Comprehensive Surgical Management of Congenital Heart Disease (Hodder Arnold Publication)
This book lives up to the promise of its title.  It is written in a style that will appeal to surgeons: fluent, concise, focused.  Detailed surgical knowledge is imparted effortlessly in every chapter of this beautifully illustrated book.  For training cardiac surgeons this book explains the subject more clearly than any other I have read...For paediatric cardiologists, perfusionists and intensivists this could be invaluable in promoting greater understanding of the conditions they are involved in treating, and understanding the surgeons' perspective.PerfusionThis book is a display of superior individual knowledge - virtually encyclopaedic.  The most difficult technical procedures are described with accuracy, in simple terms that reflect the skills and talents of a masterful surgeon.  Any congenital cardiac surgeon, any surgical trainee interested in congenital cardiac surgery, will consult this book with great pleasure.Journal of the Royal Society of MedicineThe accompanying text follows the diagrams in a logical, sequential fashion. The diagrams are such that it is relatively straightforward to envisage the surgical repair during an actual procedure. The book would be invaluable on a Congenital Heart Surgeon's bookshelf and also to Trainees in Cardiac Surgery and others involved in the management of children with congenital heart lesions.The SurgeonIt was a pleasure to review this book.The book would be invaluable on a Congenital Heart Surgeon's bookshelf and also to Trainees in Cardiac Surgery and others involved in the management of children with congenital heart lesions. This book represents a concise overview of the current surgical approach to many congenital heart lesions. I feel it represents excellent value. It is perhaps worth remarking that I bought this book myself before the copy arrived for review.The Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon 3:4 302-304This book is an excellent resource for many disciplines: general surgeons, anaethetists, intensivists, perfusionists and cardiologists, as well as congenital cardiac surgeons. Its practical approach makes it accessible yet comprehensive for practitioners of all grades.British Journal of Surgery 92