Critical heart disease in infants and children /

Pediatric intensivists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and anesthesiologists from the leading centers around the world present the collaborative perspectives, concepts, and state-of-the-art knowledge required to care for children with congenital and acquired heart disease in the ICU. Their multidi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Nichols, David G. (David Gregory), 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Philadelphia : Mosby, ©2006.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The segmental approach to congenital heart disease
  • Cardiovascular physiology and shock
  • Regulation of pulmonary vascular resistance and blood flow
  • Renal function and heart disease
  • Splanchnic function and heart disease
  • Cerebral function and heart disease
  • Pharmacology of cardiovascular drugs
  • Pediatric arrhythmias
  • Pericardial effusion and tamponade
  • Anesthesia for pediatric cardiac surgery
  • Applied respiratory physiology
  • Respiratory support for the child with critical heart disease
  • Cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  • Coagulation disorders in congenital heart disease
  • Nutrition and metabolism in the critically ill child with cardiac disease
  • Heart and lung transplantation
  • Noninvasive diagnosis of congenital and acquired pediatric heart disease
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic catheterization
  • Perioperative monitoring
  • Cardiopulmonary bypass in infants and children
  • Mechaincal circulatory support in infants and children
  • Nursing care of the child with congenital heart disease
  • Perioperative management of patients with congenital heart disease: a multidisciplinary approach
  • Atrial septal defects and ventricular septal defects
  • Atrioventricular septal defects
  • Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction
  • Coarctation of the aorta and interrupted aortic arch
  • Mitral valve diseases
  • Aortopulmonary septal defects and patent ductus arteriosus
  • Anomalous origin of the coronary arteries
  • Persistent truncus arteriosus
  • Total anomalous pulmonary venous return
  • Transposition of the great arteries and the arterial switch operation
  • Double-outlet right ventricle and double-outlet left ventricle
  • Tetralogy of fallot with and without pulmonary atresia
  • Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum
  • Ebstein's malformation
  • Single-ventricle lesions
  • Tricuspid atresia
  • Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
  • Separating the circulations: cavopulmonary connections (bidirectional glenn, hemi-fontan) and the modified fontan operation
  • The critical appraisal and use of evidence about therapy
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Inflammatory heart disease
  • Infective endocarditis
  • Syndromes and congenital heart defects
  • Heritable heart disease as part of multisystem illness
  • Cardiomyopathy.