Description
The ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiovascular Care is the official textbook of the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA) of the European Society of Cardiology. The new edition continues to approach issues on intensive and acute cardiac care for not only cardiologists, intensivists and critical care specialists, but emergency physicians and healthcare professionals too. Tubaro, Marco/ Vranckx, Pascal/ Price, Susanna/ Vrints, Christiaan Introduction; 1 Intensive and acute cardiac care: an introduction; 2 Training and certification in acute cardiac care; 3 Patient safety and clinical governance; 4 Databases, registries and quality of care; The pre-hospital phase and the emergency department; 5 Sudden cardiac death: epidemiology and prevention; 6 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the post-cardiac arrest syndrome; 7 The emergency medical system; 8 Chest pain and chest pain units; 9 Acute dyspnoea in the emergency department; The intensive cardiac care unit; 10 Recommendations for the structure, organization and operation of the intensive cardiac care units; 11 The intensive cardiac care unit team; 12 The heart team in acute cardiac care; 13 Ethical issues in cardiac arrest and acute cardiac care: a European perspective; Monitoring and investigations in the intensive cardiac care unit; 14 Pathophysiology and clinical assessment of the cardiovascular system (including pulmonary artery catheter); 15 The respiratory system; 16 Neurological conditions of the acute care patient; 17 Monitoring of the kidney, liver and other vital organs; 18 Blood gas analysis: acid-base and fluid and electrolyte disorders; 19 Clinical assessment and monitoring of chest radiographs; 20 Echocardiography and thoracic ultrasound; 21 Ultrasound-guided vascular access in intensive/acute cardiac care; 22 Computed tomography angiography and other applications of computed tomography; 23 Cardiac magnetic resonance in the intensive cardiac unit; Procedures in intensive cardiac care unit; 24 Mechanical ventilation; 25 Non-invasive ventilation; 26 Temporary pacing; 27 Pericardiocentesis; 28 Chest tubes; 29 Renal support therapy; 30 Portable (short-term) mechanical circulatory support; 31 Implanted cardiac support devices; 32 Nutrition support in acute cardiac care; 33 Physiotherapy in critically ill patients; 34 Donor organ management; The laboratory in intensive and acute cardiac care; 35 The use of biomarkers in acute cardiovascular disease; 36 Biomarkers in acute coronary syndromes; 37 Biomarkers in acute heart failure; 38 Biomarkers of coagulation and thrombosis; 39 Biomarkers of renal and hepatic failure; Acute coronary syndromes; 40 Atherosclerosis and thrombosis; 41 The universal definition of myocardial infarction; 42 Systems of care for patients with acute ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI networks); 43 ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction; 44 Fibrinolytic antithrombotic and antiplatelet drugs in acute coronary syndromes; 45 Mechanical complications of myocardial infarction; 46 Non ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes; 47 Percutaneous coronary interventions in patients with acute coronary syndromes; 48 Coronary artery bypass graft surgery; 49 Cardiogenic shock in patients with acute coronary syndromes; 50 Gender considerations in acute coronary syndromes; Acute heart failure; 51 Acute heart failure: epidemiology, classification and pathophysiology; 52 Acute heart failure: early pharmacological therapy; 53 Non-pharmacologic therapy of acute heart failure: when drugs alone are not enough; 54 Acute heart failure: heart failure surgery and transplantation; Arrhythmias; 55 Conduction disturbances and pacemaker; 56 Atrial fibrillation and supraventricular arrhythmias; 57 Ventricular tachyarrhythmias and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; Other acute cardiovascular conditions; 58 Myocarditis and pericarditis; 59 Acute valve disease and endocarditis; 60 Congenital heart disease in adults; 61 Aortic emergencies; 62 Cardiac complications in trauma; 63 Cardiac emergencies in pregnancy; Concomitant acute conditions; 64 Acute respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome; 65 Pulmonary hypertension; 66 Pulmonary embolism; 67 Stroke; 68 Acute kidney injury; 69 Hyperglycaemia, diabetes and other endocrine emergencies; 70 Bleeding and haemostatic disorders; 71 Anaemia and transfusion; 72 Infection, sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction syndrome; 73 Acute pain in the intensive cardiac care unit; 74 Acute cognitive disorders: recognition and management of delirium in the cardiovascular intensive care unit; 75 Special conditions in the immunosuppressed patient; 76 Perioperative cardiac care of the high-risk non-cardiac patient; 77 Perioperative management of the high risk surgical patient: cardiac surgery; 78 Palliative care in the intensive cardiac care unit
