(Part 2) Best cardiology books according to redditors
We found 61 Reddit comments discussing the best cardiology books. We ranked the 39 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Wholeheartedly recommend this book - the ECG made easy https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0702074578/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_YqZPDb3E1FFP3
Very simple to understand, not long and complicated, lots of pictures. Helped me loads.
This and just practice! Have a go, look at as many as you can and ask your seniors for help interpreting them.
Handbook of Interventional Radiology procedures is an easy book to digest and carry around. I would recommend looking at the schedule for the following day and definitely reading sections for cases you want to observe/scrub into. Also always look at preprocedure images when available and start to figure out what things would be important to note in those studies before doing certain cases to help speed things up and trouble shoot potential issues.
https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Interventional-Radiologic-Procedures-Lippincott/dp/0781768160
The Manual of Cardiovascular Medicine is a great book and used by all the Cardiology fellows where I work, but if you are looking for something short for the CCU I would recommend this: https://www.amazon.com/Cardiac-Care-Unit-Survival-Guide/dp/1451110472/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483318351&sr=8-1&keywords=ccu+survival+guide
First of all, regarding the "bladeless" fan, the vanes of the impeller are practically the same thing. Inside the base of each unit is an impeller. The trick is that it takes advantage of the Bernoulli principle to entrain a greater volume of air, and reduces the amount of loss due to turbulent flow by allowing the expelled gas to build a slight compression within the ring shape prior to exiting. This leads to stagnant pockets, which would be disastrous for a patient.
Secondly, you really don't have to fear the blades. The field of mechanical circulatory support is lead by products that use impellers. The trend over this past decade is to magnetically levitate the impeller in order to allow blood to flow around it on all sides. That said, some designs you may find interesting would be those of diaphragm pumps, peristaltic pumps (as mentioned by /u/chillywillylove), multiple disk centrifugal pumps, and the wild and crazy [read:developing] world of 'capillary action' pumps.
Lastly, I wish you the best of luck.
Some things to brush up on:
So here are my recommendations then.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0323017029/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0323017029&linkCode=as2&tag=daynightrever-20
The above is an ultrasound requisites series book. The radiology requisites series is pretty popular and well regarded. I found it quite useful.
If you are planning to be a procedural oriented radiologist, or go into IR later. I recommend
this....https://www.amazon.com/dp/143771417X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=daynightrever-20&linkId=521eba90123660ea6bb3af27fa3febfd
I always have felt that ultrasound is only as good as the user. So technique is important. For this just general practice is good. However a very good understand of the views and anatomy in ultrasound is important. Ultrasound anatomy is less defined compared to CXRs, or CT/MR. Mainly because it is often a real time analysis, that is subjected to large amounts of human error based on your own(or a tech's) technique. As such, understanding the anatomy well is important so you know what you are doing.
Always follow the basic principles.in ultrasound WHERE are you, WHERE do you want to go, HOW do you get there, CAN you get there without having the patient moving positions , SHOULD you move the patient if you need different views. WHy do you need different views. ARE you confident in the diagnostic efficacy without continuing u/s analysis.
These two books aren't necessarily "radiology" level, as a physiican. They are more geared towards techs and midlevels. But are good for a good introductory text/review. https://www.amazon.com/Ultrasound-Teaching-Manual-Performing-Interpreting/dp/3131110430/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1480490856&sr=8-8&keywords=ultrasound
This atlas is decent, I always found it to be a great reference back when I was a resident.
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Atlas-Ultrasound-Anatomy-Berthold/dp/3131390522/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&qid=1480490961&sr=8-21&keywords=ultrasound+book
Lastly, I'd recommend buying some sort of u/s physics textbook(algebra based) just to give you a working understanding of the technology. And as you move through your training and beyond the baiscs, you can move onto specialzied ultrasound texts. The main ones are usually obstetrics, EM/Trauma, and abdominal(sometimes the latter two are combined, soemtimes 1 and three are combined in one text. You can search around).
http://www.amazon.com/Echocardiography-Pediatric-Disease-Rebecca-Snider/dp/0815178514
I would like to recommend the book 150 ECG cases by Hampton. The book is amazing, and taught me a lot when I was starting out my electrical puzzlesolving journey. It has a short clinical history and an ECG on one page. When you turn the page it systematically goes through the specific pathologies observed in the ECG, what this means, and what you should do now. Just a great way to learn ECGs in a clinical context, and really explains why rather than just what.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/150-ECG-Problems-3e-Ecg/dp/0443068232
There is a free sample available from inkling.com so you can see what the format is like.
