Table of Contents

1: Introduction: prevention of cardiovascular disease
2: Cardiac assessment
3: Cardiac investigations
4: Valvular disease
5: Infective endocarditis
6: Coronary heart disease: stable angina
7: Acute coronary syndromes (ACS)
8: Interventional cardiology for coronary heart disease
9: Cardiac surgery
10: Chronic heart failure
11: Bradycardias and blocks
12: Tachycardias
13: Electrophysiology
14: Congenital heart disease and inherited cardiac dis-orders
15: Cardiomyopathy
16: Other cardiac problems
17: Cardiac rehabilitation
18: Cardiovascular emergencies
19: Cardiovascular drugs

About the Author

Kate Olson (nee Johnson) has worked in cardiac nursing since 1989, working in a variety of cardiac settings such as coronary care, cardiac intensive care, cardiac surgery and cardiac rehabilitation. She moved into higher education in 1998 and has been running cardiac courses for qualified nurses since then. In 2005 she was asked to help set up a national cardiac nursing journal which commenced in January 2006. She has recently been the Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, and continues to take an active role on the editorial board.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition ...an excellent resource for clinical nursing staff involved in the wide spectrum of cardiac medicine and surgery practice. This is a handbook covering basic but pertinent information in a handy pocket-sized format. I would welcome such an adjunct to my own practice and would recommend it to clinical nursing staff.'
Anne-Marie Ingle, Cardiology News