Critical-Care Books

deseo ser inscripto de forma gratuita para revision de textos de medicina intensiva,labor en la que me desempeño.

Excellent clinical resource, not always accurate or up to date and would like to see more evidence around practice.

Should I order it will it cost me 300 bucks to be shipped?

Nursing test study guides must provide correct information not just to help the reader pass the test, but to aid the reader in improving nursing care.

This book's Q&A format will not aid the nurse in improving nursing care. For example on page 40 the the answer to the question "What is the suspected diagnosis if a patient's blood pressure drops significantly with administration of nitroglycerin in the setting of an acute MI?" is "Inferior wall MI with right ventricular involvement." A better answer would include the recommendation of volume replacement and why instead of addressing the treatment under the cardiogenic shock question.

I checked the copyright date twice to confirm this was published in 2006 before I decided to write a negative review.

The book uses AHA 2000 guidelines instead of the 2005 guidelines which were widely available by August 2005. For examples: The book recommends the non-current practice of ventilation to compression ratio of 1 to 5 instead of the current 2 to 30; the old compression rate of 80-100 instead of the current compression rate of 100; and stacking of 3 shocks instead of 1 shock then start CPR.

What is it with the authors love of Lidocaine with all those questions about it? Lidocaine is NOT a first line drug choice for anything cardiac, thus it is NOT the treatment of choice for hemodynamically stable ventricular tachycardia (page 48). Nor is the drug "likely to be ordered" after " a patient is brought back to a normal sinus rhythm following defibrillation" (page 63).

In the answer about the preferred agent of choice in treatment of atrial fibrillation ( page 51), procainamide has not been recommended 2nd line treatment for 6 years or more.

Amrinone has not been that drug's name since 2000 - try using Inamrinone as the correct drug name. (Name was changed because of the confusion with amiodarone.)

What is with the questions about using LDH in diagnosing AMI in these days of bedside Troponin testing?

The Q&A on page 60 about "What is the treatment of Torsades de Pointes?" really misses the point about using magnesium. This poor answer was my breaking point and why I felt this book needs a warning label. Of course any books that list pressure on the eyeball as a common Valsalva maneuver, page 61, is asking for lawyers to attack.

A book that claims to address CCRN test should employ a better editor. For examples, EKG should be ECG, Troponia is the Spanish spelling for Troponin, and using "b-blockers" mixed with beta symbol-blockers mixed with "beta-blockers".

I think the previous reviewer was way to harsh... or possibly, arrogant? Hmmm... most of the info in this book is very signifigant, and unlike many review books, it is not weighed down by too much technically verbose fill. The book is written by the MD and nurses! I admit, he does throw some obviously useless bits of trivia (from a nursing standpoint) in occassionally, but most of it is really quite nice and well done. We should praise MDs who WANT to help nurses, not whip them!!! Anyhow, this is a really nice relaxing book to read through, one that allows you to learn without getting a big headache. I recommend it.

Since when does a MD know what a nurse does? I was looking for a review book to help me update my CCRN review class, this is not it.

Only 20 of the "rapid fire" topics were even listed on the exam.

This book and the "ER Pearls" are a waste of money.

It has been a month since I purchased a book, and I haven't received yet.

The pedagogy of Pediatric Cardiology is already well covered by two masterfully written texts: Moss and Garson. They are, admittedly, tough acts to follow. A clinically oriented text, directed specifically toward the difficult problems encountered in the intensive care setting, however, would be appreciated. This text attempts to fill that need.

Not surprisingly, pediatric cardiac Intensive care is largely dedicated to perioperative management of congenital heart disease, and this text approaches it in this manner. After the expected chapters in monitoring, pharmacology and so on, large sections are devoted to preoperative care, operative considerations and posoperative care. There is a generic discussion of extracorporeal support and dialysis. The text ends with consideration of social and ethical issues,

I had hoped, when I read this book that it would enhance and expand the information found in general texts. For example, I know the litany of agents used for sedating posoperative patients. What I would like is some discussion of which is useful in a given set of circumstances, and how each might intereact with other aspects of care. Does any provide a specific advantage in a given clinical situation or represent a unique hemodynamic risk? This text generally does not explore cardiac care in this depth.

The text does have its strengths. The descriptions of surgical repair are well done and the illustrations of them are clear. They would be very useful in describing the surgical procedure to parents or staff. The generic approach is most useful to nursing staff and respiratory therapists, especially those just orienting to the PCCU.

Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care is a well organized general text on the subject. Its approach is best suited to the nursing staff. Cardiac fellows, attendings and cardiac intensivists will find little here that expands their knowledge.

What I liked most about this book was it's multidisciplinary aproach and down-to-earth explanations. Wer good dravings of the procedures. It lost one star since it was not easy to find information by surgical procedure.

This book is terrible. It is written in an outline format, impossible to read, a complete joke and waste of money. I guarantee this will be a paperweight if you are silly enough to buy it.

The format in this book is below expectations. It is as though I was using someone elses' notes/questions. It would be nice to have a book that speaks to the patho. associated wit the many and varried proccesses seen in the surgical experience.

Great book for the CPAN exam. There is a lot of really good information in this book, even if you are not planning to sit for an exam it it a good resource for PeriAnesthesia nurses.

Numerous inconsistencies and confusion between what is described in the text and the illustrations. Some blocks barely described in passing. Agree with other reviewer- Hadzic's book Textbook of Regional Anesthesia is immensely superior.

Recent purchase. Disappointing and mediocre compared to more recent texts by Hadzic and Boezaart.

This is a very clear atlas with nice illustrations of classic blocks. It is more helpful in the Anesthesia setting than for Pain Management. There are very few blocks for the neck, none for the head. This would not help a Pain Management Specialist, but is a tremendous help in the O.R. setting.

I would have to disagree. This book may seem dry at first, but it does have a wealth of information. It is very to the point and doesn't run around in circles. It may lack information in some chapters only because it was already covered in earlier chapters. So reading it straight through is the best way to learn. I've enjoyed it. I've also purchased Lemone and Burke to compare. I enjoy both!

Assigned this book for nursing school, my classmates and I found it boring, dry and an extremely difficult read. I ended up purchasing the Brunner and Suddarth textbook instead and quickly sold back the Iggy text. No regrets!

This Secrets Book was a disappointment to me. I have several other books in the "Secrets" series that are in-depth and informative. This book is neither. Most of the information in this book is learned in basic nursing classes. Cardiothoracic surgery is a specialty area, and I would expect more "pearls" that would be arrived at from years of experience in this area.

"Secrets" in the title of the book is unfitting. It's an informative book, but if you work in the Open-heart room, the author supplies nothing that I would consider a secret. It's all common sense information. It is infomation that can be found in any Cardiothoracic procedural book. Keep in mind all institutional policies differ, when it comes to the surgical department in general. This book is not worth the money.

I purchased this book about 12 months ago and read the content and reviewed the images. I was dissapointed regarding both its content and format. Although the authors are well known in the pediatric emergency medicine field, this book does not cover many important areas which should have been covered in an atlas format. Instead of preparing focussed text for the images displayed in this book, the authors have derived the text from previous books, Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Synopsis of Pedaitric Emergency Medicine. Threfore, it seems that there is too much irrelavant information in the book including many algorithms, large tables etc. It is no doubt that there are some valuble images but they are camouflaged by long text. In short, this book is not focussed and I do not recommend as an atlas.