This book combines valid physiology and treatment strategies with the institutional experience of one of the leading German pediatric heart centers. It is intended as a pragmatic guide, focusing on daily practice and bedside medicine: straightforward, easy to implement, and results-oriented. It offers readers a profound understanding of intensive care, with a specific focus on organ systems, their interactions, and the effect of life support technologies, pursuing a comprehensive approach to congenital heart defects and therapies, including pitfalls and solutions. The target group is extended towards pediatric cardiologists and anesthesiologists by integrating chapters on the systematic analysis of hemodynamics and anatomy, diagnostics and treatment of congenital heart defects, plus a chapter on modern anesthesiology during heart operations with a focus on early extubation that minimizes on-pump and medication trauma. As such, the book offers a pragmatic and clinically oriented guide for physicians with advanced experience and expertise in (cardiac) intensive and intermediate care, as well as beginners and junior physicians.

A distinguished list of contributors from some of the major international centers covers this specialty like never before. With recent advances in ultrasound technology and pharmacology the expertise required to care for a critically ill child with heart disease takes an integrated approach with a multidisciplinary team and central focus. This resource provides comprehensive discussions of pertinent cardiac issues in the ICU setting with emphasis on perioperative care.

This manual is a practical guide to the care of children after cardiac surgery. The second edition has been fully revised to include the latest advances in the field and includes many new topics. Beginning with discussion on preparing for and receiving a paediatric patient from the operating theatre, the next chapter describes monitoring techniques. Each of the following sections discusses the management of different conditions that may arise after surgery, including mediastinal bleeding, arrhythmias, capillary leak syndrome, pulmonary, gastrointestinal and renal issues, and infection. Drug administration and dosages are also discussed in depth. Key points Concise guide to the care of children after cardiac surgery Fully revised, second edition including many new topics Covers drug administration and dosages Previous edition (9789350906392) published in 2013

Elaborates pre- and postoperative guidelines in the intensive care of pediatric cardiac surgery patients. An indispensable book for the cardiothoracic, pediatric and intensive care residents involved in the acute management of children with heart disease. Addresses the need of a reference manual for general surgery and medicine residents while on rotation in the cardiac care unit. Comprehensive chapters provide simple solutions and explanations to clinical problems rather than offering detailed physiological explanations. Drugs and doses have been given in tables for easy reference at the point of care. A practical book that can be read at leisure and referred to at the bedside.

This handbook is a review of the clinical and scientific pillars of our complex practice and affords us the opportunity for reflection on the society and its impact on the patients under our watchful care.