Nurses' Guide to Understanding Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests

by Denise D. Wilson

This text explains every relevant aspect of laboratory and diagnostic testing, seeking to enable the reader to provide the best and most complete patient care. Coverage includes: primary and other commonly-used test names; test descriptions, including relevant anatomy and physiology, indications and the test's theoretical basis; normal values; abnormal values; possible meanings of abnormal values; contributing factors to abnormal values; contraindications;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781718341
• ISBN13: 9780781718349
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 550 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.