Two books recommended in pre-clinical for revision were this and this. They cover the basics but also go into detail about physiology and the main disease processes
Otto’s textbook for Echo. My hospital Cardiology residents use it for learning.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0323480489/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile
This one is great for beginners: http://www.amazon.com/Only-Book-Youll-Ever-Need/dp/1451119054
More clinical: http://www.amazon.com/Chous-Electrocardiography-Clinical-Practice-Pediatric/dp/1416037748/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419552313&sr=1-17&keywords=EKG+textbook
Unfortunately, there’s a reason this is pass down information. These are the books has my facility has (and they are tethered to the nurses station).
Congenital Heart Defects, Simplified Second Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692885374/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_dgdWBb824F040
Illustrated Field Guide to Congenital Heart Disease and Repair - Pocket Sized https://www.amazon.com/dp/0979625246/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_dhdWBbS0J0YRB
Flip and See ECGs - Revised Reprint https://www.amazon.com/dp/0323085229/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_oidWBbR1D8PQF
Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 2-Volume Set, 11e ISBN-10: 0323463428 - EPUB version
www.amazon.com/Braunwalds-Heart-Disease-Textbook-Cardiovascular/dp/0323463428
Will pay $5 via paypal for the EPUB version of this ebook
https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Electrocardiography-Simplified-Approach-8e/dp/0323087868
YOu can get an old copy. Only after reading this did I understand how all this crap worked.
The metric is effectively average LDL size. There’s a lot of study of LDL size, specifically using the CardioIQ series of tests which is an ion mobility test which produces a detailed graph of concentration by particle size. The guy who licensed the test to Quest is named Dr. Ron Krauss and has a number of papers published on the topic from that test and one of an earlier generation. I met him at the Weight of the Nation conference in San Francisco last year and he’s quite a cool guy.
One reason these findings aren’t talked about a lot is because most of the findings tend to correlate a high concentration of small-dense LDL particles with higher incidence of CVD. The “problem” is that the small-dense LDL pattern is also associated with low fat, high carbohydrate dietary patterns and seems to get better on a high fat, low carbohydrate diet. In that fashion the finding is actually diametrically opposed to the traditional diet-heart hypothesis which is that fat and SFA in particular => LDL-C => CVD and therefore both cannot be true.
The general topic of CVD and cause w.r.t. lipoproteins is pretty interesting because it exposes the possibility that small dense LDL is strongly correlated with hyperinsulinemia. Krauss contended that he had seen counterexamples in his data but I didn’t get further details at the time.
If you’re interested more in CVD I would recommend Subbotin and Constantin Velican though sadly I appear to have bought the last reasonably priced used copy of his book — he also has a series of papers published in the journal Atherosclerosis from the late 60s through the 80s and performed hundreds of autopsies to develop an understanding of the time series progression of the disease.
Try this as well. Rob is very knowledgeable, has an easy to read/follow book and his YouTube videos are good as well.
https://www.amazon.ca/12-15-Lead-ECG-Interpretation-Workbook/dp/0993686028
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rPwZXSrtCJU#
https://www.amazon.com/150-Practice-ECGs-Interpretation-Review/dp/140510483X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485306108&sr=8-1&keywords=150+practice+ekg
For ECG: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ABC-Clinical-Electrocardiography-Francis-Morris/dp/1405170646
It's the book that I find explains things best and in the most understandable manner. I've had a few edge books, this is the one I always go back to.
For clinical examination, MacLeod's clinical examination is the definitive work.
For anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology, find out what your course bases it's exams off and use that.
I would personally avoid EMS specific books like Nancy Caroline as they try to be all things to all men and just end up summarising complicated topics in a way that leaves you with too little information, too poorly explained. Go to Caroline's sources, like MacLeod!
This has more of a research bias, but this is the bible for me.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1416059733?pc_redir=1409142627&robot_redir=1
>So, when shooting a gun what muscles in your fingers, arm, shoulder are working?
https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Human-Anatomy-Interactive-Ancillaries/dp/1455704180
>How fast is your heart pumping?
https://www.amazon.com/Mayo-Clinic-Cardiology-Textbook-Scientific/dp/0199915717/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1480547395&sr=1-10&keywords=cardiology
>How are your leg muscles prepared for the power of the shot?
https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Anatomy-Plus-Winking-Skull/dp/9380378998