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"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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • Background to the assessment and management of patients with chest pain / J.W. Albarran and J. Tagney
  • Coronary heart disease healthcare policy and evolution of chest pain assessment and management in the UK / T. Quinn
  • History taking / J. Tagney
  • Clinical examination skills for assessing the patient with chest pain / J. Younker
  • Assessment and differential diagnoses in the patient with chest pain / J. Benger
  • Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an acute coronary syndrome / S. Green and J. Tagney
  • Analysing the presentation of women with chest pain and other symptoms associated with coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction / J.W. Albarran
  • Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to either acute pericarditis or myocarditis / J.W. Albarran
  • Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an aortic dissection / H. Cox
  • Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to pulmonary embolism / J. Keenan
  • Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to trauma / S. Binks and J. Benger
  • Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to oesophago-gastric disorders / T. Finlay and J. Keenan
  • Assessing and managing the patient with musculoskeletal chest pain / R. Hoskins
  • Assessing and managing the patient with pulmonary chest pain / J. Tagney and S. Green
  • Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse, and herpes zoster / J.W. Albarran and H. Cox.