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Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurement
Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurement. Thomas, Harry E. Reston, Va: Reston Publishing Co, 1974, 538 pp.
A technically descriptive book written primarily for the medically trained engineer or technologist, this publication offers valuoble information for the less-technically oriented person, including the nurse and the medical technician. Anatomical and physiological reviews of the systems precede the descriptions and explanations of each specific category of equipment. Numerous charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, pictures, and schematics lend clarification so that explanations become meaningful to the nontechnical mind. Predominately cardiac-oriented chapters cover such subjects as cardiac monitoring, cardiac emergency and support equipment, and accessory equipment. Other chapters discuss blood dynamics and instrumentation, respiratory physiology with breathing apparatus, nervous system anatomy and physiology combined with ultrasonics, and echoencephalology instrumentation techniques. Of particular interest are the sections on radiologic techniques and equipment, such as fluoroscopy, photofluorography, image intensifier, x-ray stereoscopy, and x-ray therapy. A chapter is devoted to isototpes and nuclear medicine. Special appendices are in-
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cluded for further clarification of some of the more technical material. Omission of electrocautery machinery and biological responses to electrocautery detracts from the value of the book. Because the book is designed to assist the technologist in understanding the biomedical responses incurred with the use of electronic devices, much of the material presented is of a highly technical nature and meaningful only to the trained engineer. The age of electronics has moved into the operating room, and with it has come complicated equipment. This book can be a valuable tool for those persons involved with setting up, using, monitoring, and performing minor maintenance on specific pieces of equipment.
Doris MacClelland. RN, MSN Son Diego, Calif
Human Anatomy. Tobin, Charles E. New Samr & Co, 1975, 91 pp.
York: Howard W
This book, one of the Allied Health OCCUpation Series, is directed specifically to the allied health student. The need for this type of book is evidenced by the response of new members of the health team to the publication of this series. The book consists of 14 chapters beginning with the basic cell structure in anatomy and progressing through the
AORN Journal, May 1975, Vol
21, N o 6
A technically descriptive book written primarily for the medically trained engineer or technologist, this publication offers valuoble information for the less-technically oriented person, including the nurse and the medical technician. Anatomical and physiological reviews of the systems precede the descriptions and explanations of each specific category of equipment. Numerous charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, pictures, and schematics lend clarification so that explanations become meaningful to the nontechnical mind. Predominately cardiac-oriented chapters cover such subjects as cardiac monitoring, cardiac emergency and support equipment, and accessory equipment. Other chapters discuss blood dynamics and instrumentation, respiratory physiology with breathing apparatus, nervous system anatomy and physiology combined with ultrasonics, and echoencephalology instrumentation techniques. Of particular interest are the sections on radiologic techniques and equipment, such as fluoroscopy, photofluorography, image intensifier, x-ray stereoscopy, and x-ray therapy. A chapter is devoted to isototpes and nuclear medicine. Special appendices are in-
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cluded for further clarification of some of the more technical material. Omission of electrocautery machinery and biological responses to electrocautery detracts from the value of the book. Because the book is designed to assist the technologist in understanding the biomedical responses incurred with the use of electronic devices, much of the material presented is of a highly technical nature and meaningful only to the trained engineer. The age of electronics has moved into the operating room, and with it has come complicated equipment. This book can be a valuable tool for those persons involved with setting up, using, monitoring, and performing minor maintenance on specific pieces of equipment.
Doris MacClelland. RN, MSN Son Diego, Calif
Human Anatomy. Tobin, Charles E. New Samr & Co, 1975, 91 pp.
York: Howard W
This book, one of the Allied Health OCCUpation Series, is directed specifically to the allied health student. The need for this type of book is evidenced by the response of new members of the health team to the publication of this series. The book consists of 14 chapters beginning with the basic cell structure in anatomy and progressing through the
AORN Journal, May 1975, Vol
21, N o 6