Présentation de l'éditeur :
BPP University School of Health is collaborating with the British Medical Journal to publish a series of major new reference titles across a number of subject areas. Each volume presents a range of important reference material on specific clinical topics the content of which has been carefully selected from the wealth of information contained in the extensive recent archives of the BMJ and published in the various editions of the journal. These books will provide an invaluable reference source on current best practice for all clinicians. This volume provides a collection of carefully selected clinical reviews published in the British Medical Journal focusing on cardiology and respiratory medicine written by highly recognised authors from different backgrounds. Subjects discussed include; preparticipation screening for cardiovascular abnormalities in young competitive athletes, hypercholesterolaemia and its management, investigation and management of congestive heart failure, diagnosis and management of supraventricular tachycardia, management of atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, clopidogrel in acute coronary syndromes, anticipating and managing bleeding complications in patients with coronary stents who are receiving dual antiplatelet treatment, cardiac resynchronisation therapy for chronic heart failure and conduction delay, degenerative aortic stenosis, evaluating cardiovascular risk assessment for asymptomatic people, inherited cardiomyopathies, resistant hypertension, pulmonary hypertension: diagnosis and management, difficult to treat asthma in adults, management and prevention of exacerbations of COPD, how to investigate a patient with suspected interstitial lung disease, obstructive sleep apnoea, an overview of how asbestos exposure affects the lung, the changing epidemiology of lung cancer with a focus on screening and sarcoidosis.
Biographie de l'auteur :
Dr Babita Jyoti is a Radiation Oncologist with a special interest in Paediatric Proton Therapy. She graduated in Medicine in India followed by training in UK and obtained MRCP (UK) & FRCR (UK). She trained as a Clinical Oncologist at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. She is currently working at the University of Florida Health Proton Therapy Institute in Paediatric Proton Therapy. She has been a PBL tutor and an OSCE examiner at Manchester Medical School. Dr Michail A. Karvelis is a Pain Fellow at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals. He qualified from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2003. He trained as an anaesthetist both in Greece and the UK and he obtained his CCT in 2011. He was awarded a Masters degree in Pain management from Leicester University in 2011. He has worked as a consultant anaesthetist in the Naval Hospital of Athens and since 2014 he has been developing his special interest in regional anaesthesia and pain medicine in the NHS.
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