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LINKS & BOOKS
www.americanheart.org
The American Heart Association is dedicated to providing
education and information on fighting heart disease and stroke.
Learn about the warning signs, find out if you are at risk, tap
into the Heart and Stroke Reference Guide. Access information about
family health, diseases, conditions, treatments, prevention, recovery,
public advocacy, as well as publications, research, meetings, councils
and statistics. Find out where you can learn CPR or send a message
to Congress about funding and other health care initiatives.
www.HeartLinx.com
Heart Linx is a daily collection of cardiology-related
news, abstracts, and articles from Reuters Health, Archives of Internal
Medicine, Circulation and the Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery.
The content is subdivided into 14 subspecialties, including hypertension,
cardiac replacement, complimentary medicine and valvular disease.
There are daily e-newsletters for cardiovascular news, cardiac surgery
and coronary artery disease.
www.globalcardiology.org
A specially designed search engine that leads curious cardiologists
worldwide to Internet sites. Visitors may choose from various options,
including journals, grants and patient information. This site allows
keyword searching.
www.medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/pharm/hyperheart1
Both educational and entertaining, this site features animated representations
of the activity of the human heart. A graphic model shows the expansion
and contractions of the heart chambers, while colored arrows display
the blood's pathway. The display is accompanied by graphs that chart
the physiologic changes in blood pressure, heart sounds, and electrocardiogram
readings during the heart cycle.
www.familypractice.com/heartlab
This site features a cardiac auscultation simulator, which enables
a visitor to hear cardiac sounds as heard by a physician. One may
select from a menu of gallops, rubs, clicks, murmurs and more. In
addition, the site shows the anatomic locations where the sounds
are best heard, as well as a graphic representation of the sounds.
In a case where the heart and its function are an issue, this site
will show the medical analyses physicians apply to these findings.
BOOKS
American Heart Association Guide to Heart Attack Treatment, Recovery,
and Prevention
American Heart Association / Published 1998
Primary Cardiology
W.P. Saunders Co. / Published 1998
The Heart Attack Prevention & Recovery Handbook
Jack Gillis / Published 1997
Healthy Heart Handbook: How to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease,
Lower Your Risk of Heart Attack and Cancer, Reduce Stress, Lose
Weight Without hung
Neal Pinckney / Published 1996
8 Steps to a Healthy Heart: The Complete Guide to Heart Disease
Prevention and Recovery from Heart Attack and Bypass Surgery
Robert E. Kowalski, Jack Sternlieb / Published 1994
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