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Book Review: New Books: A Short Textbook of Medical Microbiology

Medical staff in training in various specialised fields have difficulty in covering the continuing increase in literature in their own and related fields. Dr Verel and Dr Grainger have produced a service to trainees in cardiology by their excellent introduction to diagnostic cardiac catheterisation and angiocardiography in which they describe equipment, methods and analysis of data. In a short book such as this it is difficult to be comprehensive; perhaps more practical details such as methods of determining the frequency response of catheter systems might have been included. Individual workers may have other disputes such as the laborious method described of calculating cardiac output from dye dilution curves and the failure to mention the subclavian vein for the insertion of transvenous pacemakers. Despite these small criticisms the book serves a real need for junior staff with much practical advice obviously gained fron first-hand knowledge. The section on assessment of results will be of particular value.