Product Description

Brand new 4th edition! Over28,000 copies of the previous edition were sold!

Medical professionals communicate using words and phrases unique to the medical profession. These words and phrases are frequently modified into acronyms and abbreviations. In other cases, illnesses and procedures are named for their discoverers...these are known as eponyms.

This abbreviated form of the terminology allows medical professionals to communicate more quickly and precisely. However, the use of acronyms and abbreviations also introduces the possibility of errors due to misunderstanding.

Medical Acronyms, Eponyms and Abbreviations provides a comprenhensive listing of the most common acronyms, eponyms and abbreviations used in the medical profession, along with clear and concise definitions. This book is an invaluable tool for everyone involved in learning, reading, writing or interpreting medical terminology.

From antibiotic-associated-colitis (AAC) to zoster immune plasma (ZIP), this handy pocket guide helps you translate those tricky acronyms and abbreviations. Hundreds of new medical acronyms, abbreviations and eponyms with the complete terms that they represent have been added to the completely revised fourth edition.

The book covers all medical specialties plus the areas of nursing, administration, quality assurance, diatetics, pharmacy and lab.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #937540 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 431 pages

About the Author
Marilyn Fuller Delong, R.N., B.S.N., M.A., is a nurse consultant and writer specializing in utilization review, discharge planning and case management. Her professional experience has included ICU, CCU and ER nursing in Iowa, Texas and California. She has been an instructor at St. Luke's School of Nursing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; associate editor of the Journal of Quality Assurance, and a contributor to several health publications. She is a member of state and national associations of quality assurance professionals.

Customer Reviews

Useful handbook.
This handy compendium contains over 1,500 acronyms, e.g., AIDS, SIDS, GOMER "Get Out of My Emergency Room" (not really, just kidding), eponyms such as Lyme disease and Reye syndrome, and multiple meanings for such abbreviations as "MH", which can mean malignant hyperthermia, marital history, medical history, melanophore hormone, menstrual history, mental health, or municipal hospital!
Delong's work will prove useful for medical students, nurses and other healthcare professionals, medical transcribers, fiction writers, and others who want a peek into the arcane world of medical jargon.

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Very, very helpful.
As a student of Medical Transcription and Physician's coding I found this book of great help. It is a great "when in doubt" saver. I recommend it!

Useful!
Great book for anyone in the clinical field...to quickly look up indecipherable abbreviations. Covers almost all standard short forms.