Overview
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Samuel M. Butman
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Section of Cardiology, University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, USA
- Complements available texts that detail percutaneous interventional procedures in cardiology
- Covering the range of complications that arise, helps cardiologists as well as interventional radiologists, improve care by anticipating or recognizing problems earlier
- Also addresses cardiac arrest, legal matters, and adverse event reporting
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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- Paul E. Nolan Jr., Toby C. Trujillo
Pages 6-16
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- Raghunandan Kamineni, Samuel M. Butman
Pages 17-27
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- Antonio J. Chamoun, Barry F. Uretsky
Pages 35-55
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- Gurpreet Baweja, Ashish Pershad, Richard R. Heuser, Samuel M. Butman
Pages 67-77
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- H. M. Omar Farouque, David P. Lee
Pages 78-91
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- Albert W. Chan, Christopher J. White
Pages 92-112
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- Raghunandan Kamineni, Samuel M. Butman
Pages 123-131
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- Karl B. Kern, Hoang M. Thai
Pages 141-151
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Back Matter
Pages 165-170
About this book
Every physician hates to have a patient develop a complication. Nevertheless, we also know that when a problem does develop, one needs a clear corrective strategy to minimize the effect of the complication and thereby prevent a major morbid event. The most frightening of all cardiologic complications occur in the catheterization laboratory. Indeed, Lewis Dexter, one of my mentors, told me about his first, accidental catheterization of the pulmonary artery. When he saw,under the fluoroscope, that the catheter was dancing back and forth in the lung, Dr. Dexter was convinced that he had perforated the patient's heart while trying to thread the catheter through the right atrium to the renal veins. However, after some thought and observation, he realized that he had not encountered a complication; instead he had tripped upon the opportunity to diagnose and understand various forms of heart diseases. Clin ical cardiac catheterization had been born! The 14 chapters in this book have various real-life complications that have occurred during coronary intervention. They also describe various strategies for avoiding or managing them. The chapters take the reader sequentially through a variety of situations, anyone of which would make for a potentially "bad day" in the catheterization laboratory. Starting with medication prob lems,the authors work their wayfrom the groin to the coronary arteries, detail ing unpleasant situations and how to deal with them.
Editors and Affiliations
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Section of Cardiology, University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, USA
Samuel M. Butman
