This concise clinical handbook companion to Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing has been revised and updated to reflect the changes found in the Ninth Edition of the text. You'll find selected diseases and disorders presented in an alphabetical format that allows quick access and ease of use. Designed to be used in the classroom or clinical setting, the Handbook presents nearly two hundred entries of the most common medical-surgical disorders. The content is summarized and cross-referenced with the textbook. The Handbook highlights every important aspect of medical-surgical nursing, including: gerontological considerations; patient and family education; home and community care; health promotion and health maintenance; hypertension; and neurological trauma.