Cardiac Care Unit Guide

60 calculators. 20 classifications methods. 100 cardiology trials. Disease classification systems. Cardiac medicines. Download the FREE app and view selected topics (Approximately 10% of the content material is viewable in the free app and tapping on the locked subject will launch the in-app purchase screen).

Author: Steven D. Anisman, MD, FACC

A concise bedside useful resource masking the wide-ranging data you need to care for cardiology sufferers.

Essential for everyone from attending cardiologists and fellows to nurses, physician assistants, students, and trainees. The content material spans each fundamental and superior information together with:

- Principles of physical examination and symptom evaluation

- Interpretation of EKG rhythms and invasive monitoring

- Cardiac drugs

- Disease classification methods

- Evidence-based mostly drugs including leading scientific trials underlying current remedy suggestions

Plus, you'll find innovative features such as:

- 60 calculators for speedy analysis of data ranging from the simple (aortic valve space) to the advanced (GRACE danger rating, PE prediction)

- Cardiac Catheterization evaluate information together with coronary artery anatomy, catheter basics, and photographs of commonplace views with labels

- Details of 20 classification systems in numerous areas ranging from easy (NYHA Class) to the advanced (GCS, TIMI steady unstable angina threat)

- Concise code blue algorithms, together with medication doses and routes

- Basic echo evaluate materials, together with normal values for valves and chambers, primary formulae, and images of normal views with labeled constructions. Additionally, includes fundamentals of scanning technique/sequencing and picture interpretation for those nights on call when you re the tech.

- EKG criteria in a concise, simple reference

- EP basics together with a glossary of widespread terms and programming modalities, interrogation methods and regular values

- General cardiology fundamentals, together with concise entries on widespread diagnoses, ideas/structure to manage a scientific day on the wards or in the unit, and review of primary cardiac anatomy

- Medication information for cardiac medication only, with doses/routes/indications/warnings, as well as basic physiology (together with essential ideas like adrenergic receptors and what they do)

- Interpretation of widespread values in the CCU, together with PA catheter hemodynamics, oxygenation, and the fundamentals of ventilator administration

- Physical examination information, together with evaluation of murmurs, maneuvers, and frequent findings

Pre-operative analysis basics, together with algorithms

- The rhythm analyzer ninety three a searchable database of coronary heart rhythms with definitions and clinical significance; can be narrowed by numerous options (QRS width, regularity, etc) to assist you focus in on a prognosis. Includes info on mechanisms of electrical initiation and conduction inside the heart.

- Almost 20 threat calculators and assessment instruments, for various situations including MI, angina, PE, a-fib, CHF and for procedures such as PCI and CABG ninety three and many others

- one hundred of the most necessary cardiology trials, summarized and categorized, with as much element as you need. This information is the foundation of a lot of what we do in cardiology, and is fertile pimping materials. No extraneous data simply what you need to know

CCU Guide is updated every 6 months with the most present information, including relevant trials and new drug info. An wonderful value!