Clinical Trials in Heart Disease: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease

Understanding clinical trials and the resulting outcomes is important to understanding the management of cardiovascular health. This new edition (a companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease) covers important new trials in cardiology therapies and prevention of cardiovascular problems. The world authorities on pharmacologic clinical trials write about the trials, the outcomes and importance for clinical practice.This book gives the general cardiologist insight into the development of new therapies in cardiology as well as the process of how trials were used for those therapies. In addition to providing a manual for how to establish trials, trials for treatment and prevention are covered.This book offers indispensable guidance for clinical decision-making in all patient care settings! Evidence-based research to guide clinical practice. Coverage of treatment trials including Glycoprotein IIb/IIa receptor inhibitors, aspirin, drug therapies for arrhythmias, and pacing. Expanded section on prevention of cardiac disease Covers both prevention and treatment.Data and Safety Monitoring Boards in Randomized Trials Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy