Primary Care Cardiology

by Lee Goldman

Book Overview

An authoritative, yet practical and user-friendly text that provides rapid information to help primary care providers care for a patient at hand, and simultaneously serves as an up-to-date review. Written by well-known leaders in the field, the text aids in diagnosis and treatment of cardiac patients through the use of color-coded flow diagrams. Also offers a practical approach to common cardiac signs and symptoms. A liberal use of summary tables,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721664024
• ISBN13: 9780721664026
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 541 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Very useful book in my primary care office

I feel indebted to the authors for producing this very useful book. Chapter 12 alone is worth the purchase price. It lists many of the abnormalities seen on an EKG and clearly spells out what needs or does not need to be done in terms of a workup. It has saved me many calls to a cardiologist for a curbside consult. It has many very practical recommendations such as a table of "Indications for hospital admission in patients with heart failure". Each chapter ends with an evidence-based summary for that chapter's topic. Best of all, it seems to only recommend referring the patient when the patient need to be referred unlike other books which end each paragraph with the recommendation that the patient be sent to the specialist. This book was truly written for the family physician or internist sitting by himself or herself in an office in the middle of nowhere.

Primary Cardiology

The best thing I liked this book is the clear, actual and concise presentation of the subject. It is an excellent book for primary care physicians and internists. Primary Cardiology is divided into three parts. Part 1 covers fundamental principles thar underlie evidence-based medicine and translation of advances in science to the practice of medicine. Part 2 rational approaches to common clinical practice. Part 3 focouses on the evaluation of cardiovascular disorder. I higlhy recommend this book.