Clinical Procedures for Medical Technology Specialists describes more than 80 diagnostic and therapeutic clinical procedures from a wide variety of medical specializations. The book is comprised of two chapters and seven appendices.Audience: The book is for paramedical professionals who support doctors and nurses. The name implies that the book is written primarily for technologists. However, what kind of technologists the book is intended for is not clear. In the preface, the book mentions a large variety of technologists including radiology techs, biomedical engineering technologists, cardiology techs, and dieticians. It also says that specialized terms are avoided where possible to make the material accessible to a wide range of readers. I can recommend the book to all paramedical staff including biomedical equipment technicians and all those involved in medical technology management.Features: The book starts with an introductory chapter that provides information about the administration and departments of a hospital, medical and nonmedical professionals working in a hospital, outside agencies, surgery and surgical teams, and anesthesia and anesthesia machines. This chapter also lists main units that may exist in a major hospital—emergency rooms, intensive care, maternity, operating rooms, and renal units—explaining their function, layout, staffing, equipment, and supplies.Chapter 2, the main part of the book, describes clinical procedures. All descriptions are composed of similar parts, namely purpose, indications, anatomy, pathology, physiology, staffing, equipment and supplies, preparation, procedure, expected outcome and follow-up, and complications. The procedures covered include several types of biopsy, anesthesia, angiography, cardiac output measurement, circumcision, cesarean section, defibrillation, electrocardiogram, organ transplantations, LASIK, radiation therapy, stress test, uterine ablation, and vasectomy. Each procedure description includes two or three black and white figures. The pictures usually visualize associated anatomy and physiology, materials, and equipment used in the procedure. There are also 32 color figures related to some of the procedures.There are eight appendices at the end of the book: High-Technology Equipment, Normal Values and ECG, General Anatomy, Sterilization, Sterile Technique and Isolation, Bibliography, and Image credits. Most of the commonly used medical devices—such as many kinds of patient monitors, telemetry systems, ECG systems, heart-lung machines, incubators, thermometers, pulse oximeters, endoscopy systems, medical imaging systems, dialysis machines, laser, defibrillators, pacemakers, pumps, and anesthetic machines—are described in one to two pages.Assessment: The book is a very good encyclopedic resource to learn about various procedures and can be helpful to staff in a hospital. The book, however, doesn't include detailed technical information such as the theory of operation for a medical device. People with strong background in a certain medical or medical technology field may find the descriptions of procedures in the book too superficial. However, I still think the book would be beneficial to many paramedical staff members. All procedure descriptions are formatted in a similar manner and supported with the information in the introduction chapter and the appendices. This makes the book a very valuable resource.