A Davis's Notes book. LabNotes provides students, nurses, and other health professionals with a quick and portable reference tool for competently explaining, preparing, and caring for patients before, during, and after common lab and diagnostic testing. Concise information competently explains lab reference ranges and considerations, diagnostic test purposes and procedures, pre-test preparation, and post-test care.

Key Features:

• Covers essentials for more than 400 lab and diagnostic tests.
• Includes lab tests, radiography, arteriography, nuclear- and non-nuclear imaging, endoscopy, organ function and electrophysiology tests.
• Identifies panic lab levels and nurse alerts.
• Features illustrations that show positioning and views, specimen tube top colors, and example of X-ray, mammogram, CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, whole skeleton bone scan, and lung scan images.
• Offers patient education guidelines and tips.
• Uses wipe-on/wipe-off pages.

In this Edition:

• Abnormal results for the 100 most commonly referenced tests and, where appropriate, the critical results and what to do about them.
• 15 complementary and alternative medicine tests.
• Expanded coverage of lab tests, ECG interpretation and monitoring guide, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, and MRI.

Publishers: FA Davis

Author: Tracey Hopkins, BSN, RN, Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

Copyright: 2009

Pages: 230