LibGuides: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: Resources

Books

Cardiology Essentials by Teresa Holler
ISBN: 9780763750763
Publication Date: 2007-07-03
Cardiology Essentials offers practical advice from a seasoned cardiology physician assistant on how to be an efficient, competent member of the cardiology team.
Cardiovascular Nursing by American College of Cardiology Foundation Staff (Contribution by); American Nurses Association Staff (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781558102590
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
ANA and the American College of Cardiology Foundation convened an array of cardiovascular health experts to develop this succinct and practical guide.
Cardiovascular Nursing Demystified by Jim Keogh
ISBN: 9780071849180
Publication Date: 2015-09-21
The fast and easy way to learn the core concepts and skills of cardiovascular nursing.
Chronic Cardiac Care by Simon Stewart; Sally Inglis; Anna Hawkes; David R. Thompson (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1405171820
Publication Date: 2008-04-15
This is a practical book for nurses on the management of patients with chronic cardiac disease.
Contemporary Issues Coronary Care by Timmins
ISBN: 9780203017555
Publication Date: 2005-08-15
In this text, Fiona Timmins integrates the findings of nursing research with key aspects of the nurse's role. She provides an evidence-based rationale for the best ways of improving cardiac care (in general and for specific conditions), describes important nursing initiatives to reduce the risk factors and presents a needs-based approach to patient education.
Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure by Simon Stewart; Lynda Blue
ISBN: 0585395217
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
This book describes and discusses the latest research concerning the benefits of having specially trained nurses manage the care of patients with heart failure after they have been discharged from hospital to their own home.

Websites

Databases

CINAHL {Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature} This link opens in a new window
CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature) indexes and abstracts more than 900 nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals. It includes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, and educational software.
Subject Coverage:
nursing and allied health
Dates of Coverage:
1982 to present
1986 to present (for records with abstracts)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 670,000 records
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Produced by the National Library of Medicine and covers journal literature published internationally in all areas of medicine.
Subject Coverage:
experimental medicine, clinical medicine, nursing, psychiatry, health services administration, dentistry, nutrition, toxicology, education, pathology, veterinary medicine
Dates of Coverage:
1965 to present
1975 to present (for records with abstracts)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 12,000,000 records
more than 4,800 biomedical journals
Note:
Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree hierarchy, subheadings, and explosion capabilities.
Ovid Journals This link opens in a new window
An aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.
PubMed (for MSU) This link opens in a new window
Is a huge index database for biomedical literature maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This link is to a customized version for Morehead State University which allows for quick links within the interface to articles from the online journals to which the library subscribes.
Subject Coverage:
medicine and biology
Dates of Coverage:
varies by journal title
Update Frequency:
varies by journal title
Size:
more than 23 million citations

Note:
Recommended for users of Chrome - LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that makes linking to full-text easier in PubMed. Go to https://thirdiron.com/libkey-nomad/
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
A clinical decision support resource which includes access to over 11,000 topics in over 22 specialties.
"UptoDate is a well-known resource in the medical field. This database functions as a clinical decision support tool providing quick access to information that can help the clinician at the bedside. The information provided in each of the many clinical topics is considered evidence-based and has gone through a peer-review process before the summary of findings is presented. Additional tools such as drug interaction monitoring, clinical calculators, images, and practice changing updates are also highly sought after in the community of medical and health science users."
-- review from ccAdvisor

Journals

Cardiovascular Research
Most recent 1 year not available. From Oxford Academic: "Cardiovascular Research is the international journal of the European Society of Cardiology for basic and translational research, spanning all topics within cardiology and cardiovascular biology."
Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association
Most recent 1 year not available. From ResearchGate: "This journal brings together basic research on the cardiovascular system from various disciplines including biology, biochemistry, biophysics, cellular biology, molecular biology, morphology, pathology, physiology, and pharmacology."
Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
From the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association: "Official journal of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing is one of the leading journals for advanced practice nurses in cardiovascular care, providing thorough coverage of timely topics and information that is extremely practical for daily, on-the-job use."
Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing
From Scimago Journal & Country Rank: "Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing is a peer-reviewed quarterly publication providing readers with information on the most current advances in cardiovascular nursing, comprehensive reviews of the current literature on clinical practice and research, case studies, drug therapy, and the results of clinical trials."
Stroke
From the American Heart Association: "Stroke publishes reports of clinical and basic investigation of any aspect of the cerebral circulation and its diseases from many disciplines, including anesthesiology, critical care medicine, epidemiology, internal medicine, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuropathology, neuropsychology, neurosurgery, nuclear medicine, nursing, radiology, rehabilitation, speech pathology, vascular physiology, and vascular surgery."