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Caring for the heart : Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization /
This online resource weaves together the major developments in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in the twentieth century, how the Mayo Clinic evolved from a family practice in Minnesota into one of the world's leading medical centres, and how the invention of new technologies and pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The nineteenth-century origins of the Mayo practice
- The Mayo's invention of multispecialty group practice
- The development of an academic medical center in Rochester
- Patient care and clinical research in the 1920s
- The electrocardiograph and the birth of cardiology
- Challenges and changes during the depression
- President Roosevelt's secret hypertensive heart disease
- The reinvention of the American Heart Association, and the invention of cardiac catheterization
- Surgeons begin trying to treat heart disease
- Pioneering open-heart surgery at the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic
- The expansion of open-heart surgery and cardiac catheterization
- Beyond mid-century : two decades of growth and change
- Creating coronary care units and empowering nurses
- Coronary angiography : the Cleveland Clinic leads the way
- Coronary artery bypass surgery stimulates the growth of angiography
- Transforming cardiac catheters into treatment tools
- Analyzing and managing abnormal heart rhythms
- Seeing the heart : echocardiography and other imaging technologies
- Treating heart failure and preventing cardiovascular disease
- Challenges and opportunities around the new millennium.