Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease will provide a state of the art summary of the many changes occurring in this rapidly evolving field over the last decade. The unique value of this book is that all chapters are written by leaders in the field of congenital cardiac anesthesia, who perform large numbers of cases clinically, and contribute important knowledge to the research literature, both clinical and basic science. A wide range of contributors from all of the major congenital heart surgery programs in North America give a broad range of perspectives not seen in previous texts in this field. This text will be the leading book in this subspeciality - the most comprehensive, detailed and specific, from the perspective of multiple institutions. Emphasis on new and emerging developments in anesthetic drugs and techniques occurs in each chapter. New chapters on subjects that have never before been addressed in a textbook of pediatric cardiac anesthesia include cardiac catheterization laboratory anesthesia, computers and technology, neurologic monitoring, bleeding and coagulation, approach to the teenager and adult, approach to the premature newborn, the inflammatory response, regional anesthesia and pain management, airway and ventilatory management, dysrhythmia management, non-cardiac surgery and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; and research, teaching and administration.

Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease will provide a state of the art summary of the many changes occurring in this rapidly evolving field over the last decade. The unique value of this book is that all chapters are written by leaders in the field of congenital cardiac anesthesia, who perform large numbers of cases clinically, and contribute important knowledge to the research literature, both clinical and basic science. A wide range of contributors from all of the major congenital heart surgery programs in North America give a broad range of perspectives not seen in previous texts in this field. This text will be the leading book in this subspeciality - the most comprehensive, detailed and specific, from the perspective of multiple institutions. Emphasis on new and emerging developments in anesthetic drugs and techniques occurs in each chapter. New chapters on subjects that have never before been addressed in a textbook of pediatric cardiac anesthesia include cardiac catheterization laboratory anesthesia, computers and technology, neurologic monitoring, bleeding and coagulation, approach to the teenager and adult, approach to the premature newborn, the inflammatory response, regional anesthesia and pain management, airway and ventilatory management, dysrhythmia management, non-cardiac surgery and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; and research, teaching and administration.

List of contributors.
Foreword by George A. Gregory.

Foreword by Burdett S. Dunbar.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Section One: History, Education, and Science.

Chapter 1: History of Anesthesia for Congenital HeartDisease.

Dolly D. Hansen and Paul R. Hickey.

Chapter 2: Teaching and Learning in Congenital CardiacAnesthesia.

Alan Jay Schwartz.

Chapter 3: Physiology and Molecular Biology of the DevelopingCirculation.

Dean B. Andropoulos and Monique L. Ogletree.

Chapter 4: Anesthetic Agents and Their CardiovascularEffects.

Dean B. Andropoulos.

Chapter 5: Cardiopulmonary Bypass.

Scott D. Markowitz and William J. Greeley.

Chapter 6: The Inflammatory Response and Its Modification.

Emad B. Mossad and Elumalai Appachi.

Section Two: Monitoring.

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Chapter 7: Vascular Access and Monitoring.

Dean B. Andropoulos.

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Chapter 8: Neurologic Monitoring and Outcome.

Chandra Ramamoorthy and Dean B. Andropoulos.

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Chapter 9: Intraoperative Echocardiography.

Wanda C. Miller-Hance and Isobel A. Russell.

Chapter 10: Bleeding and Coagulation: Monitoring andManagement.

Bruce E. Miller and Glyn D. Williams.

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Section Three: Preoperative Considerations.

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Chapter 11: Preoperative Evaluation and Preparation.

Lydia Cassorla.

Chapter 12: Approach to the Premature and Full Term Infant.

Kirsten C. Odegard and Peter C. LaussenChapter 13: Approach tothe Teenaged and Adult Patient.

Victor C. Baum, Stephen A. Stayer, Dean B. Andropoulos, andIsobel A. Russell.

Section Four: Management.

Chapter 14: Hemodynamic Management.

Aman Mahajan and Jure Marijic.

Chapter 15: Dysrhythmias: Diagnosis and Management.

Wanda C. Miller-Hance and Kathryn K. CollinsChapter 16: Airwayand Ventilatory Management.

Stephen A. Stayer and Gregory B. HammerChapter 17: RegionalAnesthesia and Postoperative Pain Management.

M. Gail Boltz and Gregory B. Hammer.

Section Five: Anesthesia for Specific Lesions.

Chapter 18: Anesthesia for Left-to-Right Shunt Lesions.

Sabrina T. Bent.

Chapter 19: Anesthesia for Left-Sided Obstructive Lesions.

Anil de Silva and Greg StratmannChapter 20: Anesthesia forRight-Sided Obstructive Lesions.

Michael L. Schmitz and Sana Ullah.

Chapter 21: Anesthesia for Transposition of the GreatVessels.

Kathryn Rouine-Rapp.

Chapter 22: Anesthesia for the Patient with a SingleVentricle.

Susan C. Nicolson and James M. Steven.

Chapter 23: Anesthesia for Miscellaneous Cardiac Lesions.

Maria Markakis Zestos and Dean B. Andropoulos.

Chapter 24: Anesthesia for Cardiac and PulmonaryTransplantation.

Glyn D. Williams, Chandra Ramamoorthy, and Sharma Anshuman.

Section Six: Anesthesia Outside the Cardiac OperatingRoom.

Chapter 25: Anesthesia for the Cardiac CatheterizationLaboratory.

Philip D Arnold and Helen A Holtby.

Chapter 26: Anesthesia for Non-Cardiac Surgery and MagneticResonance Imaging.

Laura K. Diaz and Stuart HallChapter 27: Cardiac IntensiveCare.

Peter C. Laussen and Stephen J. Roth.

Appendix: Texas Children's Hospital pediatriccardiovascular anesthesia drug drug sheet.

Index