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• Practical guidance from a single author presents the knowledge you need in a cohesive, consistent manner.
  
• Extensive coverage of special problems, including congestive heart failure and syncope, helps you select the best approaches for your patients.
  
• A compact, portable size facilitates easy reference in the busy clinical setting.

• New coverage of surgical techniques in pediatric cardiology, the application of interventional non-surgical techniques, blood pressure standards, and cardiac arrhythmia treatments puts the most recent management approaches at your fingertips.
  
• New line drawings guide you through the latest techniques.

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I'm a better pediatrician because of this book.	Customer Rating:
Great book. Residents should use this book, if not buy it. Not terribly expensive either. Excellent. Don't like the EKG book by the same author though.

THE Cards book for residents (and rotating MS4's)

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I bought this book on my 4th year medical student rotation for Pediatric Cardiology. It continues to serve me as a resident (just coming fresh off the Cardiology floor). The EKG section is invaluable. The description (and explanation of pathophysiology of) congenital heart defects is outstanding. I am told by fellows that this book has served them through the first year of fellowship then, before having to move onto more advanced texts. Only minus, no explanation of how EP studies work, which is not a huge minus because you won't be seeing much of that as a resident anyway. Bottom line: this is THE pediatric cardiology book that every pediatrician and every pediatric resident should have.

Very useful reference work, even for non-peds and non-cards

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In concise and clear language, Prof. Park explains how a medical practitioner can diagnose alsmost any known cardiac anomaly in a child. Having a scientific but no medical background myself, I found it very readable. Some knowledge of cardiac anatomy and electrocardiography are a prerequisite. What is especially good is Prof. Parks comprehensive approach to the diagnosis: all posible pathologies are listed and when a particular observation is possible in normal patients, he doesn't forget to point this out too. I have only read the 2nd edition of the book (1988), so I cannot vouch whether the latest (4th) is up to date on recent advances in the field, be it in pacemaking capabilities or teratogenic discoveries.

Pediatric Cardiology made simple and understandable

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As a resident in pediatrics, you face the usual time constraints, yet you want to prepare yourselfs for electives by reading a comprehensible text. For Cardiology, I have found with Park's "Pediatric Cardiology for the Practioner" an outstanding text, which I actually prefer over more recent review articles for its easy to understand approach. The text is easy to read and is supported by the style of the figures and schemes. This book provides more than an introductory text for the pediatric resident with a general focus, it also provides a valuable and readily accessible resource for cardiology fellows.