Description
Stabilisation is the beginning
Most emergency references end where the patient becomes stable, which is convenient for the book and unhelpful for the clinician. The mortality that follows a cardiac emergency is not concentrated in the resuscitation room. It accumulates over the next several days, in decisions that individually look minor.
These 496 pages cover that period.
Who is making those decisions
Frequently not a cardiologist. In much of the world the patient is stabilised by whoever is present and then managed on a general ward by general physicians, with cardiology input by telephone. The book assumes that arrangement rather than treating it as an exception.
What it covers
Care after reperfusion and the arrhythmias that follow. The patient who destabilises a second time. Haemodynamic and ventilatory support beyond resuscitation. Renal injury after contrast and after low output. Bleeding on antithrombotics — graded, and managed rather than reflexively reversed. Infective complications. Delirium. Discharge planning and the follow-up interval that actually reduces readmission.
Resource-realistic
Where a decision depends on a facility that may not exist locally — advanced support, an available catheter laboratory, a particular assay — the book says what to do without it. That is unusual in emergency texts and is why it suits an international readership.
PDF, 496 pages, lifetime access from CardiologyBooks.com.
