Medical Abbreviations

26,000 Conveniences at the Expense of Communication and Safety
The book contains 26,000 meanings for medically related abbreviations, acronyms and symbols. It is current and comprehensive.It is essential for everyone who must read and understand medical related documents including all health professionals and their support personnel. Clinical researchers find the book essential in their work.
Along with the purchase price of the book, the user receives a 2 year single-user access to the Web version of the book which is updated each month with about 80 new entries. This web version is searchable by abbreviations (you can find the various means of CHF) or you can research, for example, for all of the abbreviations which contain the word "laparoscopic."
The book also contains a primer for those entering a health-related field containing 275 of the most commonly used abbreviations. A cross-referenced list of 3,400 of the most popular and newest US generic and trade drug names is present.There is a chapter discussing the dangers associated with the use of abbreviations which contains example of the problems created by undefined abbreviations.
The book has an easy to use format. The majority of the abbreviations are common to the US and to the EU.