2010, Lippincott Williams Wilkins, Ed., 624 pags., 22 cm x 28 cm, Tapa Dura.
Complications in the Cath Lab provides interventional cardiologists, endovascular interventionalists, and physicians in training with a comprehensive resource on the preventive of cardiovascular complications.
Complications in the Cath Lab provides interventional cardiologists, endovascular interventionalists, and physicians in training with a comprehensive resource on the prevention and management of complications in interventional cardiology. The book focuses specifically on risk factors, prevention, and management with conventional and/or with bailout techniques and devices. It includes many images of common and rare complications and of devices.
The first section, on general principles, includes quality assurance, training requirements, legal considerations, adjunctive pharmacotherapy, and conscious sedation. Subsequent sections cover general complications of invasive procedures and complications of specific coronary interventions, noncoronary cardiac interventions, peripheral vascular procedures, pediatric interventions, and electrophysiology procedures.
A companion website includes videos of over 100 complications and bailout techniques.
Features
Provides information on risk factors and prevention
Many images and illustrations of common and rare complications
Guidelines for management of specific complications
Diverse group of authors with specific expertise in interventional cardiology, structural heart disease, vascular surgery, interventional radiology, neuroradiology, electrophysiology, and pediatric cardiology
Table of contents
Section 1: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
1: Risk Assessment
2: Quality Assurance and Reporting
3: Legal Considerations: Informed Consent and Disclosure Practices
4: Training and Facility Development
5: When Should a Procedure Not be Done
6: Adjunctive Pharmacology (Benefits and Complications)
7: Moderate Sedation in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Procedures
Section 2: SYSTEMIC AND LOCAL COMPLICATIONS OF INVASIVE PROCEDURES IN GENERAL
8: Predicting and Avoiding Death, Emergency Surgery, and Other Complications of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
