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Paediatric Cardiology
Author(s): Dr Thomas Day (Author), Dr Aaron Bell (Author), Dr Sadia Quyam (Author), Prof John Simpson (Author)
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publication Date: 29 Aug. 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 019886390X
- ISBN-13: 9780198863908
Book Description
The
Oxford Specialist Handbook of Paediatric Cardiology aims to address this challenge and provides essential insights into the diagnosis, management, and care of young patients with heart conditions.This comprehensive guide to paediatric cardiology takes a systematic approach to heart lesions which will form a major part of the book, offering quick two-page refreshers for clinicians. It covers common heart surgeries, diagnostic frameworks, major investigations, and subspecialties like interventional cardiology, fetal cardiology, and more. It also addresses drug therapy, emergencies, psychology, and palliative care.
This book includes everything that a junior doctor needs when starting in the speciality and will also be a valuable reference guide for more senior trainees and consultants.
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About the Author
Dr Aaron Bell qualified in 1993 from the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin in New Zealand. He trained in children’s heart services at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, then in the Division of Imaging Sciences at King’s College London and Evelina London Childrens’s Hospital. He is currently a Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at the Evelina London Childrens Hospital, part of Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Sadia Quyam is a Consultant in Paediatric Cardiology and Pulmonary Hypertension at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor John Simpson studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He then trained in children’s and fetal cardiology at Guy’s Hospital, London and at the University of California, San Fransisco, USA. He has been a consultant at Evelina London Children’s Hospital since 1999 and leads the echocardiography service as Professor of Paediatric and Fetal Cardiology.
