Evidence-Based Cardiology

Description

Get quick, portable access to the evidence you need to make effective clinical decisions! Evidence-Based Cardiology succinctly summarizes all the clinical trials that affect the practice of cardiovascular medicine, making it easy for you to implement the most appropriate diagnostic tests and treatments for your patients.

Features

• Apply the latest knowledge on atrial fibrillation and heart failure, including novel anticoagulants, new medical therapies, new devices including ablation and resynchronization and other advanced therapies.
• Select the best interventions for acute coronary syndrome with coverage of new antiplatelet strategies, management strategy updates, and significant data on outcomes and guideline adherence.
• Navigate controversies across your entire field with in-depth chapters exploring all areas of preventive cardiology, coronary revascularization and percutaneous procedures, unstable angina/non-ST elevation myocardial infarction, ST-elevation myocardial infarction, heart failure, and arrhythmias.
• Look up all essential randomized clinical trials and understand their implications with concise summaries of trial design, study population, treatment regimen, and results, together with relevant ACC/AHA Practice Guidelines.

Now included with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your smartphone or tablet, or accessible online and includes features like:

· Complete content with enhanced navigation
· A powerful search that pulls results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web
· Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation
· Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text
· Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues
· Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

Contents

Preface
Contributors

CHAPTER 1. Preventive Cardiology: Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease and Primary and Secondary Prevention
Christopher P. Cannon, Benjamin A. Steinberg, and Alexander C. Fanaroff

CHAPTER 2. Coronary Revascularization and Percutaneous Procedures
Christopher P. Cannon, Benjamin A. Steinberg, and Justin M. Dunn

CHAPTER 3. Unstable Angina/Non-ST Elevation MI
Christopher P. Cannon, Benjamin A. Steinberg, Matthew W. Sherwood

CHAPTER 4. ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Christopher P. Cannon, Benjamin A. Steinberg, and Justin M. Dunn

CHAPTER 5. Heart Failure
Benjamin A. Steinberg and Christopher P. Cannon

CHAPTER 6. Arrhythmias
Benjamin A. Steinberg, Christopher P. Cannon

Index

Authors

Benjamin A. Steinberg MD
Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Christopher P. Cannon MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA