Cardiology

Medical area of expertise deals with heart illness and disorders. It started with the 1749 publication by Jean Baptiste de Sénac of modern information of the heart. Diagnostic techniques improved in the nineteenth century, and in 1905 the electrocardiograph was made-up. The twentieth century saw many surgical advances in cardiology, including heart transplants and the use of artificial hearts. Current diagnostic technique includes chest percussion (tapping) and auscultation, electrocardiography, and echocardiography. Cardiologists give continuing care of heart patients, doing essential heart-function studies, supervising therapy, including drug therapy, and operating closely with heart surgeons.