Main 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.

Contents:

The Cardiovascular Physical Examination.- Evaluation of Chest Discomfort and Serum Markers of Myocardial Injury in Emergency Room.- Cardiac Electrocardiography.- Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.- Patient with stable angina.- Acute Coronary Syndromes.- Acute ST-segment elevation Myocardial Infarction.- Evaluation of Ischemic Heart Disease- Standard Imaging and Diagnostic Testing Modalities.- Preoperative Evaluation and Management of the patient prior to non-cardiac surgery.- Optimal Timing for surgical replacement of the aortic and mitral valves.- Common Adult Congenital Heart Disease Issues.- Supraventricular tachycardias and Atrial fibrillation.- Diseases of the Pericardium.- Acute decompensated congestive heart failure: systolic and diastolic.- Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.- Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Hypertensive Emergency/Hypertensive Crisis/Refractory HTN.- Evaluation of a patient with syncope.- Bradyarrhythmias and Permanent Pacemakers/ICDs.- Sudden Cardiac Death. Ventricular arrhythmias.- Diseases of the Aorta/ Peripheral Arterial Disease.- Pulmonary HTN and right heart failure.- Cardiovascular emergencies.- Infective endocarditis.- Pregnancy and Heart Disease for the consulting Physician.- Normal cardiovascular adaptation to pregnancy.- Hypertension and Pregnancy.- Cardiomyopathies, Heart Failure and Pregnancy.- Peri-partum Cardiomyopathy.- Cardio-oncology.