Betts / Dwight / Bull Cardiology

Clinical Cases Uncovered
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-69135-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Clinical Cases

Cardiology: Clinical Cases Uncovered is the ideal integratedtext to help you recognize, understand and know how to investigateand manage many heart-related disorders and conditions. Written bythree practising cardiologists, it leads students througha clinical approach to managing problems with 26 real-worldcardiovascular cases. There is strong emphasis on high-qualityfigures, particularly 12-lead ECGs, as these play such a major rolein the evaluation of the cardiac patient.
Following a question-answer approach throughout the narrative,with self-assessment MCQs, EMQs and SAQs, Cardiology: ClinicalCases Uncovered includes sections on cardiac anatomy,physiology and pathology which provide the essentials required tounderstand clinical cardiology, and is ideal for medical studentsand junior doctors on the Foundation Programme, specialist nursesand nurse practitioners, and for those with plans for a career incardiology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Betts, Tim

Dwight, Jeremy

Bull, Sacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, vii
How to use this book, viii
List of abbreviations, ix
Part 1 Basics, 1
Basic science, 1
Approach to the patient, 23
Part 2 Cases, 38
Case 1 A 47-year-old man with chest pain, 38
Case 2 A 60-year-old heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driverwith chest pain, 48
Case 3 An 85-year-old man with collapse, 56
Case 4 A 71-year-old man with exertion chest tightness,63
Case 5 A 50-year-old man with sudden-onset severe centralchest pain, 72
Case 6 A 45-year-old man with chest pain andbreathlessness, 77
Case 7 A 34-year-old man with chest pain following aviral illness, 84
Case 8 An 80-year-old woman with acute severebreathlessness, 90
Case 9 A 50-year-old man with exertional breathlessness,98
Case 10 A 72-year-old woman with breathlessness onexertion, 107
Case 11 A 50-year-old man with a murmur, 112
Case 12 A 30-year-old man with high blood pressure and aheart murmur, 118
Case 13 A 64-year-old man with collapse and a murmur,124
Case 14 A 34-year-old man with malaise, chest pains andbreathlessness, 130
Case 15 A 22-year-old woman with faints, 136
Case 16 A 76-year-old woman with blackouts, 142
Case 17 A 35-year-old woman with palpitations, 148
Case 18 A 42-year-old man with palpitations, 153
Case 19 A 64-year-old man with fatigue and palpitations,160
Case 20 A 24-year-old man with palpitations, 165
Case 21 A 77-year-old woman with fatigue and bradycardia,171
Case 22 A 57-year-old man with collapse, 177
Case 23 A 36-year-old woman with a family history ofsudden death, 183
Case 24 A 60-year-old man with high blood pressure,190
Case 25 A 24-year-old woman with visual loss anddysphasia, 196
Case 26 A 59-year-old woman with low blood pressure andbreathlessness, 202
Part 3 Self-assessment, 208
MCQs, 208
EMQs, 214
SAQs, 224
Answers, 228
Index of cases by diagnosis, 235
Index, 237

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Betts, Consultant Cardiologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK