Books for my personal library

[akroeze]

Hi all,

Just looking for some suggestions for what people feel are "must haves" for my personal EMS library. I just ordered Dr. Walls' airway management book and would like to maybe purchase one book per month for the next while to have a good library for personal reading.

I already have the following off the top of my head since they aren't right in front of me:

Mosby's Paramedic Text

Rhythm Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy (or something like that)

12-lead ECG: The Art of Interpretation

An Emergency Medicine handbook (can't remember the title... it is black and red)

Variety of Nursing books from my Nursing school days

Mosby's study guide (of some sort, it is a book of case studies)

[Timmy]

An Emergency Medicine handbook (can't remember the title... it is black and red

Just The Facts - Emergency Medicine by the American College of Emergency Doctors?

I think it depends on what area you wish to read about.

I have:

15 Nursing books.

4 Paramedics books.

40 Powerpoint presentations on USB from lectures.

And 10 folders full of handouts and lecture notes.

3 Books I scabbed via instant messenger in PDF

I don’t use books much… I like using the internet and find in exams they’ll use information from the powerpoints and lecture notes more so than text books.

[Dustdevil]

A university level A&P textbook is a must, above all others. All that 12 lead stuff you should have learned in school and have no need for a stack of books on it.

A medical pathophysiology textbook.

A microbiology textbook.

A Physical Examination textbook

"Problem Oriented Medical Diagnosis"

[akroeze]

A university level A&P textbook is a must, above all others.

Already have... remember I'm from Ontario

All that 12 lead stuff you should have learned in school and have no need for a stack of books on it.

True, just listing what I already have in my inventory.

A medical pathophysiology textbook.

Good idea, any particular one you recommend?

A microbiology textbook.

Good idea, any particular one you recommend?

A Physical Examination textbook

Have the Nursing one, Carolyn Sanders... Saunders.... something like that.

"Problem Oriented Medical Diagnosis"

I'll look into this one

[Dustdevil]

It's been way too long since I was a student to recommend a Micro or Pathophys textbook. Perhaps someone more current in the process can tell us what is being used now. My micro text (20 years ago, which I still have) was by Alcamo, and I liked it quite a bit, if it's still in print.

A medical physical exam book (as opposed to a nursing exam book) is recommended, but not critical unless you move into clinical medicine, like remote work. Mosby and Bates are the med school standards. Each has it's strengths.

Problem Oriented Medical Diagnosis is a spiral bound pocket book that will change the way you practise! Instead of writing everything up as "R/O acute abd", you will begin actually narrowing that dx down to a specific condition or two. Same with chest pain, headaches, N/V, and all the other common problems that we see. Really helps you to understand those symptoms we never learned to put together in medic school.

[Timmy]

I dont have these books but I have seen it in the Hospital Libary:

Pathophysiology Concepts of altered health states

Microbiology and infection control for health professionals

This Diagnosis book sounds intresting.

[TDP]

Out of interest i've gone through these books as they interest me lots:

Tintanilli's emergency (black and red book) lol

Lange cardiovascular physiology 6th edition

Lange endocrine physiology

12 lead ECG the art of intrepretation (Garcia)

biology concepts and connections (campbell) mostly academics

[akroeze]

Tintanilli's emergency (black and red book) lol

That's the one I have. Good reference book.

[fiznat]

I have a number of books from college, medic school, etc, but what I honestly find myself using more often is wikipedia and pubmed.

[JPINFV]

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