This is an authoritative, yet clear and accessible, step-by-step approach to the challenging clinical topic of arrhythmia and 12-lead EKG interpretation in Critical Care and Acute Care settings. Written by nurses for practicing nurses, nursing students, and nursing educators, the book helps to foster the breadth and depth of knowledge and mastery ......
Features chapters that are based on a systematic meta-analysis of the international literature by 40 German scientists who convened to evaluate the research and discarded all but the highest quality data on psychological aspects of CHD. This book is useful for health psychologists who work with CHD patients, researchers, and cardiologists.
Delivering clear and concise explanations to help students easily grasp key concepts, this book provides a comprehensive, no-nonsense approach to EKG interpretation for nurse practitioner and physician assistant students, as well as practicing clinicians who need a quick refresher.
Presents a multitude of practice examples to help critical care students and practitioners grasp and excel at key concepts of 12-Lead EKG and dysrhythmia interpretation. This straightforward resource is ideal for new graduates and nurses who are considering a switch to critical or acute care.
A new approach to understanding, preventing, and treating heart disease to empower you and your loved ones to live long and healthy lives. The main cause of heart disease--the world's number one killer--is a cancer-like "tumor" inside the coronary arteries that keep our hearts beating. Although this similarity to cancer is well-established in ......
A Guide to the Tests and Treatments You Really Need
Knowing what heart tests and treatments are best for you is essential to a healthy heart and mitigating the consequences of heart disease once acquired. Here, Dr. Jignesh Shah walks readers through cardiac health and disease prevention and explains which tests and treatments are vital and which are typically unnecessary.
This book conveys the amount and diversity of motivationally based cardiovascular (CV) response research that currently is being conducted. Chapters discuss mechanisms of motivational influence on CV response and apply motivational approaches to studying CV response in different life circumstances. Health implications are considered throughout.
New applications of echocardiography, nuclear magnetic resonance, cardiovascular magnetic resonance and cardiac computed tomography are rapidly developing and it is imperative that trainees and practitioners alike remain up to date in the latest developments. It is becoming increasingly difficult to remain abreast of these advances in each ......
