Best Emergency Medicine
Based on the National EMS Education Standards and the 2015 CPR/ECC Guidelines, the Eleventh Edition offers complete coverage of every competency statement with clarity and precision in a concise format that ensures students' comprehension and encourages critical thinking. Application to Real-World EMS. Through evolving patient case studies in each chapter, the Eleventh Edition gives students real-world context to apply the knowledge gained in the chapter, clarifying how the information is used to care for patients in the field, and pushing students to engage in critical thinking and discussion.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book itself is fine however, the title explicitly states that the Kindle version comes with an access code to the Navigate 2 Essentials site."
"Questions straight out of the book, useful as a study guide or a benchmark of where you are at the end of a chapter."
"The book was for my grandson for his course to become an EMT."
"Most textbooks are dry and boring but this one brings emergency care to life as much as CPR would."
"Expensive but a very thick text book."
"these were also for my kids."
"Work thesis without isbn code to use online for emt class."
The Revised Eighth Edition features: bull; Updated information on poisons and emergency medications bull; New ECG rhythm strips bull; Common drugs sections bull; Updated pediatric medications bull; Revised Spanish section bull; Straightforward medical emergency treatments.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"purchased for son who is a senior in nursing school; says it has all important information in easily tabbed off in sections and fits perfectly in his lab coat -- well satisfied."
"This easy to carry pocket sized reference book has been my go-to for years of Critical nursing - I reccomend it to anyone who works with Emergency services."
"Very handy size and format."
"Totally essential in my ED days."
"This is the “go-to” book for emergency medicine."
"This is a great book for new nurses like me, and not just in the ED."
"I have carried one of these since I discovered them in 1993!!!!!"
Celebrated by medical students for over a decade, Kaplan's pocket-sized Dr. Pestana's Surgery Notes is the highest-yield surgery review for the the shelf and USMLE Step 2 CK exams. In the early 1990s he was a member of the Comprehensive Part II Committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners that designed what is now the clinical component of the USMLE Step 2 exam.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Easy to carry around while on the wards and read a few pages every now and then."
"Very helpful concise book."
"A great quick reference book for medical students rotating through surgery."
"Great confidence booster for Surgery shelf."
"I do believe my brother liked the book and found it useful."
"I supplemented with other material because surgery shelf exam had lots of non-surgery questions."
"This is a nice book to use during your surgery rotation because it is brief and to the point."
"Surgical Recall is an excellent resource for on the wards and OR pimping but this text is invaluable because it cuts through the additional low-yield nonsense that Lawrence provides and gives you what you need for the test."
Best Emergency Medicine
Based on the National EMS Education Standards and the 2015 CPR/ECC Guidelines, the Eleventh Edition offers complete coverage of every competency statement with clarity and precision in a concise format that ensures students' comprehension and encourages critical thinking. Application to Real-World EMS. Through evolving patient case studies in each chapter, the Eleventh Edition gives students real-world context to apply the knowledge gained in the chapter, clarifying how the information is used to care for patients in the field, and pushing students to engage in critical thinking and discussion.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The book itself is fine however, the title explicitly states that the Kindle version comes with an access code to the Navigate 2 Essentials site."
"Questions straight out of the book, useful as a study guide or a benchmark of where you are at the end of a chapter."
"It's also fun to do because because there's matching, fill in the blank, crossword puzzles etc."
"Book is ok, I prefer Brady but you gotta use what the class is using."
"The book was for my grandson for his course to become an EMT."
"Most textbooks are dry and boring but this one brings emergency care to life as much as CPR would."
"I now Have this book for sale and will sale cheap if anyone needs it!"
Best Emergency Medical Services
Based on the National EMS Education Standards and the 2015 CPR/ECC Guidelines, the Eleventh Edition offers complete coverage of every competency statement with clarity and precision in a concise format that ensures students' comprehension and encourages critical thinking. Application to Real-World EMS. Through evolving patient case studies in each chapter, the Eleventh Edition gives students real-world context to apply the knowledge gained in the chapter, clarifying how the information is used to care for patients in the field, and pushing students to engage in critical thinking and discussion.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The book itself is fine however, the title explicitly states that the Kindle version comes with an access code to the Navigate 2 Essentials site."
"Questions straight out of the book, useful as a study guide or a benchmark of where you are at the end of a chapter."
"The book was for my grandson for his course to become an EMT."
"Most textbooks are dry and boring but this one brings emergency care to life as much as CPR would."
"Expensive but a very thick text book."
"these were also for my kids."
"Work thesis without isbn code to use online for emt class."
