The Lettsomian Lectures on Diseases and Disorders of the Heart and Arteries
The Lettsomian Lectures on Diseases and Disorders of the Heart and Arteries
The Lettsomian Lectures on Diseases and Disorders of the Heart and Arteries
This book covers the following topics: Natural State of Heart and Arteries
after 40, Causes of cardio-vascular disorder and disease, Physical Stress ,
Nervous Influences, Cardiac Poisons, Disturbances of Metabolism, Gout, Syphilis,
Acute specific fevers, Chronic affections, Complex causes, Old-standing
Rheumatic Lesions, Family heart.
This note explains the following
topics: Major risk factors of stroke, Primary Prevention, Early
identification of symptoms of stroke and management of TIA, Management
of established acute stroke care , Secondary Prevention, Rehabilitation,
Pattern of assistance for integrating Stroke care services in District
Hospital.
Author(s): Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare, Government of India
This note covers the
following topics: Ischemic Heart Disease, Major Syndromes, Prevalence Of
Ischemic Heart Disease, Sudden Cardiac Death, Atherosclerosis, Plaque Rupture
And Thrombosis, Plaque Calcification, Ischemia, Management Of ACS Related Sudden
Cardiac Death, Dating Myocardial Infarcts, Acute MI.
This note
provides you with information on how a specific mind-body therapy, meditation,
may be used for treatment and/or prevention of hypertension. Topics covered
includes: Contraindications, Determining the Most Appropriate Recommendation,
Forms of Meditation, specific mind-body therapy, Introduction to the Patient
with elevated blood pressures, Meditation, Mind-Body Interventions and Photo
Attributions.
This note explains the basic physiology and
pathophysiologic mechanisms of cardiovascular disease in a straightforward and
diagrammatic manner, gives guidelines as to when referral is appropriate, and,
uniquely, explains what the specialist is likely to do. This facilitates an
understanding of the specialty not available from standard textbooks.
This
textbook on Angiography and Endovascular Therapy for Peripheral Artery Disease
provides a comprehensive angiographic approach to assess and determine optimal
treatment strategies for peripheral artery disease. Each chapter focuses on
angiography as it relates to the outcomes of endovascular work.
The information in this
guide is intended to help health care decisionmakers, patients and clinicians,
health system leaders, and policymakers, among others make well-informed
decisions and thereby improve the quality of health care services.
The aim of this study was to describe
rare but serious and sometimes fatal entities in patients with cardiothoracic
trauma sustained in two Scandinavian countries, and to determine the outcome.
This note covers the following topics: Signs and symptoms,
Diagnosis, Overview of Atherosclerosis, Etiology of Atherosclerosis,
Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis, Epidemiology of Atherosclerosis,
Patient Education in Atherosclerosis, Patient History, Physical
Examination, Lipid Profile, Blood Glucose and Hemoglobin A1C,
Ultrasonographic Examination, MRI and Scintigraphy, Treatment of
Atherosclerosis and Drug Agents.
This note covers the following topics: Hypertensive
Emergencies, Accelerated hypertension and hypertensive urgency,
Patient education, Evaluation, Differential Diagnosis workup for
Malignant Hypertension, Medical Management, Surgical Therapy and
Prognosis and Prevention.
This note covers the following topics related to
Nephrosclerosis treatment and medication: Medical Care, Diuretics, ACE
inhibitors, Renin inhibitors, Calcium channel blockers, Direct
vasodilators, Central-acting alpha-2 agonists, Alpha-1 antagonists,
Antihypertensives, Low-dose thiazides, ACE inhibitor and ARB
combination therapy.
This note covers the following topics:Risk Assessment and
Primary Prevention, Classification of Recommendations, Secondary
Prevention Goals and Management, Women and Coronary Artery Disease.
An electrocardiogram is an electrical recording of
the heart and is used in the investigation of heart disease. This library is a
collection of realistic looking recordings which will help improve your ECG
skills. Topics coverd are: ischaemic heart disease, hypertrophy patterns,
atrioventricular (AV) block, bundle branch block, supraventricular rhythms,
ventricular rhythms, Wolff Parkinson White syndrome.
This note covers the following topics: Arrhythmias, Atherosclerosis and
Risk Factors, Cancer and the Heart, Cardiovascular Syndromes in Systemic
Diseases, Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult, Coronary Artery Disease,
Electrophysiology Procedures, Invasive Diagnostic, Interventional, and Surgical
Procedures, Myocardial Disease and Cardiomyopathies, Pericardial Disease,
Peripheral Vascular Disease, Special Patient Populations, Valvular Heart
Disease.