Chest Pain : Advanced Assesment and Management Skills (Paperback)

Section 1 Principles of assessment and diagnosis.

Chapter 1: Background to the assessment and management of patients with chest pain.

Chapter 2: Coronary heart disease healthcare policy and evolution of chest pain assessment and management in the UK.

Chapter 3: History taking.

Chapter 4: Clinical examination skills for assessing the patient with chest pain.

Chapter 5: Assessment and differential diagnoses in the patient with chest pain.

Section 2 Advanced assessment and management of patients presenting with chest pain.

Chapter 6: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an acute coronary syndrome.

Chapter 7: Analysing the presentation of women with chest pain and other symptoms associated with coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction.

Chapter 8: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to either acute pericarditis or myocarditis.

Chapter 9: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an aortic dissection.

Chapter 10: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to pulmonary embolism.

Chapter 11: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to trauma.

Chapter 12: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to oesophago-gastric disorders.

Chapter 13: Assessing and managing the patient with musculoskeletal chest pain.

Chapter 14: Assessing and managing the patient with pulmonary chest pain.

Chapter 15: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse and herpes zoster