Description
Cardiology arrives in every specialty
The patient does not present to cardiology first. They present to the surgeon who must decide whether to operate on a stented patient, to the nephrologist balancing volume against a failing ventricle, to the obstetrician with a murmur that was not there last trimester, to the emergency physician at three in the morning with an ECG and no cardiologist on site.
None of those doctors need a cardiology textbook. They need the cardiology that touches their own work, at the depth the decision requires. This 411-page handbook is arranged accordingly — by the clinical situation, not by the anatomy.
The escalation question
What distinguishes it from a general reference is that it states thresholds for calling for help explicitly. For a physician practising in a hospital without on-site cardiology — which describes a substantial share of our directory — that is the most consequential information in the book. Knowing which arrhythmia can be managed locally and which mandates transfer is a different skill from knowing what the arrhythmia is.
Chapter coverage
Perioperative cardiac assessment and antiplatelet interruption. Heart failure with renal impairment. Arrhythmia recognition and escalation. Cross-specialty drug interactions. Chest pain triage. Valve disease before non-cardiac surgery. Cardio-oncology. Cardiac manifestations of endocrine and autoimmune disease.
Antithrombotic sections use the standard vocabulary — DAPT, TAT, DAT, HAS-BLED — and cite the trials behind current duration guidance, including TWILIGHT, AUGUSTUS and PIONEER AF-PCI.
Directory members it suits
Anaesthetists, intensivists, nephrologists, endocrinologists, pulmonologists, surgeons, obstetricians, emergency and family physicians, and hospital medicine specialists.
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