The ESC Textbook of Acute and Intensive Cardiac CareTubaroMarcoDanchinNicolasFilippatosGerasimosGoldsteinPatrickVranckxPascalZahgerDoron edsThe ESC Textbook of Acute and Intensive Cardiac CareNew York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-958431-4 848 pages. $325.00.

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Marco Tubaro, Nicolas Danchin, Gerasimos Filippatos, Patrick Goldstein, Pascal Vranckx, Doron Zahger eds The ESC Textbook of Acute and Intensive Cardiac Care New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-958431-4 848 pages. $325.00. This book serves 2 purposes. First, it is a comprehensive textbook on intensive and cardiac care, and, second, it forms the curriculum for a course of study and testing that can lead to accreditation by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in intensive and acute cardiac care. The book comes with access to a web site for 6 months, which has an online version of the text and includes videos and additional figures and contains all the references. In addition, it has multiple choice questions that need to be done as part of the accreditation process. In fact, 1 chapter of the book is devoted to explaining the mechanics of how accreditation is accomplished. The book contains 76 chapters divided into 11 sections, starting with the prehospital phase of acute cardiac conditions and going on through various comorbid acute conditions that often accompany acute cardiac disease. There are 793 pages of actual text and several pages of accompanying materials, including 6 pages of acronyms used in the book. Some of the acronyms are commonly used ones, others are …