Description
Book SynopsisThoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this guide will help health care professionals in all clinical settings communicate easily with Spanish-speaking patients. It presents Spanish words, phrases, questions, and instructions that cover signs and symptoms, history-taking, assessment of all body systems, mental health, diagnostic tests, disorders, medications, procedures, surgery, nutrition and diet therapy, medical equipment, and alternative and complementary therapies. Features include a picture dictionary, clear body-system illustrations with labels in both languages, rules of Spanish pronunciation and grammar, and indexes in English and Spanish.
A companion Website offers audio files with correct pronunciations for hundreds of medical terms in English and Spanish, downloadable to a computer or MP3 player.
Table of ContentsContributors and consultants Foreword
1: The basics
2: Everyday words and phrases
3: Signs and symptoms
4: Examining the cardiovascular system
5: Examining the respiratory system
6: Examining the nervous system
7: Examining the GI system
8: Examining the genitourinary and reproductive systems
9: Examining the musculoskeletal system
10: Examining the immune and endocrine systems
11: Examining the skin, hair, and nails
12: Examining the eyes, nose, ears, and throat
13: Mental health
14: Diagnostic tests
15: Major disorders
16: Medications
17: Procedures
18: Surgery
19: Managing pain
20: Nutrition and diet therapy
21: Medical equipment and supplies
Appendices and index
