Chest pain : advanced assessment and management skills /

"Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management" is aimed at advanced practitioners with experience of caring for patients with cardiac disorders. It promotes a systematic approach to the assessment and management of patients presenting with chest pain and equips practitioners with the kno...

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Other Authors:	Albarran, John W., Tagney, Jenny
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Subjects:	Chest pain. Coronary heart disease > Diagnosis. Diagnosis, Differential. Chest Pain > diagnosis Chest Pain > therapy Medical History Taking > methods Physical Examination > methods Chest Pain Diagnosis, Differential Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	"Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management" is aimed at advanced practitioners with experience of caring for patients with cardiac disorders. It promotes a systematic approach to the assessment and management of patients presenting with chest pain and equips practitioners with the knowledge and clinical skills needed to differentiate between life-threatening and non-life threatening conditions. Introductory chapters explore history taking, clinical examination and diagnostic reasoning and provide the framework for subsequent chapters which explore cardiac and non-cardiac causes of chest pain. Each of these chapters adopts a standard approach exploring the underlying pathophysiology, clinical presentation, clinical examination and history taking, initial investigations, differential diagnosis, immediate management and interventions, further investigations and long term management. Topics covered include: acute coronary syndromes, angina, pericarditis and myocarditis, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, cardiac tamponade and pneumothorax, oesophagastric disturbances, musculoskeletal chest pain and pulmonary chest pain
Physical Description:	1 online resource (ix, 264 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780470777619 0470777613 9780470775127 0470775122 9786611319366 6611319360 140514422X 9781405144223 1281319368 9781281319364