Chest pain : advanced assessment and management skills / / edited by John W. Albarran and Jenny Tagney

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145297103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-31936-8; 9786611319366; 0-470-77512-2; 0-470-77761-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): AlbarranJohn W; TagneyJenny
• Disciplina: 616.1/23075
• Soggetti: Chest pain; Coronary heart disease - Diagnosis; Diagnosis, Differential
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Background to the assessment and management of patients with chest pain / J.W. Albarran and J. Tagney -- Coronary heart disease healthcare policy and evolution of chest pain assessment and management in the UK / T. Quinn -- History taking / J. Tagney -- Clinical examination skills for assessing the patient with chest pain / J. Younker -- Assessment and differential diagnoses in the patient with chest pain / J. Benger -- Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an acute coronary syndrome / S. Green and J. Tagney -- Analysing the presentation of women with chest pain and other symptoms associated with coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction / J.W. Albarran -- Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to either acute pericarditis or myocarditis / J.W. Albarran -- Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an aortic dissection / H. Cox -- Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to pulmonary embolism / J. Keenan -- Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to trauma / S. Binks and J. Benger -- Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to oesophago-gastric ; disorders / T. Finlay and J. Keenan -- Assessing and managing the patient with musculoskeletal chest pain / R. Hoskins -- Assessing and managing the patient with pulmonary chest pain / J. Tagney and S. Green -- Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse, and herpes zoster / J.W. Albarran and H. Cox.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,