Main description:

This thoroughly updated key reference is an innovative project that provides a continuous editorial effort to update scholarly information related to the comprehensive prevention, management and follow-up of congenital and acquired cardiac pathologies. It illustrates the need for interdisciplinary collaboration and evidence-based practices as well as perspectives of future modalities of patient care. Included are interactive videos with the most common interventions, online access to practical learning activities and to the comprehensive scores and database information.

This second edition of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care is a universal and practical review of management of critically ill children and adults with congenital heart disease, based upon taskforce decisions and the cumulative experience of the world leaders in the field.

Contents:

Section 1. General aspects.- section 2. Fetal cardiology.- section 3. Assessment of the cardiac patient.- section 4. Preventive cardiology.- section 5. Cardiovascular anesthesia.- section 6. Cardio-pulmonary bypass.- section 7. Monitoring of the cardiac patient.- section 8. Cardiopulmonary and intracardiac interactions.- section 9. Cardiovascular pharmacology.- section 10. General principles of interventional cardiac catheterization.- section 11. Innovative interventional techniques.- section 12. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.- section 13. Nursing issues related to the cardiac patient.- section 14. Congenital cardiovascular diseases in pediatrics.- section 15. Cardiovascular dysfunction in infants, children and adolescents.- section 16. Pulmonary hypertension.- section 17. Systemic vasculopathies.- section 18. Acquired cardiac diseases.- section 19. The adult with congenital cardiac defects.- section 20. Extracorporeal life support (ecls) of the cardiac patient.- section 21. Heart and lung transplant.- section 22. Arrhythmias and conductive disorders.- section 23. Upper airway and tracheal pathology.- section 24. Extra-cardiac issues and complications.- section 25. Outcomes, long term follow-up and cardiac recovery.- section 26. Leadership issues of a pediatric heart center.- section 27. Miscellaneous.