Cardiology Consult Manual

Description:

This book comprehensively covers the latest advances in cardiovascular medicine. Key diagnostic and treatment points are reviewed across a range of cardiovascular issues, including concurrent cardiac problems, patients with cancer, peri-operative surgical and post-trauma patients, patients in the emergency department, pregnancy in the obstetric units, and the care of critically ill patients in medical and surgical intensive care units.   Cardiology Consult Manual provides a detailed and clinically relevant guide for the cardiology practitioner of the potential cardiac issues encountered within the cardiology consult service and also a range of professionals in related disciplines. It therefore provides an important resource for all cardiology trainees, fellows, practitioners and health care providers involved in the management of patients with cardiovascular disease.  

Table of contents:

1. Cardiovascular Physical Examination

2. Evaluation and Management of Chest Pain and Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) in the Emergency Department

3. Cardiac Electrocardiography

4. Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

5. Stable Ischemic Heart Disease

6. Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes (NSTE-ACS)

7. Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)

8. Evaluation of Ischemic Heart Disease: Standard Imaging and Diagnostic Testing Modalities

9. Preoperative Evaluation and Management of the Patient Prior to Non-cardiac Surgery

10. Diagnosis and Management of Valvular Heart Disease

11. Common Adult Congenital Heart Disease Issues

12. Diseases of the Pericardium

13. Acute and Chronic Heart Failure

14. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

15. Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertensive Emergency/Hypertensive Crisis/Refractory Hypertension

16. Syncope

17. Supraventricular Tachycardia

18. Atrial Fibrillation

19. Atrial Flutter

20. Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

21. Ventricular Arrhythmias: Sudden Cardiac Death

22. Vascular Medicine

23. Complications of Myocardial Infarction and Cardiovascular Emergencies

24. Infective Endocarditis

25. Pregnancy and Heart Disease for the Consulting Physician

26. Chemotherapy, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cardiac Tumors

27. Pulmonary Embolism