Best Nursing Emergency
Thoroughly revised and featuring a more efficient and streamlined design, the new 7th edition of Sheehy's trusted emergency care resource offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the essentials emergency nurses need to know. Each condition commonly seen in the emergency setting is thoroughly addressed, from signs and symptoms, to diagnosis, treatment, developmental considerations, patient education, and more.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great reference for any ER nurse, it is fairly in depth but covers each area well."
"Studying for my CEN, I read this prior to buying the ENA CEN review, and I found that this book covered almost all of it."
"Excellent book to help the new ER nurse and new up to date information for the experienced ER nurse."
"This book is good for a quick ER reference when confronted with something you've never seen before and you have a few seconds to review."
"Very good book that covers a lot of material."
"AWESOME BOOK IF YOUR NEW TO THE E.R."
"I bought this book to study for the CEN."
"This book has everything you need to know and explains it in great detail."
Best Emergency Medical Services
Based on the National EMS Education Standards and the 2015 CPR/ECC Guidelines, the Eleventh Edition offers complete coverage of every competency statement with clarity and precision in a concise format that ensures students' comprehension and encourages critical thinking. Application to Real-World EMS. Through evolving patient case studies in each chapter, the Eleventh Edition gives students real-world context to apply the knowledge gained in the chapter, clarifying how the information is used to care for patients in the field, and pushing students to engage in critical thinking and discussion.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The book itself is fine however, the title explicitly states that the Kindle version comes with an access code to the Navigate 2 Essentials site."
"Questions straight out of the book, useful as a study guide or a benchmark of where you are at the end of a chapter."
"It's also fun to do because because there's matching, fill in the blank, crossword puzzles etc."
"Book is ok, I prefer Brady but you gotta use what the class is using."
"The book was for my grandson for his course to become an EMT."
"Most textbooks are dry and boring but this one brings emergency care to life as much as CPR would."
"I now Have this book for sale and will sale cheap if anyone needs it!"
Best Tropical Medicine
John E. Bennett and Raphael Dolin along with new editorial team member Dr. Martin Blaser have meticulously updated this latest edition to save you time and to ensure you have the latest clinical and scientific knowledge at your fingertips. Put the latest knowledge to work in your practice with new or completely revised chapters on influenza (new pandemic strains); new Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus; probiotics; antibiotics for resistant bacteria; antifungal drugs; new antivirals for hepatitis B and C; Clostridium difficile treatment; sepsis; advances in HIV prevention and treatment; viral gastroenteritis; Lyme disease; Helicobacter pylori; malaria; infections in immunocompromised hosts; immunization (new vaccines and new recommendations); and microbiome. "This is what an in depth textbook should be, a superb and vast, yet highly readable review of its topic... without doubt this will appeal to a global audience whose primary interest is the clinical aspects of infectious diseases."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book is great and have new chapters but I have received only 1 volume."
"The gold standard reference book for all infectious disease doctors."
"This is the gold standard, or the Bible of infectious disease books."
"The books arrived in very good used quality, and much more quickly than expected."
"This is the best text book of ID and best reference for any ID physician."
"everything arrived fine as expected."
"Awesome book!"
Best Genetics
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A New York Times Notable Book. A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies —a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information? "This is perhaps the greatest detective story ever told—a millennia-long search, led by a thousand explorers, from Aristotle to Mendel to Francis Collins, for the question marks at the center of every living cell. “Sobering, humbling, and extraordinarily rich reading from a wise and gifted writer who sees how far we have come—but how much farther far we have to go to understand our human nature and destiny.” ( Kirkus, starred review ). "Mukherjee deftly relates the basic scientific facts about the way genes are believed to function, while making clear the aspects of genetics that remain unknown. He offers insight into both the scientific process and the sociology of science... By relating familial information, Mukherjee grounds the abstract in the personal to add power and poignancy to his excellent narrative." Mukherjee punctuates his encyclopedic investigations of collective and individual heritability, and our closing in on the genetic technologies that will transform how we will shape our own genome, with evocative personal anecdotes, deft literary allusions, wonderfully apt metaphors, and an irrepressible intellectual brio.” ( Ben Dickinson, Elle ). The story [of the gene] has been told, piecemeal, in different ways, but never before with the scope and grandeur that Siddhartha Mukherjee brings to his new history… he views his subject panoptically, from a great and clarifying height, yet also intimately.” ( James Gleick, New York Times Book Review ).