Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide 3rd Edition
by Walter H. Johnson (Author), James H. Moller (Author)
Caring for children with heart disease is extremely complex, requiring a different and often tailor-made approach compared with adults with similar cardiac problems.Built on the success of previous editions and brought to you by a stellar author team, Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide provides a unique, concise and extremely practical overview of heart disease in children.From history-taking, physical examination, ECG, and chest X-ray – the basics that enable clinicians to uncover possible problems and eliminate areas of false concern – it goes on to examine the range of more complex topics in the diagnosis and treatment/management of childhood cardiovascular disease.New to this edition you’ll find:
- An enhanced section on imaging including recent advances in cardiac MRI and fetal echocardiography.
- New techniques in genetic testing for heart disease in special populations.
- Much more emphasis on the importance of echocardiography in understanding the pathophysiology of congenital cardiac malformations.
- Expanded section on cardiac conditions in the neonate, specifically on prenatal diagnosis and management, neonatal screening for congenital heart disease, and hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- Expanded and updated congestive cardiac failure section, including the latest in genetic and metabolic causes of heart failure, and medical/surgical treatment options; discussion of bridging therapies; essentials of transplantation, including common drug treatment regimens, clinical recognition of treatment complications and rejection, outcomes, morbidity and survival.































