Complications in cardiothoracic surgery
Subtitle: avoidance and treatment
By: editor, Alex G. Little.
Contributors: Little, Alex G.
Publisher: Blackwell Futura
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Elmsford, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Thoracic Surgical Procedures -- adverse effects; Intraoperative Complications -- prevention & control; Postoperative Complications -- prevention & control
Description: The goal of this book is to minimize the frequency of surgical complications and maximize the outcome when they do occur by allowing the reader to learn from the operative and clinical experience of those who have gone before so that each generation can collectively stand on the shoulders of the preceding generation without the need to learn from one's own complications. This book is therefore designed less to address indications for operations than how to carry them out and provide postoperative care without complications. While the authors of the various chapters address the correct or right way to perform operations and care for patients after surgery, they have also been tasked to address and emphasize specific dos and don'ts for both intraoperative techniques and postoperative care that will reduce the incidence of complications. As some complications, alas, are inevitable, also addressed are the issues of timely recognition and appropriate treatment of complications when they do occur despite best efforts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Complications of thoracic incisions / Norman J. Snow, Malek G. Massad, and Alexander S. Geha; title: Respiratory complications of cardiothoracic operations / Hani Shennib; title: Arrhythmias following cardiothoracic operations / Adam E. Saltman and Joseph LoCicero III; title: Complications of pulmonary resection / Stephen J. Burke and L. Penfield Faber; title: Complications of tracheobronchial resection / Douglas J. Mathisen; title: Complications of lung volume reduction procedures / Robert J. Burnett and Douglas E. Wood; title: Complications of lung transplantation / Paul F. Waters; title: Pleural space problems / Sudish Murthy and Thomas W. Rice; title: Complications of chest wall reconstruction / M. Bulent Tirnaksiz and Claude Deschamps; title: Complications of esophageal resection / Richard J. Battafarano and Nasser K. Altorki; title: Complications of esophageal reconstruction / Alex G. Little; title: Complications of antireflux surgery / Riivo Ilves and Mark R. Dylewski; title: Complications of esophageal instrumentation / Donald E. Low; title: Complications of mediastinal surgery / Thomas A. D'Amico; title: Complications of coronary artery bypass surgery / Nader Moazami and Hendrick Barner; title: Complications of cardiopulmonary bypass and cardioplegia / Lawrence L. Creswell; title: Complications of aortic surgery / Thoralf M. Sundt III and Whitney M. Burrows; title: Complications of valvular surgery / Jeffrey T. Sugimoto, Anthony D. Bruno, and Karen A. Gersch; title: Postpericardiotomy syndrome / William A. Gay, Jr.; title: Pulmonary and pleural complications after cardiac surgery / Jeffrey E. Everett; title: Neurological complications in cardiac surgery / George J. Koullias and John A. Elefteriades.