Churchills Pocketbook of Cardiology (Paperback)

The POCKETBOOK OF CARDIOLOGY is designed to provide the practical information required for managing cardiology in-patients and out-patients. This includes sections on dealing with common out-patient consultations, common interspecialty referrals, cardiological problems on the cardiac surgery unit, acute cardiological emergencies, and terminal care in cardiology. Also, as cardiology is a specialty with a high technical content, sections are included that provide the core information relating to the common technical subspecialties - echocardiography, cardiac catheterisation and catheter intervention, pacing and electrophysiology. Finally, a technical data section provides details of normal values for cardiac catheterisation, echocardiography and electrocardiography.

Salient features
* A practical manual of clinical cardiology, fully updated with the latest treatments and approaches.
* Attractive two colour layout.
* Written for doctors entering cardiology as career registrars who require practically-based materials, but of value to nursing staff and GPs.

Table of Contents
Section A – Trainee’s Survival Guide-Refresher course in basic cardiology
Cardiology consultations and referrals
* Emergency cardiological procedures

Section B – Management of In-patient Cardiac Problems - Acute cardiac emergencies
* Acute coronary syndromes
* Cardiac failure
* Acute arrhythmias
* Infective endocarditis
* Pericardial disease
* Accelerated hypertension and pulmonary embolism

Section C – Out-patient Management of Cardiac Problems-New patient consultations
* Review consultations
* Miscellaneous out-patient problems
* Grown-up congenital heart disease
* Cardiac rehabilitation

Section D – Investigative and Interventional-Cardiology
* Electrophysiology
* Device therapy
* Cardiac catheterisation and intervention
* Echocardiography
* Nuclear cardiology