Perioperative Critical Care Cardiology

✍ Scribed by John L. Atlee, Antonino Gullo, Gianfranco Sinagra, Jean-Louis Vincent (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Mailand
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Series: Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, discussed are 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Sudden Death in Heart Failure: Risk Stratification and Treatment Strategies....Pages 1-20
Etiology and Pathophysiology of Heart Failure....Pages 21-39
Cardiac Protection for Noncardiac Surgery....Pages 41-59
Hypertensive Urgencies and Emergencies....Pages 61-75
Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, and Diabetes Mellitus....Pages 77-88
Circulatory Failure: Bedside Functional Hemodynamic Monitoring....Pages 89-108
Perioperative Cardiac Risk Stratification....Pages 109-134
Hemodynamic Monitoring in Patients with Acute Heart Failure....Pages 135-144
Electrocardiography of Heart Failure: Features and Arrhythmias....Pages 145-157
Management of Patients with Acute Heart Failure....Pages 159-173
Pacemaker and Internal Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapies....Pages 175-194
Updates on Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation....Pages 195-210
Circulatory Shock: Hypovolemic, Distributive, Cardiogenic, Obstructive....Pages 211-224
Prevention and Management of Cardiac Dysfunction during and after Cardiac Surgery....Pages 225-241
Management of Systemic and Pulmonary Hypertension....Pages 243-265
Recent Advances in the Natural History of Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Review of the Heart Muscle Disease Registry of Trieste....Pages 267-277
Back Matter....Pages 279-282

✦ Subjects

Intensive / Critical Care Medicine; Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine; Cardiology; Cardiac Surgery