Injuries Books

This is a fantastic book, especially for podiatry students who are studying for their surgery courses. It is a good supplement to the McGlamery Surgery textbook.

This issue of hand clinics is like a cookbook for treatment of distal radius (colles) fractures. It covers the diagnosis of these fractures and all of the currently used methods of treatment from casting to external fixation to almost every possible variation of internal fixation. Some nice chapters on salvage osteotomy and fusion also in the book.

A must have for the bookshelf of any surgeon treating distal radius fratures.

This is an excellent text for all persons involved in the field management of diving injuries. A clear and concise format. It not only provides the "basic" treatments but also the "advanced" treatments for dive emergencies. This will be the required textbook for my "Advanced Diver Medical Technician" program I teach in Roatan, Honduras. The publisher indicated to me that a second edition would be out in the Spring of 2000, where is it? This is a "must have" book in your diving medicine library.

Tilton & Bennett have produced a very good text for Mountaineers Books. Every out-door lover, wilderness hiker and mountain back packer should read "Don't Get Sick".

Through nine absorbing chapters they inform about all the various diseases (from staph to lyme disease to bubonic plague) one may contract from living out doors. The book is small and will fit into a pocket (take it with you for reference on your next trek). T & B's comfortable, and non technical, writing style allowed me to read all 108 pages in just one week of the National Scout Jamboree.

T & B identify many diseases, suggests cures, define periods for illness, and discuss how to shield one from sickness. They offers explanation about the four microbes that make us sick: viruses, bacteria, fungi and yeast, and protozoa. They also highlight their prevention and cures. More than a dozen graphs and tables illustrate healthy ways to avoid wilderness illness and how to set up a germ free living space. T & B also provide a helpful reference section, for each chapter, at the end of the book (demonstrating their state of the art research).

With 20+ years of wilderness hiking and pack backing experience I was delighted to learn more from T & B. For example, tetanus lives in the soil (just another reason not to go bare footed in unfamiliar environments), on page 23. And sixty-six percent of all raw poultry contains salmonella (cook it thoroughly), page 62.

This book is recommended to all who spend time hiking, eating, and sleeping in the wilderness. If you enjoy the outdoors, T & B will help you love it more with good health.

It's a great book written by Henry Heimlich and Lawrence Galton. You have the first names with the wrong people.

This is a great book for anyone that deals with athletes. Great source for answers to any questions !

I am starting to get involved in offering neuropsychological rehabilitation for children after brain injury here at the Oliver Zangwill Centre in Ely, England. It was such a relief to discover this book has been written and that it is of consistently good quality throughout. I think that it should be sent to the school of any child who returns to school after brain injury, and that the teachers are given time to read it. At this stage, where I'm new to this aspect of brain injury rehab, I think it covers all the main topics. Seems like good value as well!

While searching for ways to help my TBI son, I discovered this book with concrete strategies for meeting the myriad of challenges facing the brain injured student. For example, a review of basic cognitive processing and typical deficits is followed with a list of 11 intervention strategies to be used in the classroom. Similarly memory deficits, planning and organizational difficulties, sequencing problem solving, and general classroom recomendations are covered. I am purchasing this book to give to all my son's teachers as they face the challenge of how to help him learn with his "new" brain.

Excellent source of recent evidence-based information on electrotherapy.
Many improvements compared with the eleventh edition.
A great downloadable image bank.

I recently returned to Emergency Medicine after 15 years of Family Practice and was faced with the need to read head CT's when the radiologist was not available. This book will keep you from sending anyone home that needs to see a neurosurgeon. I found the size, format and info all precisely what I needed.One day the radiologist, walking by, noticed me reading it and reminded me to put it back in his bookcase before I left. He thought it was his copy!