Problems in Cardiology
Over several years working in a district general hospital as a physician with a cardiological interest, the common problems in this field are clearer. This knowledge has come through normal out-patient clinic referrals, care of in-patients, and by working in a domiciliary consultative capacity. The...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
| Series: | Problems in Practice
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Foreword
- 1 Presenting symptoms — chest pain
- Skin
- Intercostal muscles and muscles attached to the chest wall
- Ribs and spine
- costo-chondral junctions
- Pleura and diaphragmatic pleura
- The pericardium
- The myocardium
- The aorta
- The oesophagus
- Anxiety and cardiac neurosis
- 2 Ischaemic heart disease
- Myocardial ischaema
- Myocardial infarction
- 3 Hypertension
- Presentation
- General considerations
- Investigations
- Treatment
- Notes on hypotensive drugs
- 4 Cardiac murmurs
- Systolic murmurs
- Diastolic murmurs
- 5 Syncope
- Dysrhythmias
- Valvular heart disease
- Congenital heart disease
- Hypotension
- Other low output states
- Pulmonary embolism
- Cardiac compression
- 6 Breathlessness
- Presenting symptoms
- Acute cardiac failure
- Chronic heart failure
- The signs of heart failure
- Investigations in cardiac failure
- Treatment of cardiac failure
- 7 Infective and invasive processes of the heart
- Pericardium
- Myocardium
- Endocardium
- 8 Electrocardiography
- Particular value of e.c.g. in practice
- Reading and recording the e.c.g.
- Some examples of common e.c.g. abnormalities
- 9 Dysrhythmias
- Presenting symptoms
- Supra-ventricular dysrhythmias
- Ventricular causes of dysrhythmia
- other dysrhythmias
- 10 Changing trends in the investigation and treatment of cardiological problems
- Investigations
- Methods of treatment
- 11 Drug therapy in practice
- Diuretics
- The ?-blocking drugs
- Other antidysrhythmic drugs
- Hypotensive drugs
- Anti-anginal drugs
- 12 Present and future problems
- Changing trends of cardiac disease
- Statistics concerning heart disease
- Epidemiology and prevention
- Logistics