Hu Dayi, Nguyen Thach et al. (eds.) Evidence-Based Cardiology Practice: A 21st Century Approach

People’s Medical Publishing House–USA, 2010. — 641 p. — ISBN: 978-1607950950Medical decisions are made on the basis of critical thinking and clinical judgments are based on the relevancy of the collected data. Medical decisions and clinical judgments are the results of the long thought process generated from formal learning, data from guidelines and practice standards, experience, an understanding of the incidence of disease in the population that the patient represents, and the likelihood of a disease being present in a specific patient.This book introduces and encourages the concept of evidence-based patient care. This work presents the ideology and methodology of critical thinking and also the available evidence, management and cost effectives across the field. Evidence-Based Cardiology is aimed at any clinician who encounters a cardiac patient from the Clerk to the Internist to the Practicing Physician, encouraging disease management decisions to be based on the highest level of evidence.Chapter 1 Practicing Cardiology of the 21st Century
Chapter 2 Futuristic Applications to Today’s Management of Cardiovascular Problems
Cardiac Examination
Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Hypercholesterolemia
Diet
Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease
Patients with High Risk of/or with Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplant
Aortic Stenosis
Venous Disease
Syncope
Stable Coronary Artery Disease
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Prehospital Management of Acute ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Management of ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Peripheral Arterial Disease
Carotid Arterial Disease
Atrial Fibrillation
Ventricular Tachycardia