Cardiac Anaesthesia: Problems and Innovations

List of contents

-What should the cardiac anaesthesiologist know about heart catheterization?.- -Transesophageal 2-D echocardiography: a new dimension in clinical care.- -The EEG and evoked potentials.- -Preoperative medication: maintenance or modification?.- -Preoperative evaluation of the patient with mitral valve disease.- -The use of invasive monitoring techniques in cardiac surgery.- -Inotropic agents/Vasoactive agents.- -Techniques of anesthetic administration: are they more important than choice of anesthetic agent?.- -Detection of myocardial ischemia during anesthesia.- -The management of intraoperative myocardial ischemia and hypotension.- -Metabolic changes and interpretation of blood gas analysis during hypothermia.- -Profound hypothermia and circulatory arrest: studies of intraoperatieve metabolic changes and late postoperative intellectual development after correction of congenital heart disease.- -Flows and pressures during cardiopulmonary bypass.- -Promoting cardiac metabolism before and after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).- -Coronary circulation and myocardial metabolism during anaesthesia.- -Sequential myocardial depressant and non-depressant anaesthesia for coronary artery surgery.- -Continuous arterial pH-monitoring following coronary artery bypass surgery.- -The management of cardiac emergencies - cardiac tamponade.- -Leaking prosthetic valves.- -Massive pulmonary embolism.- -Ruptured coronary artery following angioplasty.- -Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: P. J. Hennis (Editor), P.J. Hennis (Editor), J Hennis (Editor), P J Hennis (Editor), D Kettler (Editor), D. Kettler (Editor), S. de Lange (Editor), S. Le Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2009
• EAN: 9780898387940
• ISBN: 978-0-89838-794-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 483 g
• Illustrations: XII, 200 p.
• Series: Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology; Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine