The manual of cardiovascular medicine, Oxford University Press 2022: just a pocket guide but ‘all inclusive’

The third edition of The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine was awarded 2019 with the Cardiology Book of the year acknowledging this work as a ground-breaking initiative from the European Society of Cardiology transforming reference publishing in cardiovascular medicine to better serve the changing needs of the global cardiology community. For sure, this ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine is nowadays an invaluable resource for cardiologists across the world. Due to the breathtaking progress Cardiovascular Medicine is making, the consequence is a considerable volume of 3408 pages providing readers with a trustworthy insight into all aspects of cardiovascular medicine. Of course, a general wish of students, trainees, junior cardiologist, or even consultants during clinical rounds is to have a book with a smaller format such as a pocket guide, but of course having, if possible ‘all inclusive’. The Manual of Cardiovascular Medicine (Figure 1) has 45 chapters written by 45 renowned authors covering almost all aspects of Cardiovascular Medicine including Cardiovascular Risk Assessment, Metabolic Diseases, the Acute Coronary Syndrome including the Takotsubo Syndrome, Heart Valve and Heart failure disease, Arrhythmias: Diagnosis and Treatment, Cardiovascular Pharmacology, and also very importantly all important Current European Guidelines. The manual is highly illustrated, the text of the chapters concise, and easy to follow.