Gender Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes

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Although men have the highest prevalence and incidence of cardiovascular disease, women suffer from worse health outcomes and higher mortality rates from cardiovascular disease compared to men.

Women are also underdiagnosed and undertreated for cardiovascular disease compared to men. A review of the literature revealed three main factors contributing to this gender disparity: gender roles, psychosocial factors, and medical bias.

These factors are interconnected and influence one another. Since the factors that contribute to the disparity are multifaceted, ways to narrow the gender disparity include a combination of individual, institutional, and societal level interventions.

Heart Disease (Biographies of Disease)

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Written by a past president of the American Heart Association, Heart Disease is a comprehensive account of the leading cause of death in the West. Sequential chapters describe the structure and function of the heart, the various disease states, and the treatments for each major disease.

In addition, the book examines the vast array of diagnostic tests and the most advanced treatments available, from basic drugs for prevention such as aspirin to transplants and artificial hearts.

Dr. de Silva, who teaches at Harvard Medical School, also covers historical aspects of heart disease, discoveries about the structure and function of the heart, and the ways in which heart disease can be diagnosed and treated. Underlying conditions that affect the heart are described and linked to the treatments and devices used to correct disease conditions.

Chronic Total Occlusions: A Guide to Recanalization

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Chronic Total Occlusions or CTOs can be found in 30% of patients with coronary artery disease. Despite advances, CTOs remain one of the most frequently identified lesions in interventional cardiology yet least likely to be successfully treated.

The prevalence of the disorder is vexing. The threat to your patients is significant. The condition is complex. And, treatment remains a challenge.

Learn how to approach CTOs from internationally-recognized physician-educators. Turn to Chronic Total Occlusions: A Guide to Recanalization, 2e for expert insight into the world of CTOs and clear, practical guidance you can apply directly and immediately in your cath lab.

Offering the most comprehensive information available, this completely updated second edition provides you wih:

• Full-color images from the diagnostic modalities that are essential in identifying CTOs
• Data on indications and efficacy from the most recent clinical trials
• Practical guidance on the selection and use of the latest wires and devices
• Even more tips and tricks from leading operators from the world’s busiest centers
• Clinical cases to illustrate some of the more complex scenarios and common complications
• And more!

Shnider and Levinson's Anesthesia for Obstetrics

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Now in a fully updated Fifth Edition, Shnider and Levinson's Anesthesia for Obstetrics, continues to provide the comprehensive coverage that has made it the leading reference in the field.

The rising number of Cesarean births and the more advanced age of first-time mothers in the United States have brought with them an increased risk for complications, making the role of the obstetric anesthesiologist increasingly important.

This comprehensive reference addresses maternal and fetal physiology; fetal assessment; anesthesia and analgesia in both vaginal and Ceserean delivery; neonatal well-being; management of fetal, maternal, and anesthetic complications; and management of coexisting disorders in the mother.

The Fifth Edition includes a new editorial team, a new full-color format, and new sections on Assessment of the Fetus, Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery; Neonatal Well-Being: Old and New Concepts; Ethical, Medical, and Social Challenges and Issues; Maternal Safety, Difficult and Failed Intubation, Morbidity, and Mortality; and Anesthetic Considerations for Reproductive, In-Utero, and Non-Obstetric Procedures.

Trauma, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics (The Clinics: Internal Medicine)

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This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics covers the latest updates in trauma anesthesia written by the world-leading experts on the topic.

Procedurally-focused articles cover best practices in video-assisted intubation devices, coagulation and hemorrhagic shock, homoestatis control, multiple casualties, massive bleeding and more. Achieve the best outcomes and keep current on this area of anesthesia practice.

The Seven Day Sleep Makeover (A Good Night's Sleep Can Be A Lifesaver)

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Most of us know that sleep is part of our normal daily routine, and we don't perform well if we don't get enough of it. However, there are many other facts about sleep that are not as well known.

According to a study published by the Harvard Medical School in 2008, such health concerns as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension, can be attributed to getting an inadequate amount of sleep.

