Month: June 2015

Editors: S. Terry Canale, MD; James H. Beaty, MD; and Frederick M. Azar, MD Publisher: Elsevier – 455 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a book about the top 100 most frequently-used orthopedic procedures at the Campbell Clinic of the University of Tennessee, as well as generally performed worldwide by orthopedic surgeons, both generalists and specialists. These surgical techniques are based on the 12th edition of Campbell’s Orthopedic Procedures. The editors point out that only information about the procedures is given in this book, and indications, contraindications, outcomes, complications, and alternative treatments are not given in it....

Authors: Myung K. Park, MD; and Mehrdad Salamat, MD Publisher:  Elsevier Saunders – 520 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a compact yet exhaustive pocket-sized book on children’s heart ailments and diseases. It is a companion to Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners, also authored by Dr. Park (see Biz India Online News review: http://www.bizindia.net/book-review-parks-pediatric-cardiology-for-practitioners-6th-edition/) This handy (7.5” x 4.5” x 1”) guide is designed for use as a quick reference tool for the practicing pediatric cardiologist, resident or student in this medical specialty. With color-marked page-edge tabs for each of its 29 chapters, a wealth of information is...

Editor: Leonard S. Lilly, MD Publisher: Elsevier – 296 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a great review guide based on the textbook Braunwald’s Heart Disease, 10th edition. It contains more than 700 review questions and answers to important topics covered in the above-named textbook to enable you pass the specialty board exams in cardiovascular medicine. Containing 89 chapters, this book provides questions and answers to them organized around five sections: Fundamentals of Cardiovascular Disease: Genetics and Personalized Medicine; Evaluation of the Patient (Chapters 1 to 20) Heart Failure: Arrhythmias, Sudden Death, and Syncope (Chapters 21 to...

Editor: Sharon Jensen, MN, RN Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Book Review by: Sonam Daulat This book informs us that in addition to using traditional means of obtaining information on a patient, some innovative methods are used as well, when clear communication is not possible, when the patient gives surprising responses, or when his or her condition changes radically. In building a preliminary case history of the patient, a real-life approach is used, which includes asking related questions, obtaining additional data from various sources, and recorded changes in the patient’s condition. But the effort of building...

Editors: Marcelo Guimares, MD; Riccardo Lencioni, MD; and Gary P. Siskin, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 582 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a pioneering work in the field of embolization, an area of surgery that’s only about two decades old. Embolization is the therapeutic introduction of a substance – usually called an embolus – into a blood vessel or an organ for the purpose of occluding it. It is a technique used for the purpose of preventing hemorrhage for example, by placing a foreign mass such as an air-filled balloon. Such...