title: Comprehensive coronary care Comprehensive coronary care N Jowett D Thompson Scutari 388pp £18.50 1-871364-05-1.
abstract: Comprehensive Coronary Care has a joint ' medical and nursing authorship, a I refreshing approach which I warmly welcome. The logical format incorporates topics which are not always so extensively covered in other cardiology textbooks. The integrated approach is particularly noticeable in the sections on rehabilitation and risk-factor modification. Perhaps one could take issue with the statement that the majority of patients who present have no identifiable risk factors; indeed, the initial findings from the British Regional Heart Study would appear to dispute this.