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The volume benefits from Mukherjee’s elegant literary style, novelist’s eye for character sketches and expansive feel for human history. Mendel was an abbot in a little known town in Central Europe whose pioneering experiments on pea plants provided the first window into the gene and evolution. Eugenics has now acquired a bad reputation, but Galton was a polymath who made important contributions to science by introducing statistics and measurements in the study of genetic differences. Many of the early eugenicists subscribed to the racial theories that were common in those days; many of them were well intended if patronizing, seeking to ‘improve the weak’, but they did not see the ominous slippery slope which they were on. Eugenics was enthusiastically supported in the United States; Mukherjee discusses the infamous Supreme Court case in which Oliver Wendell Holmes sanctioned the forced sterilization of an unfortunate woman named Carrie Buck by proclaiming, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough”. Another misuse of genetics was by Trofim Lysenko who tried to use Lamarck’s theories of acquired characteristics in doomed agricultural campaigns in Stalinist Russia; as an absurd example, he tried to “re educate” wheat using “shock therapy”. Mutations in specific genes (for instance ones causing changes in eye color) allowed them to track the flow of genetic material through several generations. The scientists most important for recognizing this fact were Frederick Griffiths and Oswald Avery and Mukherjee tells their story well; however I would have appreciated a fuller account of Friedrich Miescher who discovered DNA in pus bandages from soldiers. All these events set the stage for the golden age of molecular biology, the deciphering of the structure of DNA by James Watson (to whom the quote in the title is attributed), Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and others. Many of these pioneers were inspired by a little book by physicist Erwin Schrodinger which argued that the gene could be understood using precise principles of physics and chemistry; his arguments turned biology into a reductionist science. As a woman in a man’s establishment Franklin was in turn patronized and sidelined, but unlike Watson and Crick she was averse to building models and applying the principles of chemistry to the problem, two traits that were key to the duo’s success. The book then talks about early successes in correlating genes with illness that came with the advent of the human genome and epigenome; genetics has been very useful in finding determinants and drugs for diseases like sickle cell anemia, childhood leukemia, breast cancer and cystic fibrosis. Mukherjee especially has an excellent account of Nancy Wexler, the discoverer of the gene causing Huntington’s disease, whose search for its origins led her to families stricken with the malady in remote parts of Venezuela. The basic verdict is that while there is undoubtedly a genetic component to all these factors, the complex interplay between genes and environment means that it’s very difficult currently to tease apart influences from the two. The last part of the book focuses on some cutting edge research on genetics that’s uncovering both potent tools for precise gene engineering as well as deep insights into human evolution. There are a few minor scientific infelicities: for instance Linus Pauling’s structure of DNA was not really flawed because of a lack of magnesium ions but mainly because it sported a form of the phosphate groups that wouldn’t exist at the marginally alkaline pH of the human body. The book’s treatment of the genetic code leaves out some key exciting moments, such as when a scientific bombshell from biochemist Marshall Nirenberg disrupted a major meeting in the former Soviet Union. Nor is there much exploration of using gene sequences to illuminate the ‘tree of life’ which Darwin tantalizingly pulled the veil back on: in general I would have appreciated a bigger discussion of how DNA connects us to all living creatures. Its sweeping profile of life’s innermost secrets could not help but remind me of a Japanese proverb quoted by physicist Richard Feynman: “To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven."
"There are abundant scientific notions to satisfy any reader picking up the book to understand the real subject matter, but not in the general bland fashion of studies-and-conclusions that tend to lose many a lay people. From the notions of introns and exons to the polygenic nature of most phenotypes, the feedback from environment to gene mutation and the massive role played by non-gene factors in most our traits, the author uncovers a staggering number of interesting findings in a highly understandable manner. As professionals or parents seek to weed out certain deformities, there are genuine risks of us eliminating some important evolutionary traits mainly out of ignorance of how genes really work at this stage but also out of their possible other utilities in long future."
"Siddhartha Mukherjee writes about the history of the understanding of the gene with a clear and engaging style."
Best Neurosurgery
Each chapter focuses on a specific case, opening with a detailed description of the patient’s diagnosis and the procedure that will need to be performed, followed by the prayer “request.” From there, readers get to look over Dr. Levy’s shoulder as he performs the operation, and then we wait―right alongside Dr. Levy, the patients, and their families―to see the final results. A perfect blend of pulse-racing medical drama and profound spiritual insight, Gray Matter not only provides a fascinating glimpse into the elite field of neurosurgery as we watch Levy perform some of the most challenging surgical procedures in medicine today, it also provides a refreshingly candid and revealing glimpse into the heart and mind of a neurosurgeon―those divinely fallible beings we sometimes expect to play God. Levy’s musings on what successful and unsuccessful surgical results imply about faith, forgiveness, and the power of prayer are at once unexpected and insightful.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Dr. Levy shares his experiences skillfully making you feel like you are there and giving you understanding of the complexity of the human vascular system and the challenges encountered as a surgeon attempting to repair various problems patients have."
