Title: Comprehensive surgical management of congenital heart disease /
Authors: Jonas, Richard A.; DiNardo, James A.
Publisher: Arnold ; Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Child; Infant; Postoperative Care; Cardiopulmonary Bypass; Cardiac Surgical Procedures; Cardiac Surgical Procedures methods; Heart Defects, Congenital surgery; Congenital heart disease Surgery.; Cardiac Surgical Procedures methods Child.; Cardiac Surgical Procedures methods Infant.; Cardiopulmonary Bypass Child.; Cardiopulmonary Bypass Infant.; Postoperative Care Child.; Postoperative Care Infant.
Abstract: Presents evidence-based medicine that provides numerous scientific citations which explain not only how an operation should be done but in addition when and why it should be done and the outcomes of these interventions.
Contents: Why early primary repair? -- Surgical technique -- Biomaterials for congenital cardiac surgery -- Anesthesia for congenital heart surgery -- Pediatric cardiac intensive care -- The bypass circuit: hardware options -- Prime constituents and hemodilution -- Carbon dioxide, pH and oxygen management -- Hypothermia, reduced flow and circulatory arrest -- Myocardial protection -- Patent ductus arteriosus, aortopulmonary window, sinus of Valsalva fistula, aortoventricular tunnel -- Coarctation of the aorta -- Atrial septal defect -- Ventricular septal defect -- Transposition of the great arteries -- Tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary stenosis -- Valve surgery -- Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction: aortic valve stenosis, subaortic stenosis, supravalvar aortic stenosis -- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome -- Single ventricle -- Complete atrioventricular canal -- Anomalies of the pulmonary veins -- Double outlet right ventricle -- Truncus arteriosus -- Tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia -- Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum -- Interrupted aortic arch -- Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries -- Vascular rings, slings, and tracheal anomalies -- Anomalies of the coronary arteries.