Cardiovascular Emergencies (eBook)

Amal Mattu (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
322 Seiten
American College of Emergency Physicians (Verlag)
978-0-9988912-2-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Acute chest pain. Acute heart failure. Cardiac arrest. Tachycardia. Syncope. If you take care of patients in an emergency department or some other on-demand facility, you have to be ready to identify and correctly treat cardiovascular emergencies any time every time they present. So ARE you ready?Learn now from the very best cardiovascular emergency medicine experts in the United States. Every one of the 21 chapters focuses on initial approach and evidence-based treatment -- all the info you need right away.Read this book and you WILL save lives.Published by the worlds largest emergency medicine organization, the American College of Emergency Physicians, Cardiovascular Emergencies facilitates the efficient and cutting-edge delivery of care to patients who present with acute cardiovascular conditions. With more than 6 million people presented to U.S. emergency departments every year with chest pain, emergency physicians have the difficult task of differentiating life-threatening causes from more benign ones. And beyond chest pain, emergency physicians care for patients with other forms of cardiac diseasearrhythmias, infections, cardiovascular complications from other conditions, and they must be able to identify these conditions, assess their severity, and provide immediate, often lifesaving, interventions in the less-than-ideal conditions of a busy ED. This book teaches you the essentials of diagnosing and managing cardiovascular disorders from the experts.Each of the 21 chapters focuses on an issue of critical importance in the care of patients with cardiovascular emergenciesemergencies that can present in any ED on any day in any community. The book includes hundreds of images, figures, and tables, and key points that you will use every time you treat a patient, brings together highly respected emergency physician educators to teach the essentials of diagnosing and managing cardiovascular disorders.Key Elements: Approach to Acute Chest Pain The ECG in the Evaluation and Management of ACS Biomarkers and Imaging Bedside Ultrasound for Emergency Cardiovascular Disorders Modern Treatment of STEMI and NSTEMI Cardiogenic Shock Acute Heart Failure Bradyarrhythmias Narrow Complex Tachycardia Wide Complex Tachycardia Syncope Modern Management of Cardiac Arrest Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome Pericarditis, Myocarditis, and Endocarditis Hypertensive Emergencies and Elevated Blood Pressure Cardiac Disease in Special Populations: HIV, Pregnancy, and Cancer Special Populations: Pulmonary Hypertension and Cardiac Transplant Pharmacologic Approach to Emergency Cardia Patient Complications of Implanted Cardiac Devices Use of Emergency Department Observation Units for Cardiac Patients Reducing the Risk of Malpractice

Inhalt

About the Editors

Dedications

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1. Approach to Acute Chest Pain

Chapter 2. The Electrocardiogram in the Evaluation and Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome

Chapter 3. Acute Coronary Syndrome: Biomarkers and Imaging

Chapter 4. Bedside Ultrasound for Emergency Cardiovascular Disorders

Chapter 5. Acute Coronary Syndrome: Modern Treatment of STEMI and NSTEMI

Chapter 6. Cardiogenic Shock

Chapter 7. Acute Heart Failure

Chapter 8. Bradyarrhythmias

Chapter 9. Narrow Complex Tachycardia: Diagnosis and Management in the Emergency Department

Chapter 10. Wide Complex Tachycardia

Chapter 11. Syncope

Chapter 12. Modern Management of Cardiac Arrest

Chapter 13. Post–Cardiac Arrest Syndrome

Chapter 14. Pericarditis, Myocarditis, and Endocarditis

Chapter 15. Hypertensive Emergencies and Elevated Blood Pressure

Chapter 16. Cardiac Disease in Special Populations: HIV, Pregnancy, and Cancer

Chapter 17. Special Populations: Pulmonary Hypertension and Cardiac Transplant

Chapter 18. Pharmacologic Approach to Emergency Cardiac Patients

Chapter 19. Complications of Implanted Cardiac Devices

Chapter 20. Use of Emergency Department Observation Units for Cardiac Patients

Chapter 21. Reducing the Risk of Malpractice

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.8.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie
• Schlagworte: acute chest pain • best emergency medical care book • Cardiology • critical care • emergency doctors • medical ebook for doctors • medicine and nursing
• ISBN-10: 0-9988912-2-3 / 0998891223
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9988912-2-4 / 9780998891224