Overview
The ABC of Practical Procedures is a fully illustrated guide to the core skills and procedures all those at the frontline of care need to know.
With over 280 full colour illustrations, every stage of each procedure is illustrated with colour step-by-step photographs as it is being performed. Covering key competencies such local anaesthesia, blood taking, and thoracic drain and central venous catheter insertions, each practical procedure is accompanied with useful hints and tips for key learning.
This new ABC provides a guide to performing the most common practical procedures undertaken by healthcare professionals including junior doctors, nurses and paramedics. It is also ideal for the needs of the Foundation Programme, for all trainee doctors and medical students.
Synopsis
The ABC of Practical Procedures is a fully illustrated guide to the core skills and procedures all those at the frontline of care need to know.
With over 280 full colour illustrations, every stage of each procedure is illustrated with colour step-by-step photographs as it is being performed. Covering key competencies such local anaesthesia, blood taking, and thoracic drain and central venous catheter insertions, each practical procedure is accompanied with useful hints and tips for key learning.
This new ABC provides a guide to performing the most common practical procedures undertaken by healthcare professionals including junior doctors, nurses and paramedics. It is also ideal for the needs of the Foundation Programme, for all trainee doctors and medical students.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP(Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)Description: Part of a series of resources written by specialists for nonspecialists, this book is intended as a practical guide with step-by-step instructions on how to perform some of the most common procedures, from obtaining diagnostic samples to securing stable vascular access and performing some therapeutic procedures.
Purpose: Traditionally, these techniques have been passed from generation to generation in a see one, do one, teach one approach. This book represents a break with this model by systematically presenting what one must know and do to perform a procedure safely and successfully.
Audience: The audience is clearly attending physicians, but the pictures also work nicely for clinicians to use in explaining a procedure to patients and families.
Features: The book begins by discussing consent and documentation, which is extraordinarily important. Each chapter covers one procedure, discussing indications, contraindications, pertinent anatomy, and necessary equipment, with a step-by-step description of the technique. The full-color pictures make understanding almost intuitive and include many well-drawn figures where pictures are not sufficient. Finally, a short section explains how to interpret the specimen obtained or potential complications one must be aware of.
Assessment: This is a very simple, highly practical book that is worthy of a place in every clinician's library.
From the Publisher
"This is a very simple, highly practical book that is worthy of a place in every clinician's library." (Doody's, 12 August 2011)
"Each chapter provides a clear introduction to the clinical procedure, contraindications and usefully, additional information relevant to the particular procedure, such as the Allen's test for arterial line insertion or CVP waveform recognition for the Insertion of a central venous line. These additions add to the overall feeling of thoroughness that this book provides and goes to making It more than simply a reference manual." (AfPP, June 2010)