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Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children

  • 3rd Edition - September 26, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Ross M. Ungerleider, Kristen Nelson McMillan, David S. Cooper, Jon N. Meliones, Jeffrey Jacobs
  • Language: English

Now in brilliant full color and reflecting recent significant changes in the field, Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children, 3rd Edition, keeps you abreast of the skills an… Read more

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Now in brilliant full color and reflecting recent significant changes in the field, Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children, 3rd Edition, keeps you abreast of the skills and knowledge required to safely care for children with congenital and acquired heart disease in the ICU. Pediatric intensivists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and anesthesiologists from leading centers around the world provide a well-rounded perspective on basic scientific principles, medical and pharmacologic treatments, surgical techniques, and equipment.

Key features

  • Features comprehensive updates throughout the text, including indications, techniques, potential complications in perioperative management of patients, and surgical techniques for congenital heart disease.
  • Covers recent advances in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, developments in mechanical assist devices, heart and lung transplantation, and interventional cardiac catheterization.
  • Features an all-new, full-color format that speeds navigation and helps clarify complex concepts.
  • Contains 27 new chapters with an emphasis on the team approach to patient care in the ICU including creating multidisciplinary teams, quality and performance improvement, training , and challenges and solutions to developing a cohesive team environment.
  • Includes a detailed chapter on bedside ultrasound, walking you through the techniques you’re most likely to encounter in the ICU.
  • Employs well-documented tables, text boxes, and algorithms to make clinical information easy to access, and more than two dozen video clips provide a more complete understanding of echocardiography, imaging modalities, pulmonary hypertension, and more.
  • Describes the basic pharmacology and clinical applications of new pharmacologic agents.
  • Examines issues affecting adults with congenital heart disease.
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Readership

Critical Care Specialists Cardiologists, Cardiac Surgeons Pediatric Surgeons and Residents of these disciplines, Health Science Libraries

Table of contents

1. The Segmental Approach to Congenital Heart Disease

2. Cardiovascular Physiology and Shock

3. Regulation of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance and Blood Flow

4. Renal Function and Heart Disease

5. Splanchnic Function and Heart Disease

6. Cerebral Function and Heart Disease

7. Pharmacology of Cardiovascular Drugs

8. Pediatric Arrhythmias

9. Pericardial Effusion and Tamponade

10. Anesthesia for Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

11. Applied Respiratory Physiology

12. Respiratory Support

13. Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

14. Coagulation Disorders in Congenital Heart Disease

15. Nutrition

16. Transplantation

17. Noninvasive Diagnosis of Heart Disease

18. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiac Catheterization

19. Perioperative Monitoring

20. Cardiopulmonary Bypass

21. Mechanical Circulatory Support in Infants and Children

22. Nursing Care

23. Perioperative Management of Patients with Congenital Heart Disease

24. ASD/VSD

25. Atrioventricular Septal Defects

26. Aortic Valve Disease

27. CoA and IAA

28. Mitral Valve Disease

29. AP Window/PDA

30. ACLA

31. Persistent Truncus Arteriosus

32. Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return

33. Transposition of the Great Arteries and the Arterial Switch Operation

34. DORV/DOLV

35. TOF with PAT and VSD

36. Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum (PA/IVS)

37. Ebstein’s Anomaly

38. Single Ventricle

39. Tricuspid Atresia and the Fontan Operation

40. HLHS

41. Staged Operative Management of the SV

42. Critical Appraisal and Use of Evidence about Therapy

43. Cor Pulmonale

44. Inflammatory Heart Disease

45. Infective Endocarditis

46. Syndromes and Congenital Heart Defects

47. Heritable Disease

48. Cardiomyopathy

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 26, 2018
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Ross M. Ungerleider

Ross Ungerleider, MD is co-director of the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Program, is the most experienced pediatric heart surgeon in North Carolina and a leader in pediatric cardiovascular surgery. Dr. Ungerleider is a national expert with over 25 years of experience in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery and one of just 60 cardiac surgeons in the United States certified in congenital heart surgery by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is an expert in all congenital heart surgery procedures and has special expertise in aortic valve surgery and hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, [email protected], 3040 Burnett-Womack Building, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7065, USA

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David S. Cooper

Affiliations and expertise
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, [email protected],3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA

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Jon N. Meliones

Affiliations and expertise
Co-Director, Children’s Heart Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 6411 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA

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