Anesthesia and Perioperative Care for Aortic Surgery

This comprehensive reference focuses on anesthesia for various aortic surgical procedures, including endovascular aortic surgery. It also covers CNS monitoring and protection, renal and spinal cord protection during surgery, postoperative care, and more.

This book is the first of its kind - a comprehensive reference for anesthesia and perioperative clinicians involved in aortic surgery. With a primary focus on anesthesia for various aortic surgical procedures, including endovascular aortic surgery, the title also provides expanded coverage of CNS monitoring and protection, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography, renal and spinal cord protection during surgery, management of aortic trauma, and postoperative care. Written by top cardiac anesthesiologists, surgeons, and intensivists, this indispensable reference provides everything you need to know about the burgeoning field of aortic surgery in one handy volume.

1.Applied Anatomy of the Aorta.- 2.Acute Aortic Syndrome.- 3.Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation before Aortic Surgery.- 4.Role of Echocardiography in Aortic Surgery.- 5.Operative Techniques in Surgery of the Proximal Thoracic Aorta and Aortic Arch.- 6.Anesthesia for surgery of the ascending aorta aortic arch.- 7.Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest.- 8.Cerebral Monitoring During Aortic Surgery.- 9.Understanding Open Repair of the Descending Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Aorta.- 10.Anesthesia for Descending Aortic Surgery.- 11.Spinal Cord Protection Strategies.- 12.Understanding Endovascular Aortic Surgery: Endovascular Repair of Aortic Aneurysmal Disease.- 13.Anesthesia for Endovascular Aortic Surgery.- 14.Anesthesia for Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair.- 15.Renal Protection Strategies.- 16.Comprehensive Management of Patients with Traumatic Aortic Injury.- 17.Anesthesia for Adult Congenital Aortic Surgery.- 18.Atherosclerosis of the aorta and prevention of neurological dysfunction after cardiac surgery.- 19.Postoperative Care After Aortic Surgery.