Kaplan’s Cardiac Anesthesia: Perioperative and Critical Care Management, 8th Edition, offers practical advice from today’s international leaders in cardiac anesthesiology, assisting you in maximizing perioperative outcomes, avoiding complications, and ensuring maximum patient safety. It is up-to-date, thorough, and evidence-based. You will be guided through today’s clinical challenges by Dr. Joel A. Kaplan and a knowledgeable team of associate editors, who include expanded coverage of critical care, the most recent methods for perioperative assessment and management, cutting-edge diagnostic methods, and cardiovascular and coronary physiology.
Includes preoperative assessment, physiology, pharmacology, monitoring, transesophageal echocardiography, coagulation, specific cardiac procedures, extracorporeal circulation, postoperative pain management, and management of the complex patient with cardiac disease. Covers the full range of contemporary cardiothoracic anesthesia practice.
reflects the increasing perioperative care presently offered by anesthesiologists in the ICU, with enhanced coverage of critical care themes.
includes new chapters on procedures for structural heart disease, the cardiorespiratory effects of COVID-19, critical care ultrasound, intensive unit management of patients receiving mechanical circulatory support, and postoperative care for heart and lung transplant patients.
Includes more than 900 full-color pictures, decision trees, charts, and graphs (of which more than a third are new), all of which help readers understand complex subjects visually.
access to more than 120 videos, many of which contain excerpts from echocardiography.
contains accurate, reliable, and up-to-date information on all facets of the treatment of anesthesia in cardiac surgical procedures, as well as in cardiology procedures carried out in catheterization and electrophysiologic labs.
emphasizes the need for perioperative care for cardiac devices, including as ventricular support devices and electrical cardiac implants.
With every purchase, an eBook edition is included. With the ability to search, edit your content, add notes and highlights, and have it read aloud, the eBook gives you access to all of the text, figures, and references.
