This book enables a reader to access a method of approach to over one hundred clinical problems in cardiac and general thoracic surgery. Major traditional sources of information, namely journals and textbooks, serve to update sources and to extend the basic framework of knowledge. However, this text will serve as an intermediary educational aid that affords a rapid and easily digestible format, which allows the reader rapid assimilation of the basic thought process necessary when situations, diagnostic or otherwise, are encountered needing a logical approach.