Hurst's The Heart [antikvár]

PREFACE This Companion Handbook to the 8th edition of Hursfs The Heart is the third such handbook. Like its predecessors, it was prepared to meet the needs of physicians and students for a concise, portable handbook that they could carry with them and use in the middle of the night or in circumstances when they did not have access to a larger reference textbook of cardiology. It is not intended to be used in place of more specialized textbooks of cardiology or medicine. While it is designed to be used in conjunction with the 8th edition of Hursfs The Heart, it can alsó be used by itself. Most of the chapters were prepared by one or more of the authors of the corresponding chapters in the big book. We express our very deep appreciation to all of our authors. We alsó would invite our readers to send us their suggestions of ways to improve the Handbook to make it more useful.