Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) - Basics to Mastery

From first chest twinge to complex revascularization, this clinician-ready guide distills the core mechanisms of myocardial ischemia, translates contemporary trials into bedside practice, and gives you stepwise workflows for safer, faster decisions. You'll build fluency with symptom triage, risk scoring, ECG interpretation, imaging selection, biomarkers, medications, and procedural options—then stress-test your knowledge with realistic cases (e.g., a 52-year-old runner with atypical exertional pain vs. microvascular angina). Clear algorithms, annotated figures, and "what not to miss" pearls help trainees and seasoned professionals alike move from knowing to doing while aligning care with guideline-directed therapy and patient preferences.
✓ Case-based pathways from triage to follow-up, including unstable angina, NSTEMI, and STEMI
✓ How to choose tests—stress ECG, echo, nuclear, CMR, and coronary CTA—using pretest probability and clinical questions
✓ Pharmacology at a glance: antiplatelets, anticoagulants, statins, beta-blockers, ACEi/ARB, nitrates, and SGLT2 considerations
✓ PCI demystified (wires, balloons, stents, physiology indices) and when surgical CABG offers durable benefit
✓ Secondary prevention playbook: lipids, blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, sleep, diet, exercise, and cardiac rehab
✓ Rapid-reference tools: algorithms, checklists, risk scores (GRACE, TIMI), and discharge bundles for safer transitions