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

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.