This timely new edition of Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease reflects the rapid advances in surgery and anesthesia for congenital heart disease that have occurred in recent years, including:

• neonatal cardiac surgery and anesthesia
• treatment of single ventricle patients
• new diagnostic modalities
• developments in the catheterization laboratory

New chapters address mechanical support of the circulation, embryology, and quality/outcomes management.

Contents

Part 1: History, Education, Outcomes, and Science

1. History of Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease
2. Education for Anesthesia in Patients with Congenital Cardiac Disease
3. Quality, Outcomes, and Databases in Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia
4. Embryology, Development, and Nomenclature of Congenital Heart Disease
5. Physiology and Molecular Biology of the Developing Circulation
6. Anesthetic Agents and Their Cardiovascular Effects
7. Cardiopulmonary Bypass
8. The Inflammatory Response and Its Modification

Part 2: Monitoring

9. Vascular Access and Monitoring
10. Neurologic Monitoring and Outcome
11. Transesophageal Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease
12. Bleeding and Coagulation: Monitoring and Management

Part 3: Preoperative Considerations

13. Preoperative Evaluation and Preparation
14. Approach to the Fetus, Premature, and Full-Term Infant
15. Approach to the Teenaged and Adult Patient

Part 4: Management

16. Hemodynamic Management
17. Arrhythmias: Diagnosis and Management
18. Airway and Ventilatory Management
19. Regional Anesthesia and Postoperative Pain Management

Part 5: Anesthesia for Specific Lesions

20. Anesthesia for Left-to-Right Shunt Lesions
21. Anesthesia for Left-Sided Obstructive Lesions
22. Anesthesia for Right-Sided Obstructive Lesions
23. Anesthesia for Transposition of the Great Vessels
24. Anesthesia for the Patient with a Single Ventricle
25. Anesthesia for Miscellaneous Cardiac Lesions
26. Anesthesia for Cardiac and Pulmonary Transplantation

Part 6: Anesthesia Outside the Cardiac Operating Room

27. Anesthesia for the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
28. Anesthesia for Noncardiac Surgery and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
29. Cardiac Intensive Care
30. Mechanical Support of the Circulation

Appendix : Texas Children’s Hospital Pediatric Cardiovascular Anesthesia Drug Sheet (March 2009)

Index

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