Cardiovascular Critical Care

This is a practical guide to management of life threatening cardiovascular conditions facing staff in intensive care and cardiothoracic surgery units. It provides basic information followed by illustrative cases recommending best practice. This well illustrated text fills a gap in the market for a book on management of acutely ill patients with a cardiovascular condition. Mark Griffiths (Consultant Physician, Adult Intensive Care Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital - Hon Senior Lecturer Imperial College, University of London); Jeremy Cordingley (Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist and Intensivist, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital); Nick Curzen (Consultant Cardiologist, Wessex Cardiac Unit, Southampton University Hospitals Trust Mario Petrou, Cardiothoracic and Transplant Surgeon, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Susanna Price, BHF Intermediate Fellow in Echocardiography, Cardiologist and Intensivis) CONTENTS PART 1. 1 History of cardiovascular monitoring. Ron Bradley. 2 Shock. Marius Terblanche and Nicole Assmann. 3 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. DA Zideman. 4 Cardiovascular monitoring in critical care. MR Pinsky and Mehrnaz Hadian. 5 Cardiovascular investigation of the critically ill. Susanna Price and Jeremy Cordingley. 6 Haemotological aspects of cardiovascular intensive care. Kanchan Rege. 7 Cardiovascular support: pharmacological. Joe Arrowsmith. 8 Management of dysrhthmia complicating critical illness. Hugh Montgomery and Vivek Savaraman. 9 Cardiovascular support: mechanical, including cardio-pulmonary bypass. Aly El Banayosy. 10 Care of the high risk patient undergoing surgery - Preop assessment, optimisation, respiratory failure, renal replacement therapy. Andrew Rhodes and J Woods. 11 Heart and lung transplant peri-operative care. Keith McNeil and John Dunning. 12 Adult congenital heart disease - generic problems. Susanna Price and Brian Keogh. 13 Cardiovascular complications of critical care. Mark Griffiths and Simon Finney. PART 2. 14 Haemodynamic management of severe sepsis. Jean-Louis Vincent. 15 Acute coronary syndromes and myocardial infarction. Alex Hobson and Nick Curzen. 16 The management of acute cardiogenic shock. Gerry Carr-White. 17 Adult congenital heart disease - specific lesions. M Gatzoulis, Antonia Pijuan and Katerine Clamaidi. 18 Management of arrhythmia in patients with repaired congenital heart disease. Barbara J Deal. 19 Mitral valve disease. S Price and D Gibson. 20 Aortic valve disease. Mario Petrou. Aortic dissection (merged with ch 20). R Bonser, V Dronavalli and M Kalkat. 22 Endocarditis and blood borne infections. J Pepper and David Hunter. 23 Thrombo-embolic disease & PHT. Alain Vuylsteke. 24 Cardiovascular trauma. James Napier, Mark Messent and Alex Shipolini. 25 Cardiovascular complications of systemic disease - hypertensive crisis/ eclampsia, thyroid storm, vasculitis. Mark Griffiths, Susanna Price and Lorna Swan. 1. Hypertension - Liao Pinhu. 2. Endocrine - Philip Marino. 3. Pregnancy - Lorna Swan. 4. Vasculitis - Lorna Swan