The Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Handbook

Description

The only concise handbook covering anesthetic management of congenital heart disease patients written by a team of two experienced pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists from Boston Children’s Hospital.

• Ideal for use a study material duringanesthesiologyresidency training and fellowshipsincludingadultcardiac, pediatric and pediatriccardiacanesthesia
• Perfectformatforeasyreferralbywidermembers of themultidisciplinaryteamsuch as cardiologists, cardiacintensivists, perfusionists, and surgeons
• Of use as a reference to guidemanagement of specificlesionsforthepediatricanesthesiologistcaringforcardiacpatientspresentingfor non-cardiacsurgery

Contents

Section 1: The Basics

1. Cardiovascular development
2. Importantconcepts in congenitalheartdisease
3. Preoperativeevaluation
4. Intraoperativemanagement
5. Interpretation of cardiaccatheterization data
6. Cardiopulmonary bypass
7. Mechanicalsupportdevices

Section 2: Specific Lesions

8. Patentductusarteriosus
9. Aortpulmonarywindow
10. Coarctation of the aorta
11. Atrial septal defect
12. Ventricular septal defects
13. Atrioventricular canal defects
14. Doubleoutletrightventricle
15. Truncusarteriosus
16. Total anomalous pulmonary venous return
17. Leftventricleoutflowtractobstruction
18. Mitral valve
19. Pulmonary atresia/intact ventricular septum (PA/IVS)
20. Tetralogy of fallot (TOF)
21. Tetralogy of fallotwithpulmonary atresia (TOF/PA)
22. Tetralogy of fallotwithabsentpulmonaryvalve (TOF/APV)
23. Transposition of thegreatarteries (TGA)
24. Single ventricle lesions
25. Hypoplasticleftheartsyndrome
26. Interruptedaorticarch
27. Vascular rings
28. Tricuspid atresia
29. Hearttransplantation
30. Heart-lung and lungtransplantation
31. Anomalousorigin of theleftcoronaryarteryfromthepulmonaryartery (ALCAPA)
32. Heterotaxy
33. Ebsteinanomaly

Author Information

Viviane G. Nasr, MD
Dr Nasr graduated from Medical School at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon in 2003, and pursued a residency in anesthesiology at AUB and Tufts Medical Center, Boston. She completed a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) in Washington DC and a pediatric cardiac anesthesia fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. She is American Board certified in Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology and an active member of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society.

James A. DiNardo, MD
Dr DiNardo graduated from Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School (with honors). He completed his anesthesia residency and fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He joined faculty at Boston Children'sHospital in 1999 where he currently serves as the Chief of the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia. He spend approximately one third of this clinical time as an Attending in the Cardiac ICU.

Dr DiNardo is certified in perioperative TEE and is former Chairman of the PTEeXAM Committee. He is also a Senior Oral Board Examiner for the ABA, a member of the ABA Pediatric Examination Writing Committee, and Chair of the PediatricMOCA Examination Committee. He is Past-President of both the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society and the Association of Cardiac Anesthesiologists. He is currently the Anesthesia and Analgesia Executive Editor for Pediatric Anesthesia.

He is the author of a major textbook on cardiac anesthesia and of more than 160 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.