Description
Built for the thirty seconds you have
Between patients, on a ward round, on the phone to a referring hospital — the moment you need a cardiology fact is almost never a moment you can spend reading. What you need is the number, sourced and defensible, in a form you can act on and quote.
That is the entire design brief of this volume. 1,900 facts, each a single line, across 19 chapters and 532 pages. No narrative, no case vignettes, no illustrative digressions.
In practice
Physicians in our directory report the same three uses. Checking a threshold before committing to a referral. Confirming a drug interaction in front of a patient without appearing to guess. Settling a disagreement with a colleague where both parties are confident and only one is right. All three take under a minute with this book and considerably longer with a conventional text.
For doctors practising across borders
Guidance diverges internationally, and a physician who trained in one system and practises in another carries a set of thresholds that may no longer be the local standard. Where the volume states a number, it names the trial or guideline the number comes from — SYNTAX, EXCEL, ISCHEMIA, PARTNER, COAPT, DANISH — which lets a clinician see which consensus they are working from and adjust deliberately rather than by habit.
That matters particularly for members practising in the Gulf, Southeast Asia and East Africa, where local protocol may follow either the European or the American line depending on the institution.
Continuing professional development
Directory members using it for structured CPD typically work one chapter a week, which covers the volume in under five months without displacing clinical time. It counts toward the self-directed learning component in most jurisdictions, though members should confirm against their own regulator.
Who buys it
General physicians, internists, emergency doctors, intensivists, family physicians and cardiologists returning to general practice after subspecialty work.
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