(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best cardiology books

The Heart Healers - great book about the history of cardiology
[Link.] (https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Healers-Mavericks-Greatest-Breakthrough/dp/1250058392/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505426456&sr=8-1&keywords=heart+healers)

I have the book Rapid Interpretation of EKG's it definitely starts with basics, but the format just didn't do it for me.

I much prefer the book ECG Workout it is basic but explains very well and has amazing practice problems, hundreds of them. Previous editions are nearly the same and can be found for very little money.

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

Netter cardiology is wonderful. It has great diagrams and is very complete, but can be difficult to get through if you want a primary resource.

If you are looking for a resource on cardiac pharmacology, I recommend Opie's Drugs for the Heart

>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

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

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

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

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/Cardiovascular-Care-Made-Incredibly-Easy/dp/1451188846

Very good resource

And if you are interested in critical care, start learning your pharmacology, start learning how to monitor patients and recognize their pathophysiology. Learn about shock states and interventions. Take ACLS and really absorb the material, learn the drugs (and maybe your hospital will pay for the class). Use your resources.

https://litfl.com/

https://www.aacn.org/education/publications/ajcc

https://www.aacn.org/education/publications/ccn

https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Care-Nursing-Made-Incredibly/dp/1496306937/ref=zg_bs_689795011_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0607QMDKFN47CT1WW80V

https://www.amazon.com/Hemodynamic-Monitoring-Made-Incredibly-Visual/dp/1496306996/ref=zg_bs_689795011_4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0607QMDKFN47CT1WW80V

https://www.aacn.org/store/books/400820/aacn-commonly-used-iv-cardiac-medications-for-adults-pocket-reference-card

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

http://www.amazon.com/Echocardiography-Pediatric-Disease-Rebecca-Snider/dp/0815178514

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

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

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.

These: http://www.amazon.co.uk/ECG-Pocketcard-Borm-Bruckmeier-Publishing/dp/159103003X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343109573&sr=8-1-fkmr0

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

Cummins is one of the biggest deniers in the scene. He has absolutely no idea. I already told you how it works. I also named you two books which are very good.

https://www.amazon.de/Clinical-Lipidology-Companion-Braunwalds-Disease/dp/0323287867/

https://www.amazon.de/Atlas-Atherosclerosis-Metabolic-Syndrome-Grundy/dp/1493940937/

> The way you talk about the lipids is the way doctors talk about lipids without considering these as average numbers on a SAD diet while if you are on this reddit I would expect you know the science behind it and would understand that this is not a lipid that leads to health.

Funny because one of the references I have on my desk right now has a decidedly different take. Cholesterol (part of circulating lipids) can get oxidized in the intima of the arterial wall and that causes plaques/heart disease.

With a 56 HDL, his reverse cholesterol transport must be rather high. With the rest of his lipid numbers, I would guess his actual risk is low, but again -- it's premature to say and a CAC scan and advanced lipid panel would be more instructive.

> Let me clarify why I stated "confusion, doubt, uncertainty".

His blood sugar numbers were excellent. When a person has a 70-80 blood sugar level, who thinks the person needs to change their diet? Those are the glucose numbers of an 18 year old kid. It was prior to this person disclosing their weight.

You said his lipids were terrible. On what basis and what studies are you using to make such an extreme statement?

I stand by my comments and disagree with your supposition.

This is crazy, but reading a story in Heart Healers gives it some context. In the 1940s/50s, rheumatic heart disease and mitral valve disease was common, and lethal, with no cure. A surgeon started trying to operate on these patients by putting a purse string suture in the left atria, cutting it, and then ramming a finger through the mitral valve to open it up. He killed 4 patients in a row, and was about to be run out of Philadelphia. He even once got a patient's primary care physician to declare a patient legally dead so he wouldn't be held responsible when his surgical attempt likely killed the patient- didn't work, everyone was still furious. He finally scheduled two patients in the same day at different hospitals, on the grounds that if he killed the morning patient, the other hospital wouldn't hear about it in time to stop him from operating. He did kill the morning patient, but the 30 something year old woman in the afternoon became the first survivor of mitral valve finger commisurotomy, and Dr. Charles Bailey went down in history as the world's first cardiac surgeon.

This act was quite reckless, and insane. But it had a purpose- it wasn't accupunture or some other snake oil meant to treat hysteria. We do what we do today because of similarly reckless acts that hurt a lot of patients, but ultimately benefited billions more.