Cardiovascular clinical trials : putting the evidence into practice /

• Other Authors: Flather, M., Bhatt, Deepak L., Geisler, Tobias
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, [2012]
• Series: BMJ books.
• Subjects: Heart > Diseases.; Cardiovascular system > Diseases > Diagnosis.; Cardiovascular Diseases > prevention & control.; Clinical Trials as Topic.; MEDICAL > Cardiology.; Electronic books.

The pace of therapeutic advances in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases is rapid, and new clinically-relevant information appears with such frequency that it can be extremely challenging for clinicians to keep up. Still, knowledge and interpretation of major clinical trials is crucial for the r...

Table of Contents:

• Reporting results of clinical trials for publication / Marcus Flather and Tobias Geisler
• The management of chronic coronary artery disease / Sabu Thomas and William E. Boden
• Acute coronary syndromes (ST elevation and non-ST-elevation) / Tobias Geisler, Deepak L. Bhatt, and Marcus Flather
• Heart failure / Chris O'Connor and Wendy G. Strough
• Atrial fibrillation / Chee W. Khoo and Gregory Y.H. Lip
• Electrophysiology and pacing / Sabine Ernst and Irina Horduna
• Percutaneous coronary intervention / Dharam J. Kumbhani and Deepak L. Bhatt
• Randomized controlled trials in cardiac surgery-is there any alternative? / Thanos Athanasiou, Amir Sepehripour, and John Pepper
• Adult congenital heart disease / Cary C. Ward, J. Kevin Harrison, and Tom Bashore
• Cardiac imaging / Aiden Abidov and Daniel S. Berman
• Prevention of cardiovascular disease / Alice J. Owen and Christopher M. Reid.