Babita Jyoti - BMJ Clinical Review: Cardiology & Respiratory Medicine

First edition August 2015

ISBN 9781 4727 3889 9
eISBN 9781 4727 4409 8
eISBN 9781 4727 4417 3

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Dr Babita Jyoti is a Radiation Oncologist with a special interest in Paediatric Proton Therapy. She graduated in Medicine in India followed by training in UK and obtained MRCP (UK) & FRCR (UK). She trained as a Clinical Oncologist at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. She is currently working at the University of Florida Health Proton Therapy Institute in Paediatric Proton Therapy. She has been a PBL tutor and an OSCE examiner at Manchester Medical School.

Dr Michail A. Karvelis is a Pain Fellow at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals. He qualified from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2003. He trained as an anaesthetist both in Greece and the UK and he obtained his CCT in 2011. He was awarded a Masters degree in Pain management from Leicester University in 2011. He has worked as a consultant anaesthetist in the Naval Hospital of Athens and since 2014 he has been developing his special interest in regional anaesthesia and pain medicine in the NHS.

Cardiology and Respiratory Medicine are an integral part of every day clinical medicine in both primary, as well as secondary care. New pharmaceutical products are being discovered and relevant guidelines are constantly under review. In this book, we have made every effort to refresh and update knowledge by carefully selecting clinical reviews on cardiology and respiratory medicine published in The BMJ in the past 7 years.

Clinical reviews from The BMJ provide a clear, up to date account of the topic in a collaborative venture including general physicians, cardiologists and chest physicians as well as general practitioners, epidemiologists, surgeons, gastroenterologists, radiologists and pharmacists.