Appleton & Lange Review for the Ultrasonography Examination, Third Edition is the most comprehensive and time-effective tool you can find to prepare for national certification examinations. *Clear, concise, highly-illustrated review of all aspects of diagnostic medical sonography including physics, instrumentation, and application to specialties
*Updated reviews of Doppler and color Doppler
*More than 3000 questions and answers, many correlated to sonographic images
*Answers are keyed to standard references
*Features more than 700 illustrations, including many in full color
This highly-illustrated review allows you to: *Learn more in less time with concise subject reviews
*Practice with over 3000 questions and answers
*Prepare for the exam with more than 700 illustrations
*Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses
*Reinforce knowledge, confidence, and skills
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
This review book was assigned to my senior ultrasound program in our last quarter of classes. A colleague of mine who is a radiologic technologist had used the A&L RT review book and found it helpful, so my expectations when it was assigned were to be able to learn and to have a good array of review questions.
However, this book seems to be a compendium of outdated information rife with typos that would be hilarious if they were not so frequent. I am finding that working through it is about a 75% waste of time. Who edited this?.... Anyone?...... Anyone?
Another problem is that images are labeled wrong, or not labeled (e.g.: "Name the structure with the arrow on example 5-113," and then there is no arrow. Or worse, the arrow clearly, unmistakably points to the aorta and the answer is IVC.).
The OB/GYN chapters are better than the physics and abdomen chapters; the latter have significant errors in them. My biggest problem is that as a whole these questions require very little critical thinking and are not "pitched" at a level commensurate with what I believe the ARDMS registries require (I will update this review after taking my registries in Mar.-April).
And now, for amusement value, some of the misprints:
"posterior urethral values"
for intussusception, "intersuppection"
"pleura effusion" --- and the list goes on.
For review I would recommend the following books:
Physics:
Physical Principles of General and Vascular Ultrasonography, Jim Baun, BA, RVT, RDMS http://www.jimbaun.com/jimbaunjan05_007.htm
Understanding Ultrasound Physics, Sidney Edelman, 2nd Edition
Abdomen:
Exam Preparation for Diagnostic Ultrasound, Sanderson/Dolk/Miner
Abdomen & OB/GYN:
Clinical Guide to Ultrasound, Charlotte Hennigsen.
