First Aid for the Wards

First Aid is the world's best-selling medical exam preparation series By the same authors of the annual best-seller First Aid for the USMLE Step I Audience: US and Canadian Medical Students in their clinical years (25,000 per year) Written by medical students and reviewed by top facultyNew chapter on the Emergency Medicine clerkshipNew ĹźSample NotesĹź for each rotationNew ĹźPimp Session" boxes target questions you will be asked and formulas you need to remember Updated book ratings and resources from a national survey of US medical students Revised and expanded ĹźHow ToĹź Sections teach you how to: Ĺźread a chest x-ray Ĺźinterpret and EKG Ĺźinterpret and ABG Ĺźmanage a ventilator Ĺźread a urine specimen report Ĺźinterpret spinal tap results Ĺźstitch and tie a surgical knot