The Interventional Cardiology Training Manual

Description:

This textbook is a readily accessible educational tool for all fellows undertaking subspecialty training in interventional cardiology, while also serving as a refresher to early career interventional cardiologists. The key objective is to equip the reader with an evidence-based expert-led resource focussed primarily on pre-procedural planning, peri-procedural decision-making, and the salient technical aspects of performing safe and effective coronary intervention, the intention being to support the therapeutic decision-making process in the emergency room, coronary care unit or cath lab in order to optimize patient outcome.  The Interventional Cardiology Training Manual provides readers with a step-by-step guide to the basic principles underpinning coronary intervention and facilitates rapid access to best practice from the experts, presented in a pragmatic, digestible and concise format. Uniquely, each chapter has been written in a heart center-specific manner, affording the reader an opportunity to learn how individual institutions perform a specific procedure, which algorithms and guidelines they follow and what evidence they draw on to instigate the best possible care for their patients.

Table of Contents:

1. Coronary Heart Disease

2. Clinical Assessment of Coronary Heart Disease

3. Noninvasive Imaging Assessment of Coronary Heart Disease

4. Left Heart Catheterization

5. Vascular Access for Left Heart Catheterization

6. Right Heart Catheterization

7. Radiation Exposure and Safety

8. Planning Coronary Intervention: The “Golden Rules”—Patient Checklist and Troubleshooting

9. Guide Catheters: Selection, Support, Extension and Guide Wire Selection

10. Balloon Technology

11. Stent Technology

12. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Adjunctive Pharmacology

13. Adjunctive Technologies (Rotablation, Excimer Laser, Aspiration Thrombectomy, Distal Embolic Protection)

14. Intracoronary Imaging

15. Physiologic Lesion Assessment: Fractional Flow Reserve

16. Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

17. Percutaneous Coronary Interventions for NSTEMI and Unstable Angina

18. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Stable Ischemic Heart Disease

19. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction

20. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Special Considerations in Women

21. Coronary Intervention in the Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetic and Elderly Populations

22. Stent Thrombosis

23. Cardiogenic Shock and Mechanical Circulatory Support

24. Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

25. Mechanical Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction

26. Contemporary Treatment of Coronary Bifurcation Lesions

27. Left Main Coronary Artery Intervention

28. Chronic Total Occlusions

29. Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

30. Secondary Percutaneous Revascularization After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

31. In-Stent Restenosis

32. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Management of Complications

33. Bleeding Associated with Angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention