Cardiovascular Hemodynamics for the Clinician

Concise, reliable, and useful handbook for understanding the practical application of hemodynamics in clinical medicine.

Cardiovascular Hemodynamics for the Clinician, Third Edition is a concise, straightforward handbook designed to help practising clinicians and physicians in training better understand and interpret hemodynamic data. This book provides useful and practical information that aids in making specific diagnoses, determining prognosis, and guiding therapy. It offers a basic overview of cardiac and circulatory physiology followed by a detailed discussion of pathophysiological changes in various disease states.

Topics covered include the basics of hemodynamics, the essentials of right heart catheterisation, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathies, cardiogenic shock, valvular heart disease, arrhythmias, mechanical circulatory support devices, and pericardial disease. Numerous pressure tracings and comprehensive information on hemodynamic data such as cardiac output, intracardiac shunts, and coronary hemodynamics are interspersed throughout. The book includes a large number of case examples that reinforce the text by illustrating what is encountered in daily practice.

New content for the third edition includes expanded discussion of transcatheter valves, ventricular assist devices, ECMO, assessment of coronary microvasculature, use of resting coronary indices to determine the hemodynamic significance of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, acute right heart strain in pulmonary embolism, and interventions for tricuspid and mitral valve disease.

Written by a group of highly qualified authors with significant academic and practitioner experience, Cardiovascular Hemodynamics for the Clinician, Third Edition covers specific topics including:

• Basics of hemodynamics
• The essentials of right heart catheterisation and PA catheter placement, the atrial waveform, cardiac output, and detection, localisation, and quantification of intracardiac shunts
• Hemodynamics of valvular disease including aortic and mitral stenosis and regurgitation, pulmonary valve disease, and tricuspid valve disease
• Hypertrophic and restrictive cardiomyopathy
• Acute and chronic heart failure
• Pericardial disease including constrictive pericarditis, effusive-constrictive pericarditis, and cardiac tamponade
• Cardiogenic shock
• Hemodynamics of mechanical circulatory support devices including ECHO, Impella, Tandem Heart, and intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation
• Coronary hemodynamics, fractional flow reserve, and coronary microvascular dysfunction
• The hemodynamics of right ventricular myocardial infarction
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Hemodynamics of arrhythmias and pacemakers

Cardiovascular Hemodynamics for the Clinician, Third Edition is an essential reference for cardiologists, intensivists, anaesthesiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, advanced practice providers working in the ICU, Cath Lab or cardiothoracic surgery service, medical and surgical residents, cardiology fellows, intensive care unit nurses, and cath lab nurses and techs.