Perioperative Critical Care Cardiology

Discusses topics of particular importance to critical care cardiovascular diagnosis and management in the perioperative period. This book includes chapters that cover such topics as: the causes for heart failure; the pathophysiology of heart failure; coronary heart disease and ischemic preconditioning; and, hypertensive urgencies and emergencies.

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.

Etiology of Heart Failure.- 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.- Thromboembolism and Anticoagulation.