Chest Pain Advanced Assessment and Management Skills

Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management Skills By
2007 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 140514422X | PDF | 6 MB
Chest Pain: Advanced Assessment and Management promotes a systematic approach to the assessment and management of patients presenting with chest pain and related undifferentiated symptoms. Specifically, it equips practitioners with the knowledge and clinical skills needed to effectively differentiate and respond to clinical presentations where the primary symptom for seeking healthcare advice involves chest pain. Introductory chapters in section one explore the principles of physical assessment, history taking and differential diagnosis to provide the framework for subsequent chapters, which explore cardiac and non-cardiac causes of chest pain. Section two examines the advanced assessment and overall management of patients with pain in the chest. A range of clinical conditions that trigger chest pain and other related symptoms are covered, including: angina, acute coronary syndromes, pericarditis and myocarditis, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, oesophago-gastric disorders, musculoskeletal causes, pulmonary and respiratory causes, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, chest pain caused by trauma or cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse and Herpes zoster.Content: Chapter 1 Background to the Assessment and Management of Patients with Chest Pain ? Using this Book (pages 1-9): John W. Albarran and Jenny TagneyChapter 2 Coronary Heart Disease, Healthcare Policy and Evolution of Chest Pain Assessment and Management in the UK (pages 10-22): Tom QuinnChapter 3 History Taking (pages 23-32): Jenny TagneyChapter 4 Clinical Examination Skills for Assessing the Patient with Chest Pain (pages 33-53): Jackie YounkerChapter 5 Assessment and Differential Diagnoses in the Patient with Chest Pain (pages 54-67): Jonathan R. BengerChapter 6 Assessing and Managing the Patient with Chest Pain Due to an Acute Coronary Syndrome (pages 71-94): Sarah Green and Jenny TagneyChapter 7 Analysing the Presentation of Women with Chest Pain and Other Symptoms Associated with Coronary Heart Disease and Myocardial Infarction (pages 95-113): John W. AlbarranChapter 8 Assessing and Managing the Patient with Chest Pain Due to either Acute Pericarditis or Myocarditis (pages 114-129): John W. AlbarranChapter 9 Assessing and Managing the Patient with Chest Pain Due to an Aortic Dissection (pages 130-142): Helen CoxChapter 10 Assessing and Managing the Patient with Chest Pain Due to Pulmonary Embolism (pages 143-160): Jan KeenanChapter 11 Assessing and Managing the Patient with Chest Pain Due to Trauma (pages 161-184): Simon Binks and Jonathan R. BengerChapter 12 Assessing and Managing the Patient with Chest Pain Due to Oesophago?Gastric Disorders (pages 185-201): Theresa M.D. Finlay and Jan KeenanChapter 13 Assessing and Managing the Patient with Musculoskeletal Chest Pain (pages 202-214): Rebecca HoskinsChapter 14 Assessing and Managing the Patient with Pulmonary Chest Pain (pages 215-233): Jenny Tagney and Sarah GreenChapter 15 Assessing and Managing the Patient with Chest Pain Due to Cardiac Syndrome X, Cocaine Misuse and Herpes Zoster (pages 234-255): John W. Albarran and Helen Cox