Main description:

This issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, guest edited by Daniel Thibodeau MHP, PA-C, DFAAPA, is devoted to Cardiology. Articles in this issue include: Hypertension: Evaluation, Management and Keeping Patients in the Safe Zone; Cardiovascular Risk and Assessment: Impact of Comorbidities to the Cardiovascular System; Arrhythmia Detection and Management; Anticoagulation: The Successes and Pitfalls of Long-term Management; Dyslipidemia: Long-term Management and Other Uses of Statins for Cardiac Disease; Acute Coronary Syndrome: Care After a Patient Event and Strategies to Improve Adherence; Evaluation of Chest Pain in the Primary Care Setting; Ischemic Heart Disease; Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy; Pulmonary Hypertension and Thromboembolism: Long-term Management and Chronic Oral Anticoagulation; Approaches to Valvular Disease in the Primary Care Setting; and Syncope: Initial Evaluation and Workup in the Primary Care Office.

Contents:

Physician Assistant Clinics

Cardiology

Foreword: Getting Ready for Boards?

Preface: Cardiology

Hypertension: An Evidence Informed, Case Based Approach

Evaluation of Chest Pain in the Primary Care Setting

Cardiac Arrhythmias: Moving to the Beat of a Different Drummer

Anticoagulation: The Successes and Pitfalls of Long-Term Management

Acute Coronary Syndrome: Care After a Patient Event and Strategies to Improve Adherence

Dyslipidemia: How Low Should We Go? A Review of Current Lipid Guidelines

Heart Failure

Ischemic Heart Disease: Evaluating for Potential Disease in the Previously Undiagnosed, Those Experiencing Angina, and in Those with Stable Disease

Approaches to Valvular Heart Disease in the Primary Care Setting: Classic Presentations and Current Management Guidelines

Syncope: Primary Care Office Evaluation and Workup

Pulmonary Hypertension and Thrombembolism-Long-Term Management and Chronic Oral Anticoagulation

Preventative Cardiology