Park's the pediatric cardiology handbook
(eBook)

English

Revised edition of: Park's the pediatric cardiology handbook / Myung K. Park; with a contribution by Mehrdad Salamat. 5th ed. ©2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Since the publication of the fifth edition of The Pediatric Cardiology Handbook , important advances have been made in both the diagnosis and treatment of children with congenital and acquired heart diseases. These advances make it necessary to update the handbook. Although extensive updating and revisions have been made throughout the book, the handbook maintains its original goal of providing readers with fundamental and practical information in the management of children with cardiac problems. Although every topic and chapter have been updated, certain topics received more extensive revision. Important revisions were made to noninvasive imaging techniques, device management of certain heart conditions, medical and surgical managements of selected congenital heart defects, infective endocarditis, acute rheumatic fever, cardiomyopathies, cardiac arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. More extensive revisions were made in the following topics: neonatal pulse oximetry screening; blood pressure measurement and normal standards in children; Kawasaki disease; long QT syndrome; short QT syndromes; pediatric preventive cardiology, including childhood obesity; and sports participation screening using the new 14-point evaluation.

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