Emergency Room Tests

Excerpt from "Your ER Survival Guide". Written by a veteran ER Doc, this booklet gives candid naked truths about the total ER experience -before during and after. Find out what you should expect in the ER from an insider in affordable booklet. This booklet shares insider's tips on common medical diagnostic and imaging procedures ordered in the ER. Learn why blood tests are ordered and what the results can mean. Don't just be irradiated, know why an imaging study, scan test is being ordered and how it can and can't help with your diagnosis. Your blood is precious why is it being drawn? Read what the tests can show.

Doc Handal, M.D. is a nationally and internationally known emergency medicine 'Doc'. She believes physicians have a responsibility to teach and share medical common sense.
Bio: A long-standing believer in consumer education; she knows it does make a difference. Her thesis for lay education is that "we physicians need to come down to the consumer's knowledge level to bring them up towards ours". She preaches 'medical common sense' and is well understood, as she uses simple yet accurate examples in non-medical terms. Her ability to explain medical concepts makes her a popular choice whenever the media requests a physician's expertise.
Dr. Handal's first book, "The American Red Cross First Aid & Safety Handbook", (Little, Brown & Co.) was written for the lay audience. The launch for this book included an impressive multi-media publicity tour of 10 major cities. Popularity and visibility with non-medical persons have resulted in her hosting and co-hosting talk-radio health shows. She has also made numerous TV appearances including on CNN and the Today Show. In addition, Dr. Handal has written numerous articles for popular magazines and served as Medical Director of Parentzone.com for three years. Dr. Handal has been contributing editor to numerous professional medical books, as well as the lay press, starting with Richard Platt's (ed.), "The People's Medical Answer Book" (Prentice Hall). She authored "Sensible ECG" (Delmar) a three-book series written for the professional medical audience. Doc's Guides written as a series to share medical information with laypersons. The series presently includes Doc's First Aid Guide, Guia Simple de Primeros Auxilios, Doc's Guide de Premiers Secours, Your ER Survival Guide. These are available in many outlets online (Smashwords, Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, Barnes & Noble) in ebook and print formats.
Dr. Handal served as a Senior Examiner for The American Board of Emergency Medicine, a Site Reviewer for the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services, and an active instructor for the American Heart Association.
Dr. Kathleen Handal
A practicing board-certified emergency physician with over 26 years of patient care experience, she continues activities in medical education and with national professional involvements. She has lectured internationally from Australia to China and Russia. Dr. Handal served as a Senior Consultant for Associated Systems for Search Education Research & ...