Cardiovascular Medicine and Prevention Update for Primary Care

Cardiovascular medicine is a vast area of clinical practice with a continually rapid expansion of knowledge, guidelines, best practices and new technology. Primary care clinicians are challenged to optimally manage a multitude of diseases involving the cardiovascular system including the failing heart, the heart with abnormal arrhythmias and the circulation affected by abnormal cholesterol metabolism and hypertension. Several national guidelines help clinicians establish best practices.