Brunner and Suddarth's Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests

Confidently interpret test results throughout your nursing curriculum, in clinicals, and in practice. 

Designed to accompany Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook for Medical-Surgical Nursing, 14th Edition, this concise, portable, full-color handbook gives you quick access to hundreds of test results and their implications for nursing. Easily review specimen collection procedures and access a concise, alphabetical list of nearly 300 tests and their implications.

• Find the information you need fast for each test:
  • Reference values, critical values, and/or normal findings
  • Abnormal findings with associated nursing implications
  • Purpose and description
  • Interfering factors
  • Nursing considerations for patient care before, during, and/or after the test
• Confidently address priority care issues and potentially hazardous or life-threatening situations with clearly identified best practices and warnings.
• Locate presentations of diseases, disorders, measurements, testing equipment, and examples of results at a glance in figures, tables, and boxes.