Description: **Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Laboratory Technology**
Understanding and performing tests, interpreting lab results, and performing patient teaching are made easier with Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 8th Edition. This one-stop resource provides clear, concise, and consistent coverage of the most commonly performed diagnostic and laboratory tests. Valuable in academic and clinical settings alike, it is beloved for its full-color design, user-friendly organization, and illustrations that help clarify key concepts. Updated content with new tests ensures you have the most current and relevant information available.- Tests are presented comprehensively and consistently, in a sequence that best simulates priorities in clinical practice
- UNIQUE! Tests for Most Common Clinical Problem section highlights the integration of medical testing as it relates to a specific disease, clinical syndrome, or medical condition
- UNIQUE! Clinical Priorities boxes emphasize priorities and procedure considerations specific to understanding and performing tests
- UNIQUE! Test Results and Clinical Significance sections describe the significance of the test findings and discuss the pathophysiology of the disease process and how it relates to the test result
- UNIQUE! Home Care Responsibilities boxes focus on post-test factors for consideration
- UNIQUE! Critical Values sections indicate test values of particular significance
- UNIQUE! Icons indicate drugs that increase or decrease test values and patient teaching priorities
- UNIQUE! Common Reference Range section (for the most common tests) on the inside front cover offers quick access to this important information
- Age-Related Concerns boxes address pediatric and geriatric priorities
- Results are provided in SI units in addition to others, when applicable
- NEW! Streamlined lab test template provides need-to-know content in a more concise format
- NEW! Lab tests in this edition include acute kidney injury biomarkers, breath test, Cystatin C, Epi proColon, and Mpox
- Reorganized and combined lab tests help you find all necessary information on a topic in one place, such as computed tomography, genomic cancer testing, and virus testing.
Brief description: Timothy J. Pagana is a retired Medical Director at the Kathryn Candor Lundy Breast Health Center, Susquehanna Health System, Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Review Quotes: Review of the previous edition:
*4 stars* ""...provides a broad overview of today's range of diagnostic and laboratory tests.... objectives well met by this book given the constant evolution and increasing numbers and availability of these tests.... [N]icely weaves together varied nursing and medical (including emergency medicine) perspectives. The presentation in this book is absolutely stunning.... I loved the inclusion of patient care instructions pre-, during, and post-procedure.... [T]his all-encompassing manual has it all, ... not only covers laboratory tests, but also diagnostic tests, which adds value for those curious about radiological, electrophysiological, endoscopic, or other non-laboratory diagnostic tests." --(c)Doody's Review Service, 2023, Valerie L Ng, PhD MD(Alameda County Medical Center/Highland Hospital)