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"In the current healthcare environment, there is an increasing focus on providing high quality patient care at ever lower costs while patients rightly expect excellent outcomes. Cardiac surgery in particular is dependent on several disciplines working together closely and having a good appreciation of the challenges facing each one. High quality outcomes are dependent upon a wide array of factors, ranging from patient specific issues, to provider acumen and technical skills, to ancillary support systems and increasingly to organizational factors. Teamwork;"--
A complete clinically orientated guide to cardiopulmonary bypass and extracorporeal support for trainee medical and technical personnel in cardiac surgery.
Since the publication of the first edition of Core Topics in Cardiac Anesthesia, the clinical landscape has undergone significant change. Recent developments include the increased use of electrophysiology, the resurgence of primary percutaneous intervention in acute coronary syndromes, the use of percutaneous devices in patients previously considered inoperable, and the withdrawal of aprotinin. Against this landscape, this invaluable resource has been fully updated. New chapters are dedicated to right heart valves, pulmonary vascular disease, cardiac tumours and cardiac trauma. All other chapters have been updated according to the latest international guidelines. Written and edited by an international author team with a wealth of expertise in all aspects of the perioperative care of cardiac patients, topics are presented in an easy to digest and a readily accessible manner. Core Topics in Cardiac Anesthesia, Second Edition is essential reading for residents and fellows in anesthesia and cardiac surgery and clinical perfusionists.
A concise and practical teaching tool with numerous tables and figures covering core topics in cardiac anaesthesia and transoesophageal echocardiography.
This manual, introduces advanced anaesthetic management ideas for the challenging patient with liver disease, and the peri-operative organ donor. Many Trusts are expanding their hepatobiliary services and all anaesthetists are more likely to encounter adult, parturient and paediatric patients in various stages of liver impairment for liver-related and non-liver interventions. UK anaesthesia trainees have also highlighted uncertainty in anaesthetic management during organ retrieval surgery. There is also a need to recognise the growing trend of living organ donation and how the donors and recipients may be affected. Both liver and retrieval anaesthesia present issues of optimisation and preservation of existing function and are addressed in this manual, originally written to accompany my two 1-day KLARA Courses at the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2012, with help from specialists of the day, colleagues of the time, and many who went on to gainful employment within the sub-speciality.
This handbook is a guide to best practice in interventions commonly encountered in the ICU. It is clinically orientated providing :step-by-step explanations and illustrations of most invasive procedures, check lists to make sure the indication is right, check lists to ensure appropriate assessment once the procedure has been carried out. The information is easily accessible providing practical advice and essential background for every member of the multi-disciplinary team caring for critically ill patients. It will serve the senior consultant who has not performed a procedure for some time as well as the junior doctor in need of an aide memoire.
Remarkable improvements in cardiac survival rates have made cardiovascular critical care much more common, but no less challenging for the practitioner. This important volume draws on the skills of an expert team of editors and contributors to present a timely overview of clinical practice. The book covers the full range of the field, from pre-operative assessment and the haematological complications of cardiovascular surgery and critical care to the care of patients with: · Arrhythmias · Heart Failure · Adult Congenital Heart Disease · Mitral Valve Disease · Aortic Valve Disease · Infective Endocarditis · Vasculitis The authors also address the special problems associated with the management of conditions consequent upon pregnancy, eclampsia, and the hypertensive crisis. With high-quality illustrations and a helpful index, Cardiovascular Critical Care gives you access to information that helps you provide the best possible care to your patients.
This handbook is a guide to best practice in interventions commonly encountered in the ICU. It is clinically orientated providing :step-by-step explanations and illustrations of most invasive procedures, check lists to make sure the indication is right, check lists to ensure appropriate assessment once the procedure has been carried out. The information is easily accessible providing practical advice and essential background for every member of the multi-disciplinary team caring for critically ill patients. It will serve the senior consultant who has not performed a procedure for some time as well as the junior doctor in need of an aide memoire.
The critical care unit is an intense clinical environment with huge responsibilities on the professionals caring for these patients. Imaging is a key source of diagnostic information, but the conditions in which diagnostic imaging has to be performed are often extremely challenging and significantly different to imaging in the non acute setting. Imaging the ICU Patient reviews imaging procedures on the ICU in a highly practical and memorable manner. Swift and efficient clinical decision-making is rewarded on the ICU and this book serves as a practical handbook.
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