A guide to identification and interpretation of abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) patterns, written for medical students, nurses and junior doctors. This book emphasises on the practical application of the ECG.

Explores the new science that shows how the heart can be 'broken' as much by loneliness and depression as high cholesterol and elevated blood pressure, and that 'mending' can have more to do with healing a mind and soul than genetics and nutrition. This book gives us useful information on how to look after it.

Features a caption that explains the concept illustrated on each page, and few simple sentences that reinforce the concept with interactive (programmed) learning, which links to the following page. This work covers summarised reference sheets with examples (designed to be copied) that provide a review.

From history and physical examination through electrocardiography and management of special problems, this book provides guidance you need to diagnose and manage children with congenital and acquired heart disease. It incorporates diagnostic and therapeutic advances in pediatric cardiac surgery, blood pressure standards, and cardiac arrhythmias.

A reference on cardiac catheterization that reflects the rapid evolution and growing clinical use of interventional techniques. It also includes material on treatment of pediatric and adult congenital heart disease, as well as on coronary atherectomy, thrombectomy, distal embolic protection devices, and percutaneous valve therapies.

An easy-to-understand introduction to cardiovascular diseases, this text provides coverage of pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, pathophysiology of acute coronary syndromes, mechanisms of heart failure, molecular mechanisms of dysrhythmias, the genomic basis of cardiomyopathies and congenital heart disease, and pharmacology.

From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life -- in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.

This pocket reference provides advice on management of acute cardiac problems, a major component of all emergency medical admissions. Advocating an evidence-based approach to clinical practice, the book gives detailed guidelines for day-to-day use in patient care in a variety of hospital settings.

Offers students, residents, and practitioners a systematic approach to differential diagnosis of symptoms and signs seen by primary care physicians. This title is organized by symptoms and signs into categories - pain, mass, bloody discharge, non-bloody discharge, functional changes, and abnormal laboratory results.

Discusses the fundamentals of ECG interpretation and analysis. This book presents ECGs as they are used in hospital wards, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, and intensive care units - where the recognition of normal and abnormal patterns is only the starting point in patient care.

Provides guidance on the evaluation, diagnosis and medical and surgical treatment of heart and vascular disease. This book includes a DVD-ROM which contains additional video material, 1800 illustrations, and a collection of heart sounds. It is useful for cardiologists, vascular surgeons, diabetologists, cardiac radiologists and physicians.