"It was well written, interesting, inspiring, and tugged at my heart for the times I have needed prayer before surgery and even in at an appointment."
"The public at large puts enormous and often unrealistic expectations on doctors and medicine in general."
"Good to read about his journey in learning to pray with patients and to hear about the positive impact it had on the lives of those he encountered."
"The brain surgeon's growth in learning about himself and what did and did not help his patients as his career progressed, his honesty about values both financial and otherwise, how he coped with the death of patients and dealing with their families, how he truly came to care for each and every patient as an individual... that he *saw* each of them... simply fascinated me. He was striving to become the best surgeon he could be for his patients. It worked out well for both the surgeon and the patients."
"Though his account gives one confidence and evidences of his technical and decision-making skills, it nonetheless breathes a humility that is totally counter the usually justified (and possibly usually needed) arrogance of Neurosurgeons."
"His offering prayer to his patients to connect with the ultimate for petition and introducing this perspective to his patients re-opens the missing element in modern day medicine, as well as reminding we moderns, in our much more mundane circles, that we too can and should pray even if the desired outcome is less critical."
"Incredible insight especially if you're a medical professional or work in the health care field."
Best Critical Care
The text addresses both the medical and surgical aspects of critical care, delivering the guidance needed to ensure sound, safe, and effective treatment for patients in intensive care—regardless of the specialty focus of the unit. Problem-based approach teaches critical thinking and mirrors the decision-making process of the intensive care unit Expert perspectives from Dr. Marino help sharpen technique, minimize error, and improve outcomes Reader-friendly format makes essential information easy to locate and apply "Final Word" summaries at the conclusion of each chapter highlight salient points and improve retention of key concepts. 'a worthy update of its predecessors'. 'appropriate for any critical care population'. Numerical Score: 92 - Four Stars!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"When I started reading this book I thought how basic it was but again I really liked it, it doesn’t give you pathophysiology but gives you explanation of principles of ICU practice."
"Very informative!"
"Not only good for icu but general management for acute situations you may encounter on the floors or a rapid response call."
"Excellent book with excellent information."
"It is a joy to read."
"a must have for ICU rotations."
"A fast read."
Best Family & General Practice
Dr. Thaler’s ability to simplify complex concepts makes this an ideal tool for students, teachers, and practitioners at all levels who need to be competent in understanding how to read an EKG. Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, offering tablet, smartphone, or online access to: Complete content with enhanced navigation Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Wonderful information, striaght and to the point."
"So helpful and laid out in a way that a child could understand it."
"Great product & fast delivery!"
"Working on my exam, I expect to pass it!"
"One of the two most didactic books on the subject !!"
"This book helped our class out a lot only because our paramedic books only went over the minimal requirements and most of us wanted to learn more and advance our knowledge and this book did in fact help."
Best Vocational Test Guides
Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Our prep books and online resources provide the expert guidance that students need at every step of their educational journey – incorporating years of test-specific data and strategies tested by Kaplan students and our own expert psychometricians.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"They scheduled me to head to MEPS 3-4 weeks later and figured out what the MOS I wanted, required for scoring so I studied those courses. I tried studying at least a chapter a night, but there were a few times I was too tired from work, but also took my book with me to read during lunch break for about 40 minutes."
"Exactly what I expected and this is the best study guide out there!"
"Purchased for my daughter to keep studying while waiting to finish with her braces and entering the Military (Navy hopefully) as my oldest daughter did."
"Originally, her ASVAB and Marine job testing scores weren't where they needed to be."
"Has been very useful for helping my son study for the test."
"Good book teaches wide variety to streghthen weak points."
"This was bought for my grandson as he is planning on joining the Air Force."
Best Hospice & Palliative Care
Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care. He has been lauded for his contributions to palliative care, with awards and recognitions coming from the Canadian Medical Association, the International Psycho-oncology Society, the Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology, the Canadian Psychiatric Association, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is a real eye opener & applicable to life whether in Hospice or not."
"Purchased for a friend who had said that this is great book and that I should buy a copy for my self."
"A thoughtful approach to end of life concerns, detailing an approach to help dying persons review their lives to prepare a "living on" document to provide insight to survivors."
"The process appears to be beneficial to the recipients who are able to participate in a lucid manner and the benefits to their survivors is also a blessing."
"This is a must-read for those who desire to leave a legacy for their loved ones."
"A book that I needed for my volunteer work."
"Good book...helpful with my work."
"Excellent and very helpful book."