Essentials of Human Diseases and Conditions, 5th Edition

Key Features

• Enrichment boxes show how information relating to a disease or system applies to everyday life.
• ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM codes are included for each disease entry, offering practice in looking up codes in a coding manual reference.
• Current medical information on the most commonly encountered clinical disorders is condensed and simplified for easier application.
• Full-color illustrations reinforce the text and clarify key information.
• A consistent format for disease entries follows the real-life progression of a patient’s care and treatment, with this format:.
• Description
• Symptoms and Signs
• Patient Screening (Unique!)
• Etiology
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Prognosis
• Prevention
• Patient Teaching.
• Appendix on pharmacology includes a chart format in which commonly prescribed drugs are listed by group and includes the drug name, intended therapeutic objective, side effects, and general comments.
• Alerts provide safety precautions and advice for dealing with the common diseases presented in a physician’s office.
• Review challenges reinforce content and help students see where they may need additional study.
• Real-life challenges provide actual cases with questions, relating chapter content to a real-world case.
• Internet Assignments provide an additional teaching tool and correspond with the Weblinks on the accompanying Evolve website.

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New to This Edition

• 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.

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Author Information

By Margaret Schell Frazier, RN, CMA, BS, Formerly-Department Chair, Health and Human Services Division, Program Chair, Medical Assisting Program, Ivy Tech State College, Fort Wayne, IN and Jeanette Drzymkowski, RN, BS, Formerly-Associate Faculty, Ivy Tech State College, Northeast, Fort Wayne, INBack To Top