Medical Spanish: A Guide for Emergency Medicine Paperback - 2010

Medical Spanish: A Guide for Emergency Medicine, is the most extensive Medical Spanish resource ever created for emergency medicine. At 684 pages, it is so complete that no one in emergency medicine will ever want to work without it again. History: Step-by-step phrases for taking a complete medical history. Don't know much Spanish? No problem. If you speak English, you can take a history from Spanish-speaking patients with this book. It is that complete and easy to use. Evaluation: Just as easy are the step-by-step phrases for performing a complete emergency-medicine evaluation. Do you want your patients to hold their breaths, perform specific tests, or just be quiet? No matter what your Spanish level, this book orients the evaluation to the way you think in English. Diagnosis: A virtual cookbook for instructing patients about numerous diagnostic issues. Want the diagnosis in technical terms? Want the diagnosis in lay terms? And want the diagnosis explained in the kind of Spanish, which your patients understand? Procedures: Need to explain the procedures you need to perform? Just pick your topic. Treatment and Explanations: A whole host of treatments and their explanations - from cardiac disorders and trauma to a whole host of acute and chronic diseases. Vocabulary: From soups to nuts - literally - all of the vocabulary needed to practice emergency medicine well is in this book. Uncommonly simple - and utilitarian. This book has it all.