Accident and emergency medicine

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This book addresses the entire cardiologicalpathology, and accompanies the reader through each significantcondition, from incidence and severity, tomechanisms, clinical and lab diagnosis, and up totreatment and prognosis.

Pre-Hospital Anaesthesia is one of the most demanding interventions that can be made in the field.

Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome caused by a variety of etiologies: myocardial, valvular, and congenital.

Case Based Echocardiography will provide a case-based introduction/primer to the practice of echocardiography with liberal use of images and actual patient histories.

Effective drug administration is a crucial skill for any practitioner working in the critical care unit.

Movement disorders attack the part of the brain that controls our movements, they are a complex group of disorders, spanning all aspects of neurological illnesses.

Part of the Monographs in Cardiac Surgery Series - Introducing 'basic science into the cardiac operating room'.

Clinical cardiologists are encountering an important challenge in the caring of families with inherited cardiac diseases.

Previously published as Handbook of Critical Care by CMG this book is a pocket-sized basic intensive care manual.

The future of urology is changing from one based around surgery, to an outpatient system, concentrating mainly on medical mana- ment.

Over the last 30 years the technological advances in TEE have been exponential and have been reflected by its increasing utilization.

Across emergency rooms all over the world, thousands of patients are referred for brain CT scans daily.

Echocardiography is still relatively underused in the management of critically ill and hemodynamically unstable patients.

As increasing emphasis is placed on evidence-based medicine and the need to a rapid and clinically effective diagnosis of cardiac disease, so echocardiography is ever-more present at the forefront of cardiology.

Critical Care of Children with Heart Disease will summarize the comprehensive medical and surgical management of the acutely-ill patient with congenital and acquired cardiac disease.

Complete review of pulmonary function tests in clinical practice, including performance and interpretation of lung function tests with an emphasis on practical aspects.

Ryan's Ballistic Trauma 3rd Edition provides a concise guide to the clinical and operational issues surrounding the management of the ballistic casualty.

Medical training for Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) has made great developments over the years.

Comparatively little is known about the risk of sudden death associated with exercise in young competitive athletes, and whether the benefits of sports activity outweigh the hazards of exercise-related fatal events is a clinical dilemma.

Coronary artery disease is the most commonly encountered problem in adult cardiology in the world.

Learning surgery has become a daunting task.

The care of the critically ill or injured child begins with timely, prompt, and aggressive res- citation and stabilization.

Neurologic emergencies are a common reason for admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

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The development of pediatric cardiac surgical programs has had a profound effect on the s- cialty of pediatric critical care medicine, and as a result, the ?

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Advanced ischemic heart disease is fast becoming one of the most challenging problems facing the modern cardiovascular physician and current established therapies often fail to adequately address this population of patients.

Sports medicine and sports science are relatively new and rapidly developing fields of knowledge.

Six years have passed since the first edition of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine was published.

Transesophageal Echocardiography for Congenital Heart Disease represents a unique contribution as the only contemporary reference to focus exclusively on the clinical applications of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in congenital heart disease (CHD).

Interventional cardiac electrophysiology has undergone a rapid development in technique and application in recent years.

For every physician that interprets ECGs, there is great need to understand a vast amount of information regarding the technique.

Every medical specialty has as its basis a core of classic papers which both reflects the historical background and gives insight into its present and future developments.

Medical Management of Heart Failure will provide the full spectrum of medical options, ICU management and rehabilitation, while also prepare the reader for the second volume of Comprehensive Management of Heart Failure by introducing the surgical options in heart failure from transplant to the more noninvasive procedures in the interventional radiology department.

Growth and interest in resurfacing hip arthroplasty is due entirely to one surgeon, Mr Derek McMinn, who developed a resurfacing hip implant that is both conservative and a sustainable alternative to total hip replacement.

Over the last century the ECG has been used by clinicians to make major clinical decisions with regard to electric pacing, the use of thrombolytic drugs in acute myocardial infarction and the timing of surgery.

"e;Endocarditis: Diagnosis and Management"e; provides an up-to-date approach to the diagnosis and management of endocarditis based on a critical analysis of the recent studies.

For many years, there has been a great deal of work done on chronic congestive heart failure while acute heart failure has been considered a difficult to handle and hopeless syndrome.

Although no single approach answers all of the challenges confronting our public health system, the book fulfills many of the requirements by providing: - Point-of-care decision support for physicians, other health care workers, and first responders when confronted with suspected public health diseases and conditions; - A common format and lexicon for all persons and entities involved in public health decisions and for ease of real-time data collection; and - A means for mass education of health care professionals and first responders about specific diseases and conditions.

If you are a cardiologist or have a photographic memory,you may not need Dr.

In the network of cardiologists within the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology there is a strong view that the time indeed is right to publish definitively on the methods involved in cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation.

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) affects millions of patients annually and requires immediate diagnosis and therapy.

Many children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) are admitted with serious infections.

Increased recognition of the overlap between critical care and renal medicine, and recent advances in the understanding of acute renal failure and the application of renal replacement therapies, have brought increased attention to the nephrologist's role in the intensive care unit (ICU).

The treatment of pediatric patients with congenital or acquired cardiac disease remains an important challenge for physicians in charge of these often p- carious patients.

The specialty of urology has evolved into a less surgical and more cognitive discipline.

Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide provides a concise guide to the clinical and operational issues surrounding the management of the ballistic casualty.

Infective endocarditis is a condition that still carries a high morbidity and mortality rate (20-30%) despite modern antibiotics and surgical treatment.