Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop
Winston Wicomb was too dark to fit in with his family's efforts to evade the Apartheid era's notorious inspectors and had to hide whenever there was a knock on their door. This is the story of an eternal optimist and profound dreamer who managed to rise from the backstreets of Cape Town to become an internationally recognized transplant pioneer.
Now with 620 questions - more than 250 completely new to this edition - this review guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect current science and clinical knowledge. This edition includes improved diagnostic-quality images, an emphasis on new drugs, and added chapters devoted to anatomy, clinical trials and ethics, neuro-ophthalmology, and case ......
Heart disease is the number one killer of women, and more women die each year from heart disease than men. This guide to the woman's heart focuses on the unique factors affecting women's cardiovascular health. It provides potentially life-saving information and guidance to help women monitor their own heart health.
With a focus on the multidisciplinary cardiovascular team, this cardiac care resource provides a wealth of evidence-based information and guidance for advanced practice nurses in the clinical setting. It encompasses clinical findings, diagnostic testing, state-of-the-art procedures, and therapeutics management options common in both inpatient and ......
Cardiovascular medicine is witnessing an explosion in capability for remote monitoring of implantable electronic devices. This book provides a technical and clinical framework for implementation of remote monitoring in the clinic, with a generous supply of clinical vignettes designed to illustrate the real-world utilization of this new technology.
Heart disease is the leading cause of the death in the United States, and those who experience cardiac events suffer a range of psychological sequelae. This book provides an orientation to this specialization and, drawing on a variety of therapy models, describes empirically-supported intervention strategies.
This concise primer introduces mental health practitioners to the fundamentals of chronic heart disease. It reviews basic etiology and specific methods for assessing and treating comorbid psychological disorders.
Offers an understanding of waveforms and tracings seen in various disease states as well as the pathophysiology behind those findings. This title helps readers to learn to identify disease states and waveform subtleties from single tracings or from case studies.
