Description
The cardiology that will not wait
Acute cardiac care is the part of the specialty least forgiving of a gap in preparation. The patient in cardiogenic shock, the wide-complex tachycardia in an unstable patient, the post-arrest ECG that decides whether the cath lab is activated — these are decisions made in minutes, from memory, usually at an inconvenient hour.
This nine-volume collection is the Academy’s acute-care track, assembled so that the whole of emergency cardiology is covered without the overlap that comes from buying acute-care texts individually.
Why nine volumes rather than one
A single emergency handbook has to choose between breadth and operational detail, and usually sacrifices the detail — which is precisely what is needed at three in the morning. Splitting the material allows each volume to carry actual protocols: drug doses, timing thresholds, escalation criteria, and the decision points at which a different specialty must be called.
Scope across the collection
Acute coronary syndromes from first contact to reperfusion, including the ECG patterns that mandate immediate activation. Cardiogenic shock and mechanical support. Cardiac arrest and post-resuscitation care. Tachyarrhythmias and bradyarrhythmias in the unstable patient. Acute heart failure and pulmonary oedema. Aortic emergencies. Tamponade. Hypertensive emergency. Acute valve failure. Peri-procedural complications and their immediate management.
Antithrombotic decisions in the acute setting are handled with the terminology that matters at the bedside — loading strategies, PRU where it is available, BARC bleeding classification when a decision has to be made about interruption — rather than reduced to a table.
Academy placement
Required reading for members on the acute care and critical care tracks, and recommended to emergency physicians, intensivists and coronary care nursing staff regardless of track. Cardiology trainees generally take it during the CCU rotation.
Nine PDF volumes, lifetime access, purchased through CardiologyBooks.com.
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