Diagnostic Imaging for The Health Care Practitioner

Description

By covering the fundamental concepts and tools of the entire spectrum of medical imaging, including radiology, the fundamentals of plain radiograph interpretation, comparison with other testing modalities, the justification for choosing the first diagnostic step, and exploration and interpretation of chest, abdomen, extremity, and spinal radiographs, this special book fills a gap in the literature on radiology interpretation. It is a succinct, simple-to-use reference that addresses readily understandable language variations in testing methods and provides textual descriptions reinforced with figures, tables, and actual patient films to illustrate issues. A detailed instruction manual for radiograph interpretation is also included in the text. The available diagnostic modalities, such as plain radiography, CT scans, nuclear imaging, MRI, and ultrasound, are described and compared on this website. It has distinct chapters for the chest, belly, upper and lower limbs, and the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine. It also addresses pediatric issues. The book can benefit nurse practitioners and physician assistants who practice in all emergency, urgent, intense, and general care settings. The emergency/trauma clinical nurse specialists, hospitalists, and intensivist nurse practitioners will all benefit from it as well as medical students and graduate students in acute care, family, adult/gerontology, and emergency nurse practitioner programs. - Combines the fundamentals of radiology, CT scans, nuclear imaging, MRIs, and ultrasound, the traits and distinctions of the various testing modalities and the fundamentals of step-by-step interpretation. - Appropriate for many different nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other mid-level healthcare professionals in various situations. - Contains a step-by-step explanation of how to interpret the radiographs. - Delivers an easy-to-understand approach to selecting diagnostic imaging tests. - Provides real-world examples to illustrate topics also available in digital form.