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Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Christopher P. Cannon


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ISBN-13: 9780781726214
ISBN-10: 0781726212
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Format: Hardcover, 260 pages
Pub Date: 03/2001
Edition Number: 1




Synopsis

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Using an evidence-based approach, this resource explains the how and why behind critical pathways, with special emphasis on their practical application in cardiology. Numerous tables, checklists, and algorithms are included. DNLM: Cardiovascular Diseases--diagnosis.



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Contents
Contributing Authors Vii
Preface xi
Part I. General Principles
1. Goals, Design, and Implementation of Critical
Pathways in Cardiology 3
Christopher P. Cannon and Patrick T. O'Gara
2. Potential Pitfalls in the Development of Successful
Critical Pathways 7
Car¡si A. Polanczyk and Thomas H. Lee
Part II. Critical Pathways in the Emergency Department
3. Emergency Department Critical Pathways for Acute
Coronary Syndromes 15
Christopher P. Cannon and Christopher F. Richards
4. Thrombolysis for Acute Myocardial Infarction 23
Christopher F. Richards, J. Stephen Bohan, and Ron
M. Walls
5. Critical Pathways for Evaluating the Chest Pain
Patient at Low Risk 29
Kirsten E. Fleischmann and Thomas H. Lee
6. Critical Pathways Approach Using Nuclear Cardiac
Imaging in the Emergency Department 35
Joseph P. Ornato
7. Chest Pain Centers 45
Alan B. Storrow
Part III. Critical Pathways in the Hospital
8. Thrombolysis Critical Pathway 57
Christopher P. Cannon
9. Critical Pathways for Primary Angioplasty in Acute
Myocardial Infarction at Community Hospitals
without Cardiac Surgery 67
Nancy Sinclair McNamara and Thomas P. Wharton,
Jr
10. Primary PTCA for Acute MI in the PAMI Trials 95
Robert Wolyn and Cindy L. Grines
11. Complicated Myocardial Infarction 107
Richard C. Becker
12. Critical Pathway for Unstable Angina 131
Christopher P. Cannon and Patrick T. O'Gara
13. Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaneous Coronary
Intervention 142
Jeffrey J. Popma and Shirley Chan
14. Pathways for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery 147
James D. Rawn, Donna M. Rosborough, arid John G.
Byrne
15. Aortic Dissection 155
Michelle A. Albert and Joshua A. Beckman
16. Management of Atrial Fibrillation 163
Leonard L Ganz
17. Congestive Heart Failure 171
Edward F. Philbin, 111 and Norman W. Lindenmuth
18. Deep Venous Thrombosis 191
Samuel Z. Goldhaber
19. Pulmonary Embolism 197
Samuel Z. Goldhaber
Part IV Critical Pathways in the Outpatient Setting
20. Hypercholesterolemia 207
Daniel J. Rader
21. Hypertension 217
Paul R. Conlin
22. Chronic Angina Pectoris 225
R. Scott Wright and Bernard J. Gersh
23. Cardiac Rehabilitation in the Post Myocardial
Infarction Patient 233
L. Howard Hartley
24. Smoking Cessation 239
Beth C. Bock and Bruce Becker
Subject Index 251
Contributing Authors
Michelle A. Albert, M.D., Research Fellow, Department of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 116 Huntington
Avenue; Research/Clinical Fellow, Department of Medicine,
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Bruce Becker, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of
Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine;
Department of Emergency Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital,
53 Eddy Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Richard C. Becker, M.D., Professor, Department of
Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School;
Director, Coronary Care Unit, University of Massachusetts
Memorial Medical Center, 55 Lake Avenue, Worcester,
Massachusetts 01655
Joshua A. Beckman, M.D., Instructor, Cardiovascular
Division, Department of Medicine, Harvard University;
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham
and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02115
Beth C. Bock, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of
Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School
of Medicine; Staff Psychologist, Center for Behavioral
Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, 164 Summit Avenue,
Providence, Rhode Island 02906
J. Stephen Bohan, M.D., F.A.C.P. F.A.C.E.P., Instructor,
Harvard Medical School; Clinical Director, Department of
Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75
Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
John G. Byrne, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of
Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Associate Cardiac
Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Christopher P Cannon, M.D., Assistant Professor of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Cardiovascular
Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street,
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Shirley Chan, B.S., Research Coordinator, Brigham and
Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts
02115
Paul R. Conlin, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Endocrinology
Training Program, Endocrinology-Hypertension Division,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Kirsten E. Fleischmann, M.D., Assistant Professor of
