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Surgical Compendium
If you plan to do broad-based hospital dictation, work from home as a medical transcriptionist, billing specialist, or coder, or if you plan to work in a more traditional environment with a transcription company, or work in a surgeon’s office, you will need to understand surgical words.
We have organized this surgical compendium into sections of surgical specialty. Within each section, you will find a listing of the anatomic features typically encountered in the surgical processes, and sample dictations. In the appendix of this volume, you will find a listing of various surgically-oriented tables, incision types, instruments and supplies.
In each section, the primary anatomic features will be provided, the techniques used, both generic and eponymic, and samples of reports. A complete listing is not possible because of the virtual dynamics, and the sheer volume of information required. It is our intent to provide the most common terms and procedures from our MT database. Some of the most common diseases and symptoms have also been included, but the majority are not since that would entail a book the size of a medical dictionary. The design here is for a quick reference when you are working on a specific type of surgical report. It should be useful with nonsurgical reports too since they often refer to some of the same terms of body reference.
The Surgical Compendium eBook, which is formatted in standard Adobe PDF format, is bundled on a single CDROM along with more than 50 audio report dictations. It is included with our Medical Transcription courses, or may be ordered separately for only $89.95 through the Shopping Cart Order Form
Whether you are planning a career in Medical Coding, Billing, Office Specialist, Terminology, or Transcription, you need to understand not only basic medical terminology, but you will also need a background in surgical terms and procedures. The Meditec Surgical Compendium is your key.
