Full Description
Anesthesiology and the Cardiovascular Patient contains the edited presentations of the 41st Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology, February 1996. The chapters reflect new data and concepts within the general framework of the pathophysiology and management of surgical candidates with cardiovascular disease. The textbook will serve as a vehicle to bring many of the latest concepts in anesthesiology to those who did not attend the conference. Each chapter is a brief but sharply focused glimpse of the current interest in anesthesia. This volume, as well as past and future volumes, reflects the rapid and continuing evolution of anesthesiology in the late twentieth century.
Contents
Perioperative Cardiac Morbidity.- The Coronary Circulation.- Diastolic Function: Anesthesia and Myocardial Ischemia.- Ventricular Function.- Myocardial Ischemia and Hypoxemia.- Right Ventricular Function: Importance and Assessment.- Perioperative Myocardial Ischemia and Stroke — New Developments.- Stress Responses in Neonatal and Fetal Cardiac Surgery.- Cost Containment and Efficiency in Perioperative Care.- Transesophageal Echocardiography: Just Another Expensive Toy?.- Pitfalls in Pulmonary Artery Catheter Data Interpretation.- The Interaction of Coagulation and Inflammation.- New Concepts In Anticoagulation and Reversal.- Perfluorocarbon Emulsions: One Approach to Intravenous Artificial Respiratory Gas Transport.- Principles of Hemodynamic Management.- Myocardial Stunning: An Overview.- Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors.- Ischemic Mitral Valve Regurgitation, Mitral Valve Repair and TEE.- Cardiovascular Actions of Desflurane.- Objective Assessment of Cardiac Function in Vascular Surgery.- Cardiopulmonary Bypass and the Brain.- Clinical Neurologic and Developmental Studies after Cardiac Surgery Utilizing Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Bypass.- Major Vascular Surgery of the Abdominal Aorta: Protection of Target Organs (Heart and Kidney).- Anesthesia for Carotid Endarterectomy.- Effect of Drugs on the Vascular System.
