Consultative Hemostasis and Thrombosis, 2e (Kitchens, Consultative Thrombosis and Hemostatis) [Hardcover]

Craig S. Kitchens MD (Author), Craig M. Kessler MD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 31, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1416024018 | ISBN-13: 978-1416024019 | Edition: 2

Effectively and efficiently diagnose and manage today's full range of clotting and bleeding disorders using clinical case studies that demonstrate real-world problems and solutions! For each condition examined, you'll review concise descriptions of its associated symptoms, along with laboratory findings, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment - all the clinical guidance you need - at your fingertips. It's the ideal real-life reference tool for busy physicians!

• A reader-friendly design, coupled with nearly 385 illustrations and at-a-glance tables - many new to this edition - equip you to quickly locate the guidance you need.
• Abundant laboratory protocols enable you to select and interpret lab tests more easily.
  

• A complete section on women's health issues helps you stay current in this evolving area.
• A new chapter on the impact of herbal medicines examines their effect on hemostasis and their interaction with other drugs.
• New coverage of hemostatic issues in traumatology, sepsis, interventional radiology, pulmonology, and cardiology allows you to master the latest advances.

Editorial Reviews

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BMA Book Awards 2008 - Highly Commended

"I have owned the first edition of this book for several years and have found it highly useful. I cannot remember trying to look up a clinical haemostatic problem, however obscure, without finding it referenced and covered adequately. The first edition filled a true gap between enormous tomes relating to highly theoretical haemostasis and general medical or cardiology texts where many problems are not covered in adequate detail. This second edition has included additional chapters bringing some more topical issues to the forefront, however the style of delivery of information is unchanged and I do not have any perception of a drop in quality from the first to the second edition. It is well-written in very clear English and explanations of complex disorders are very clear. This would illuminate the world of haemostasis to junior doctors, nurses and laboratory staff as well as senior clinicians in other fields. This is an extremely useful book: the combination of highly practical guidance of common, clinical, haemostasis problems along with detailed explanations of more complex science, make this a book that could sit happily in most hospital departments as well as haematology laboratories."

Product Details

• Hardcover: 800 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 2 edition (July 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416024018
• ISBN-13: 978-1416024019
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review, September 19, 2007

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Outstanding book for the practicing hematologist who sees a lot of hemostasis and thrombosis cases.

5.0 out of 5 stars THE source for hemostasis and thrombosis, November 10, 2011

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This review is from: Consultative Hemostasis and Thrombosis, 2e (Kitchens, Consultative Thrombosis and Hemostatis) (Hardcover)

This book is easy to read unlike many textbooks on the subject. This is the best resource I have come across regarding coagulation issues during pregnancy and in the surgical patient.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as helpful as I had hoped, August 16, 2010

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This review is from: Consultative Hemostasis and Thrombosis, 2e (Kitchens, Consultative Thrombosis and Hemostatis) (Hardcover)

I'm not an MD but I'm intimately involved in the clotting cascade. I need to know the latest in technology for diagnosis and treatment of clotting and bleeding disorders, particularly for cardiopulmonary bypass. On several occasions I've consulted this book for background information on how to treat a patient, only to find that the information just isn't there, or perhaps the book is only written for post-graduate hematologists, already in practice who already understand everything that is discussed and just need a quick reference. There are those of us who work in the healthcare arena as a team and are expected to update our skills and share what we've learned with other members of the team. Just because someone has an MD doesn't mean they know everything that a hematologist would know. As an example, the condition "warm-reactive autoimmune hemolytic anemia" wasn't sufficiently covered as it pertains to cardiopulmonary bypass. I couldn't find the terms "warm agglutinin", "cold agglutinin" or even "agglutinin" in the index, though perhaps it is there somewhere else. There wasn't a discussion on Heparin-Protamine titration (HPT) techniques or a comparison of the different technologies for measuring HPTs and activated clotting times (ACTs). There is a section on patients who don't respond to platelet inhibitors due to a genetic defect, but I couldn't find anything on the newest platelet mapping techniques and how to test the effectiveness of platelet inhibitors on patients and what it means for their treatment. Patients are placed on platelet inhibitors blindly without proper genetic testing or follow-up for efficacy, and a book like this should surely cover this topic as how to test for effectiveness. For someone who is involved in primarily cardiac patients that may or may not have clotting and/or bleeding disorders, I recommend the book "Principles and Practice of Point-of-Care Testing" by Gerald J. Kost, M.D., Ph.D., even though it is an older book.