ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiac Care

From the contents:
1. Introduction - Intensive and acute cardiac care: an introduction Dr Marco Tubaro, Dr Nicolas Danchin, and Dr Gerasimos FilippatosPre-hospital Phase
2. Sudden cardiac death: epidemiology and prevention Dr Hans-Richard Arntz
3. CPR and the post-cardiac arrest syndrome Dr Bernd Boettiger, Dr Peter Teschendorf, and Dr Andreas Schneider
4. Comparison of emergency medical systems Professor Frédéric Adnet, Dr Frédéric Lapostolle, and Dr Tomislav Petrovic
5. Telemedicine Dr Peter Clemmensen and Dr Maria Sejersten RipaEmergency Department
6. Chest pain and the Chest Pain Units Dr Eric Durand, Dr Aures Chaib, and Dr Nicolas Danchin
7. Acute dyspnoea Professor Christian Mueller, Dr Nisha Arenja, and Dr Thenral Socrates
8. Arrhythmias Dr Jean Emmanuel de la Coussaye, CLARET, and Dr Guillaume CaylaIntensive Cardiac Care Unit
9. Structure, organization and function of ICCUs Professor Yonathan Hasin and Dr Menachem Nahir
10. The ICCU team Professor Tom Quinn and Professor Eva Swahn
11. Clinical competence and accreditation in ICCU Dr Magda Heras, Dr Alessandro Sionis, and Dr Pablo Loma-Osorio
12. Databases, registries and quality of care Professor Dr Eric Boersma, Professor Bertil Lindahl, and Dr Anselm Gitt
13. Ethics in IACC Professor Leo Bossaert and Dr Jan BahrMonitoring and investigations in ICCU Clinical assessment and monitoring of:
14. - the cardiovascular system (including PAC) Dr Alexandre Mebazaa and Dr Etienne Gayat
15. - the respiratory system Dr Antoine Vieillard-Baron
16. - the neurologic system Dr Cathy de Deyne
17. - kidney, liver and other organs Professor Karl Werdan, Dr Henning Ebelt, and Prof Dr Matthias Girndt
18. Blood gas analysis and Fluid-electrolyte disorders Professor George I Baltopoulos and Dr Pavlos Myrianthefs
19. Chest X-ray Professor Alexander Parkhomenko and Dr Olga Gurjeva
20. Echocardiography Prof Dr Frank Flachskampf and Dr Ruxandra Beyer
21. Cardiac M R Imaging Professor Jurg Schwitter and Professor

I found a tremendous amount of useful information in this book that was easy to access. In addition, the online version makes mobile access feasible. Concise, yet comprehensive in its coverage of this important topic... it will be of considerable value to those who work in acute and intensive cardiac care. Journal of the American Heart Association The book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and clear review of the basic science, pathophysiology, and evidence-based medicine that comprises the core of IACC. It is encyclopedic and well written, and its 181 authors represent a Whos Who of respected contributors throughout Europe and the world. The level of detail, the plethora of topics, the quality of the illustrations, the expertise of the authors, and the depth of the bibliographies are impressive. The ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiac Care is an exceptional resource and invaluable review text. An excellent purchase for senior clinicians in cardiology and critical care and a must-have for cardiac intensivists-intraining, it also will be useful to scientists, clinical investigators, journal editors, and practicing clinicians. Journal of the American Medical Association