Egan's Fundamentals of Respiratory Care, Eighth Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert L. Wilkins, James K. Stoller
Publisher: Mosby
Category: Book
List Price: $95.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 155871
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1408
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.3
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.9 x 2
ISBN: 0323018130
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.836
EAN: 9780323018135
ASIN: 0323018130
Publication Date: June 11, 2003
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Product Description
This comprehensive, student-focused textbook provides the fundamental knowledge that respiratory care students need as they enter the health care field. For more than 30 years, instructors have relied on Egan's for the most accurate, timely information on pathophysiology, assessment, and treatment of neonatal, pediatric, and adult diseases of the chest. Fundamental concepts are addressed in easy-to-follow discussions on respiratory anatomy and physiology, patient assessment, basic therapeutics, and acute and critical care. The 8th edition continues this book's gold-standard tradition with a brand new, full-color design and thoroughly updated content, including new chapters on neonatal and pediatric disorders and noninvasive positive pressure ventilation. It also features new and expanded coverage on smoking cessation, hemodynamic monitoring, stress testing, polysomnography, and more.
Instructor resources are available to qualified adopters; contact your sales representative for more information.
- Short, critical-thinking vignettes in each chapter, called Mini Clinis, raise questions and expose students to possible problems they may encounter during actual patient care.
- Rule of Thumb icons in each chapter highlight rules, formula, and key points that help readers learn concepts important to clinical practice.
- Excerpts of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs), developed by the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC), give important information regarding indications/contraindications, hazards and complications, assessment of need, assessment of outcome, and monitoring to familiarize readers with using CPGs in the practice setting.
- Learning Objectives tell readers what is important about each chapter, often paralleling the three areas tested on the NBRC exam: recall, analysis, and application.
- Therapist-Driven Protocols (TDPs) - decision trees developed by hospitals - help RTs assess a patient, initiate care, and evaluate outcomes.
- Key terms tell readers what terms will be learned by studying the chapter.
- Key Point Summaries highlight key content at the end of each chapter in a bulleted section.
- Current issues related to assessment and treatment of chest diseases are covered, including neonatal, pediatric, and adult diseases of the chest.
- New chapters on neonatal & pediatric disorders and noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) provide essential information on these important areas.
- All chapters have been reviewed and rewritten to reflect changes in the field and the most up-to-date material to prepare students for careers as RTs in today's health-care environment, including: an added discussion on smoking cessation (Chapter 44), polysomnography (Chapter 27), and arterial blood gas sampling (Chapter 16).
- Full color throughout makes the text more reader-friendly and drawing out special features.
- New illustrations highlight and clarify important concepts discussed the text.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Wish I'd never bought it. July 16, 2008
I had to buy Egan's when I was in respiratory school. I barely cracked the book and it mostly sat around my apartment collecting dust. That said, I passed both of my exams (CRT and RRT) with no problems on my first attempts. This was such a waste of money. Everytime I tried to read it I fell asleep. It is drier than dust.
 Big Heavy Book Full of Info... May 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you were to add a chapter on anything that may be perceived as missing, you will turn this already massive chunk of wood into something the size of a CPU. I already hate lugging it around. The only way to improve on the size is to split the material into sections sell it as a similarly priced hard or soft cover set. Then we can add the chapter on TB, sure. Knowing my instructors they'd all be coming to class every day anyways. My only complaint is the weight.
The content is direct, concise, not overly boring, understandable even when this was new and after a couple of years, I'm glad I have the reference still. The order and organization is not what I would have chosen. I knew people who cut the thing up in sections and carried chapters/sections around in report folders... It is BIG. But it is the best. The only other basic reference/text on the subject out there that even compares is Kacmarek's Essentials, it's smaller... LOL. Kacmarek is actually co-writer of the new 2008 Egans.
I would definitely be interested in any new publications by these authors solely on manifestation/process of respiratory disease. That has potential!
Thanks for reading my review!
 Great reference, not so great textbook April 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Egan's has always had a lot of information in it on respiratory care, but it's very hard to understand for someone just coming into the respiratory field. When I can't find something somewhere else, I go to Egan's. The only problem is that I have to translate it into normal English before I fully understand.
A Must for every RCP. December 1, 2007
You must have it and keep it forever, it has diseases, pharmacology, equipment, procedures, everything!
 A reference, not a great textbook. December 17, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I don't know why so many people rate this book so highly.
We had to buy it when we were RT students, but it was not that helpful. It is a reference for people who already understand the concepts. As a textbook for learning, it is really bad. The way it is written, you wonder of the writer has a pulse. It is so dry, with no attempt to make the reader understand the concepts behind the voluminous information. Without comprehension, you are sure to quickly forget the dry data presented. It was not used much by our class, yet every one of us was required to have this massive book in our backpack, in addition to many others books. This is a heavy book. A single Egan's that stayed in the classroom and that was available to the students would have been enough.
You want the greatest respiratory care textbook ever written? Get Clinical Practice in Respiratory Care by James B. Fink and Gerald E. Hunt. Gerald Hunt was one of the respiratory care teachers at Butte College, in Oroville, CA, where I graduated from. Unfortunately he left just before I entered the program, but his knowledge was legendary. After he left he finished this textbook. I read his textbook, cover to cover, a few years after I graduated. Wow. I wish we had this book when I was a student. When I am king, this will be the main textbook in all respiratory care programs.
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