Evidence Based Cardiology - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727911716 ISBN 13: 9780727911711

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1998

Synopsis

Evidence based Cardiology was first published in 1998 to universal acclaim. Now, with the move towards more patient focused health care and at the same time increased emphasis on health economics, evidence–based practice is a more important force in health care delivery than ever.

This new third edition, written by the world s leading cardiologists, provides graded evidence–based reviews of the major trials together with recommendations for optimum management, and now includes new grading and recommendation methodology.

This is a unique book in the field of cardiology, and the largest evidence based clinical cardiology text.

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Review

"This book will appeal to a broad group of professionals and serve as a source of reference for a wide range of problems encountered in clinical cardiology." – Canadian Journal of Cardiology

From the Back Cover

Evidence based Cardiology was first published in 1998 to universal acclaim. It was praised as a unique cardiology text providing graded evidence–based reviews of the major trials together with recommendations for optimum management. Edited and written by the world′s leading cardiologists with an understanding of evidence–based medicine, it represented a breakthrough in clinical medical publishing, not only for cardiology.

With the move towards more patient focused health care and at the same time increased emphasis on health economics, evidence–based practice is a more important force in health care delivery than ever.

New features for the third edition
New chapters on:

• Implementing evidence based cardiology
• Cardiovascular disease and occupational health issues
• Psychological factors
• Social influences on the prevention of coronary heart disease
• Molecular genetics of cardiovascular disorders
• Integrated approach to prevention of cardiovascular disease including the global burden of disease; air pollution
• Percutaneous intervention
• Surgical coronary artery revascularization Comparisons of PCI and CABG
• Unstable angina and non–ST–segment MI
• Early management of ST–segment–elevation MI
• Reperfusion therapies for STEMI
• Reperfusion adjunctive therapies
• Complications of STEMI
• An integrated approach to the management of patients after the early phase of STEMI
• Approaches to the repair/replacement of ischemic/infarcted myocardium
• Atrial fibrillation: rate versus rhythm
• Atrial fibrillation: Upstream therapies
• Atrial fibrillation: ablation therapy
• Biventricular pacing
• New and old antiarrhythmic drugs
• Arrhythmias due to monogenic disorders
• New grading and recommendation methodology
• Clinical cases redesigned and linked to the relevant chapters

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0727911716
• ISBN 13: 9780727911711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1200
• Editor: Camm John, Yusuf Salim, Gersh Bernard J., Fallen Ernest L., Cairns John