Physical Therapy Case Files: Acute Care

This is a must have book for any PT working in the Acute Care Setting, Home Care Setting or working with medically complex patients. The book's chapters are broken up by diagnosis, with details about the pathophysiology, medical treatment, and PT interventions. This is a very "dense" book, full of details and useful information about patient's with particular diagnosis that critical care therapists encounter daily. I purchased this book and plan to use it for competencies for my acute care PTs and PTAs.

Going from skilled nursing center to a hospital I found this very helpful in values and another viewpoint of treatment!

Great book - lots of helpful hints and it really helps you learn how to think through a case

Very helpful case book for future physical therapists . Includes study questions at the end of each case to test your knowledge.

A great way to learn and I enjoyed reading the cases!

Sound clinical reasoning and I love the explanations. Great for new clinicians or students.

It was for more trauma than I was expecting. Not really my field of experti. Less trauma, more therapy needed

This book provides great exposure to real life scenarios and PT actions taken as a result. Dr. Jobst has done a great job compiling authors with expert-level recommendations for different patient scenarios.

Nice to read clinical scenarios as way of revision (not all of this is revision). I found some of the repetition in different cases actually reinforced some key points which I sometimes fail to absorb.