Echo Made Easy

by Sam Kaddoura and Sam Kaddoura BSc(Hons) BMBCh(Oxon) PhD DIC FRCP FESC FACC

Book Overview

This book aims to provide a practical and clinically useful introduction to echo for those who will be using, requesting and possibly interpreting it in the future. It is aimed particularly at doctors in training and medical students, but will also be of interest to a number of other groups, including established physicians and general practitioners, cardiac technicians, nurses and paramedics.

It aims to explain the echo techniques available,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443061882
• ISBN13: 9780443061882
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic work on ECHO

As everyone I started out with Jae k Oh manual of ECHo and found it painfully slow and hard to digest, one of my colleagues suggested that I buy this book and let me tell you that it is worth its money on gold, it makes things simple, rather then starting with hi-fi things this explains basics of echo and once you read and understand this book, Jae K Oh is much easier to read and understand. I reccomend this book to all begginers who are learning ECHO.

An Excellent Primer.....

This thin volume is an excellent primer for a fellow who is beginning training in cardiovascular medicine. Of course, as one advances in training textbooks written by Otto & by Feigenbaum will provide more intricate details in echocardiography. This succinct book is a good point of departure for the new fellow during the beginning of the academic year. It also fits in the white coat pocket. In fact, I've just completed my first year of training and I still refer to this tome periodically.

Excellent Starter Book

When first learning echo, I was dismayed to not be able to find a simple, concise book that allowed me to grasp the many echo concepts that were thrown at me. No more. This book is a must-have for beginning echocardiographers. The descriptions are concise and clear, the illustrations are excellent (a first for most echo books), and it is very logically organized. The price is very reasonable (for medical books), and it is pocketable. The author clearly knows about teaching and getting points across to learners. Kudos to him for filling this gap in the echo book market.

Echo Made Easy by Sam Kaddoura

This book is excellent. The beauty of this gem is the price and size, it can be carried as a pocket reference. I recommend it highly to any echocardiographer.

Excellent book - Echo Made Easy

This is a fantastic book!! It is certainly essential reading for anyone learning about echo - doctors, technicians, medical students etc. It covers areas relating to clinical aspects of heart disease (e.g causes of murmurs, endocarditis etc) which are practical and often missing from such books. BUT it is also excellent even for those experienced in echo for use as a refresher and reference source in pocket-size. It has 'normal values' and the figures and illustrations are very good and clear and clinically useful. It is very well written in an accessible style. It was very well reviewed in British Journal of Cardiology and with good reason. This is one of the best medical books I have ever bought and I cannot recommend it highly enough!