Stedman's Surgery Words: Includes Anatomy, Anesthesia & Pain Management [Paperback]

Thomas Lathrop Stedman (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0781738318 | ISBN-13: 978-0781738316 | Edition: 2

The new Second Edition of this invaluable resource captures cutting edge terminology that is pertinent to medical transcription professionals, medical language specialists, and students. Authoritative, comprehensive and up to date, this reference contains approximately 100,000 surgery, anatomy, anaesthesiology, and pain management terms. Additional features include appendices with anatomical illustrations, sample reports, and common terms by procedure, as well as pain management techniques. Characteristic to this product line, this resource is fully cross-referenced, with boldfaced main entries followed by indented subentries, and current terminology reviewed by medical language specialists. FEATURES - Fully cross-referenced. - Main entries boldfaced, subentries indented. - Terminology from respected sources reviewed by advisory board. - Illustrations & other useful appendix sections. BENEFITS - Easy-to-find terms. - Easy to locate the term on the page. - Terms in current use, new terms, essential terms. - Find answers faster

Product Details

• Paperback: 844 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2 edition (June 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781738318
• ISBN-13: 978-0781738316
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,817,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stedman's Surgery Words, July 20, 2003

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smartnurse123 (Slidell, LA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stedman's Surgery Words: Includes Anatomy, Anesthesia & Pain Management (Paperback)

An essential reference book for the transcriptionist, proofer, auditor or anyone who reviews dictated surgical reports on a regular basis. As with all of Stedman's books, this speciality specific volume contains the correct spelling of surgical words listed in alphabetical order. In the back of the book, it contains wonderful pictures of anatomic positions, patient positions, types of anesthesia and Dermatones. There is a pain glossary, example op reports and a listing of drugs by indication. A must-have reference!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I no longer use this reference., October 21, 2006

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C. Riley (Santa Clarita, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stedman's Surgery Words: Includes Anatomy, Anesthesia & Pain Management (Paperback)

In reading the other two reviews of this book, I am dismayed. I am also somewhat surprised given the usefulness of other Steadman's publications. This particular book has so few surgical words that I look up that I no longer even bother. It is more frustrating and a waste of time than helpful. I hate to say this, but it is my experience.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps a bit superfluous, May 14, 2004

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Brian Hulett "okierazorbacker2" (Oinklahoma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stedman's Surgery Words: Includes Anatomy, Anesthesia & Pain Management (Paperback)

I'm a huge fan of the Stedman's books, as they collect a tremendous amount of terminology under each of several specialized areas for their various books. A medical transcriptionist must have such books, and I have found in three-plus years that the Stedman's approach is vastly superior to having a single volume with all terms lumped together.

However, with the Surgery book I find that the terms I need to look up are usually found under the other specialty headings. For instance, Nissen fundoplication is a GI procedure that is found in the GI/GU book; I don't need to look in the Surgery book to find that. There have been some examples when I need to hunt down a word specific to surgery in general, and I cannot find it in a different book; however, that is unusual.

Still, there's no denying the superiority of the Stedman's approach to medical word books, and no denying that this is another exhaustive collection of words and phrases necessary to medical transcription and related fields of medical authorship etc.