Heart Failure (PDF)

Providing optimal care for heart failure patients is a complex
challenge that requires cooperation and coordination across
multiple disciplines. Now, you can apply the successful techniques
pioneered at the Cleveland Clinic, which are carefully explored and
explained in this text.

Drs. McCarthy and Young draw on their experience to show how an
interdisciplinary team works together to:

* arrive at a proper diagnosis

* initiate medical therapy

* make decisions regarding the best use of percutaneous
therapies, surgical therapies, electrical therapies, and the use of
mechanical circulatory support devices and transplantation.

Throughout the book, they present the most updated evidence for
both drug trials and surgical trials. They emphasize the benefits
of performing the most complete surgery that is practical, then
continuing medical therapy. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of
treatment, but the authors recognize that the best way to manage an
individual patient is often to adapt a variety of different
therapies. They state their opinions clearly, identifying which
part of care is science and which is art.

Heart Failure: A Combined Medical and Surgical Approach
is a true collaboration that helps you identify the most effective
strategies - operative interventions, pacing and ICD
treatment, new diagnostic tools, and pharmacotherapeutic
developments - and implement them for your patients.