Key Topics in Cardiac Surgery includes every current topic central to the modern practice of cardiac surgery.
The systematic and structured format of Key Topics in Cardiac Surgery make it an ideal revision aid for postgraduate trainees in cardiac surgery preparing for certification and fellowship examination.
To ensure the content is suitable for this purpose, each topic has been reviewed by cardiac surgical trainees prior to publication.
Other medical personnel involved in the care of cardiac patients will also find Key Topics in Cardiac Surgery a useful reference source.
Contents:
- Fundamentals
- Cardiac surgical anatomy
- Cardiac surgical physiology
- Cardiovascular pharmacology
- Pre-operative assessment of cardiac surgery patients
- Cardiac imaging
- Echocardiography
- Anesthesia for cardiac surgery
- Cardiopulmonary bypass
- Thermoregulation in cardiac surgery
- Hypothermic circulatory arrest
- Myocardial preservation
- Blood conservation
- Cardiac intensive care
- Postoperative complications
- Risk stratification and performance monitoring
- Adult cardiac surgery
- Myocardial revascularization
- Surgery for complications of ischemic heart disease
- Heart valve surgery
- Aortic surgery
- Surgery for atrial fibrillation
- Surgery for pericardial disease
- Surgery for cardiac tumors
- Surgery for trauma
- Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy
- Surgery for heart failure
- Heart transplantation
- Pediatric cardiac surgery
- Atrial septal defect
- Ventricular septal defect
- Atrioventricular septal defect
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Tricuspid atresia
- Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- The Fontan circulation
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Double outlet right ventricle
- Truncus arteriosus
- Interrupted aortic arch
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Valvular disease in children
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
- Palliation versus correction of congenital heart defects
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