Chest pain : advanced assessment and management skills / edited by John W. Albarran and Jenny Tagney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albarran, John W.

Tagney, Jenny.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chest pain.

Coronary heart disease--Diagnosis.

Coronary heart disease.

Diagnosis, Differential.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management promotes a systematic approach to the assessment and management of patients presenting with chest pain and related undifferentiated symptoms. Specifically, it equips practitioners with the knowledge and clinical skills needed to effectively differentiate and respond to clinical presentations where the primary symptom for seeking healthcare advice involves chest pain.Introductory chapters in section one explore the principles of physical assessment, history taking and differential diagnosis to provide the framework for subsequent chapters,

Contents:

Background to the assessment and management of patients with chest pain / J.W. Albarran and J. Tagney

Coronary heart disease healthcare policy and evolution of chest pain assessment and management in the UK / T. Quinn

History taking / J. Tagney

Clinical examination skills for assessing the patient with chest pain / J. Younker

Assessment and differential diagnoses in the patient with chest pain / J. Benger

Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an acute coronary syndrome / S. Green and J. Tagney

Analysing the presentation of women with chest pain and other symptoms associated with coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction / J.W. Albarran

Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to either acute pericarditis or myocarditis / J.W. Albarran

Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an aortic dissection / H. Cox

Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to pulmonary embolism / J. Keenan

Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to trauma / S. Binks and J. Benger

Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to oesophago-gastric disorders / T. Finlay and J. Keenan

Assessing and managing the patient with musculoskeletal chest pain / R. Hoskins

Assessing and managing the patient with pulmonary chest pain / J. Tagney and S. Green

Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse, and herpes zoster / J.W. Albarran and H. Cox.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786611319366

9781281319364

1281319368

9780470775127

0470775122

9780470777619

0470777613

OCLC:

214281428