Chest Pain: Advanced Assesment and Management Skills - Softcover

9781405144223: Chest Pain: Advanced Assesment and Management Skills

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140514422X ISBN 13: 9781405144223

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management promotes a systematic approach to the assessment and management of patients presenting with chest pain and related undifferentiated symptoms. Specifically, it equips practitioners with the knowledge and clinical skills needed to effectively differentiate and respond to clinical presentations where the primary symptom for seeking healthcare advice involves chest pain.

Introductory chapters in section one explore the principles of physical assessment, history taking and differential diagnosis to provide the framework for subsequent chapters, which explore cardiac and non-cardiac causes of chest pain.

Section two examines the advanced assessment and overall management of patients with pain in the chest. A range of clinical conditions that trigger chest pain and other related symptoms are covered, including: angina, acute coronary syndromes, pericarditis and myocarditis, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, oesophago-gastric disorders, musculoskeletal causes, pulmonary and respiratory causes, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, chest pain caused by trauma or cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse and Herpes zoster.

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Book Description:

Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management is aimed at advanced practitioners with experience of caring for patients with cardiac disorders. It promotes a systematic approach to the assessment and management of patients presenting with chest pain and equips practitioners with the knowledge and clinical skills needed to differentiate between life-threatening and non-life threatening conditions. Introductory chapters explore history taking, clinical examination and diagnostic reasoning and provide the framework for subsequent chapters which explore cardiac and non-cardiac causes of chest pain. Each of these chapters adopts a standard approach exploring the underlying pathophysiology, clinical presentation, clinical examination and history taking, initial investigations, differential diagnosis, immediate management and interventions, further investigations and long term management. Topics covered include acute coronary syndromes, angina, pericarditis and myocarditis, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, cardiac tamponade and pneumothorax, oesophagastric disturbances, musculoskeletal chest pain and pulmonary chest pain.

About the Author:

John W. Albarran is Principal Lecturer in Critical Care, University of the West of England, and Jenny Tagney is Cardiology Nurse Consultant, United Bristol Healthcare Trust

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