A concise, reliable, and useful guide to understanding the practical application of hemodynamics in clinical medicine
Written by a team of highly qualified authors with significant academic and professional experience, the third edition of Cardiovascular Hemodynamics for the Physician includes information on specific sample topics including:
Fundamentals of Hemodynamics
Details of right heart catheterization and PA catheter placement, atrial waveforms, cardiac output, and the diagnosis, localization, and quantification of intracardiac shunts
Hemodynamics of valvular diseases, including aortic and mitral stenosis and regurgitation, pulmonary valve disease, and tricuspid valve disease
Hypertrophic and restrictive cardiomyopathies
Acute and chronic heart failure
Pericardial disease, including constrictive pericarditis, effusion-contractile pericarditis, and cardiac tamponade
Cardiogenic shock
Hemodynamics of mechanical circulatory support devices, including the Echo, Impala, tandem heart, and intracardiac defibrillator Aorta
Coronary Hemodynamics, Fractional Flow Reserve, and Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction
Right Heart Hemodynamics Ventricular Myocardial Infarction
Pulmonary Blood Pressure
Hemodynamics of Arrhythmias and Pacemakers
Cardiovascular Hemodynamics for the Physician, Third Edition, is an essential reference for cardiologists, critical care specialists, anesthesiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, advanced care providers working in the intensive care unit, catheterization laboratory, or CV surgical service, medical and surgical residents, cardiovascular flows, intensive care nurses, and catheterization laboratory nurses and technicians.
