Published March, 2009
By Ian D. Young, Paul Nicholls and Ian Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Cardiology Library
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This concise yet comprehensive pocketbook makes basic lipid metabolism and the main principles of lipid-lowering treatment comprehensible to the reader without over-simplification.

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Published March, 2009
By Ragavendra R. Baliga and William T. Abraham
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Hemodynamic monitoring provides data on blood flow and pressure to assist physicians in determining the status of the patient's heart and in managing heart failure. This book provides a picture of the various options for assessing hemodynamics, including clinical assessment, echocardiography, and transthoracic impedance cardiography.

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Published March, 2009
By P. E. Baldry and P.E. Baldry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Operations on the heart and the prevalence of coronary thrombosis are widely discussed in newspapers and magazines; the importance of this book is that by simple and accurate information it enables the layman as well as doctors to understand the disturbances produced by disease and how they may be corrected or avoided.

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Published March, 2009
By Jeffrey D. Ho and Mark W. Kroll
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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TASER (R) Conducted Electrical Weapons are rapidly replacing the club for law-enforcement control of violent subjects within many countries around the globe.

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Published March, 2009
By Jeffrey K. Aronson
Publisher: Elsevier (Elsevier Science Ltd)
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Enables practitioners to assess the adverse effects of the complete range of drugs used in cardiovascular medicine, including antihypertensive drugs, and drugs used in the treatment of heart failure, angina, angina pectoris, and cardiac arrhythmia and enable practitioners to prescribe preventative treatments with medications.

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Published February, 2009
By Karl-Jrgen Wolf, Zarko Grozdanovic, Thomas Albrecht, Jens O Heidenreich, Andreas Schilling, Frank Wacker, Karl-Jurgen Wolf and Jens Heidenreich
Publisher: Thieme (Thieme Publishing Group)
Series: Direct Diagnosis in Radiology
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Covers the main subspecialties in radiology. This title covers the full spectrum of radiology subspecialties including: brain, gastrointestinal, cardiac, breast, urogenital, spinal, head and neck, musculoskeletal, pediatric, thoracic, vascular, and interventional radiology.

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Published February, 2009
By Reynolds Delgado, Branislav Radovancevic and Harvinder Singh Arora
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
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This heavily-illustrated text, most in color, focuses on the concept of the patient who has progressed to advanced states of ischemic heart diseases. It is a practical guide that offers the latest surgical and therapeutic advances.

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Published February, 2009
By Sumaira Macdonald and Gerald Stansby
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
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Several sizeable multicentre trials are running concurrently, which are comparing carotid endarterectomy (CEA), the "gold standard," with the less invasive alternative, carotid stenting (CAS) for low-risk patients with symptomatic carotid stenoses who are considered to be surgical candidates.

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Published February, 2009
By Andy Bodenham, Helen Hamilton and H Hamilton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Nursing
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The author addresses the different stages a patient may experience prior to receiving a VAD (Ventricular Assist Device, beginning with the various reasons for gaining venous access and specific challenges this may present e.g. age, acute and chronic disease processes, anatomical anomalies and cosmetic issues.

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Published February, 2009
By Neil Poulter and Neil R. Poulter
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
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Over the last 10-20 years, there has been an increasing appreciation of the need to manage individual risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the context of overall cv risk rather than on the basis of the absolute level of any given risk factor.

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