Anderson’s Pediatric Cardiology, 4th Edition is a comprehensive and authoritative reference on pediatric cardiology and congenital heart disease, offering exhaustive coverage of cardiovascular anomalies, potential sequelae, comorbidities, and neurodevelopmental issues. Edited by renowned experts Robert H. Anderson, Kumar Krishna, Andrew Redington, and James S. Tweddell, this fully revised edition reflects significant changes in practice, including the latest developments in fetal, neonatal, and adult congenital heart conditions.
This edition expands on key areas such as intensive care, nursing issues, and societal implications, and features an impressive collection of more than 850 anatomic, photographic, and imaging figures. The book emphasizes patient and family-centered care, providing expert guidance on communicating difficult diagnoses to families, and includes new chapters on quality improvement, neurocognitive assessment, nursing implications, and telemedicine. The Expert Consult™ eBook offers enhanced features, allowing users to search all text, tables, and figures across multiple devices.
Key Features:
- Comprehensive Coverage: Provides long-term coverage of pediatric cardiology conditions, including congenital heart disease, acquired heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and rhythm disturbances.
- Outstanding Visual Guidance: Features over 850 images, including specimen images by Dr. Robert Anderson and Diane Spicer, with new virtual dissections of 3D datasets obtained from living patients.
- Expanded Sections: Includes three new sections on the Functionally Univentricular Heart, Fetal Congenital Cardiac Disease, and Heart Failure and Transplantation.
- Multidisciplinary Insights: Shares perspectives from an international team of experts in medicine and nursing, integrating nursing content into disease-specific chapters.
- Patient-Centered Care: Focuses on patient and family-centered care, offering advice on how to communicate difficult diagnoses to patients and families.
- New Topics: Covers emerging topics such as MRI, fetal circulation, congenital anomalies of coronary arteries, and the global burden of pediatric heart disease.
- Expert Consult eBook: Includes access to an enhanced eBook that allows users to search the full text, tables, and figures from the book on a variety of devices.
Ideal For:
- Pediatric cardiologists
- Congenital heart disease specialists
- Cardiac surgeons
- Pediatric intensivists
- Pediatric nurses
- Medical students and residents in pediatric cardiology
- Healthcare professionals in low- and middle-income countries dealing with pediatric cardiac care
Authors:
Robert H. Anderson (Editor),
Kumar Krishna (Editor),
Andrew Redington (Editor),
James S. Tweddell (Editor),
Justin Tretter (Editor)
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