Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems: The Evidence-Based Medicine Approach, 3rd Edition

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:

• Critical thinking – presenting new concepts


• Evidence-based medicine – the key results of important clinical trials


• Emerging trends – how new information can be applied to improve practice


• Clinical pearls – advice from master clinicians


• Take home messages – succinct summaries of each chapter

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

• Acute coronary syndrome


• ST segment elevation myocardial infarction


• Hypotension and shock in acute myocardial infarction


• Care of the patient undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery


• Care of the patient undergoing non-cardiac surgery


• Pulmonary hypotension


• Heart failure


• Ventricular tachycardia


• Atrial fibrillation


• Mitral regurgitation


• Ischemic stroke


• Syncope


• 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.