Month: August 2015

Editor: Farhood Saremi, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 592 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Perfusion in medical science is the flow of blood or other fluid through or over tissue in an organ. Imaging is the viewing of such flow through a scanning machine, device or instrument. A common example of perfusion is the myocardial nuclear perfusion test used to determine if there is insufficient blood in the heart and / or if there is a blockage in blood vessels. A small amount of thallium-201 or other radioactive substance (sometimes termed ‘contrast’) is...

Editors: Frank A Cordasco, MD; and Daniel W. Green, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 347 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani About 30 to 40 million children and youth aged 5 to 17 years old participate in various contact sports in the United States today, and the number of knee injuries among them – that the editors of this book Drs. Frank A. Cordasco and Daniel W. Green see daily – has been increasing, as they write in their Preface. The types of knee injuries that they and the other coauthors of this book...

Editors: Timo Krings, MD; Sasikhan Geibprasert, MD; Juan Pablo Cruz, MD; and Karel G. terBrugge, MD Publisher: Thieme – 231 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani There have been significant advances in the management of nerve diseases in the brain and other parts of the human body in the last 20 years or so, writes Dr. In Sup Choi in his Foreword to this book. Among others, he cites these reasons for this advancement: Better understanding of the pathophysiology of diseases made possible by the development of innovative technologies The introduction of detachable balloons by Serbinenko in 1974 that...

Editors: Bayode I. Popoola and Olusegun F. Adebowale Publisher: Information Science Reference, an Imprint of IGI Global – 233 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Online education has become quite widespread in the last twenty years or so, and access to online face-to-face instruction is now available for a very large range of subjects and courses, including college-level ones. This book focuses on online guidance and counseling, an area within online education. According to the editors, “it aims to present and explain current findings in online counseling and guidance interactions with a view to helping practitioners improve on their...

Author: Michael R. Lindeburg, PE Publisher: Professional Publications, Inc.  (PPI) Book Review by: Venkat Subramaniam The purpose of this book is stated very clearly at the outset of this book, in the Preface: to prepare you for the National Council of Examiners in Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam. An interesting item – that is probably not found in any exam review manual – comes together with this book for the purchaser: a three-month money-back guarantee if you follow the guidelines in the How to Use This Book section and do not pass the exam. Instructions...