Research Catalog

Title

Critical pathways in cardiovascular medicine / edited by Christopher P. Cannon and Patrick T. O'Gara.

Publication

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cannon, Christopher P.
• O'Gara, Patrick T.

Description

xiii, 315 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subject

• Cardiology
• Critical path analysis
• Outcome assessment (Medical care)
• Medical protocols
• Cardiovascular Diseases > diagnosis
• Cardiovascular Diseases > therapy
• Critical Care > standards
• Critical Pathways

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Goals, design, and implementation of critical pathways in cardiovascular medicine / Christopher P. Cannon and Patrick T. O'Gara -- 2. Prehospital fibrinolysis / Freek W. A. Verheught -- 3. Regional transfer programs for primary percutaneous coronary intervention / David M. Larson and Timothy D. Henry -- 4. Public access defibrillation / Joseph P. Ornato -- 5. Non-ST elevation ACS in the emergency department / Richard J. Ryan, Christopher P. Cannon and W. Brian Gibler -- 6. Thrombolysis for ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the emergency department / Joshua M. Kosowsky -- 7. Heart failure in the emergency department / W. Frank Peacock -- 8. Atrial fibrillation in the emergency department / Michael A. Ross and Antonio X. Bonfiglio -- 9. Stroke and transient ischemic attack / Abdul Abdullah and Lee Schwaam -- 10. The role of exercise testing in chest pain units : evolution, application, results / Ezra A. Amsterdam, J. Douglas Kirk, Deborah B. Diercks, William R. Lewis and Samuel Turnipseed -- 11. Critical pathways following thrombosis / Christopher P. Cannon and Patrick T. O'Gara -- 12. Primary PCI / Amr E. Abbas and Cindy L. Grines -- 13. Primary PCI at community hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery / Nancy Sinclair and Thomas P. Wharton, Jr. -- 14. Approach to the patient with complicated myocardial infarction / Richard C. Becker -- 15. Cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention / Christopher P. Cannon and Patrick T. O'Gara -- 16. Pathways for coronary artery bypass surgery / Rashid M. Ahmad, Frances Wadlington, Tiffany Street, James P. Greelish, Jorge Balaguer and John G. Byrne -- 17. Acute aortic syndromes / Piotr Sobieszcyk and Patrick T. O'Gara -- 18. Intensive management of hyperglycemia in acute coronary syndrome / Vera T. Fajtova -- 19. Management of atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter / Eyal Herzog and Joshua S. Steinberg -- 20. Heart failure / Greg C. Fonarow -- 21. Device therapy in heart failure : selection of patients for ICD and CRT / Eli V. Gelfand and Peter J. Zimetbaum -- 22. Venous thromboembolism / Samuel Z. Goldhaber -- 23. Hyperlipidemia / Frederick F. Samaha and Daniel J. Rader -- 24. Diabetes and metabolic syndrome / Emily D. Szmuilowicz and Merri Pendergrass -- 25. Hypertension / Michael Weber -- 26. Smoking cessation / Beth C. Bock -- 27. Secondary prevention overview / Sidney C. Smith, Jr. -- 28. Overview of the AHA "get with the guidelines" programs / Yuling Hong and Kenneth A. LaBresh -- 29. Cardiac rehabilitation / Daniel E. Forman.

ISBN

0781794390

LCCN

• 2006021948
• 9780781794398

OCLC

• ocm70256547
• SCSB-8877649

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries