Product Review

The Essential Conventional TBNA Bronchoscopist (cTBNA) is a highly illustrated learning guide that contains a series of specific learning objectives and thirty multiple choice question/answer sets with detailed explanations to help physicians enhance their cognitive, technical and experiential skills pertaining to conventional transbronchial needle aspiration. A twelve question post test helps readers document knowledge acquisition. Conventional TBNA is a minimally invasive procedure used to sample lymph nodes in the mediastinum in order to help diagnose and manage patients with lung cancer, sarcoidosis, lymphoma, and many other infectious or malignant disorders affecting the chest and mediastinum. Topics include management strategies, indications, contraindications, complications, technique, tissue acquisition, equipment and operator safety, mediastinal anatomy, expected results, and the role of cTBNA alongside other bronchoscopic techniques such as endobronchial biopsy, washing, bronchoalveolar lavage and EBUS-TBNA.