Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Self-Assessment and Review

Author: David H. Rubin
Published: August 1998
Publisher: Mosby, Incorporated
ISBN: 1556644531
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 319

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This book uses multiple choice questions to both teach and review certain basic topics in pediatric emergency medicine. The answers are referenced to Barkin's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, a comprehensive textbook. The authors, using single and multiple choice questions, intend to both teach and review important concepts in pediatric emergency medicine by providing brief discussions of both correct and incorrect answers. The book achieves the authors' goal of being both a study guide and a self-assessment instrument. The intended audience for this book includes medical students, residents, nurse practitioners, and pediatric practitioners. The book as a teaching tool is good for students and residents, but many of the questions may prove too basic for practitioners, although some may wish to use it as a review of basic topics. The book has few black-and-white illustrations accompanying the questions and only a handful of radiographs that are only of fair quality in their reproduction. The chapters where those items are important (i.e., radiology and dermatology) are best used in conjunction with the illustrations in the referenced textbook. The brief descriptive answers are referenced to the appropriate page in Barkin's text. This facilitates further reading on a topic should one desire to investigate a topic further. This book successfully uses the classic question and answer format using as its basis Barkin's comprehensive textbook on pediatric emergency medicine. The questions are wide-ranging and are accompanied by good descriptive answers. The answers are well referenced with the exact page location of the source given. All of these facets make this book auseful learning tool for students, nurses, and residents and a helpful review for practitioners. This is the second edition of a comprehensive review aid designed to complement Barkin's Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition (Mosby-Year Book, Inc., 1997). It is to be used as a study aid in reviewing the diagnosis and treatment of emergent medical conditions encountered in the pediatric population. The editors intentions are very worthwhile and equally well met. They have gathered many well-recognized specialists in pediatric emergency medicine to compile a study guide that is useful to any practitioner of emergency or outpatient medicine, including medical students, residents in emergency medicine or pediatrics, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and attending physicians. An excellent study guide, this comprehensive review is well designed and well written. The sections on trauma and infectious disease are exceptionally thorough. Also, the appendix of important mnemonics, facts, and formulas is much appreciated. The major shortcoming is that the radiograph reproductions are dark, rendering them almost useless as educational adjuncts. An expansion to the chapters devoted to dermatological conditions would be of value. This is a excellent review book to accompany what has become the seminal textbook of pediatric emergency medicine. The questions are appropriately challenging and the answers provided are succinct and informative. While especially useful when used in conjunction with the parent text, this book can stand alone as a useful review of pediatric emergency medicine, one that accurately reflects current dogma. It is a worthy addition to the library of any practitioner of outpatient or emergencymedicine. Rubin, David H., MD (Cornell Univ); Caplen, Stuart M., MD; Conway, Edward E., Jr., MD, MS (Albert Einstein Coll of Medicine); Barkin, Roger M., MD, MPH (Univ of Colorado) Click to compare book prices for Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Self-Assessment and Review Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Self-Assessment and Review

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