Evidence-based cardiology practice : a 21st century approach / Dayi Hu ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hu, Dayi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidence-based medicine.

Heart--Diseases.

Heart.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (640 p.)

Place of Publication:

Shelton, CT : Peoples Medical Publishing House-USA, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Medical decisions are made on the basis of critical thinking, and clinical judgments are based on the relevancy of the collected data. Medical decisions and clinical judgments are the results of the long thought process generated from formal learning, data from guidelines and practice standards, experience, an understanding of the incidence of disease in the population that the patient represents, and the likelihood of a disease being present in a specific patient. This book introduces and encourages the concept of evidence-based patient care. This work presents the ideology and methodology of critical thinking and also the available evidence, management and cost effectives across the field. Evidence-Based Cardiology is aimed at any clinician who encounters a cardiac patient from the Clerk to the Internist to the Practicing Physician, encouraging disease management decisions to be based on the highest level of evidence.

Contents:

""Front pages ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Section I : Clinical Evaluation ""; ""Ch. 1: Practicing Cardiology of the 21st Century ""; ""Ch. 2: Futuristic Applications to Toady's Management of Cardiovascular Problems ""; ""Ch. 3: Cardiac Examination ""; ""Section II: Cardiovascular Risk Factors ""; ""Ch. 4: Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease ""; ""Ch. 5: Hypercholesterolemia ""; ""Ch. 6: Diet ""; ""Section III: Disturbances to the Blood Circulation ""; ""Ch. 7: Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease ""; ""Ch. 8: Patients with High Risk of/or with Left Ventricular Dysfunction ""

""Ch. 9: Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction """"Ch. 10: Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplant ""; ""Ch. 11: Aortic Stenosis ""; ""Ch. 12: Venous Disease ""; ""Section IV: Disturbance of a Dead-End Vasculature ""; ""Ch. 13: Syncope ""; ""Ch. 14: Stable Coronary Artery Disease ""; ""Ch. 15: Acute Coronary Syndrome ""; ""Ch. 16: Prehospital Management of Acute ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction ""; ""Ch. 17: Management of ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction ""; ""Ch. 18: Peripheral Arterial Disease ""; ""Ch. 19: Carotid Arterial Disease ""; ""Section V: Arrhythmias ""

""Ch. 20: Atrial Fibrillation """"Ch. 21: Ventricular Tachycardia ""; ""Index ""

Notes:

Caption title.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60795-115-0

OCLC:

923337333