For patients, practical information is provided in clearly written patient education documents. For medical professionals, doctor reference tools and texts have detailed technical information and clinical background material. Material from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is highlighted, along with cardiovascular health information from the Centers for Disease Control. (This CD-ROM is focused on coronary artery disease, and does not cover other heart-related conditions such as congestive heart failure, congenital heart disease, valve disease, and arrhythmias.)
A unique feature is the inclusion of the results of multiple database searches for terms associated with this disease (including myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, cholesterol, triglyceride, coronary bypass surgery, defibrillation, and angioplasty) using the Combined Health Information Database (CHID) and National Library of Medicine Pubmed, with tens of thousands of clinical and medical research citations.
Since navigating the Internet to find non-governmental medical information is confusing and difficult, we've also provided an exclusive "Guide to Leading Medical Websites" with links to 80 of the best sites for general health and medical information!
As a bonus, this CD also includes the complete collection of over 400 National Institutes of Health (NIH) consumer health references. In all, the disc has over 56,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.
Our CD-ROMs are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work and educational tool for patients and their families, physicians, and other medical professionals.
