Second Edition
by Christopher P. Cannon
Critical Pathways in Cardiovascular Medicine presents evidence-based, cost-effective critical pathways for diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disorders in the pre-hospital setting, emergency department, inpatient setting, and outpatient setting.
Contents
- Goal, Design, and Implementation of Critical Pathways in Cardiovascular Medicine
Prehospital Critical Pathways
- Prehospital Fibrinolysis
- Regional Transfer Programs for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
- Public Access Defibrillation
Critical Pathways in the Emergency Department
- Non-ST Elevation ACS in the Emergency Deparment
- Thrombolysis for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the Emergency Department
- Heart Failure in the Emergency Department
- Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department
- Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack
- The Role of Exercise Testing in Chest Pain Units: Evolution, Applications, Results
Critical Pathways in the Hospital
- Critical Pathways Following Thrombosis
- Primary PCI
- Primary PCI at Community Hospitals without On-site Cardiac Surgery
- Approach to the Patient with Complicated Myocardial Infarction
- Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
- Pathways for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
- Acute Aortic Syndromes
- Intensive Management of Hyperglycemia in Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Management of Atrial Fibrillations and Atrial Flutter
- Heart Failure
- Device Therapy in Heart Failure: Selection of Patients for ICD and CRT
- Venous Thromboembolism
Critical Pathways in the Outpatient Setting
- Hyperlipidemia
- Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome
- Hypertension
- Smoking Cessation
- Secondary Prevention Overview
- Overview of the AHA : Get with the Guidelines"
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
Index
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