Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children, 2nd Edition
Pediatric intensivists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and anesthesiologists from the leading centers around the world present the collaborative perspectives, concepts, and state-of–the-art knowledge required to care for children with congenital and acquired heart disease in the ICU. Their multidisciplinary approach encompasses every aspect of the relevant basic scientific principles, medical and pharmacologic treatments, and surgical techniques and equipment. From the extracardiac Fontan procedure, and the Ross procedure through new pharmacologic agents and the treatment of pulmonary hypertension to mechanical assist devices, heart and lung transplantation, and interventional cardiac catheterization—all of the developments that are affecting this rapidly advancing field are covered in depth.
ISBN :
9780323012812
Publication Date :
18-07-2006
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Pediatric intensivists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and anesthesiologists from the leading centers around the world present the collaborative perspectives, concepts, and state-of–the-art knowledge required to care for children with congenital and acquired heart disease in the ICU. Their multidisciplinary approach encompasses every aspect of the relevant basic scientific principles, medical and pharmacologic treatments, and surgical techniques and equipment. From the extracardiac Fontan procedure, and the Ross procedure through new pharmacologic agents and the treatment of pulmonary hypertension to mechanical assist devices, heart and lung transplantation, and interventional cardiac catheterization—all of the developments that are affecting this rapidly advancing field are covered in depth.
New to this edition
- Offers four completely new chapters: Cardiac Trauma, Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult, Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries, and Outcome Evaluation.
- Describes the basic pharmacology and clinical applications of all of the new pharmacologic agents.
- Details important refinements and developments in surgical techniques, including the Ross pulmonary autograft replacement of the aortic valve, video-assisted fluoroscopy, and the extracardiac Fontan connection, and discusses their indications and potential complications.
- Explores the latest advances in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, new developments in mechanical assist devices, heart and lung transplantation, and interventional cardiac catheterization.
- Examines issues affecting adults with congenital heart disease.
Key Features
- Employs well-documented tables, text boxes, and algorithms to make clinical information easy to access.
- Features chapters each written and reviewed by intensivists, surgeons, and cardiologists.
- Integrates the authors' extensive experiences with state-of-the-art knowledge from the literature.
Author Information
By David G. Nichols, MD, Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Education and Vice Dean for Education, Dean’s Office, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; Ross M. Ungerleider, MD, Professor of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, [email protected], 3040 Burnett-Womack Building, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7065, USA; Philip J. Spevak, MD, Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; William J. Greeley, MD, MBA MD, John J. Downes, Jr., Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Duke E. Cameron, MD, FACS, The James T. Dresher, Sr. Professor of SDurgery and Pediatrics, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Chief of Pediatric Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; Dorothy G. Lappe, RN, MS, MBA and Randall C. Wetzel, MBBS
