent text for preparing to take the ATM national exam and feel confident you will pass the exam on the first attempt. Well done questions and explanations for the answers. I used this book myself to gain confidence in preparing and taking the exam.

The shipping was fast, and the book is interesting. I believe it helps a student learn!

I think this is a wonderful book, and I'm very happy with my purchase. It's nice to have something that is just plain and simple. This is what happens. This is what you do. A much more simple approach than the textbooks given in nursing school.

i think in there attemps to make difficult concept simple they blew it. Go for a nursing secret book instead if you want a book to simply things

The book the complex issues impacting HIV and women, articles written by a variety of skilled, knowledgeable experts in the field.

The contributors detail the statistics and dynamics of HIV/AIDS among African-American females. They peel the onion here discussing spirituality, counseling, gender dynamics, among other things. They do not treat Black females as a monolithic group; they talk of adults, college students, adolescents, and children. All the contributors are female, and they may even be all African American.

The editors not only include psychological and sociological studies on the topic, they also have chapters about AIDS activism among Black women. The editors are trying to combine theory and practice, to speak to experts and everyday people. However, the activism chapters are short and scant. Some may feel that it "dumbs down" the book. The chapter on "Africentric" therapy was sappy and unnecessary, by the way.

Too often, discussions on AIDS in the African-American community either focus on MSM or women, and almost never both simultaneously. If there is not an exclusion, then one group is pitted against the other. In the press and around water coolers, there is all this unnecessary hysteria about "the down low" and how black MSM "are killing" Black women. Activist and sage Keith Boykin has taken J.L. King to task for his complicity in this controversy. Here the authors do not attack MSM, whether out or closeted, gay or bisexual. In "Bisexuality and HIV/AIDS," Rob Tielman stated that statistically more women contract the virus through male drug users than male bisexuals. This book repeats that same fact and focuses upon women fighting drugs, rather than attacking gay, African-American males. The book goes a step further in its inclusion by also stating that some HIV-positive Black women identify as lesbian and get romantically involved with other women, even though they may have acquired the disease through heterosexual transmission. I appreciate the lack of homophobia from all of the authors.

As wonderfully detailed as this text is, it may frustrate some. There is no clear plan spelled out here to prevent any HIV infection to Black females. Many authors note that if Black females had more jobs and money, then they would not do things that expose them to HIV. Still, the government has not forked over funds and job opportunities to this group for that reason. Clinton's annihilation of public aid is an example of this. Some would say that solution is too costly. The authors say that Black females often put themselves in danger just to acquire or keep a Black male partner. Well, what can you do? If a woman is a "slave to love," then she takes that route. The state or communities can't prevent that fallacy. The book implies that rap videos teach Black females that cute bodies are more important that strong minds and career goals. This is a powerful point. But who can get the hip-hop industry to change, as much money as it's making for Black and white males? There are so many nebulous, superstructural ideas here that would be just too difficult to enact, outside of individual, personally-based actions.

Really, it's comprehensive book of Critical Care medicine. Sometimes, the text is compressed and hard, but in general this book is actually good.

I was waiting for a comprehensive book, I found it! Clear and not too simple. It goes to the detailles in many points but always with a practical point of view.
Readers must have a certain medical backgroud to take the best from this book. I highly recommend it for residents with couple of years of experience.
The book is presented in a fully coloured edition, well illustrated even if some of the graphics are quite old (from previous editions I guess).
The only thing that misses, is a CD that goes with....