Jaypees Nurses Dictionary

This medical dictionary would facilitate nursing students, doctors and other professionals to ascertain accurate, precise and comprehensible meaning of a word, its explanation with example to enable its use for better and effective communication. All the pertinent aspects of the medical terminology, pharmaceutical preparations, current guidelines, procedures and techniques being used and innovated are explained. This revised edition is updated to reflect the latest medical terms and usages which are most frequently used with relevant clinically focused diagrams, useful appendices and cross-references for import of terms. It will serve as an important tool to learn language and meaning of medical terms with pharmacological agents. This would be immensely useful and beneficial for students, teachers trainees and medical professionals in the field of nursing education, new drugs, vocabulary and commonly used medical terms have been added. 1. Abbreviations used in prescriptions, 2. Abbreviations for diseases, investigations and procedures, 3. Child infant resuscitation, 4. Cardiopulmonary resusciation, 4. Cardiopulmonary resusciation, 5. Food sources of water-soluble vitamins, 6. Duration of isolation in communicable disaeses, 7. Centigrade and Fahrenheit scales, 8. Psychomotor development, 9. Items of mini-mental state examination, 10. Geriatric depression scale (GDS), 11. Postanesthesia Recovery Room Chart, 12. Characteristics of burns according to depth.