Description
Written by someone still scrubbing
Interventional references written at a distance from the lab share a tell — thorough on evidence, thin at the moment the wire will not cross. This collection is written by a practising interventional cardiologist, and the balance reflects that: technical chapters carry the detail an operator needs, and the complication chapters read as first-hand accounts.
For operators outside high-volume centres
A substantial part of our directory works in labs doing modest annual volume, where the difficult case arrives infrequently enough that no one has recent experience of it. That is the hardest position in interventional cardiology, and it is the one this collection serves best — the bifurcation you meet four times a year, the perforation you have read about and never seen.
Technical scope
Radial and femoral access with their respective closure and complication profiles. Diagnostic angiography and lesion assessment. Physiological assessment with FFR and iFR, including the circumstances in which the number misleads. Intravascular imaging with IVUS and OCT and the current unsettled evidence on imaging-guided PCI. Calcium modification and lesion preparation. Bifurcation and left main strategy against SYNTAX and EXCEL. Chronic total occlusion algorithms. Primary PCI. Structural procedures.
Complications as action sequences
No-reflow and slow flow. Coronary perforation graded by severity, with the management diverging accordingly. Dissection. Retroperitoneal haemorrhage. Acute and subacute stent thrombosis. Equipment entrapment. Each is set out as a sequence of actions in order, which is the only format of use while one is happening.
Antithrombotic strategy
DAPT duration, de-escalation and the triple-therapy problem, argued against TWILIGHT, AUGUSTUS, PIONEER AF-PCI and MASTER DAPT rather than reduced to a recommendation — which matters when local formulary or bleeding risk forces a departure from the default.
Access
PDF collection, lifetime access, at CardiologyBooks.com.
