Keep up with the latest technical advances and clinical applications in echocardiography with this self-paced review! Written by national and international echocardiography experts from the Cleveland Clinic and other leading institutions, Clinical Echocardiography Review: A Self-Assessment Tool uses a reader-friendly question-and-answer format to help trainees and clinicians assess and expand their knowledge and improve comprehension and retention of vital information.
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Inside, readers will discover 28 state-of-the-art chapters ranging from basics such as the echocardiography examination, physics, and artifacts, to clinically oriented topics such as atrial fibrillation, prosthetic valves, cardiomyopathies, and pericardial diseases, to new technologies such as dyssynchrony assessment, strain, and strain rate.
Great book for NBE exam
I just finished my NBE recert exam: this book is life-saving. I spent three days alone with this book and completed all the questions in the book with the online videos. I was surprised to see so many similar questions appeared on the echo board.
Unlike other books, the questions are deep and similar to the level of questions asked at NBE. The online videos were excellent. I actually learned something useful for clinical practice. The ASE course did not fully prepare me for the exam: this book really gave me full confidence during the test.
This is the new classics in echocardiography textbook.
Excellent Echo Review
This is a beautiful and up to date review of the most common concepts in echocardiography. No book is perfect, obviously, but this one is definitely QUITE GOOD. I've given it 5 stars as a reflection of its quality in comparison to other question books we have used.
APPEARANCE: Perhaps a small and insignificant factor, but when you buy a text book, you might as well get a nice one. The pages of the Clinical Echocardiography Review book are thick and glossy, which helps make the images pop. There's a little glare but nothing that would be too bothersome. The picture quality is perfect. You wouldn't get any better from having the actual study in front of you. The clips available online are also quite good.
CONTENT: The questions are pretty well written, with a clear teaching objective attached to each. The explanations are detailed enough, though perhaps not as thorough as you might be used to from, say, the Mayo question book. The answer keys also contain some really useful diagrams/algrorithms for a breakdown to the approach to a clinical scenario/diagnosis. This is not a text book, however, so you would not be able to use this as a stand-alone guide to echocardiography. It's really best utilized as a review and supplement to your more traditional echo manuals (e.g. JK Oh's The Echo Manual or the Feingenbaum).
MARKET COMPARISON: I can only compare this question book to the "Echocardiography Board Review: 400 Multiple Choice Questions with Discussion" book and the individual questions found in Mayo/Cleveland Clinic question books. I would say on a personal level that I much prefer the "Clinical Echocardiography Review" because the questions are a bit more stimulating, the book is all around prettier, and it is much more image based. The 400 question book focuses a great deal at first on echo physics in the driest possible way; however, as this is a substantial portion of the echo boards, I can't say that it doesn't have it's purpose though perhaps more useful right before the boards.
CONCLUSION: I would certainly recommend this book. In fact, we liked it so much, we bought an additional 3 copies for the fellowship program.
Great Review of Echo concepts you need to know
There is plenty to work on here. The questions are challenging but on things I feel that everyone reading echo should know. There are very good explanations and very good images in the online version which comes with the book. If I only used one review book to study for the boards this would be it. However I don't think any book is a substitute for going to a review course.
The best ECHO book ever
Before this great book, novices had to page through Feigenbaum, Otto, and Oh to get a clue. This Q&A format makes learning the basics and beyond much easier to digest. It is very comprehensive, with atest modalities including 3D and strain/speckled. After working through this not only can you understand ECHO very well, but it makes the classic texts readable by opening up the material in a targeted format. I would use this as a fellow during the first few roatations and found that after a few months I knew most of the secrets the more senior ECHO interpreters had up their sleeves. Great book, couldn't recommned it higher!
Perfect for board echocardiography's tests
It's a great book study for board echo tests and for accreditation in echocardiography. I strongly recommend.
The video questions are very useful.
Absolutely need to pass National Board of Echo Examination!
A must have book for the Cardio Echo Boards!!!!!! I would highly recommend this to anyone planning for the test. Some questions and Pictures / figures were directly out of this book. The hemodynamic section is priceless.
Highly Recommended
This is the only resource that I relied on to any significant degree for my board review, and I passed very comfortably. As other reviewers have noted, this is NOT a textbook, it is a question book. But I believe that if you do all the questions, thoroughly read all the answers and explanations, and watch all the online clips, that you'll be pretty well-prepared for the exam.
書名 Clinical echocardiography review : a self-assessment tool
著者 editors, Allan L. Klein, Craig R. Asher
索書號 WG18.2/C641/2011
出版者 Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health
ISBN 9781608310548 (pbk.)
出版年 2011
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