Pediatric cardiology : the essential pocket guide / Walter H. Johnson Jr., James H. Moller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Walter H., Jr.

Contributor:

Moller, James H., 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pediatric cardiology.

Heart--Diseases.

Heart.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Caring for children with heart disease is extremely complex, requiring a different and often tailor-made approach compared with adults with similar cardiac problems. Built on the success of previous editions and brought to you by a stellar author team, Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide provides a unique, concise and extremely practical overview of heart disease in children. From history-taking, physical examination, ECG, and chest X-ray - the basics that enable clinicians to uncover possible problems and eliminate areas of false concern - it goes on to examine the range of more complex topics in the diagnosis and treatment/management of childhood cardiovascular disease. New to this edition you'll find: * An enhanced section on imaging including recent advances in cardiac MRI and fetal echocardiography. * New techniques in genetic testing for heart disease in special populations. * Much more emphasis on the importance of echocardiography in understanding the pathophysiology of congenital cardiac malformations. * Expanded section on cardiac conditions in the neonate, specifically on prenatal diagnosis and management, neonatal screening for congenital heart disease, and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. * Expanded and updated congestive cardiac failure section, including the latest in genetic and metabolic causes of heart failure, and medical/surgical treatment options; discussion of bridging therapies; essentials of transplantation, including common drug treatment regimens, clinical recognition of treatment complications and rejection, outcomes, morbidity and survival. In addition, every chapter is fully updated with the very latest clinical guidelines and management options from the AHA, ACC and ESC. Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide, 3 rd edition, is quite simply a must-have guide for all members of the multidisciplinary team managing children suffering from heart disease.

Contents:

Tools to diagnose cardiac conditions in children

Environmental and genetic conditions associated with heart disease in children

Classification and physiology of congenital heart disease in children

Anomalies with a left-to-right shunt in children

Conditions obstructing blood flow in children

Congenital heart disease with a right-to-left shunt in children

Unusual forms of congenital heart disease in children

Unique cardiac conditions in newborn infants

The cardiac conditions acquired during childhood

Abnormalities of heart rate and conduction in children

Congestive heart failure in infants and children

A healthy life style and preventing heart disease in children.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118503393

1118503392

9781118503379

1118503376

9781118503386

1118503384

OCLC:

862929216