Book: Nurse Anesthesia SECRETS

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As many of you know, i bought a bunch of books to learn more about the profession over the last few months. This book is awesome.

Written by Mary Karlet CRNA PhD; I have learned more in the first chapter than I have learned in the last 3 months doing anything else, its awesome.

In anycase, who else has read this book or used it and what did you think? Much of the information about Anesthesia machines is 100% new to me so im not qualified in anyway to evaluate the information (though it is interesting!).

anyone else read it?

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I have it. I purchased it before I started school. It helps give quick answers to things which may be cloudy, and in an easier understanding than some other books. It has many of the same pictures as Barash and M&M, so it's a great reference between the two books. It's a much easier read, too.

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I have it.

Mary was the program director at Duke, but now is starting up the program at Ashville. A couple of my faculty wrote chapters in it. Some of the tables in the book are very concise and detailed. They worked well in careplans.

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Specializes in ER/ICU/Anesthesia.

I think Anesthesia Secrets by James Duke (new edition is now out) is superior to Nurse Anesthesia Secrets. NAS is not a bad book but if you are going to spend money, get the better book. In my opinion.

Frank

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thanks frank

I ordered it today.

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thanks Frank. Off to check B&N. I've looked at an old copy of a friends, and it seems more thorough than NAS. Am I correct?

Jennie

I think Anesthesia Secrets by James Duke (new edition is now out) is superior to Nurse Anesthesia Secrets. NAS is not a bad book but if you are going to spend money, get the better book. In my opinion.

Frank

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Specializes in MICU.

Just replying (subscribing) so I can look up the books ya'll recommended when the time comes (and when I have extra money again).

Thanks for the recommendations,

lifeLONGstudent

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These are the books i have which ive been reading on my free time.

Watchful Care

- good book about the hx of Nurse Anesthesia

Millers Anesthesia

Basics of Anesthesia 4th ed by Stoelting and miller

Nurse Anesthesia Secrets

Handbook of anesthesiology

Understanding Anesthesia Equipment

Pharmacology and & Physiology in Anesthetic Practice.

Anesthesia Secrets: with STUDENT CONSULT Access (Just Ordered)

They are all quite different and are written for various levels of practice, however, when im confused about something I often find it explained well in another text. So far, im learning alot!

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I have the book Anesthesia Secrets by James Duke and I LOVE it!!!!! It's great and I use it constantly....It gets to the point and is easy to read and understand....great for careplans! As far as textbooks I love Clinical Anesthesiology by Morgan, Mikhail, & Murray....there's another good one called Clinical Anesthesia (don't confuse the textbook names) by Barash, Cullen, & Stoelting....Stoelting has written many anesthesia textbooks....These are probably books used in any most program but I use my Clinical Anesthesiology a ton...

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These are the books i have which ive been reading on my free time.

Watchful Care

- good book about the hx of Nurse Anesthesia

Millers Anesthesia

Basics of Anesthesia 4th ed by Stoelting and miller

Nurse Anesthesia Secrets

Handbook of anesthesiology

Understanding Anesthesia Equipment

Pharmacology and & Physiology in Anesthetic Practice.

Anesthesia Secrets: with STUDENT CONSULT Access (Just Ordered)

They are all quite different and are written for various levels of practice, however, when im confused about something I often find it explained well in another text. So far, im learning alot!

MMAC is definitely not playing. I have the anesthsia secrets by Duke. Great book. When do you start school anyway?

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Hey Sigma

IF i get in, ill be starting in january. If not this application round then i expect sept or jan next. Im not in a rush really, but an oppertunity presented itself which i couldnt pass up so hopefully january.

I know thats a tough book list for a newbie! However, im the type of guy who get very excited about academic stuff. Once i got serious about CRNA school i decided i had better look into it and learn its history (as well as shadow a few CRNAs) to see if it was really for me. I think that watchful care book should be mandatory reading for anyone considering CRNA school. You cant know where your going if you dont know where you came from.

In anycase, some of the reading is hard with alot of info that is well out of my experience, but im enjoying it. More specifically, im loving the pharmacology sections in the books.

Im stoked to start!

MMAC is definitely not playing. I have the anesthsia secrets by Duke. Great book. When do you start school anyway?
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So I have a question for you MmacFN, truly I don't mean this in anything other than curiosity, no attack intended so don't see one please. Your posts have been filled with excitment about your present job as a flight nurse and you seem to have lots of autonomy as well as intubating regularly and generally exposed to some very sick patients in precarious situations. Why the interest in being a CRNA? You'll spend lots of time sitting on your hands as you do your 4th knee replacement under SAB of the day. I personally love the big complex cases but I do my share in the eye room or doing ortho (yawn). Just curious. I left an extremly exciting job in a big trauma center to be a CRNA, mostly because I was feeling I soon may be too old to push crashing patients in mast suits to angio when I'm 60. I still miss that job although the pay as a CRNA is much better, I is not an order of magnitude better. Thanks

Dave

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