Full Description
The go-to reference of choice for pediatricians, family practitioners, NPs, and PAs?as well as medical students, residents, and fellows, Park's Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners provides authoritative, everyday guidance on the diagnosis and management of children with congenital and acquired heart disease. The revised 8th Edition continues the tradition of excellence and remains the essential medical reference book on this subject for generalists. Covering everything from history and physical examination through preventative treatment and the management of special problems, it equips you to confidently assess patients and communicate clearly with families and colleagues.
Provides fundamental and practical information to help you recognize the key signs and symptoms of potential cardiac disease and determine whether the findings require a referral to a pediatric cardiologist for diagnosis and management
Incorporates all of the latest concepts and most recent developments in the field, including more emphasis on genetic considerations in cardiology
Includes new material on aortopathy, congenital coronary artery abnormalities, genetics of arrhythmias, and advanced imaging such as cardiac CTA and cardiac MRI, as well as many new color echocardiographic and CT images
Offers highly accessible content through the extensive use of numbered lists, easy-to-use tables, and explanatory graphs and diagrams, as well as practical appendices with suggested readings for non-specialists, risk factors, echocardiographic values, and more
Features a new, easier-to-use trim size, now in full-color throughout for greater readability and faster navigation
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Contents
PART 1 Basic Tools in Routine Evaluation of Cardiac Patients
1. History Taking
2. Physical Examination
3. Electrocardiography
4. Chest Radiography
PART 2 Special Tools in Evaluation of Cardiac Patients
5. Non-invasive Imaging Tools
6. Other Non-invasive Investigation Tools
7. Invasive Procedures
PART 3 Pathophysiology
8. Fetal and Perinatal Circulation
9. Pathophysiology of Left-to-Right Shunt Lesions
10. Pathophysiology of Obstructive and Valvular Regurgitant Lesions
11. Pathophysiology of Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects
PART 4 Specific Congenital Heart Defects
12. Left-to-Right Shunt Lesions
13. Obstructive Lesions
14. Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects
15. Miscellaneous Congenital Cardiac Conditions
16. Vascular Ring
17. Chamber Localization and Cardiac Malposition
PART 5 Acquired Heart Disease
18. Primary Myocardial Disease
19. Cardiovascular Infections
20. Acute Rheumatic Fever
21. Valvular Heart Disease
22. Cardiac Tumors
23. Cardiovascular Involvement in Systemic Diseases
PART 6 Arrhythmias and Atrioventricular Conduction Disturbances
24. Cardiac Arrhythmias
25. Disturbances of Atrioventricular Conduction
26. Cardiac Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter- Defibrillators in Children
PART 7 Special Problems
27. Congestive Heart Failure
28. Systemic Hypertension
29. Pulmonary Hypertension
30. The Child with Chest Pain
31. Syncope
32. Palpitation
33. Dyslipidemia and Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors
34. Pediatric Preventive Cardiology
35. Athletes with Cardiac Problems
36. Cardiac Transplantation
