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Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Christopher P. Cannon, M.D
Patrick T. O’Gara, M.D.

Part I. General Principles

Chapter 1. Goals, Design, and Implementation of Critical Pathways in Cardiology
Christopher P. Cannon and Patrick T. O’Gara
Chapter 2. Potential Pitfalls in the Development of Successful Critical Pathways
Carísi A. Polanczyk and Thomas H. Lee

Part II. Critical Pathways in the Emergency Department

Chapter 3. Emergency Department Critical Pathways for Acute Coronary Syndromes
Christopher P. Cannon and Christopher F. Richards
Chapter 4. Thrombolysis for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Christopher F. Richards, J. Stephen Bohan, and Ron M. Walls
Chapter 5. Critical Pathways for Evaluating the Chest Pain Patient at Low Risk
Kirsten E. Fleischmann and Thomas H. Lee
Chapter 6. Critical Pathways Approach Using Nuclear Cardiac Imaging in the Emergency Department
Joseph P. Ornato
Chapter 7. Chest Pain Centers
Alan B. Storrow

Part III. Critical Pathways in the Hospital

Chapter 8. Thrombolysis Critical Pathway
Christopher P. Cannon
Chapter 9. Critical Pathways for Primary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction at Community Hospitals without Cardiac Surgery
Nancy Sinclair McNamara and Thomas P. Wharton, Jr.
Chapter 10. Primary PTCA for Acute MI in the PAMI Trials
Robert Wolyn and Cindy L. Grines
Chapter 11. Complicated Myocardial Infarction
Richard C. Becker
Chapter 12. Critical Pathway for Unstable Angina
Christopher P. Cannon and Patrick T. O’Gara
Chapter 13. Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Jeffrey J. Popma and Shirley Chan
Chapter 14. Pathways for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
James D. Rawn, Donna M. Rosborough, and John G. Byrne
Chapter 15. Aortic Dissection
Michelle A. Albert and Joshua A. Beckman
Chapter 16. Management of Atrial Fibrillation
Leonard I. Ganz
Chapter 17. Congestive Heart Failure
Edward F. Philbin, III and Norman W. Lindenmuth
Chapter 18. Deep Venous Thrombosis
Samuel Z. Goldhaber
Chapter 19. Pulmonary Embolism
Samuel Z. Goldhaber

Part IV. Critical Pathways in the Outpatient Setting

Chapter 20. Hypercholesterolemia
Daniel J. Rader
Chapter 21. Hypertension
Paul R. Conlin
Chapter 22. Chronic Angina Pectoris
R. Scott Wright and Bernard J. Gersh
Chapter 23. Cardiac Rehabilitation in the Post Myocardial Infarction Patient
L. Howard Hartley
Chapter 24. Smoking Cessation
Beth C. Bock and Bruce Becker