Essentials of Bedside Cardiology

Essentials of Bedside Cardiology
Author: Jules Constant
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2002-11-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1592593380

Essentials of Bedside Cardiology, Second Edition, like the first edition, is designed for those who wish to balance technological advances with increased personal skill in history taking and physical examination. It is important to teach physicians that all technologies now in use for diagnosing cardiovascular disorders, such as echocardiography, can have false positive and false negative results. It is not always wise to rely on these technologies alone; indeed, they may not even be available in some settings. Even when the full panoply of up-to-date techniques is at the physician's disposal, the patient may not be a good candidate for an echocardiogram, or the technician or reader may not be well qualified, or the equipment itself may be substandard. Technology must be combined with physical examination to decide what is true and what is false. The practice of expert history taking and physical examination returns the physician to the actual patient, where the physician can feel like a "real doctor" rather than a mere interpreter of laboratory data. Essentials of Bedside Cardiology, Second Edition, strives to teach and not simply to tell the facts, relying on three basic methods derived from the psychology of teaching and learning: 1. Explain the facts. 2. Use a question and answer format-the Socratic method. 3. Provide tricks or mnemonics to help the reader remember the facts.

Bedside Cardiology

Bedside Cardiology
Author: Jules Constant
Publisher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1976
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

The Fifth Edition of this classic text has been thoroughly revised. It focuses on teaching history-taking and physical examination and assists with establishing which diagnostic tests to order and how to evaluate test results. The book's highly praised question-and-answer format engages the reader's attention and enables students to test themselves by covering the answers. More than 150 photographs and other illustrations demonstrate key examination techniques and concepts. Important terms are printed in boldface and defined in a glossary.

Cardiology Essentials

Cardiology Essentials
Author: Teresa Holler
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2008
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 076375076X

This resource offers practical advice from a seasoned cardiology physician assistant on how to be an efficient, competent member of the cardiology team. It also provides the basics of how to care for the most common cardiac conditions encountered in clinical practice. Written in an easy-to-read format, this book allows the PA/NP or student to read the book and immediately feel at home in the world of cardiology.

Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology

Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology
Author: David J. Driscoll
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781785006

Based on Dr. Driscoll's thirty years of successful bedside teaching at the Mayo Clinic, Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology is the ideal textbook for residents in pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric and adult cardiology. This concise, well-organized, and easy-to-understand text can be read cover-to-cover during a pediatric cardiology rotation and focuses sharply on what primary care physicians need to know for initial evaluation and management of patients. Dr. Driscoll explains the many types of congenital heart defects, focusing on the most frequent cardiac problems in infants, children, and adolescents. Emphasis is on use of new diagnostic tools in conjunction with the physical examination.

Clinical Cardiology

Clinical Cardiology
Author: Achyut Sarkar
Publisher: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2021-01-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 938977604X

This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases, for clinicians and trainees. Divided into 14 sections, each one covers a different type of heart disease and is further subdivided to explain the management of more specific disorders within the same disease group. Complete sections are dedicated to diagnostic investigation and imaging techniques including electrocardiography, chest X-ray, and echocardiography. The text is further enhanced by more than 370 clinical images, flowcharts and tables to assist learning and provide quick reference to key facts. Key points Comprehensive guide to diagnosis and management of cardiac diseases Covers many different types of heart disorder Provides thorough discussion on diagnostic imaging and investigation techniques Highly illustrated with more than 370 clinical images, flowcharts and tables

An Essential Introduction To Cardiac Electrophysiology

An Essential Introduction To Cardiac Electrophysiology
Author: Kenneth T Macleod
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2013-11-14
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 190897737X

This book provides undergraduate and postgraduate students with an accessible and comprehensive overview of the fascinating area of cardiac electrophysiology. Using plain language and well-designed illustrations, it attempts to overcome the preconceptions of the subject as difficult to approach, given the complexity of intricate electrical cellular processes within the human heart. Based on lectures presented to intercalating BSc medical students, this book has been designed with the undergraduate in mind, but offers enough scope to be worthwhile at the postgraduate level.Readers of this book will feel more confident and at ease with electrical concepts and the important physiological mechanisms that govern the initiation and regulation of the heartbeat. This volume intends to bridge that difficult region between basic undergraduate lecture notes and original papers in an approachable way. It will be useful to students studying medicine, physiology, pharmacology, pharmacy and biology, particularly where their curricula includes not only cardiac physiology, but also neurobiology and muscle physiology.

Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis

Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis
Author: Jane M. Orient
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2012-03-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 145115948X

The Fourth Edition of this textbook teaches the artful science of the patient interview and the physical examination. Chapters are filled with clinical pearls, vignettes, step-by-step methods, and explanations of the physiologic significance of findings. New features include "Points to Remember", over 300 questions with answers and discussion, over 120 additional references, and expanded discussions of the usage and pitfalls of evidence-based medicine. Other highlights include expanded and updated discussions of sleep apnea, "minor" head trauma, cervical spine involvement in rheumatoid arthritis, transplantation-related problems, adverse effects of AIDS therapy, and more. A companion Website includes fully searchable text and a 300-question test bank.

Basic and Bedside Electrocardiography

Basic and Bedside Electrocardiography
Author: Romulo F. Baltazar
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2012-03-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1451147910

Basic and Bedside Electrocardiography is the first book to integrate the basics of ECG interpretation with the most recent clinical guidelines for treating patients with ECG abnormalities. Each concise, bulleted chapter discusses a disease state, gives many tracings as examples, provides clear illustrations of pathophysiology, and offers guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of specific entities. More than 600 illustrations aid readers in recognizing commonly encountered ECG abnormalities. Diagrammatic illustrations at the end of most chapters summarize the different ECG abnormalities discussed, to help readers recognize the different arrhythmias more easily. An appendix provides quick-reference information on commonly used intravenous agents.

Practical Cardiovascular Hemodynamics

Practical Cardiovascular Hemodynamics
Author: Elias B. Hanna
Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2013
Genre: Cardiovascular system
ISBN: 1936287846

Elias Hanna and D. Luke Glancy provide an in-depth understanding of waveforms and tracings seen in varous disease states as well as pathophysiology behind those findings. Practical issues that are rarely discussed or focused upon in textbooks are highlighted in this book with detailed waveform analysis. Caveats in the hemodynamic assessment of valvular diseases, constriciion, tamponade, pulmonary hypertension, shunt pathology, and right and left ventricular failure are provided. This book also provides case-based and tracing-based quizzes. The reader wil learn to identify disease states and waveform subtleties from single tracings or from case studies. The reader will take the initiative to interpret tracings, understand notches, artifacts, and formulate a diagnosis. This book will feature: Complete presentation of basic and advanced hemodynamics. Numerous case studies allow the reader to learn real-life application of hemodynamic data in clinical decision-making. Quizzes and explanations provides the reader with self-assessment and problem solving skills Over 300 illustrations with detailed discussion.

Cardiology

Cardiology
Author: David Laflamme
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1315349612

There has been an exponential increase in the amount of information available on the pathophysiology and management of heart diseases. Meanwhile, understanding of the underlying pathology and physiology has deepened and broadened with new methodologies to monitor cardiac structure and function. These developments have led to an overwhelming amount of information available to students, trainees, and physicians. What is in short supply is a comprehensive yet concise and clear description of the important cardiac conditions and disorders, an approach to their management, and an easily consulted and well-indexed summary to be used at the bedside or in the clinic. This book addresses that need.