BookJohn D. Bisognano, G. Ronald Beck, Ryan W. Connell (editors).
Summary: An ever growing population of patients are affected by cardiac disease. Most of these diseases are chronic in nature and require long term outpatient follow up. Subsequently, outpatient providers are finding themselves responsible for an increasing number of patients with cardiovascular issues. Appropriate diagnosis and management of cardiac disease is essential to providing high quality care in an efficient manner. There is a wide spectrum of providers involved in the care of these patients, many of which are not cardiologists. The Manual of Outpatient Cardiology is written in a practical, didactic format designed to deliver point-of-care information to practitioners of cardiology and assist non-cardiologists with the efficient management of cardiac disease. Highly illustrated with schematics and useful clinical figures, this book is an essential reference to all outpatient cardiology procedures.
Contents:
Part I. Cardiac Diagnostics
1. History and physical
2. Evaluation of heart rhythms
3. Cardiac imaging
4. Cardiac stress testing
5. Coronary artery evaluation
Section II. Common Cardiac Diseases
6. Hypertension
7. Dyslipidemia
8. Coronary artery disease
9. Valvular heart disease
10. Ambulatory arrhythmias
11. Congestive heart failure
12. Vascular diseases, peripheral/aorta
Section III. Approach to the Patient
13. Approach to the patient with chest pain
14. Syncope, work up and management
15. Palpitations
16. New murmur
17. Approach to the patient with dyspnea
18. Pre-operative cardiovascular risk assessment for non-cardiac surgery
19. Approach to the patient with cardiovascular disease and activity limitations
Index.