Stedman's Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols / Edition 5

by Stedman's

Overview

Identify current Abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols quickly and easily.
 
Stedman's Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms and Symbols offers quick, easy access to more than 75,000 essential abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols that help you comply with the JCAHO mandate for standardized hospital abbreviations. You'll also find listings for professional titles and degrees, professional associations and organizations, chemotherapy and other drug regimens, and clinical trials.
 
The perfect resource for any medical specialty, you'll have thousands of new abbreviations for a wide range of specialties, including anatomy, physiology, internal medicine, pathology, laboratory medicine, organisms, infectious diseases, plastic surgery, ENT, dentistry, alternative medicine, endocrinology, and more, right at your fingertips!
 
Key Features:

• Highlighted dangerous and error-prone abbreviations to support best practices and avoid mistakes
• Common slang terms are called out in red font

 
Also included with the purchase is a free 3-month subscription to Stedman's Online, which includes all the content from the print book and more -

• Superior keyword search functionality making accuracy instantaneous
• Access to more than 5,600 images illustrating key medical terms and concepts
• Customize the product using My Stedman's: add terms, add notes to terms, save searches and illustrations - all features to provide you with a personal experience that meets your needs
• 42 illuminating live-action videos from Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy present anatomy in motion

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608316991
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	04/25/2012
Edition description:	Fifth
Pages:	1336
Sales rank:	503,973
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.60(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Editor's Preface ix

Publishers'S Preface xi

Explanatory notes xiii

References xxv

Greek alphabet in English pronunciation order 1

Greek characters as symbols in science and medicine 3

A-Z Abbreviations and acronyms 7

Appendices A1

1 Symbols A1

2 Greek Alphabet A11

3 Elements and Their Symbols A17

4 ISMP's List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations A19

5 Weights and Measures A27

6 Professional Titles and Degrees A32

7 Professional Associations and Organizations A92

8 Chemotherapy and Other Drug Regimens A197

9 Clinical Trials A252