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Medical Surgical
FocusonAdultHealth’sHandbookof Laboratory&
DiagnosticTests
LippincottWilliams&Wilkins
978-1-4511-7318-5 • February2012 • Softbound •5” x8” •576pp.
This companion book to
Focus onAdultHealth:Medical-Surgical
Nursing
is a concise, portable, full-color handbook of hundreds
of test results and their implications. The two-part presentation
includes a review of specimen collection procedures followed by an
alphabetical list of tests. Tests include important information about
reference values, normal and abnormal values as well as associated
nursing implications, interfering factors, and essential nursing
considerations before, during, and after the test.
Features
• Full-colordesignand illustrations.
• Alphabetic, color-coded listof tests.
• Concise, clinical facts.
• NursingAlerts highlighting critical information.
• Charts and illustrations comparingnormal andabnormal findings.
Table of Contents
Contents
Part I:
SpecimenCollection
Part II:
DiagnosticTests (in
alphabetical order)
SelectedReferences
Index