Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children

• 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.

CONTENTS

1. The Segmental Approach to Congenital Heart Disease
2. Cardiovascular Physiology and Shock
3. Regulation of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance and Blood Flow
4. Renal Function and Heart Disease
5. Splanchnic Function and Heart Disease
6. Cerebral Function and Heart Disease
7. Pharmacology of Cardiovascular Drugs
8. Pediatric Arrhthmias
9. Pericardial Effusion and Tamponade
10. Anesthesia for Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
11. Applied Respiratory Physiology
12. Respiratory Support
13. Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
14. Coagulation Disorders in Congenital Heart Disease
15. Nutrition
16. Transplantation
17. Noninvasive Diagnosis of Heart Disease
18. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiac Catheterization
19. Perioperative Monitoring
20. Cardiopulmonary Bypass
21. Mechanical Circulatory Support in Infants and Children
22. Nursing Care
23. Perioperative Management of Patients with Congenital Heart Disease
24. ASD/VSD
25. Atrioventricular Septal Defects
26. Aortic Valve Disease
27. CoA and IAA
28. Mitral Valve Disease
29. AP Window/PDA
30. ACLA
31. Persistent Truncus Arteriosus
32. Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
33. Transposition of the Great Arteries and the Arterial Switch Operation
34. DORV/DOLV
35. TOF with PAT and VSD
36. Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum (PA/IVS)
37. Ebstein’s Anomaly
38. Single Ventricle
39. Tricuspid Atresia and the Fontan Operation
40. HLHS
41. Staged Operative Management of the SV
42. Critical Appraisal and Use of Evidence about Therapy
43. Cor Pulmonale
44. Inflammatory Heart Disease
45. Infective Endocarditis
46. Syndromes and Congenital Heart Defects
47. Heritable Disease
48. Cardiomyopathy