Visual Guide to Neonatal Cardiology

Synopsis

The Visual Guide to Neonatal Cardiology is a comprehensive, highly illustrated, reference covering the evaluation, diagnosis and management of cardiac disease in the newborn.

Contains over 900 color illustrations, including patient photographs, chest roentgenograms, electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, angiocardiograms, 3D computed tomogramphy, magnetic resonance imaging, pathologic specimens, and other relevant visual aids

Discusses the natural history of fetal heart disease and the rationale, indications, technique, and impact of fetal cardiac intervention

Reviews the anatomy and physiology of the neonatal cardiovascular system, including differences within the fetal, transitional, neonatal, child and adult circulatory system

Highlights key steps for taking a patient history, including detailed discussion of the cardiac examination (inspection, palpation and auscultation of heart sounds and murmurs)

Presents over 35 morphologic conditions with sections covering introduction, epidemiology, etiology with accepted or postulated embryogenesis, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, physical examination findings, diagnostic evaluation, management, and prognosis

Includes a neonatal formulary reviewing selected medications currently used for treatment of perioperative low cardiac output, congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, sedation, pain and anticoagulation in neonates

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

528 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781118635223

Related ISBNs:

9781118635520, 9781118635148

Publisher:

Wiley

Date of Addition:

03/13/18

Copyrighted By:

John Wiley & Sons

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Textbooks, Medicine

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.