Problems in Cardiology

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Over several years working in a district general hospital as a physician with a cardiological interest, the common problems in this field are clearer. It may prove of value to those medical students and nurses who wish to consider medical problems in a practical way, that is from the ways that cardiac problems present in practice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-03-31
Mått:155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:268 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Problems in Practice
Antal sidor:158
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789401172110

Utforska kategorier

Allmänmedicin inom Medicin
Hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar inom Medicin

Innehållsförteckning

Preface.- Foreword.- 1 Presenting symptoms — chest pain.- Skin.- Intercostal muscles and muscles attached to the chest wall.- Ribs and spine.- costo-chondral junctions.- Pleura and diaphragmatic pleura.- The pericardium.- The myocardium.- The aorta.- The oesophagus.- Anxiety and cardiac neurosis.- 2 Ischaemic heart disease.- Myocardial ischaema.- Myocardial infarction.- 3 Hypertension.- Presentation.- General considerations.- Investigations.- Treatment.- Notes on hypotensive drugs.- 4 Cardiac murmurs.- Systolic murmurs.- Diastolic murmurs.- 5 Syncope.- Dysrhythmias.- Valvular heart disease.- Congenital heart disease.- Hypotension.- Other low output states.- Pulmonary embolism.- Cardiac compression.- 6 Breathlessness.- Presenting symptoms.- Acute cardiac failure.- Chronic heart failure.- The signs of heart failure.- Investigations in cardiac failure.- Treatment of cardiac failure.- 7 Infective and invasive processes of the heart.- Pericardium.- Myocardium.- Endocardium.- 8 Electrocardiography.- Particular value of e.c.g. in practice.- Reading and recording the e.c.g..- Some examples of common e.c.g. abnormalities.- 9 Dysrhythmias.- Presenting symptoms.- Supra-ventricular dysrhythmias.- Ventricular causes of dysrhythmia.- other dysrhythmias.- 10 Changing trends in the investigation and treatment of cardiological problems.- Investigations.- Methods of treatment.- 11 Drug therapy in practice.- Diuretics.- The ?-blocking drugs.- Other antidysrhythmic drugs.- Hypotensive drugs.- Anti-anginal drugs.- 12 Present and future problems.- Changing trends of cardiac disease.- Statistics concerning heart disease.- Epidemiology and prevention.- Logistics.