Stress testing : principles and practice / Myrvin H. Ellestad ; with contributions by Ronald H. Startt Selvester, Fred S. Mishkin, Frederick W. James.

By:

Ellestad, Myrvin H, 1921-2016

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Edition: 5th edDescription: 1 online resource (xi, 546 pages) : illustrations : digital, HTML fileContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199748044
0199748047
0190289384
9780190289386
1280532556
9781280532559
9786610532551
6610532559
1429404051
9781429404051

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Additional physical formats: Stress testing.DDC classification:

616.1/20754 22

LOC classification:

RC683.5.H4 E44 2003b

NLM classification:

2003 F-526
WG 141.5.F9

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Ch. 1. History of stress testing -- Ch. 2. Cardiovascular and pulmonary responses to exercise -- Ch. 3. Physiology of cardiac ischemia -- Ch. 4. Indications -- Ch. 5. Contraindications, risks, and safety precautions -- Ch. 6. Parameters to be measured -- Ch. 7. Stress echocardiography -- Ch. 8. Stress testing protocol -- Ch. 9. Memorial Heart Institute protocol -- Ch. 10. Stress testing after myocardial infarction -- Ch. 11. Stress testing after surgical intervention and coronary angioplasty -- Ch. 12. ECG patterns and their significance -- Ch. 13. Rhythm and conduction disturbances in stress testing -- Ch. 14. Predictive implications -- Ch. 15. Stress testing in women -- Ch. 16. Exercise testing in congestive heart failure -- Ch. 17. Chest pain and normal coronary arteries -- Ch. 18. Blood pressure measurements during exercise -- Ch. 19. Silent myocardial ischemia -- Ch. 20. Sports medicine and rehabilitation -- Ch. 21. Pediatric exercise testing -- Ch. 22. Radionuclide techniques in stress testing -- Ch. 23. Metabolic abnormalities and drugs -- Ch. 24. Computer technology and exercise testing.

Summary: Aimed at all physicians who use exercise testing as a diagnostic or rehabilitation procedure, this text describes the principles and practice of stress testing. The book covers research, pathophysiology, and clinical applications, stating absolute, relative and contraindications to stress testing.Summary: Although the general format of Stress Testing has not been changed in the Fifth Edition, the chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. 'Take Home' messages are sprinkled throughout the book to emphasize major concepts. The chapter on electrocardiographic changes has been completely reorganized to highlight the importance of unconventional markers of ischemia. Two new chapters cover the role of exercise echocardiography and exercise testing in congestive heart failure.

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Aimed at all physicians who use exercise testing as a diagnostic or rehabilitation procedure, this text describes the principles and practice of stress testing. The book covers research, pathophysiology, and clinical applications, stating absolute, relative and contraindications to stress testing.

Although the general format of Stress Testing has not been changed in the Fifth Edition, the chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. 'Take Home' messages are sprinkled throughout the book to emphasize major concepts. The chapter on electrocardiographic changes has been completely reorganized to highlight the importance of unconventional markers of ischemia. Two new chapters cover the role of exercise echocardiography and exercise testing in congestive heart failure.

English.

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