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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463569703321

Autore

Jones David S (David Shumway)

Titolo

Broken hearts [[electronic resource] ] : the tangled history of cardiac care / / David S. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-4214-0802-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

616.1/237

Soggetti

Myocardial infarction

Atherosclerosis

Cardiovascular system - Surgery

Surgery - Complications

Electronic books.

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

The mysteries of heart attacks -- The case for plaque rupture -- The case against plaque rupture -- Learning by doing -- The plaque rupture consensus -- Rupture therapeutics -- Therapeutic ruptures -- Fear and unpredictability -- Surgical ambition and fear -- Suffering cerebrums -- Deliriogenic personalities -- The case of the missing complications -- Selective inattention -- The cerebral complications of coronary artery bypass surgery -- A taxonomy of inattention -- Competition's complications.