This issue of Cardiology Clinics, edited by Dr. Amal Mattu and Dr. John Field, focuses Emergency Cardiology. Topics include, but are not limited to: Evaluation of Chest Pain and Acute Coronary Syndromes; Evolving Electrocardiographic Indications for Emergent Reperfusion; Cardiac biomarkers in emergency care; Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction; Cardiogenic Shock, Acute Dyspnea and Decompensated Heart Failure; Evolving Strategies for Management of Cardiac Arrest; Multidisciplinary management post-cardiac arrest; Acute Myopericardial Syndromes; Acute Valvular Heart Disease; Ventricular Arrhythmias; Atrial Fibrillation, A New Face of Cardiac Emergencies: HIV-Related Cardiac Disease; Cardiovascular Emergencies in Pregnancy, and Blunt Cardiac Trauma.

Emergency physicians are usually the first to care for patients with emergency cardiac conditions. They must initiate therapy in a timely manner and must plan care in conjunction with cardiologists, who continue the patient's care. This issue has both emergency physicians and cardiologists as authors, reflecting the fact that both care for patients with cardiac emergencies. Physicians in both disciplines should benefit from the articles in this issue, resulting in better patient care.

This extension to the popular "ECGs for the Emergency Physician Volume 1 "continues to provide the emergency health care provider with outstanding practical and emergency medicine-relevant teaching of a life-saving skill: emergency electrocardiography interpretation.

This volume can be used individually or paired with Volume 1 to present one of the most comprehensive and educational ECG collections ever assembled for emergency physicians and other acute health care providers.

A collection of 200 high quality ECGs (Electrocardiogram's) that cover the entire spectrum of emergency electrocardiography. The first half of the book represents an intermediate level of difficulty and is ideal for residents in training and for the emergency medicine board review. The second half contains more advanced ECGs and will challenge even the most seasoned emergency medicine practitioner. When taken in its entirety, the book contains one of the best collections of ECGs ever assembled, targeted at advancing the ECG interpretation skills of emergency physicians and other acute health care providers.

"Avoiding Common Prehospital Errors," will help you develop the deep understanding of common patient presentations necessary to prevent diagnostic and treatment errors and to improve outcomes. Providing effective emergency care in the field is among the most challenging tasks in medicine. You must be able to make clinically vital decisions quickly, and perform a wide range of procedures, often under volatile conditions.

Written specifically for the prehospital emergency team, this essential volume in the "Avoiding Common Errors Series" combines evidence-based practice with well-earned experience and best practices opinion to help you avoid common errors of prehospital care.

"Look inside and discover..."

- Concise descriptions of each error are followed by insightful analysis of the "hows" and "whys" underlying the mistake, and clear descriptions of ways to avoid such errors in the future.

- "Pearls" highlighted in the text offer quick vital tips on error avoidance based on years of clinical and field experience.

- Focused content emphasizes "high impact" areas of prehospital medicine, including airway management, cardiac arrest, and respiratory and traumatic emergencies.

The elderly represent the fastest growing segment of the population in developed countries, reflected in the patient population presenting to EDs and hospitals. These patients more often than not have greater co-morbidities, more complicated workups and utilize more laboratory and radiologic services. This text is designed to teach emergency physicians how best to care for this specific demographic of patients. It addresses physiologic changes, high-risk conditions, and atypical presentations associated with elderly patients in the ED that result in frequent misdiagnosis or delays in diagnosis. It instructs the readers how best to care for elderly patients in order to minimize morbidity and mortality, addressing some of the difficult psychosocial issues that confront health care providers that care for elderly patients, such as psychiatric disease and end-of-life care. The utility of this text is not limited to emergency physicians, but it should be useful to all health care providers involved in the treatment of elderly patients with acute medical or surgical conditions.

Davina was her name and she pleaded that I should not write this, that I should not expose her to the world. Apologies, sweet Davey, whose standard would I bear if your starlit eyes had not so pleaded. Those days are gone. These are the opening lines from The Stormer, another hilarious, romantic comedy novel by the author of The Sex Diaries. It sees struggling artist, Hugh, think he's made it when he's commissioned to paint a mural on the gable end wall of a tenement in his beloved home-town of Glasgow in Scotland. He paints a nude of his long-lost first love, Davina. But she's married to a senior cop now and he's not happy about this portrayal of his wife, naked. He sets a police unit the job of fixing Hugh. Bruised and battered, Hugh defies them all as he and Davina discover what they really mean to each other. Enter a whimsical world where romantic ideals meet sheer idiocy, featuring a biker called Midden, a tramp called The Shame, a gang leader called Slab and a stunning, gorgeous, redhead called The Stormer.

Jack meets Francesca. Older than him by some years, he is captivated. But behind their first encounter lies a scandalous history. A story he is unaware of. Even though she in turn will fall for Jack, the truth must eventually emerge. With everything changed, fractured relationships and shattered lives must be salvaged or left to turn to dust. As all those around him face up to the impossibility of escaping their own selves, Jack's world rapidly unravels.

In this groundbreaking collection, American Muslim women writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their real-life tales of flirting, dating, longing, and sex. Their stories show just how varied the search for love can be--from singles' events and college flirtations to arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist.
These heartfelt tales are filled with passion and hope, loss and longing. One follows the quintessential single woman in the big city as she takes a chance on a Muslim speed-dating event. Another tells of a shy student from a liberal college town who falls in love online and must reveal her secret to her conservative family. A third recounts a Southern girl who surprises herself by agreeing to an arranged marriage, unexpectedly finding the love of her life.
These compelling stories of love and romance create an irresistible balance of heart-warming and tantalizing, always revealing and deeply relatable.

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