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Crash Course: Cardiology
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Welcome to Crash Course - THE revision aid to get you the results you need!!

Crash Course is a complete revision guide designed specifically to save you time by providing everything you could be asked in the exam in one place!

Each book in the series has been specially written either by senior medical students or junior doctors - carefully supervised by faculty advisors - to ensure that it exactly matches your needs by having been prepared by someone who has just been in the exam situation!

Fully updated with improved layout, the first part of each volume covers a comprehensive series of common presentations while the second part addresses specific diseases and disorders. The third part of the book is given to a detailed exploration of the role of history, examination, and common investigations in the relevant speciality providing all of the facts you need to get things right!

New features include 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, 'Communication' boxes and a completely revised self-assessment section tailored to the current exam formats!

Crash Course - an easier way to get through the exam!


Contents:

Part I: The Patient Presents With.

1. Chest pain

2. Dyspnoea

3. Syncope

4. Palpitations

5. Peripheral oedema

6. Heart murmur

7. High blood pressure

8. Fever associated With a cardiac symptom or sign


Part II: Disease and Disorders

9. Angina pectoris

10. Acute myocardial infarction

11. Supraventricular tachyarrythmias

12. Ventricular tachyarrythmias

13. Cardiac arrest and resuscitation

14. Bradyarrythmias

15. Cardiac failure

16. The cardiomyopathies

17. Pericarditis and pericardial effusion

18. Valvular heart disease

19. Infective endocarditis

20. Hypertension

21. Congenital heart disease

Part III: History, Examination,
and Common Investigations


22. History

23. Examination

24. How to write a clerking

25. Common investigations


Part IV: Self-Assessment


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780723434641
Publisher: Elsevier (Mosby)
Publication date: July, 2008
Pages: 296
Weight: 652g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Cardiovascular Medicine
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