Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners, 4e [Hardcover]

Myung K. Park MD FAAP FACC (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0323014445 | ISBN-13: 978-0323014441 | Edition: 4

Updated and revised to reflect recent diagnostic and therapeutic advances, this popular quick reference guide provides the practical knowledge needed to diagnose and manage children with congenital and acquired heart disease. It explains whether the patient should be referred to a pediatric cardiologist or managed by the primary care practitioner. It also features the latest blood pressure measuring techniques, new recommendations by the National Committee on infective endocarditis prophylaxis, cardiovascular manifestations of HIV infection, and includes pediatric drug dosage tables.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This is a wonderful and extremely useful teaching guide and clinical tool...surpasses all other books on this topic in its goal of providing practical information to primary care practitioners. The new edition is justified for many reasons. Surgical techniques have changed since the last edition, and Dr. Park has updated this section extensively. The treatment of heart failure and pulmonary hypertension has also been updated nicely. The new chapters on palpitations and athletes with cardiac problems are also extremely useful. The updates, as well as Dr. Park's personal and logical advice on topics such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia, make this book the logical resource for primary care clinicians." - Doody's, ***

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Myung K. Park, MD, FAAP, FACC, Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Product Details

• Hardcover: 560 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 4 edition (February 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323014445
• ISBN-13: 978-0323014441
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,664,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pediatric Cardiology made simple and understandable, April 21, 2000

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Bernhard Kuhn, M.D. (New Haven, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners (Hardcover)

As a resident in pediatrics, you face the usual time constraints, yet you want to prepare yourselfs for electives by reading a comprehensible text. For Cardiology, I have found with Park's "Pediatric Cardiology for the Practioner" an outstanding text, which I actually prefer over more recent review articles for its easy to understand approach. The text is easy to read and is supported by the style of the figures and schemes. This book provides more than an introductory text for the pediatric resident with a general focus, it also provides a valuable and readily accessible resource for cardiology fellows.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE Cards book for residents (and rotating MS4's), November 10, 2004

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baby bean doc "baby doc" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners, 4e (Hardcover)

I bought this book on my 4th year medical student rotation for Pediatric Cardiology. It continues to serve me as a resident (just coming fresh off the Cardiology floor). The EKG section is invaluable. The description (and explanation of pathophysiology of) congenital heart defects is outstanding. I am told by fellows that this book has served them through the first year of fellowship then, before having to move onto more advanced texts. Only minus, no explanation of how EP studies work, which is not a huge minus because you won't be seeing much of that as a resident anyway. Bottom line: this is THE pediatric cardiology book that every pediatrician and every pediatric resident should have.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful reference work, even for non-peds and non-cards, November 20, 2002

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Bert Smits (Mechelen Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners, 4e (Hardcover)

In concise and clear language, Prof. Park explains how a
medical practitioner can diagnose alsmost any known
cardiac anomaly in a child.

Having a scientific but no medical background myself,
I found it very readable. Some knowledge of cardiac
anatomy and electrocardiography are a prerequisite.

What is especially good is Prof. Parks comprehensive
approach to the diagnosis: all posible pathologies are
listed and when a particular observation
is possible in normal patients, he doesn't forget to point
this out too.

I have only read the 2nd edition of the book (1988), so
I cannot vouch whether the latest (4th) is up to date
on recent advances in the field, be it in pacemaking
capabilities or teratogenic discoveries.