Welcome to Central Library, SUST

Fixing hearts, damaging brains

Jones, David S.

Fixing hearts, damaging brains the tangled history of cardiac care / [electronic resource] : David S. Jones. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (p. )

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The mysteries of heart attacks -- The case for plaque rupture -- The case against plaque rupture -- Learning by doing -- The plaque rupture consensus -- Rupture therapeutics -- Therapeutic ruptures -- Fear and unpredictability -- Surgical ambition and fear -- Suffering cerebrums -- Deliriogenic personalities -- The case of the missing complications -- Selective inattention -- The cerebral complications of coronary artery bypass surgery -- A taxonomy of inattention -- Competition's complications.

9781421408026 1421408023


Postoperative Complications--etiology.
Myocardial Infarction--complications.
Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures--adverse effects.
Atherosclerosis--physiopathology.
Myocardial Infarction--physiopathology.


Electronic books.

616.1/237