Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterisation: The Essential Guide, Second Edition

Description:

Cardiology is becoming an increasingly complex field understood by only a select group of medical specialists. This publication demystifies many difficult topics in interventional cardiology and cardiac catheterisation, commencing with the basics of laboratory instrumentation and technology and progressing to a comprehensive review of both new and established cardiac interventions. Unlike other publications that are directed mainly towards clinicians, this text is specifically written to assist newcomers such as such as medical trainees, nurses, technicians, scientific staff and other allied health professionals understand the wonders of interventional cardiology, and includes extensive explanations of the techniques of angiography, and new percutaneous. The comprehensive information presented herein, written by recognised specialists in their respective fields, will no doubt prove of great benefit to clinician and non-medical specialist alike.

Table of Contents:

PART 1 INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNOLOGY

1 The cardiac imaging and monitoring systems

2 Non-invasive physiological monitoring

3 Determination of oxygen status in human blood

4 Coagulation and the coagulation cascade

5 Thrombosis, heparin and laboratory monitoring of heparin therapy

6 Laboratory coagulation assays

PART 2 PATIENT CARE AND LABORATORY SAFETY

7 Radiation safety in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory

8 Infection control procedures

9 Nursing care of the cardiac catheterisation patient

10 Vascular access site management and arterial closure

11 Medical management of the cardiac patient undergoing coronary angiography

12 Patient risk assessment: Use of risk calculators

13 An evidence-based guide to cardiac catheterisation

PART 3 PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY

14 Pressure waveforms in the cardiac cycle

15 Physiological interpretation of pressure waveforms

16 Measurement of cardiac output and shunts

17 Analysis and interpretation of Fick and thermodilution cardiac output determinations

18 Pressure-volume loops: Background theory with practical examples

19 The electrocardiogram in ischaemic heart disease

20 Recognition of common arrhythmias

21 Formation and progression of atherosclerosis

22 Basic pharmacology of cardiac drugs

23 Drug therapy in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory: A guide to commonly used drugs

24 Antiplatelet therapy in interventional cardiology

PART 4 DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES

25 Coronary angiography: Techniques and tools of the trade

26 Physiological assessment of coronary lesion severity

27 Non-invasive assessment of ischaemic heart disease

28 Right heart catheterisation and evaluation of the pulmonary hypertension patient

29 Haemodynamic evaluation of the heart transplant patient

30 Trans-septal cardiac catheterisation

PART 5 PERCUTANEOUS CAROTID INTERVENTIONS

31 Advances in stent technology

32 Facilitated coronary interventions: Adjuncts to balloon dilatation

33 Catheter-based reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction

34 Percutaneous carotid interventions

35 The intra-aortic balloon pump: Principles and use

PART 6 INTERVENTIONS FOR STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE

36 Interventional transoesophageal echocardiography

37 Interventions for congenital heart disease

38 Mitral valvuloplasty: The Inoue balloon dilatation technique

39 Transcatheter aortic valve implantation

40 Transcatheter interventions for mitral and tricuspid regurgitation

41 Transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion

42 Cardiac surgery and percutaneous cardiac interventions

PART 7 INTERVENTIONS FOR ARRHYTHMIAS

43 The electrophysiology laboratory

44 Catheter ablation therapy

Index