Chest pain
Subtitle: advanced assessment and management skills
By: edited by John W. Albarran and Jenny Tagney.
Contributors: Albarran, John W.; Tagney, Jenny.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781405144223
Subjects: Chest pain.; Coronary heart disease -- Diagnosis.; Diagnosis, Differential.; Chest Pain -- diagnosis.; Chest Pain -- therapy.; Medical History Taking -- methods.; Physical Examination -- methods.
Description: This is a concise accessible guide to differential diagnosis of chest pain for health professionals. It addresses cardiac and non-cardiac causes of chest pain and adopts a systematic approach to assessment skills and evidence-based interventions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Background to the assessment and management of patients with chest pain / J.W. Albarran and J. Tagney; title: Coronary heart disease healthcare policy and evolution of chest pain assessment and management in the UK / T. Quinn; title: History taking / J. Tagney; title: Clinical examination skills for assessing the patient with chest pain / J. Younker; title: Assessment and differential diagnoses in the patient with chest pain / J. Benger; title: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an acute coronary syndrome / S. Green and J. Tagney; title: Analysing the presentation of women with chest pain and other symptoms associated with coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction / J.W. Albarran; title: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to either acute pericarditis or myocarditis / J.W. Albarran; title: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to an aortic dissection / H. Cox; title: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to pulmonary embolism / J. Keenan; title: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to trauma / S. Binks and J. Benger; title: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to oesophago-gastric disorders / T. Finlay and J. Keenan; title: Assessing and managing the patient with musculoskeletal chest pain / R. Hoskins; title: Assessing and managing the patient with pulmonary chest pain / J. Tagney and S. Green; title: Assessing and managing the patient with chest pain due to cardiac syndrome X, cocaine misuse, and herpes zoster / J.W. Albarran and H. Cox.