Evidence-Based Coronary Care,
Edition 1
By Mark Connaughton, BA, MB,BS, MRCP, MD

Publication Date: 21 Mar 2001
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Description
All junior doctors and in particular trainee cardiologists will at some point in their training be involved in managing acute coronary syndromes and other cardiac emergencies. This handbook sets out the recognized clinical steps to take and backs them up with an analysis of the evidence supporting these decisions. Evidence-Based Coronary Care willprovide junior doctors with the answers they seek when dealing with difficult clinical situations. Evidence-Based medicine is still very topical, and this book will adopt a similar style to James: Evidence-Based Obstetrics in setting out the clinical management plan on the verso page and the evidence supporting that plan on the recto page.

Key Features

  • Two page spread design showing management plan on verso page and supporting evidence on the recto page
    • All forms of cardiac emergencies are covered
  • Includes inpatient and outpatient scenarios
    • Complete coverage of different drugs in use for MI and unstable angina
  • Includes cost/benefits analyses
    • Didactic approach
  • Based on up-to-date literature survey
    • About the author
    By Mark Connaughton, BA, MB,BS, MRCP, MD, Cardiology DepartmentSt. Mary's Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK
    Table of Contents
    1.1 Immediate management of chest pain compatible with MI
    Immediate treatment.
    Definitive treatment
    Contra-indications to thrombolytic therapy
    Management of the patient ineligible for thrombolytic therapy
    Who should receive tPA?
    Assessing reperfusion after thrombolysis
    Problems following thrombolytic therapy
    Patients with diabetes and acute MI
    Treatment of 'difficult' MIs

    SECTION II: SUBSEQUENT CCU MANAGEMENT OF MI
    Early CCU management
    Early risk stratification
    Routine management from day 1
    Complications of MI

    SECTION III: RISK STRATIFICATION POST MI
    Clinical risk stratification
    Using exercise and other stress testing
    Autonomic markers of post MI risk
    Out-patient follow up
    Pre-discharge checklist

    SECTION IV: EARLY REHABILITATION, SECONDARY PREVENTION AND OUT-PATIENT FOLLOW-UP OF MI
    Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention
    Fitness to drive
    Checklist for outpatient review post MI

    SECTION V: MANAGEMENT OF OTHER ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES
    Unstable angina
    Non-Q wave MI
    Pre-discharge checklist

    SECTION VI: DRUGS IN COMMON USE IN MI AND UNSTABLE ANGINA
    Aspirin and other anti-platelet agents
    Beta-blockers
    Calcium antagonists
    ACE inhibitors
    Lipid lowering agents
    Nitrates
    Inotropes
    Heparin, warfarin and antithrombins
    Amiodarone

    SECTION VII: OTHER EMERGENCIES IN CCU
    Tachycardias
    Bradycardias
    Pacemakers
    Automatic cardioverter-defibrillators
    Book details
    ISBN: 9780443064159
    Page Count: 216
    Illustrations : 8 ills.
    Retail Price : £29.99
    Thompson: Coronary Care Manual, 1997, Churchill Livingstone. This is a comprehensive manual on Coronary Care whereas Evidence-Based Coronary Care is intended as a quick-reference guide for emergency coronary scenarios. Currently, there is no other book on the market that fulfills this need. This handbook will also have cross-references to the Coronary Care Manual.
    Audience
    Handbook for trainee cardiologists and other junior doctors involved in managing acute coronary syndromes.