Cardiac Anaesthesia: Problems and Innovations

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
What should the Cardiac Anaesthesiologist Know About Heart Catheterization?....Pages 1-7
Transesophageal 2-D Echocardiography: A New Dimension in Clinical Care....Pages 8-13
The EEG and Evoked Potentials....Pages 14-25
Preoperative Medication: Maintenance or Modification....Pages 26-37
Preoperative Evaluation of the Patient with Mitral Valve Disease....Pages 38-47
The Use of Invasive Monitoring Technqiues in Cardiac Surgery....Pages 48-63
Inotropic Agents/Vasoactive Agents....Pages 64-75
Technqiues of Anesthetic Administration: Are They More Important than Choice of Anesthetic Agent?....Pages 76-92
Detection of Myocardial Ischemia during Anesthesia....Pages 93-101
The Management of Intraoperative Myocardial Ischemia and Hypotension....Pages 102-106
Metabolic changes and interpretation of blood gas analysis during hypothermia....Pages 107-116
Profound Hypothermia and Circulatory Arrest: Studies on Intraoperative Metabolic Changes and Late Postoperative Intellectual Development after Correction of Congenital Heart Disease....Pages 117-122
Flows and Pressures during Cardiopulmonary Bypass....Pages 123-136
Promoting Cardiac Metabolism Before and After Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB)....Pages 137-148
Cornary Circulation and Myocardial Metabolism during Anaesthesia....Pages 149-158
Sequential Myocardial Depressant and Non-Depressant Anaesthesia for Coronary Artery Surgery....Pages 159-162
Continuous Arterial pH-Monitoring Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery....Pages 163-170
The Management of Cardiac Emergencies — Cardiac Tamponade....Pages 171-180
Leaking Prosthetic Valves....Pages 181-185
Massive Pulmonary Embolism....Pages 186-190
Ruptured Coronary Artery Following Angioplasty....Pages 191-192
Back Matter....Pages 193-200