This atlas depicts and describes catheter-based interventions across the entire pediatric age range, from fetal life through to early adulthood, with the aim of providing an illustrated step-by-step guide that will help the reader to master these techniques and apply them in everyday practice. Clear instruction is offered on a wide range of procedures, including vascular access, fetal interventions, valve dilatation, angioplasty, stent implantation, defect closure, defect creation, valve implan…
Congenital cardiology continues to advance at a rapid pace, with recent decades witnessing exceptional growth in the number and range of catheter-based interventions. This handbook is an ideal, up-to-date guide to the application of these procedures across the entire patient age range, from fetal life through to adulthood. Clear instruction is offered on techniques of vascular access, valve dilatation, angioplasty, stent implantation, defect closure, defect creation, pulmonary valve implantatio…
The fourth edition of this highly regarded textbook has been thoroughly overhauled. There is a new chapter bridging the gap between learning and doing (On-Call); new coverage of FGM and the Zika virus; sepsis has been updated; access to a further five chapters; ten videos to guide learners through the more difficult, complex issues they might face in O&G; and new self-assessment has been written to help with testing understanding.