Short description
Offers a conceptual approach that facilitates learning by viewing pathophysiology as health care professionals do. This book helps students to learn about general mechanisms of disease or alterations in human function-such as immune alterations or altered nutrition-and apply these processes to specific conditions.
Long description
This pathophysiology text offers a unique conceptual approach that facilitates learning by viewing pathophysiology as health care professionals do. Students will learn about general mechanisms of disease or alterations in human function - such as immune alterations or altered nutrition - and apply these processes to specific conditions.Chapters focus on fifteen core concepts of altered human function, selected by analyzing and clustering health conditions with high prevalence, incidence, and severity. Unlike a traditional systems-based approach, this novel approach shows how most diseases involve multiple body systems. A bound-in CD-ROM includes animations and an interactive game. Faculty resources include lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, additional case studies, and student assignment worksheets. The LiveAdvise Online Student Tutoring and Teaching Advice , powered by Smarthinking[trademark], is now available when you adopt this textbook.