Cardiology, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics

Download or read book Cardiology, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics written by Daniel T. Thibodeau and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, guest edited by Daniel Thibodeau MHP, PA-C, DFAAPA, is devoted to Cardiology. Articles in this issue include: Hypertension: Evaluation, Management and Keeping Patients in the Safe Zone; Cardiovascular Risk and Assessment: Impact of Comorbidities to the Cardiovascular System; Arrhythmia Detection and Management; Anticoagulation: The Successes and Pitfalls of Long-term Management; Dyslipidemia: Long-term Management and Other Uses of Statins for Cardiac Disease; Acute Coronary Syndrome: Care After a Patient Event and Strategies to Improve Adherence; Evaluation of Chest Pain in the Primary Care Setting; Ischemic Heart Disease; Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy; Pulmonary Hypertension and Thromboembolism: Long-term Management and Chronic Oral Anticoagulation; Approaches to Valvular Disease in the Primary Care Setting; and Syncope: Initial Evaluation and Workup in the Primary Care Office.