Understanding Pathophysiology

by Sue E. Huether, Kathryn L. McCance, Sue Huether and Kathryn McCance, et al.

Book Overview

Master the important pathophysiology concepts you need to know with the most engaging and reader-friendly text available. Filled with vibrant illustrations and complemented by online resources that bring pathophysiology concepts to life, Understanding Pathophysiology, 6th Edition continues its tradition of delivering the most accurate information on treatments, manifestations, and mechanisms of disease across the lifespan, giving you the fundamental knowledge needed to move forward in your nursing education and career. New additions include a new chapter on epigenetics, new content on rare diseases, a separate chapter for male and female reproductive alterations, streamlined features, simplified language, and fully updated information throughout.

Introduction to Pathophysiology in the front matter section provides intro to the subject of pathophysiology and explains why it is important. Consistent presentation helps readers better distinguish pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and evaluation and treatment for each disease. More than 1,000 high-quality illustrations vividly depict clinical manifestations and cellular mechanisms underlying diseases. Lifespan coverage details age-specific conditions affecting pediatric, adult, and aging patients in depth. Algorithms throughout the text clarify disease progression. Risk Factor boxes alert readers to important safety considerations associated with specific diseases. Health Alert boxes highlight new developments in biologic research, diagnostic studies, preventive care, treatments, and more. Quick Check boxes test readers' retention of important chapter concepts. Geriatric Considerations boxes and Pediatric Considerations boxes highlight key considerations for these demographics in relevant chapters. Did You Understand? sections provide a fast and efficient review of chapter content. Chapter outlines help readers find specific information with ease. Chapter introductions explain why chapter content is important and how it fits into a broader health care context. Key terms are bolded throughout the text for fast, easy reference. Glossary of selected terms familiarizes readers with the most difficult or important terminology. Additional online resources on Evolve companion website offers access to animations, review questions, key terms matching exercises, and more.NEW Chapter on Epigenetics gives students knowledge and insight into key processes that influence normal and abnormal cell growth and development. NEW Streamlined tables and flowcharts make information easier to access. NEW Updated content throughout reflects the latest clinical findings and research across the full spectrum of pathophysiology. NEW Additional content on rare diseases gives students a more comprehensive understanding of conditions that affect the human body. NEW Division of Alterations of the Reproductive Systems chapter will now cover male and female reproductive systems in separate chapters. NEW 25 additional illustrations bring key concepts to life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323354092
• ISBN13: 9780323354097
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 1160 Pages
• Weight: 5.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

patho text

Well packaged, arrived undamaged and in condition expected. Shipping slow due to location. Very satisfied.

Great

The book is wonderful and it came with a CD-ROM to help further my learning.

Basic phatophysiology knowledge

The book is extremely useful for first year medicine, dentistry or nursery students. Specially the first 4 chapters. It might require a better organization , the way the topics were posted but the objectives are covered at the end. besides, the questionnaries are relevant to the topics.

excellent textbook

This excellent textbook has the best illustrations I have seen. Many illustrations are done for student learning that do not appear in other similar texts. This book helped me a great deal pass my boards. It is very up to date and very readable.I have trouble understanding other's problems because I found this to be such a wonderful text. I wish other texts on related subjects could reach out to beginning students like this one did.

I Know It's Wierd But I Liked It!

Reading the other negative reviews below I'm beginning to question myself, "Am I wierd?" "Am I missing something?" "Maybe I'm just a nerd." I have taken many physiology- and biology-related courses during my time as a bioengineering and nursing student and this book is not as bad as people are making it out to be. Granted, Pathophysiology is a very difficult subject. There is tons to learn and it cannot possibly be mastered 100% after taking one course using one textbook, so I would like to begin by saying that I'm amazed at how good of a job these authors did in 1181 pages of text. I found that compared with many of the other books I've read the style in this one was actually rather easy to understand, with paragraphs first giving the overall you-need-to-know-this information moving down into the more obscure facts and explanations. Many times difficult sentences would be broken down in detail in the following sentences rendering the complicated a little easier to understand (see "Analyse This" review by another reader below). The authors have decided to break up the topic by body systems: 1. Neurologic 2. Endocrine 3. Hematologic 4. Cardiovascular and Lymphatic 5. Pulmonary 6. Renal and Urologic 7. Reproductive 8. Digestive 9. Musculoskeletal and Integumentary Then in each system they first do a very helpful review of how the systems work under normal circumstances--basically a review from your anatomy and physiology classes. Then it moves on to discuss the diseases of each system and the pathophysiology of each one. First the disorder is described. Then the causes, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, evaluation, and treatments of each is discussed. My one complaint is with the number of pictures in the book. There are many good quality pictures, but not enough. Many times the authors go to extreme lengths to describe a disease and I walked away without a clue of what it would look like, which really hindered the practicality of my understanding. Then I'd go online and look it up and upon viewing a single picture, my confusion would usually go away. A final suggestion which really, really helped me was the purchase of the Study Guide (ISBN: 0323028462).