Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterisation: The Essential Guide, Second Edition

Foreword 
Preface 
Editors 
Foreword to the first edition 
Preface to the first edition 
Contributors 
PART 1. INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
1. The cardiac imaging and monitoring systems 
Steven Kelly and Jeffrey Lui
2. Non-invasive physiological monitoring 
Mark Butlin, Isabella Tan, Edward Barin and Alberto P. Avolio
3. Determination of oxygen status in human blood 
Marcus Juul
4. Coagulation and the coagulation cascade 
John E. Boland and David E. Connor
5. Thrombosis, heparin and laboratory monitoring of heparin therapy 
Steven Faddy
6. Laboratory coagulation assays 
Bruce Toben and David E. Connor
PART 2. PATIENT CARE AND LABORATORY SAFETY 
7. Radiation safety in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory 
Cameron Jeffries
8. Infection control procedures 
David Andresen and Giulietta Pontevivo
9. Nursing care of the cardiac catheterisation patient 
Julie Parkinson, Jo-Anne M. Vidal and Eva Kline-Rogers
10. Vascular access site management and arterial closure 
Peter Hadjipetrou
11. Medical management of the cardiac patient undergoing coronary angiography 
Sara Hungerford, Peter Ruchin and Gerard Carroll
12. Patient risk assessment: Use of risk calculators 
Edwina Wing-Lun and David Smythe
13. An evidence-based guide to cardiac catheterisation 
Steven Faddy and Gary J. Gazibarich
PART 3. PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY 
14. Pressure waveforms in the cardiac cycle 
John E. Boland and David W. Baron
15. Physiological interpretation of pressure waveforms 
Geoffrey S. Oldfield
16. Measurement of cardiac output and shunts 
Michael P. Feneley
17. Analysis and interpretation of Fick and thermodilution cardiac output determinations 
Gary J. Gazibarich, John E. Boland and Louis W. Wang
18. Pressure-volume loops: Background theory with practical examples 
Pankaj Jain and Christopher S. Hayward
19. The electrocardiogram in ischaemic heart disease 
Geoffrey S. Oldfield and Dennis L. Kuchar
20. Recognition of common arrhythmias 
Nicholas P. Kerr and Rajesh N. Subbiah
21. Formation and progression of atherosclerosis 
Siddharth J. Trivedi and Brian J. Nankivell
22. Basic pharmacology of cardiac drugs 
Terence J. Campbell
23. Drug therapy in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory: A guide to commonly used drugs 
John E. Boland, Fuyue Jiang and Andrew Fenning
24. Antiplatelet therapy in interventional cardiology 
Christopher Yu and Harry C. Lowe
PART 4. DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES 
25. Coronary angiography: Techniques and tools of the trade 
Roberto Spina and Tom Gavaghan
26. Physiological assessment of coronary lesion severity 
Usaid Allahwala and Ravinay Bhindi
27. Non-invasive assessment of ischaemic heart disease 
James Otton, Patrick Pender and Neville Sammel
28. Right heart catheterisation and evaluation of the pulmonary hypertension patient 
Eugene Kotlyar and Anne Keogh
29. Haemodynamic evaluation of the heart transplant patient 
Kavitha Muthiah, Christopher S. Hayward, Andrew Jabbour and Peter Macdonald
30. Trans-septal cardiac catheterisation 
David W. M. Muller
PART 5. PERCUTANEOUS CAROTID INTERVENTIONS 
31. Advances in stent technology 
Smriti Saraf and Paul Bhamra-Ariza
32. Facilitated coronary interventions: Adjuncts to balloon dilatation 
David W. M. Muller
33. Catheter-based reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction 
Ming-Yu (Anthony) Chuang, Richard Brogan and Derek P. Chew
34. Percutaneous carotid interventions 
Taraneh Amir-Nezami and Anthony Grabs
35. The intra-aortic balloon pump: Principles and use 
Anthony Nicholson
PART 6. INTERVENTIONS FOR STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE 
36. Interventional transoesophageal echocardiography 
Mayooran Namasivayam and Marty Shaw
37. Interventions for congenital heart disease 
David W. M. Muller
38. Mitral valvuloplasty: The Inoue balloon dilatation technique 
Paul Roy
39. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation 
David A. Roy
40. Transcatheter interventions for mitral and tricuspid regurgitation 
David W. M. Muller
41. Transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion 
Roberto Spina, David W. M. Muller and Brendan Gunalingam
42. Cardiac surgery and percutaneous cardiac interventions 
Arjun Iyer and Paul Jansz
PART 7. CARDIAC SURGERY AND INTERVENTIONS FOR ARRHYTHMIAS 
43. The electrophysiology laboratory 
Dennis L. Kuchar
44. Catheter ablation therapy 
William Lee and Bruce Walker
Index