Description
For the doctor whose decision is final
Independent practice changes which questions matter. Nobody asks a consultant to define heart failure. What they face instead is the patient whose ejection fraction, renal function, blood pressure and frailty each argue for a different plan, and who does not resemble anyone enrolled in the trials the guideline rests on.
This collection is written for that position rather than for an examination.
Provenance over prescription
Where a summary text gives a threshold, these volumes give its derivation — the study, the population, the effect size, and the point at which extrapolation stops being defensible. For a clinician who must justify a departure from guideline to a colleague or a committee, that provenance is the useful part.
Particularly relevant to international practice
Members practising where the local formulary is restricted, or where the institutional protocol follows a different consensus from the one they trained under, deal with guideline departure routinely rather than exceptionally. Understanding what a recommendation rests on is what makes a substitution safe.
Scope
Ischaemic disease and revascularisation strategy, heart failure, valve disease, arrhythmia, imaging interpretation, prevention, and systemic disease presenting cardiologically — all at practitioner depth.
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