The Day My Heart Stopped Beating
Author : Jane Peals
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 146536885X
Netter's Cardiology E-Book
Author : George Stouffer
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0323547273
Book Description
Perfect for residents, generalists, anesthesiologists, emergency department physicians, medical students, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who need a practical, working knowledge of cardiology, Netter's Cardiology, 3rd Edition, provides a concise overview of cardiovascular disease highlighted by unique, memorable Netter illustrations. This superb visual resource showcases the well-known work of Frank H. Netter, MD, and his successor, Carlos Machado, MD, a cardiologist who has created clear, full-color illustrations in the Netter tradition. New features and all-new chapters keep you up to date with the latest information in the field. Includes 13 all-new chapters: Basic Anatomy and Embryology of the Heart, Stem Cell Therapies for Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Events, Clinical Presentation of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism, and more. Features new coverage of 3-D TEE imaging for structural heart procedures. Contains color-coded diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms and clinical pathways. Uses an easy-to-follow, templated format, covering etiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnostic approach, and management/therapy for each topic. Offers dependable clinical advice from Drs. George A. Stouffer, Marschall S. Runge, Cam Patterson, and Joseph S. Rossi, as well as many world-renowned chapter contributors.
My Heart Stopped Beating
Author : Chamed
Publisher : Mindleaves
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2011-07-15
Category :
ISBN : 9788890597701
Book Description
An extreme experience. A heartbreaking autobiographical novel. The author testifies to bewildering crimes, occurring in Italy, just three decades ago, inside an adoptive family and in a mental hospital. Unimaginable crimes almost too absurd to believe possible, that no one has ever before dared to expose to public scrutiny. Actual events chronicled from a reality so bizarre, so nightmarish, where demented and criminal madmen continued to segregate, abuse, and torture a sane and innocent young woman almost to the point of no return.A story of illness and despair, lovingkindness and hatred, healing and romance, friendship and superstition, loneliness and loss, envy and revenge, electroshock and the worst psychical and physical abuses in an asylum turned house of horrors.Yet, on a distant horizon, the only hope: A deliverance through the miraculous devotion of love.First edition worldwideI read Chamed's book in one day last summer. I can say that I devoured it. It was still in draft, but I could not stop reading it. It really stopped my heart. A strong, direct, fascinating story: it strikes and leaves its mark.Edmondo Rho, special correspondent for Panorama"No person who reads this book could fail to be profound ly moved to reflect first of all on the very serious danger to innocent people of institutions which fail to maintain proper oversight against abuses to patients in mental health institu tions.Secondly it shows how justice can fail to be served in modern society, where adequate protection for the interests of minor surviving orphans may be lacking or nonexistent.[...]Finally no reader can read this without great inspiration to the courage of the human spirit and the power of human love to defeat evil.Reading this book, as well as having a role in disseminat ing its message to the public, is a great privilege, that every reader will probably experience gratitude for."Ed Carl, Editor"A deeply moving story, incredible in its lucidity."Carlo Castelli, author of Nervi d'acciaio"Full of emotion!" Aurora Magnin-Roncada, Translator of the French edition
Finally Free From Hell
Author : Evelynne Rosario
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category :
ISBN : 1438965699
Book Description
Overcoming many obstacles and risking her life she escaped from a Third World Country and her abuser. With her 3 and 4 year old children she had to board a U.S. Army Helicopter in the middle of war, in enemy territory, determined to make it home to the United States and her 15 year old daughter who was living a hell of her own. Those 3 years of exile in The Third World Country are just a fraction of the Hell that she lived during 18 1/2 excruciatingly long years. After getting beat-up when she was 7 months pregnant she spent 29 days in a Hospital fighting for her life. She had knives placed at her throat and slept 5 months next to the Machete with which she was threatened daily. One day she resolved to get out of her Hell and although it wasn't easy, she made it. In this book she tells it ALL!
Until the Heart Stops Beating
Author : Khaliah J. Williams
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Heart: A History
Author : Sandeep Jauhar
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0374717001
Book Description
The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker—by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients he’s treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.
Cardiology Explained
Author : Euan A. Ashley
Publisher : Remedica
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Cardiology
ISBN : 1901346226
Book Description
One of the most time-consuming tasks in clinical medicine is seeking the opinions of specialist colleagues. There is a pressure not only to make referrals appropriate but also to summarize the case in the language of the specialist. This book explains basic physiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms of cardiovascular disease in a straightforward manner, gives guidelines as to when referral is appropriate, and, uniquely, explains what the specialist is likely to do. It is ideal for any hospital doctor, generalist, or even senior medical student who may need a cardiology opinion, or for that ma.
The Tell-Tale Heart
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 656133115X
Book Description
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his "vulture eye". His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police.
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart
Author : Rob Dunn
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0316225800
Book Description
The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived -- to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion, effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? Rob Dunn's fascinating history of our hearts brings us deep inside the science, history, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most.
The Silent Heart
Author : Larry J. Matthews
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2012-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147593257X
Book Description
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans survive heart attacks. The journey back to a normal life is not always easy. In THE SILENT HEART, author Larry J. Matthews provides a road map of the physical and emotional obstacles encountered on his personal journey through the ten months following his heart attack and cardiac arrest. In this memoir, Matthews offers an intimate look into the mind of a heart attack survivor, sharing the events and his thoughts and feelings after his heart stopped beating. Combining personal experience with medical facts and reflections from his family, THE SILENT HEART shows the realities of heart disease, heart attacks, and rehabilitation as they affect not only the patient, but loved ones as well. THE SILENT HEART gives hope and encouragement to those facing the same hurdles in their lives by presenting firsthand insight into one man's personal experience, the road to recovery, and the goal of practicing heart-healthy living.