Medicine, Cardiology Division, University of California,
San Francisco; Physician, Department of Cardiology,
University of California San Francisco Medical Center, 505
Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94143
Leonard I. Ganz, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of
Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine;
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular
Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 200
Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
Bernard J. Gersh, M.B., Ch.B., D.Phil., Professor of
Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo
Medical School; Consultant, Department of Cardiovascular
Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester,
Minnesota 55905
Samuel Z. Goldhaber, M.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director,
Venous Thromboembolism Research Group and Director,
Cardiac Center's Anticoagulation Service, Department of
Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Cindy L. Grines, M.D., Director, Cardiac Catheterization
Laboratory and Director, Interventional Cardiology
Fellowship, William Beaumont Hospital, 3601 West
Thirteen Mile Road, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073
L. Howard Hartley, M.D., Associate Professor, Department
of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Shattuck Street;
Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Division of Cardiology,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02115
Thomas H. Lee., M.D., Associate Professor, Department of
Medicine, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
02138; Physician, Department of Internal Medicine,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02115
Norman W. Lindenmuth, M.D., Clinical Faculty Department
of Medicine, University of Rochester, Elmwood Avenue,
Rochester, New York 14627; Vice President of Medical
Affairs, Finger Lakes Health System; Department of
Medicine, Geneva General Hospital, 196 North Street,
Geneva, New York 14456
Nancy Sinclair McNamara, R.N., B.S.N., Cardiology
Resource/Research Nurse-Coordinator, Cardiovascular
Specialties, Exeter Hospital, 10 Buzell Avenue, Exeter, New
Hampshire 03833
Patrick T. O'Gara, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School; Director, Clinical Cardiology,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02115
Joseph P Ornato, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.E.P., Professor and
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Virginia
Commonwealth University's Medical College of Virginia,
401 North 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23298
Edward F Philbin, III, M.D., F.A.C.C., Associate Professor,
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Albany
Medical College; Division Head, Division of Cardiology
Albany Medical Center Hospital, 47 New Scotland Avenue,
Albany, New York 12208
Car¡si A. Polanczyk, M.D., Physician, Department of
Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Ramiro
Barcelos 2350/2225, Porto Alegre, RS 9000, Brazil
Jeffrey J. Popma, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Interventional
Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis
Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Daniel J. Rader, M.D., Director, Preventive Cardiovascular
Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, 4th
Floor PHI Building, Presbyterian Medical Center, 39th and
Market Streets; Associate Professor, Department of
Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 421 Curie Boulevard,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
James D. Rawn, M.D., Instructor and Associate Surgeon,
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Christopher F Richards, M.D., Assistant Professor and
Assistant Director, Acute Care Services, Department of
Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University,
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon 97201
Donna M. Rosborough, M.S., R.N., Care Coordinator,
Cardiac Surgery Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Alan B. Storrow, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of
Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 231 Albert
B. Sabin Way; Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine,
University Hospital, 234 Goodman Street, Cincinnati, Ohio
45267
Ron M. Walls, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of
Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard
Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street; Chairman, Department
of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Thomas P Wharton, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.C., Medical Director,
Cardiology Section and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory,
Exeter Hospital, The Perry Medical Services Building, 3
Alumni Drive, Exeter, New Hampshire 03833
Robert Wolyn, M.D., Interventional Cardiology Fellow,
William Beaumont Hospital, 3601 West Thirteen Mile
Road, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073
R. Scott Wright, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of
Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, 200 First Street
SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905