Dr. Buchanan's research, complemented by her observations as a Medical Director, has led to some very important findings. For example, studies by medical researchers show that people who sleep less than seven hours a day are more likely to gain weight. And it is possible to actually lose weight by adjusting the amount of sleep you get in a 24 hour period.

You'll find this book is much more than an enjoyable read, it also could change your life, and the life experience of your friends and family.

Detection Monitoring and Treatment of Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy

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The detection, monitoring and treatment of Autonomic Neuropathy is addressed in this volume.

Autonomic Neuropathy is a deadly complication of diabetes and little is known about it.

Detected early, it is capable of being reversed which could dramatically reduce fatality due to cardiovascular disease.

A sign of its importance is that the ADA since 2006 has recommended that Heart Rate Variability testing be done as soon as Diabetes is detected and repeated at least yearly if negative.

This could not be implemented easily due to lack of affordable and reliable testing methodologies. This book shows how the ADA recommendation

1. can be implemented and
2. the problem treated.

Mechanical Ventilation (Pittsburgh Critical Care Medicine)

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Since most critically ill patients require mechanical ventilation, it is by far the most common form of life-sustaining therapy. As technology has evolved, clinicians have been presented with an increasing number of ventilator options as well as an ever-expanding and confusing list of terms, abbreviations, and acronyms.

Unfortunately, this has made it extremely difficult for clinicians at all levels of training to truly understand mechanical ventilation and to optimally manage patients with respiratory failure.

Mechanical Ventilation was written to address these problems. This handbook provides students, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians with a clear explanation of essential physiology, terms and acronyms, and ventilator modes and breath types.

It describes how mechanical ventilators work and explains clearly and concisely how to write ventilator orders, how to manage patients with many different causes of respiratory failure, how to "wean" patients from the ventilator, and much more. Mechanical Ventilation is meant to be carried and used at the bedside and to allow everyone who cares for critically ill patients to master this essential therapy.

Principles And Practice of Mechanical Ventilation, Third Edition (Tobin, Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation)

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The definitive guide to the use of mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients – now in full color and updated to reflect the latest advances. Principles & Practice of Mechanical Ventilation, 3e provides comprehensive, authoritative coverage of all the clinical, pharmacological, and technical issues surrounding the use of mechanical ventilation.

Editor Martin J. Tobin – past editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine – has enlisted more than 100 authors, all of whom are at the forefront of research in their chosen subfield in order to provide the most authoritative and up-to-date information possible. No other text so thoroughly and comprehensively explores the myriad advances in modes and methodologies that have occurred in this ever-changing field as this cornerstone text.

Features

• Each chapter has been extensively revised to reflect the latest research
• A strong focus on the biomedical principles that govern ventilator management
• Expert insights from contributors in critical care, pulmonary medicine, anesthesiology, surgery, basic science, provide a unique multidisciplinary approach

68 chapters that explore every important aspect of mechanical ventilation, including: Conventional and unconventional methods of ventilator support; Noninvasive methods of ventilator support; Unconventional methods of ventilator support; Physiologic effect of mechanical ventilation; Complications in ventilator supported patients; Weaning of ventilator-support; Management of the ventilator-supported patient; Adjunctive therapy, including fluid management, inhaled antibiotic therapy, and bronchodilator therapy; Ethics and economics

Principles & Practice of Mechanical Ventilation, 3e comprehensively covers the principles and practice of keeping patients alive through the use of mechanical ventilation, along with related pharmacological and technical issues.

Sleep, Stroke and Cardiovascular Disease

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The relationship between sleep disorders in particular sleep apnea, a highly prevalent condition  and common vascular disturbances such as stroke and hypertension is an area of active research.

Summarizing the clinical evidence to date between sleep disorders and vascular pathology, this is the first time a comprehensive overview of this relationship has been covered in a single volume.

Bringing together some of the world's most renowned authors in the field, Sleep, Stroke and Cardiovascular Disease contains recommended treatment plans - allowing for rapid and accurate diagnosis and management of patients - enabling learning from real experience.

Of interest, not only, to specialists who intervene in diagnosis and management of sleep and stroke disorders such as neurologists, cardiologists and pulmonologists, the book will also be of value to primary-care practitioners, allowing them to arrive at better diagnoses and management of sleep and vascular disorders.