Description
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a basic introduction to radiology and imaging along with the minimum required knowledge written from a practical clinical perspective. Presenting essential definitions and critical images, this textbook offers key references in a welcomed concise format, targeting medical students and interns undertaking the USMLE and house staff of any specialty desiring a resource for practical and useful information relevant to and including medical imaging of common diseases and conditions. Organized by signs, symptoms, history, disease, imaging and imaging findings, and clinical service/specialty, this textbook thoughtfully addresses the early challenges faced by medical students and interns preparing for their beginning rotation or internship. Allowing readers to bypass dense radiology books too cluttered with detail, organized by body part instead of clinical relevance, or not inclusive of the latest developments and technologies, this textbook prepares students and house staff to enter and to succeed in this most rapidly evolving field in medicine.
The Radiology Survival Kit: What You Need to Know for USMLE and the Clinics is a practical, clinically-oriented textbook offering an early career perspective intended for first through fourth year medical students and house staff, including interns and residents from any discipline, as well as radiology and radiography students and technologists, radiology and ICU nurses, nursing students, radiology administrators, and foreign medical graduates.
Table of ContentsBasic Principles of Radiology.- Cases you Never Want to Miss, EVER.- What you Need to Know about Each Modality, Organized by Clinical History.- Practical Rules for Ordering Tests: Organized by Signs and Symptoms.- Practical Rules for Ordering Texts and Preparing Patients: Organized by Disease and Clinical Service.- What to Ignore at 2 AM and How to Identify and Follow Up on Incidental Findings.-Interventional Radiology: General.- Interventional Radiology: Vascular.- How to Use Ultrasound to Place a Central Line, or Peform Paracentesis and Thoracentesis.- Interventional Emergencies.- Interventional Oncology. Image Processing.
