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 : Stedman's Medical & Surgical Equipment Words

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.14
EAN: 9780781775229
Edition: Fifth Edition
ISBN: 0781775221
Label: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1280
Publication Date: June 01, 2007
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Features:
  • Illustrations
  • Sample Reports
  • Common Terms by Procedure
  • Common Manufacturers and Web sites
  • Also available on CD-ROM!



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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
New edition! The Fifth Edition of Stedman?s Medical & Surgical Equipment Words has been updated with more than 8,000 NEW terms, including accurate and current terminology related to diagnosis, testing, treatment, procedures, and operations. This edition has been enhanced by carefully researching the accuracy of existing terms and by gleaning new medical and surgical equipment terms from all fields of medicine. Fully cross-referenced, A?Z listingLooking for a hard-to-find term? With Stedman?s Word Books, you have two opportunities to make the search even easier. All terms in Stedman?s Word Books are fully cross-referenced by first and last word for simple lookup. Stedman?s Medical & Surgical Equipment Words, 5th Edition also contains fully updated and revised appendix sections for quick reference, including:



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Stedman's Books
These books are a must to your collection if you need a constant reference source.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A must for operative notes
If you do operative notes, this reference is a must. I use this book more than any other word book.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Not much new since last edition
I purchased the 4th edition and gave away my 3rd edition to a friend. Unfortunately, I didn't make a list of my own add-ins, thinking that they would be included in the new edition. However, there are countless words that are not in the new edition that our doctors are using. This book is a must-have for anyone without a good equipment book, but I would recommend that anyone with the 3rd edition wait for the 5th edition and hope that it will be more complete.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - An updated classic
A review on this page refers to this book as being "outdated." Well, that reviewer needs the latest edition, obviously. Stedman's puts out a new edition of each of its books every three years or so, and I get the feeling the other reviewer was looking at a 1998 edition. Well, here's the latest for 2004.

As with all of Stedman's medical word books, this one has several hundred pages of cross-referenced terms for almost any kind of medical and surgical equipment, with listings under ... Read More



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Outdated
This book was wonderful when it first came out but is now sorely outdated and lacking in new terminology. Don't waste your money as many terms you need will be missing.







 






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