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The Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook

Indispensable, easily accessible guidance for everyone in today’s cardiac cath lab

Michael J Lim (Edited by), Paul Sorajja (Edited by), Morton J. Kern (Edited by)

9780323790666

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2022

592 pages
18.7 x 11.1 x 3.6 cm, 0.52 kg

Current, relevant, and evidence-based, The Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, 5th Edition, offers clear guidance on interventional cardiology in an easy-to-understand, concise format. This must-have handbook is an invaluable resource for physicians, nurses, and technicians in every cath lab, offering quick access to easily accessible guidelines on procedures and patient care. Packed with useful information, hundreds of clear images, and narrated videos from Dr. Kern, this practical manual ensures that health care workers at all levels have the tools they need to understand and perform these complex procedures.

  • Covers a wide range of coronary and peripheral vascular interventional procedures, from the most common to the latest specialized interventions. 

  • Incorporates the most up-to-date equipment with detailed, step-by-step techniques, cautionary notes, and outcomes. 

  • Includes recent procedures such as TAVR, MitraClip™, atherectomy, applications of new non-hyperemic pressure ratios, and approach to LV mechanical support. 

  • Features an easy-to-read outline format, bulleted summary boxes, and quick-reference tables, making this complex subject accessible and understandable. 

  • Employs a multidisciplinary heart team approach, offering practical and authoritative guidance on the many nuances to these challenging procedures. 

  • Includes dedicated chapters on catheters, guide wires, balloons, and stents; interventional pharmacology; PCI; and complications. 

  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. 

Section I – Coronary Interventions:

  1. Basics of percutaneous coronary interventions

  2. Vascular Access

  3. Interventional Pharmacology

  4. Guide catheters, guide wires, balloons, and stents

  5. Intravascular lesion assessment: physiology and imaging

  6. Adjunctive tools: atherectomy devices, laser, thrombectomy

  7. Treatment of bifurcations

  8. Percutaneous coronary interventions of chronic total occlusions

  9. PCI in STEMI, NSTEMI, and shock

  10. PCI with left ventricular hemodynamic support

  11. Coils, plugs, covered stents, and snares

  12. Complications of percutaneous coronary interventions

    13. Section II – Non-Coronary Vascular Intervention

  13. Vascular access for non-coronary intervention

  14. Guides, wires, balloons, and stents for non-coronary interventions

  15. Iliac and femoral peripheral vascular intervention

  16. Aortic, renal, subclavian, and carotid interventions

  17. Venous interventions

Pulmonary vascular interventions

Subject Areas: Cardiovascular medicine [MJD]
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