Myocardial Infarction A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease

<p>Get the tools and knowledge you need for effective diagnosis, evaluation, and management of patients with acute myocardial infarction. <i>Myocardial Infarction: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease</i>, by David A. Morrow, MD, is a <b>comprehensive, hands-on resource </b>that provides practical guidance from a name you trust. Concise and easy to use, this text explores <b>the most recent tools for diagnosis and therapeutic decision-making</b>, as well as <b>the full range of available management strategies, </b>providing outcomes data for each strategy. <i>Myocardial Infarction</i> also includes regular updates with <b>late-breaking clinical trials</b>, <b>reviews of important new articles</b>, and <b>the latest guidance on clinical practice</b>, all selected and masterfully edited by Dr. Eugene Braunwald. </p><ul> <li>Provides <b>thorough discussions</b> of ECG, established and emerging biochemical markers, angiography, nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, and cardiac MRI and CT.</li> <p> <li>Features an <b>extensive treatment section</b> that covers the latest drugs and most recent clinical trials of antiplatelet therapy, coronary revascularization, gene therapy, and approaches to reperfusion injury and ventricular remodeling.</li> <p> <li>Discusses special considerations for the <b>evaluation of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department</b>, and use of advanced technologies in cardiac critical care.</li> <p> <li>Covers key topics such as <b>in-hospital complications, cardiogenic shock, transitions to post-discharge care, and cardiac rehabilitation.</li> </b> <p> <li>Includes Clinical Practice/Controversy chapters that highlight management-focused, practical topics covering <b>expert approaches for areas of uncertainty</b>.</li> <p> <li>Offers guidance on the<b> management</b> <b>of special populations</b>.</li> <b> <p> <li>Online content</b> includes animations illustrating key pathobiology, including dynamic thrombosis, platelet adherence-activation-aggregation and adverse ventricular remodeling, as well as management strategies and procedural techniques.</li> <b> <p> <li>Regularly updated Expert ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. </b>This<b> enhanced eBook experience </b>allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.</li> </ul>