Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems: The Evidence-based Medicine Approach

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What the practicing cardiologist really needs is a text that emphasizes unbiased, up to date information and that places this information into an appropriate context. The third edition of Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems: The Evidence-based Medicine Approach, carefully edited by Dr Thach N. Nguyen and his co-Editors, does precisely this". From the Foreword by Eugene Braunwald, MD, Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Patients with complex cardiovascular problems pose a special management challenge for both the specialist and the non-specialist. To make the best treatment decisions and avoid potential problems, you need to stay on top of ever-changing standards of care. Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems: The Evidence-based Medicine Approach, Third Edition, supplies dependable information you can use in daily practice.

Conveniently boxed summaries give you immediate access to:

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• Critical thinking - presenting new concepts
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• Evidence-based medicine - the key results of important clinical trials
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• Emerging trends - how new information can be applied to improve practice
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• Clinical pearls - advice from master clinicians
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• Take home messages - succinct summaries of each chapter

This concise text offers candid advice on incorporating evidence-based data concerning:

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• Acute coronary syndrome
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• ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
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• Hypotension and shock in acute myocardial infarction
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• Care of the patient undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery
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• Care of the patient undergoing non-cardiac surgery
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• Pulmonary hypotension
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• Heart failure
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• Ventricular tachycardia
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• Atrial fibrillation
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• Mitral regurgitation
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• Ischemic stroke
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• Syncope
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• Congenital heart disease in adults

Keep Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems: The Evidence-based Medicine Approach, Third Edition, close at hand for the frequent consultation it is sure to receive.