Park’s Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners, 8th edition (EPUB)

By: Mehrdad Salamat, Myung K. Park

The go-to reference of choice for pediatricians, family practitioners, NPs, and PAs―as well as medical students, residents, and fellows, Park's Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners provides authoritative, everyday guidance on the diagnosis and management of children with congenital and acquired heart disease. The revised 8th Edition continues the tradition of excellence and remains the essential medical reference book on this subject for generalists. Covering everything from history and physical examination through preventative treatment and the management of special problems, it equips you to confidently assess patients and communicate clearly with families and colleagues.

• Provides fundamental and practical information to help you recognize the key signs and symptoms of potential cardiac disease and determine whether the findings require a referral to a pediatric cardiologist for diagnosis and management
• Incorporates all of the latest concepts and most recent developments in the field, including more emphasis on genetic considerations in cardiology
• Includes new material on aortopathy, congenital coronary artery abnormalities, genetics of arrhythmias, and advanced imaging such as cardiac CTA and cardiac MRI, as well as many new color echocardiographic and CT images
• Offers highly accessible content through the extensive use of numbered lists, easy-to-use tables, and explanatory graphs and diagrams, as well as practical appendices with suggested readings for non-specialists, risk factors, echocardiographic values, and more