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Mosby’s® Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests

  • 7th Edition - February 26, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Kathleen Deska Pagana, Timothy J. Pagana, Theresa Noel Pagana Bullen
  • Language: English

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Laboratory Technology**Understanding and performing tests, interpreting lab results, and performing patient teaching are made ea… Read more

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Laboratory Technology**

Understanding and performing tests, interpreting lab results, and performing patient teaching are made easier with Mosby’s® Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 7th Edition. This one-stop resource provides clear, concise, and consistent coverage of the most commonly performed diagnostic and laboratory tests. Valuable in academic and clinical settings alike, it is beloved for its full-color design, user-friendly organization, and illustrations that help clarify key concepts. Updated content with new tests and images ensures you have the most current and relevant information available.

Key features

  • Comprehensive and consistent presentation of tests follows a sequence that best simulates priorities in clinical practice
  • UNIQUE! Clinical Priorities boxes emphasize priorities and procedure considerations specific to understanding and performing tests
  • UNIQUE! Test Results and Clinical Significance sections describe the significance of the test findings and discuss the pathophysiology of the disease process and how it relates to the test result
  • UNIQUE! Related Tests sections list additional tests related to the main test, including tests that provide similar information, confirmatory information, and other tests used to evaluate the same organ, disease process, or symptom complex
  • UNIQUE! Critical Values sections indicate test values of particular significance
  • UNIQUE! Home Care Responsibilities boxes focus on post-test factors for consideration
  • UNIQUE! Icons indicate drugs that increase or decrease test values and patient teaching priorities
  • Age-Related Concerns boxes address pediatric and geriatric priorities
  • Results are provided in SI units in addition to others, when applicable

Readership

Undergraduate nursing students

Table of contents

Testing for the Top 100 Medical Issues

1. Guidelines for Proper Test Preparation and Performance

2. Blood Studies

3. Electrodiagnostic Tests

4. Endoscopic Studies

5. Fluid Analysis Studies

6. Manometric Studies

7. Microscopic Studies and Associated Testing

8. Nuclear Scanning

9. Stool Tests

10. Ultrasound Studies

11. Urine Studies

12. X-Ray Studies

13. Miscellaneous Studies
Bibliography
Illustration Credits

App A: Alphabetical List of Tests
App B: Panel Testing
App C: Abbreviations for Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests

Review quotes

*4 stars* "“…provides a broad overview of today's range of diagnostic and laboratory tests…. objectives well met by this book given the constant evolution and increasing numbers and availability of these tests…. [N]icely weaves together varied nursing and medical (including emergency medicine) perspectives. The presentation in this book is absolutely stunning…. I loved the inclusion of patient care instructions pre-, during, and post-procedure…. [T]his all-encompassing manual has it all,… not only covers laboratory tests, but also diagnostic tests, which adds value for those curious about radiological, electrophysiological, endoscopic, or other non-laboratory diagnostic tests.” — ©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Valerie L Ng, PhD MD(Alameda County Medical Center/Highland Hospital)

Product details

  • Edition: 7
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 10, 2021
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Kathleen Deska Pagana

Kathleen Deska Pagana, PhD, RN is Professor Emeritus, Department of Nursing, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania and President, Pagana Keynotes & Presentations. Timothy J. Pagana, MD, FACS is Medical Director Emeritus at the Kathryn Candor Lundy Breast Health Center, Susquehanna Health System, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Theresa Noel Pagana, MD, FAAEM, is an Emergency Medicine Physician, Virtua Voorhees Hospital, Voorhees, New Jersey.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Nursing, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA

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Timothy J. Pagana

Timothy J. Pagana is a retired Medical Director at the Kathryn Candor Lundy Breast Health Center, Susquehanna Health System, Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Affiliations and expertise
Medical Director, The Kathryn Candor Lundy Breast Health Center and The SurgiCenter, Susquehanna Health System, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA

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Theresa Noel Pagana Bullen

Theresa Pagana is an emergency medical physician at Virtua Voorhees Hospital, Voorhees, New Jersey and an author on both the Reference and the Manual. Her role in both has increased over the editions as Tim Pagana continues to scale back his role as an author.
Affiliations and expertise
Emergency Medicine Physician, Virtua Voorhees Hospital, Voorhees, New Jersey, USA