Heart Teams for Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease : A Guide for Advancing Patient-Centered Cardiac Care

This book provides a comprehensive framework for developing heart teams to manage a variety of cardiovascular diseases. Management of cardiovascular diseases has changed dramatically in recent years due to developments in evidence-based practices and treatments as well as the introduction of new devices. The sequential method of referring patients from doctor to doctor is becoming an antiquated model. The future of cardiac care lies in developing multidisciplinary "Heart Teams" to provide patient-focused treatment for complex cardiovascular problems. This volume examines the history and evolution of cardiovascular care and technology and explains why the implementation of heart teams is absolutely necessary to the future of cardiac care. It analyzes the role of heart teams for heart failure, complex coronary revascularization, mitral valve disease, cardiac imaging, aortic valve disease, cardiac arrhythmias, and women's heart health. Finally, the book explores how heart teams work with hospital administration and the broader healthcare industry. __Heart Teams for Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease: A Guide for Advancing Patient-Centered Cardiac Care__ is an essential resource for physicians and related professionals, residents, fellows, and graduate students in cardiology, cardiac surgery, critical care medicine, and radiology. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Heart Teams as a New Gold Standard of Cardiac Care (Thierry Mesana)....Pages 1-9 Complex Coronary Revascularization Heart Team (Aun-Yeong Chong, Terry Meadows, David Glineur)....Pages 11-22 Heart Teams for Aortic Valve Disease: The TAVI Revolution (Talal Al-Atassi, Marino Labinaz)....Pages 23-34 The Mitral Valve Heart Team (David Messika-Zeitoun, Anthony Tran, Benjamin Hibbert, Vincent Chan)....Pages 35-45 Do We Need Heart Teams for Complex Cardiac Arrhythmias? A Cardiologist’s Perspective (Mark Ainslie, Jennifer L. Reed, Krystina B. Lewis, David Hugh Birnie)....Pages 47-73 Patient-Centered Approach to Heart Failure Management: Transforming Care Delivery (Jacinthe Boulet, Nadia Giannetti, Renzo Cecere)....Pages 75-92 Heart Teams for Women’s Heart Health: Advancing Cardiovascular Prevention and Care for Women (Thais Coutinho)....Pages 93-108 Heart Teams for Cardiac Imaging: The Right Test at the Right Time for the Right Patient (Daniel Juneau, Benjamin J. W. Chow, Rob Beanlands, Andrew Michael Crean)....Pages 109-125 Implementing Multiple Heart Teams: The University of Ottawa Heart Institute Approach (Heather Sherrard, Norvinda Rodger)....Pages 127-141 Multidisciplinary Heart Teams for Cutting-Edge Research (Peter P. Liu, Alison M. Hosey)....Pages 143-152 Back Matter ....Pages 153-158