Perioperative Critical Care Cardiology

J.L. Atlee, A. Gullo, G. Sinagra, J.L. Vincent88-470-0557-4, 978-88-470-0557-0

In this book are discussed topics of particular importance to critical care cardiovascular diagnosis and management in the perioperative period. Chapter topics are the causes for heart failure; the pathophysiology of heart failure; coronary heart disease and ischemic preconditioning; hypertensive urgencies and emergencies; diagnosis of heart failure; preoperative cardiac risk assessment; hemodynamic monitoring in patients with heart failure; electrocardiography of heart failure – features and arrhythmias; pharmacologic management for patients with heart failure; devices for management of heart failure; pacemaker and internal cardioverter-defibrillator therapies; management of cardiopulmonary arrest; circulatory shock – anaphylactic, cardiogenic, haemorrhagic, septic; prevention and management of cardiac dysfunction during and after cardiac surgery; vasodilator therapy – systemic and pulmonary; and, thromboembolism and anticoagulation. This work represents an important update for anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, emergency care physicians and intensivists caring for patients with acute, life-threatening cardiovascular afflictions.

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Table of contents :
COVER……Page 1
FRONTMATTER……Page 2
Table of Contents……Page 9
1 Sudden Death in Heart Failure: Risk Stratification andTreatment Strategies……Page 12
2 Etiology and Pathophysiology of Heart Failure……Page 32
3 Cardiac Protection for Noncardiac Surgery……Page 51
4 Hypertensive Urgencies and Emergencies……Page 70
5 Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, and Diabetes Mellitus……Page 85
6 Circulatory Failure: Bedside Functional HemodynamicMonitoring……Page 97
7 Perioperative Cardiac Risk Stratification……Page 117
8 Hemodynamic Monitoring in Patients with Acute HeartFailure……Page 143
Electrocardiography of Heart Failure: Features andArrhythmias……Page 153
10 Management of Patients with Acute Heart Failure……Page 166
11 Pacemaker and Internal Cardioverter-DefibrillatorTherapies……Page 181
12 Updates on Cardiac Arrest and CardiopulmonaryResuscitation……Page 201
13 Circulatory Shock: Hypovolemic, Distributive, Cardiogenic,Obstructive……Page 217
14 Prevention and Management of Cardiac Dysfunction duringand after Cardiac Surgery……Page 231
15 Management of Systemic and Pulmonary Hypertension……Page 248
16 Recent Advances in the Natural History of DilatedCardiomyopathy: A Review of the Heart Muscle DiseaseRegistry of Trieste……Page 271
Subject Index……Page 282