Basic to Advanced Clinical Echocardiography: A Self-Assessment Tool for the Cardiac Sonographer / Edition 1

by Bonita Anderson, Margaret M. Park

Overview

A unique resource, completely sonographer authored, this book is designed to determine not only your level of expertise and applicability of knowledge but also serve as an up-to-date clinical resource in the practice of cardiac sonography. 

This powerful, long-needed resource presents the essentials of clinical echocardiography in a precise Q&A format. Whether you are just beginning your training or are already preparing for your examination, or simply want to review and increase your knowledge depth, this easy-to-use resource will help you develop the knowledge and skills you need for success.

• Flexible: A wide range of multiple-choice questions identified as beginner, intermediate, or advanced make it easy for you to select the level of material you want to review.   
• Quick-review format: Concise chapters by experts in the field follow an easy-to-follow, Q&A style to ensure content mastery.  
• Concise Answer Outlines: Each question is supported by a detailed answer outline to enhance understanding and skill development. 
• Visual: More than 400 online echo clip videos bring concepts and techniques to life and help you to internalize key essential elements of disease recognition. 
• Clinically Oriented: More than 1,270 self-assessment questions (many with case-based images and easily accessible video files) place you in clinical scenarios. 
• Practical: An extensive online question bank gives you unlimited opportunities for self-assessment and review.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781975136253
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	06/10/2020
Edition description:	First
Pages:	650
Sales rank:	648,671
Product dimensions:	8.38(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Venugopal B Bhattad, MBBS, MD (East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine)
Description: This is a comprehensive book on clinical echocardiography that serves as a self-assessment tool for cardiac sonographers in question-and-answer format based on the Socratic method.
Purpose: The purpose is to serve as a great reference book for understanding multiple echocardiography chapters from basic to advanced level. The book has 1,200 questions with at least 400 online videos and around 950 figures. The questions are identified as beginner, intermediate, or advanced level. With recent advances in the field of echocardiography and new changes in the last decade, this book provides deep insight into the various aspects of echocardiography. This book serves as a great reference for echocardiography and can be used by anyone, whether beginner or advanced learner.
Audience: The book is aimed at cardiologists, internists, physicians in training, echocardiography technicians, researchers, and scientists interested in the field of cardiology and echocardiography. It is specifically useful to people interested in cardiology training, cardiac imaging fellowship, and those preparing for echocardiography boards. This book is a great source of education for understanding echocardiography in depth. The authors and contributors are internationally renowned in the fields of cardiology and echocardiography.
Features: This clearly written, 38-chapter book begins with a delineation of objectives and a short description of the various topics in an organized fashion. Every chapter is comprehensive in itself. Readers may choose to read selective topics of interest without having to read previous chapters. There are enough examples, online videos, and figures in each chapter to enable better understanding of echocardiography. Teaching is by "Socratic method" using the question-and-answer format. Key points and guidelines in every chapter are presented in text format with multiple tables and relevant examples. Tables and teaching points/guidelines cite most recent developments in the field of valvular heart disease. Step-by-step algorithms are also provided, including those for valve diseases and color doppler. In addition, each chapter offers detailed theory with examples to deepen understanding. The end of each chapter includes references to other books for further study on topics of interest. The appendixes offer insight into topics of importance and help to quickly find topics of interest mentioned in the book.
Assessment: This is an excellent reference book for echocardiographers, echo technicians, cardiologists, physicians in training, and internists, as it utilizes references from American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) guidelines and thoroughly summarizes state-of-the-art reviews in its valvular heart disease chapters.

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