Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118965035 ISBN 13: 9781118965030

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016

Synopsis

Patients with complex cardiovascular problems pose a special management challenge for both the specialist and the non-specialist. This book helps you approach difficult cases with the confidence to strategically map care, understand the risk profile of your patient, and make effective treatment decisions.

• Dependable and succinct content provides  high yield information for the busy cardiologist
• Take home call outs, and critical thinking boxes provide candid advice on incorporating guidelines and evidence based medicine into your practice
• New convenient pocket-sized format
• New chapter addressing cardiovascular problems in women
• Discussion of high risk factors for and strategic care mapping encourage clinical focus
• Clinical pearls offer expert advice on topical issues
• Includes emerging trends and clinical trials keeping you up to date

About this title

About the Author

Thach Nguyen, MD, FACC FSCAI, Director of Cardiology, Community Health System, St Mary Medical Center, Hobart, USA

Dayi Hu, MD FACC FHRS FESC, Director, Heart Center of People's Hospital of Peking University, President, Chinese College of Cardiovascular Physician (CCCP), President, Chinese Society of Cardiology (CSC), China

Shao Liang Chen MD, Chief of Cardiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing China

Moo-Hyun Kim, MD, FACC, Associate Professor of medicine, Director, Cardiology Department, Dong A University, Busan, Korea

Cindy Grines MD, Chief of Cardiology, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit MI, USA

Associate Editor
Faisal Latif, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, OKC OK.

• Dependable and succinct content provides high yield information for the busy cardiologist
• Take home call outs, and critical thinking boxes provide candid advice on incorporating guidelines and evidence based medicine into your practice
• Discussion of high risk factors for and strategic care mapping encourage clinical focus
• Clinical pearls offer expert advice on topical issues
• Includes emerging trends and clinical trials keeping you up to date

Covering
Hyperlipidemia,
Hypertension
Stable coronary artery disease
Acute coronary syndrome
ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
Heart failure (stage A, B and C) and decompensated heart failure (ADHF and Stage D)
Atrial fibrillation
Ventricular tachycardia
Syncope
Aortic stenosis
Mitral regurgitation
The older patient
Plus a brand new chapter on cardiovascular problems in women

This title is an essential companion for your cardiac practice.

Praise for the Third Edition

"What the practicing cardiologist really needs is a text that emphasizes unbiased, up to date information and that places this information into an appropriate context. The third edition of Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems: The Evidence-based Medicine Approach, carefully edited by Dr Thach N. Nguyen and his co-Editors, does precisely this".
―From the Foreword by Eugene Braunwald, MD, Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

"A very useful and concise tool that will assist physicians…editors…have accomplished a monumental task ...a great addition to the library of those involved in the field."
―From a review in Journal of the American Medical Association

"Summarizes recent clinical data and offers the most appropriate treatment strategies ... it incorporates the most recent randomized trials."
―Doodys Reviews

• Dependable and succinct content provides high yield information for the busy cardiologist
• Take home call outs, and critical thinking boxes provide candid advice on incorporating guidelines and evidence based medicine into your practice
• Discussion of high risk factors for and strategic care mapping encourage clinical focus
• Clinical pearls offer expert advice on topical issues
• Includes emerging trends and clinical trials keeping you up to date

Covering
Hyperlipidemia,
Hypertension
Stable coronary artery disease
Acute coronary syndrome
ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
Heart failure (stage A, B and C) and decompensated heart failure (ADHF and Stage D)
Atrial fibrillation
Ventricular tachycardia
Syncope
Aortic stenosis
Mitral regurgitation
The older patient
Plus a brand new chapter on cardiovascular problems in women

This title is an essential companion for your cardiac practice.

Praise for the Third Edition

"What the practicing cardiologist really needs is a text that emphasizes unbiased, up to date information and that places this information into an appropriate context. The third edition of Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems: The Evidence-based Medicine Approach, carefully edited by Dr Thach N. Nguyen and his co-Editors, does precisely this".
—From the Foreword by Eugene Braunwald, MD, Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

"A very useful and concise tool that will assist physicians…editors…have accomplished a monumental task ...a great addition to the library of those involved in the field."
—From a review in Journal of the American Medical Association

"Summarizes recent clinical data and offers the most appropriate treatment strategies ... it incorporates the most recent randomized trials."
—Doodys Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118965035
• ISBN 13: 9781118965030
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Nguyen Thach N., Hu Dayi, Chen Shao Liang, Kim Moo-Hyun, Grines Cindy L.