This is a beautiful and up to date review of the most common concepts in echocardiography. No book is perfect, obviously, but this one is definitely QUITE GOOD. I've given it 5 stars as a reflection of its quality in comparison to other question books we have used.
APPEARANCE: Perhaps a small and insignificant factor, but when you buy a text book, you might as well get a nice one. The pages of the Clinical Echocardiography Review book are thick and glossy, which helps make the images pop. There's a little glare but nothing that would be too bothersome. The picture quality is perfect. You wouldn't get any better from having the actual study in front of you. The clips available online are also quite good.
CONTENT: The questions are pretty well written, with a clear teaching objective attached to each. The explanations are detailed enough, though perhaps not as thorough as you might be used to from, say, the Mayo question book. The answer keys also contain some really useful diagrams/algrorithms for a breakdown to the approach to a clinical scenario/diagnosis. This is not a text book, however, so you would not be able to use this as a stand-alone guide to echocardiography. It's really best utilized as a review and supplement to your more traditional echo manuals (e.g. JK Oh's The Echo Manual or the Feingenbaum).
MARKET COMPARISON: I can only compare this question book to the "Echocardiography Board Review: 400 Multiple Choice Questions with Discussion" book and the individual questions found in Mayo/Cleveland Clinic question books. I would say on a personal level that I much prefer the "Clinical Echocardiography Review" because the questions are a bit more stimulating, the book is all around prettier, and it is much more image based. The 400 question book focuses a great deal at first on echo physics in the driest possible way; however, as this is a substantial portion of the echo boards, I can't say that it doesn't have it's purpose though perhaps more useful right before the boards.
CONCLUSION: I would certainly recommend this book. In fact, we liked it so much, we bought an additional 3 copies for the fellowship program.
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