PRACTICAL PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY. CASE-BASED MANAGEMENT OF POTENTIAL PITFALLS

- Use of high quality diagnostic imaging to illustrate cases with links
- Relevant concise case-based discussions
- Case examples cover the complete range of cardiac conditions encountered in children

This book is a collection of cases highlighting situations which can ensnare even the best cardiologist working with pediatric patients. Heart disease in children has a number of diagnostic traps for the unwary, and many of those involved in the specialty have been caught at one time or another. Although the cases contained within these pages illustrate the importance of taking a good history and performing a thorough examination, the most important lesson is learning to keep an open mind and develop the ability to think laterally. For example, it is sometimes very difficult to differentiate between respiratory and cardiac disease in infants and between neurological and cardiac conditions in older children, and the consequences of taking the wrong path can be significant. Practical Pediatric Cardiology is made up of concise chapters that are designed to shed some light on the often difficult management decisions in this group of patients. The chapters represent a wide range of clinical experience and thus will be useful for all readers from those in training through nursing and emergency medical professionals to practicing pediatric cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.

Table of contents (23 chapters)
1.It’s Enough to Make You Anxious
2.Fetal AVSD or Maybe Not?
3.Mind the Gap
4.Dilated Cardiomyopathy: If You Don’t Suspect, You Can’t Diagnose!
5.Syncope: It’s All in the History
6.Chest Pain in Children: Not Always Benign
7.Coronary Artery Imaging Is Crucial
8.The Woes Lie Below
9.When Not to Intubate Babies Receiving 100 % Oxygen
10.A Child with a Long QT?
11.Breathlessness in an Ex-Prem When All Is Not What It Seems
12.Think Outside the Chest
13.The Fontan Circulation: Never Forget the Atrial Septum
14.Is This Really Bronchiolitis?
15.A Neonatal Dilemma
16.The Collapsing Teenager
17.Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Think of the Diet
18.A T-Wave Tight Spot
19.Don’t Forget the Head and Neck Vessels
20.The Test That Gets Forgotten
21.Don’t Ignore Reverse Differential Cyanosis
22.Pulmonary Resistance: How Best to Measure?
23.Cardiomyopathy in Infants: Look at the Rhythm, Then Look Again