An enjoyable and thorough book emphasizing the underlying physiology and hemodynamic alterations of cardiac conditions that are detectable through the cardiac physical exam. A highly clinical bedside diagnostic reference, ideal for cardiologists, residents, internists and family practitioners.

The Fifth Edition of this classic text has been thoroughly revised. It focuses on teaching history-taking and physical examination and assists with establishing which diagnostic tests to order and how to evaluate test results. The book's highly praised question-and-answer format engages the reader's attention and enables students to test themselves by covering the answers. More than 150 photographs and other illustrations demonstrate key examination techniques and concepts. Important terms are printed in boldface and defined in a glossary.

Bedside Cardiology will appeal to a wide audience of students, teachers, practicing cardiologists and physicians who routinely see patients with cardiac problems. This book presents a selection of over 28 chapters. Each chapter describes how to interpret and formulate a bedside diagnosis, from each and every symptoms and signs in cardiology. Approach is unique because, it is lucid and simple, pragmatic and evidence-based and overall, unbiased.

Essentials of Bedside Cardiology, Second Edition, like the first edition, is designed for those who wish to balance technological advances with increased personal skill in history taking and physical examination. It is important to teach physicians that all technologies now in use for diagnosing cardiovascular disorders, such as echocardiography, can have false positive and false negative results. It is not always wise to rely on these technologies alone; indeed, they may not even be available in some settings. Even when the full panoply of up-to-date techniques is at the physician's disposal, the patient may not be a good candidate for an echocardiogram, or the technician or reader may not be well qualified, or the equipment itself may be substandard. Technology must be combined with physical examination to decide what is true and what is false. The practice of expert history taking and physical examination returns the physician to the actual patient, where the physician can feel like a "real doctor" rather than a mere interpreter of laboratory data. Essentials of Bedside Cardiology, Second Edition, strives to teach and not simply to tell the facts, relying on three basic methods derived from the psychology of teaching and learning: 1. Explain the facts. 2. Use a question and answer format-the Socratic method. 3. Provide tricks or mnemonics to help the reader remember the facts.

Ultrasound has revolutionized a physician's ability to make urgent and emergent diagnoses at the bedside, and has changed the management of many acute injuries and conditions. This is a practical, concise introduction to what is rapidly becoming an essential tool for all critical care physicians: bedside emergency ultrasound. The Manual covers the full spectrum of conditions diagnosed using ultrasound and gives practical guidance in how to use ultrasound for common invasive procedures. Major applications are introduced using focused diagnostic questions and reviewing the image-acquisition skills needed to answer them. Images of positive and negative findings are presented, and scanning tips for improving image quality. The second edition has been substantially revised and expanded, with new images, updated literature reviews, new applications and clinical algorithms. New chapters cover additional procedures, musculoskeletal and pediatric applications, and the use of ultrasound in resuscitation. This text is invaluable for emergency physicians at all levels.

With this concise and portable guide of the basics of cardiac physical diagnosis, you will benefit from Dr. Abrams' many years of clinical and teaching experience. Reader-friendly in format, this unique second edition offers you the most up-to-date information available. * Easily accessible and portable guide * Includes the basics of cardiac physical diagnosis * Enables you to extract the maximum possible diagnostic information

Every important echocardiography topic in one convenient place! Market: Internists (77,000), internal medicine residents (23,000), family practitioners (74,000), family practice residents (8,000), medical students (32,000) Cases, audio lectures, and echo loops for every topic

Basic and Bedside Electrocardiography is the first book to integrate the basics of ECG interpretation with the most recent clinical guidelines for treating patients with ECG abnormalities. Each concise, bulleted chapter discusses a disease state, gives many tracings as examples, provides clear illustrations of pathophysiology, and offers guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of specific entities. More than 600 illustrations aid readers in recognizing commonly encountered ECG abnormalities. Diagrammatic illustrations at the end of most chapters summarize the different ECG abnormalities discussed, to help readers recognize the different arrhythmias more easily. An appendix provides quick-reference information on commonly used intravenous agents.

Places emphasis on the physical examination. This title describes the physical signs and how they are elicited.

With portable, hand-carried ultrasound devices being more frequently implemented in medicine today, Point-of-Care Ultrasound will be a welcome resource for any physician or health care practitioner looking to further their knowledge and skills in point-of-care ultrasound. This comprehensive, portable handbook offers an easy-access format that provides comprehensive, non-specialty-specific guidance on this ever-evolving technology. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Access all the facts with focused chapters covering a diverse range of topics, as well as case-based examples that include ultrasound scans. Understand the pearls and pitfalls of point-of-care ultrasound through contributions from experts at more than 30 institutions. View techniques more clearly than ever before. Illustrations and photos include transducer position, cross-sectional anatomy, ultrasound cross sections, and ultrasound images.