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.

• 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 to 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.

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• 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.

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• Medical eBooksSpecialtiesPediatricsPerinatology & Neonatology
• Medical eBooksInternal MedicineCritical Care

• Publication Date: September 26, 2018
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 2,902 Pages
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