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Heart Failure
Roy S Gardner, Theresa A McDonagh, and Niki L Walker
568 pages
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98 line drawings and half tones
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180x100mm
978-0-19-920573-8
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Flexicovers
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27 September 2007
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- Presents up-to-date evidence-based medicine simply
- Practical manual to aid everyday management of heart failure
- Deals with the entire spectrum of heart failure through to advanced care
- Will appeal to all healthcare professionals involved in heart failure
- Reflects current guidelines
- Familiar format to healthcare professionals
- Algorithms for quick reference
- Key evidence-based medicine references given
Heart failure is an important and ever expanding sub-specialty of cardiology. Many health care professional bodies are now developing specialist expertise in heart failure. This is true for cardiologists in training, consultant cardiologists, care of the elderly and general physicians, cardiothoracic surgeons, primary care doctors, pharmacists and specialist nurses.
With advances in medical therapy, the prognosis of the condition has improved dramatically. Whereas once heart failure was a pre-terminal diagnosis, now for many it is treatable. However, some patients remain symptomatic and at high risk of death despite maximal medical therapy. These
patients can benefit from a range of novel device therapies. Of course for those who remain symptomatic despite optimal treatment, cardiac transplantation remains an option.
This book comprehensively covers all aspects necessary to manage a patient with heart failure. It gives simple, clear advice on the diagnosis, investigation and treatment options available, highlighting the current evidence-base. The chapters provide concise and objective information to guide all health care professionals involved in modern day multi-disciplinary management of the syndrome. The book is set out logically to mirror the patient journey in heart failure.
This book is the first practical manual of heart failure management that addresses the needs of all the
health care professionals involved.
The ultimate aim of this book is to facilitate the practice of optimal evidence-based management for heart failure patients.Readership: Cardiology trainees, cardiologists, specialist nurses, primary care physicians, cardiothoracic surgeons, general physicians, allied health care professionals, medical students.
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Roy S Gardner, Specialist Registrar in Cardiology, Scottish National Advanced Heart Failure Unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, UK, Theresa A McDonagh, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, UK, and Niki L Walker, Specialist Registrar in Cardiology, West of Scotland Deanery, UK
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"The book's aim of covering all aspects necessary to manage a patient with both acute and chronic heart failure is achieved, especially with regard to end-of-life issues...the quality of images is good, with plenty of diagrams, tables and figures...as well as evidence for use of different pharmacological therapies, it also highlights the importance of non-pharmacological approaches, including cardiac resynchronisation, surgical treatments, and transplantation. Widespread use of this useful book should lead to the authors' goal of facilitating the practice of optimal-based management of heart failure to improve outcomes." - Cardiology News "Oxford's Heart Failure succeeds in its scope, scale, clarity, and its sheer
informativeness. From the standpoint of the healthcare professional in the various theatres of practice this excellent publication will not only educate them thoroughly about heart failure, it will also guide them in the practical aspects of actually how to perform the diagnostic tests, do the procedures, calculate the infusion rates or doses of medications and look after the patient properly." - from the foreword by Professor Henry Dargie
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ForewordProfessor Henry Dargie:
Section 1 - Chronic Heart Failure
1: Definition, epidemiology and pathophysiology
2: Diagnosis and investigation
3: Estimating prognosis
4: Non-pharmacological management
5: Pharmacological management
6: Device therapy
7: Revascularisation
8: Other surgical techniques
9: Cardiac transplantation
Section 2 - Chronic Heart Failure and Co-morbid conditions
10: The patient with heart failure and angina
11: The patient with heart failure and arrhythmias
12: The patient with heart failure and arthritis
13: The patient with heart failure and anaemia
14: The patient with heart failure and adult congenital heart disease
15: The patient with heart failure and diabetes
16: The patient with heart failure and obstructive lung disease
17: The patient with heart failure and renal dysfunction
18: The patient with heart failure and valvular disease
19: The patient with heart failure and specific heart muscle disease
20: The patient with heart failure and preserved systolic function
21: The patient with heart failure and sleep-disordered breathing
22: The patient with heart failure and cancer
Section 3 - Acute Heart Failure
23: Acute Heart Failure - from definition to diagnosis
24: Acute Heart Failure - management
Section 4 - Procedures
25: Central venous cannulation
26: Cardiac catheterisation
27: Cardiac biopsy
28: IABP insertion
29: Cardio-pulmonary exercise testing
30: The assessment of dysynchrony
Section 5 - Detailed pharmacology and evidence-base for drugs
31: ACE inhibitors
32: Beta-adrenoreceptor antagonists
33: Aldosterone antagonists
34: Angiotensin receptor antagonists
35: Diuretics
36: Inotropes and Vasopressors
37: Vasodilators
Section 6
38: How to set up and run a heart failure clinic
Section 7
39: End of life issues
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