Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions

By Jeanette Drzymkowski, Margaret Schell Frazier, Sandra J. Doty, et al.

Book Overview

Prepare for the changing healthcare field with current disease pathology information and ICD-10-CM codes for more than 500 commonly encountered conditions with Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 5th Edition. Consistently organized and easy to read, this portable, practical reference provides the comprehensive disease information you need to successfully perform common clinical and administrative medical assisting responsibilities you'll encounter in the physician's office, including telephone screening, taking patient examinations, understanding diagnostic and treatment procedures, assembling patient education programs, and more.

Enrichment boxes relate disease information to everyday practice.

ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM codes included for each disease entry provide valuable practice looking up codes and illustrate differences between the two code sets.

Current information on the most commonly encountered clinical disorders is presented in small segments for easier understanding.

Full-color illustrations clarify difficult concepts.

Consistent coverage for all diseases walks you through each step of patient care and treatment, including:

Description

Symptoms and Signs

Patient Screening UNIQUE

Etiology

Diagnosis

Treatment

Prognosis

Prevention

Patient Teaching

Pharmacology appendix details drug names, therapeutic objectives, side effects, and general comments for commonly prescribed drugs.

Alerts highlight safety precautions for physician-based practice.

Review Challenges reinforce content and reveal areas requiring additional study.

Real-life Challenges test your ability to apply chapter content to real-world cases.

Internet activities on the companion Evolve site broaden your understanding and direct you to additional information available online. Anatomy and physiology reviews of specific body systems include clearer descriptions and more illustrations, helping students compare systems in normal and disease states. Coverage of Avian Flu describes how diseases emerge from the animal to the human world, and prepares medical assistants for the potential dangers of this disease. Key Terms include pronunciations and are broken down into prefixes, roots and suffixes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1437724086
• ISBN13: 9781437724080
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 936 Pages
• Weight: 3.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

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Human Disease and Conditions Book

The book was in a good condition and matched with its description. Also, the shipment was fast after the order was placed.

Bought it for school.

This book is great to me but my teacher says it's missing alot of information. However it is easy to read, and comprehend.

A good book not for beginners, not for pros

Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions looks and reads much like my college anatomy and physiology text with a good glossary and many colorful illustrations. It does not have pre- or post- tests, or chapter objectives or reviews. The book is easy on the eyes and easy to browse; not formatted as a crowded exhaustive reference.The book is a well organized and indexed study of the most common human diseases (Cushings syndrome is represented, pheochromocytoma is not.) The text is arranged by the human body systems. The diseases of each system are presented first with discussion of symptoms and indications, then origin and cause, then methods of diagnosis, and finally treatment The book's preface indicates it was written for "students of clinical medicine in the fields of medical assisting, medical transcription, insurance coding and other allied health programs who have had an introduction to basic anatomy and physiology of the human body and to medical terminology". I do agree there are prerequisites to the text; it is not a "home and family" reference. I am a degreed medical radiological technologist with some years of experience and wanted a quick reference to review the disease processes of some of the patients I do CTs on. The book is useful but not as complete as I would like. I will need to supplement it with an extensive, harder on the eyes and harder to browse reference.