Chest pain : advanced assessment and management skills / / edited by John W. Albarran and Jenny Tagney.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Albarran, John W.; Tagney, Jenny.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: ix, 264 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Background to the assessment and management of patients with chest pain / J.W. Albarran and J. Tagney
• Coronary heart disease healthcare policy and evolution of chest pain assessment and management in the UK / T. Quinn
• History taking / J. Tagney
• Clinical examination skills for assessing the patient with chest pain / J. Younker
• Assessment and differential diagnoses in the patient with chest pain / J. Benger
• Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an acute coronary syndrome / S. Green and J. Tagney
• Analysing the presentation of women with chest pain and other symptoms associated with coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction / J.W. Albarran
• Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to either acute pericarditis or myocarditis / J.W. Albarran
• Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an aortic dissection / H. Cox
• Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to pulmonary embolism / J. Keenan
• Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to trauma / S. Binks and J. Benger
• Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to oesophago-gastric disorders / T. Finlay and J. Keenan
• Assessing and managing the patient with musculoskeletal chest pain / R. Hoskins
• Assessing and managing the patient with pulmonary chest pain / J. Tagney and S. Green
• Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse, and herpes zoster / J.W. Albarran and H. Cox.