What the course book collection covers
The course books are the written half of the teaching on this site. They exist because a live class can argue a decision through but cannot hold the detail you need three months later at two in the morning: the dosing, the sequence of steps, the differential you have to exclude before you commit, the number that changes the plan. The books carry that detail in a form you can reach for while the patient is in front of you.
Each title is written for a working clinician rather than for an examiner’s idea of one. The structure is deliberately flat, so you can open a book at the section you need without reading the eighty pages before it. Where a course sets a book as required reading, the book and the course use the same framework, so what you hear in a live session and what you read afterwards reinforce each other instead of competing.
You can see every title in one place in the full course book catalogue, or work through the seven subject areas below.
Browse by subject area
The catalogue is organised into seven pillars. Most clinicians find their way in through the one that matches what they do most days, then add adjacent areas as their practice widens.
- Interventional and acute care – the catheterisation laboratory and the acute presentation: coronary intervention, access and equipment, the complication you have to recognise early, and the decisions that have to be made in the first hour of an acute coronary syndrome. Written for people who work in the laboratory and for physicians who receive these patients before a laboratory is available.
- Diagnosis and imaging – reading what the investigation is actually telling you. Electrocardiography, echocardiography, cross-sectional imaging and the reasoning that turns an image or a tracing into a diagnosis, including the patterns that are commonly misread and the point at which a further test is worth doing.
- Exam preparation – titles aimed at candidates sitting postgraduate examinations, built around recall you can retrieve under time pressure, worked reasoning and question practice rather than passive reading.
- Heart failure, rhythm and risk – the long-term work: titrating heart failure therapy, managing arrhythmia and anticoagulation decisions, device selection, and the risk assessment that decides who needs escalation and who can be followed.
- Prevention and lifestyle – lipids, blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, activity and diet handled as clinical work rather than as advice. What to measure, what to treat, what to say to a patient who has heard something different, and how to keep a prevention plan going over years.
- Special populations – patients in whom the usual rule does not hold cleanly: pregnancy, older patients with several conditions at once, chronic kidney disease, the very young, and the patient whose comorbidity constrains every option you would normally choose.
- Core collections – the broad, foundational titles that sit under everything else. A sensible starting point if you are building a cardiology library from nothing, or filling gaps before moving into a specialised area.
Bundles and sets
Clinicians rarely need one book in isolation. Two grouped routes exist for that reason.
Cardiology book bundles gather titles that belong together clinically, so a reader building a working library for a subject area can take the set rather than assembling it a title at a time. They suit someone moving into a new area of practice, or a department putting a shared shelf together.
Cardiology exam bundles are organised around a candidate rather than a subject. They bring together the recall material, the worked reasoning and the question practice that a postgraduate examination expects, so preparation can start from a defined set instead of a reading list you have to compile yourself.
How the books fit with the courses
Courses on this site name the books they draw on. The reading carries the structured detail, the self-paced modules organise it, and the live sessions are spent on judgement: why this artery and not that one, why now and not next week, what you do when the first plan fails. Reading alongside a course is what makes that division of labour work. If you are enrolled, check your course page for the titles it sets before ordering, so you do not buy something you already have.
Ordering and enquiries
Titles are listed here so you can compare what belongs to each subject area before deciding. Orders, payment and delivery are handled through cardiologybooks.com. If you are not sure which pillar fits your stage of training, or whether a bundle overlaps with books you already own, send an enquiry through the contact page on this site describing your role and what you are preparing for, and you will be pointed to the right part of the catalogue.