Geared to any health care professional practicing in or rotating into a CCU, this quick referenceadopts a similar format to the author’s highly regarded Cardiac Care Unit Survival Guide . Packed with full-page diagnosis treatment algorithms and management pathways, Herzog’s CCU Bookensures you acquire in-depth knowledge and understand the subtleties in treating the different kinds of patients you encounter in a CCU setting.

Features:

• Richly illustrated algorithms and pathways for making accurate diagnosis, treatment, care management, and patient education decisions.
• Organized to help you quickly access pathophysiology, epidemiology, testing, and therapy information for angina, acute coronary syndrome, arrhythmias, organ failure, and other cardiac conditions.
• Perfect for physicians, residents, cardiac care and critical care nurses, physician assistants, and other CCU practitioners.
• Identifies what you need to tell the patient and family members about the patient’s stay and condition.
• Edited by the Director of the CCU at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center and author of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins’ The Cardiac Care Unit Survival Guide.