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Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management Skills by John Wiley and Sons Ltd (Paperback, 2007)

Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management promotes a systematic approach to the assessment and management of patients presenting with chest pain and related undifferentiated symptoms. Specifically, it equips practitioners with the kwledge and clinical skills needed to effectively differentiate and respond to clinical presentations where the primary symptom for seeking healthcare advice involves chest pain. Introductory chapters in section one explore the principles of physical assessment, history taking and differential diagsis to provide the framework for subsequent chapters, which explore cardiac and n-cardiac causes of chest pain. Section two examines the advanced assessment and overall management of patients with pain in the chest. A range of clinical conditions that trigger chest pain and other related symptoms are covered, including: angina, acute coronary syndromes, pericarditis and myocarditis, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, oesophago-gastric disorders, musculoskeletal causes, pulmonary and respiratory causes, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, chest pain caused by trauma or cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse and Herpes zoster.

Place of Publication
Chicester
Spine
14mm
Edited by
Jenny Tagney, John w. Albarran
Content Note
83
Author Biography
John W. Albarran is Principal Lecturer in Critical Care, University of the West of England, and Jenny Tagney is Cardiology Nurse Consultant, United Bristol Healthcare Trust
Date of Publication
15/01/2007
Imprint
Wiley-Blackwell (An Imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Clinical Medicine: Professional

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