Description

**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine**

Current, comprehensive, and evidence-based, Kaplan’s Cardiac Anesthesia: Perioperative and Critical Care Management, 8th Edition, offers practical guidance from today’s international leaders in cardiac anesthesiology, helping you to optimize perioperative outcomes, avoid complications, and ensure maximum patient safety. Dr. Joel A. Kaplan, along with an expert team of associate editors, guides you through today’s clinical challenges, including expanded coverage of critical care, the newest approaches to perioperative assessment and management, state-of-the art diagnostic techniques, and cardiovascular and coronary physiology.

Kaplan’s Cardiac Anesthesia 8th Edition Key features

• Covers the full spectrum of contemporary cardiothoracic anesthesia practice, including preoperative assessment, physiology, pharmacology, monitoring, transesophageal echocardiography, coagulation, specific cardiac procedures, extracorporeal circulation, postoperative pain treatment, and management of the complex patient with cardiac disease.
• Includes expanded coverage of critical care topics, reflecting the increased perioperative care now provided by anesthesiologists in the ICU.
• Contains new chapters on Structural Heart Disease Procedures; Cardiorespiratory Effects of COVID-19; Critical Care Ultrasound; Intensive Unit Management of Patients on Mechanical Circulatory Support; and Postoperative Care of the Heart and Lung Transplant Patient.
• Features more than 900 full-color illustrations, decision trees, charts, and graphs (over one-third are new) that aid in visual understanding of complex topics.
• Provides access to over 120 videos, including a range of echocardiography clips.
• Contains balanced, dependable, and updated content on all aspects of the anesthetic management of cardiac surgical procedures, as well as cardiology procedures performed in catheterization and electrophysiologic laboratories.
• Places new emphasis on cardiac devices requiring perioperative care, including cardiac implanted electrical devices and ventricular assist devices.
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Kaplan’s Cardiac Anesthesia 8th Edition Readership

Residents, fellows, and attending physician anesthesiologist

Kaplan’s Cardiac Anesthesia 8th Edition Table of content

1 Cardiology Consultation and Assessment of Cardiac Risk

2 The Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures in the Adult Patient

3 Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices

4 The Cardiorespiratory Effects of COVID-19

5 Cardiac Physiology

6 Coronary Physiology

7 Cardiovascular Pharmacology of Anesthetics

8 Cardiovascular Pharmacology

9 Monitoring of the Heart and Vascular System

10 Basic Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

11 Transesophageal Echocardiography: Advanced Echocardiography Concepts

12 Central Nervous System Monitoring

13 Coagulation Monitoring

14 Anesthesia for Myocardial Revascularization

15 Valvular Heart Disease: Repair and Replacement

16 Adult Congenital Heart Disease

17 Thoracic Aorta

18 Uncommon Cardiac Diseases

19 Cardiac Transplantation

20 Lung Transplantation

21 Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy for Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

22 Durable Mechanical Circulatory Assist Devices for Heart Failure

23 Structural Heart Disease Procedures

24 Electrophysiology Procedures

25 Cardiopulmonary Bypass

26 Discontinuing Cardiopulmonary Bypass

27 Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

28 Coagulation and Transfusion Management

29 Enhanced Recovery Programs in Cardiac Surgery

30 Pain Management for the Cardiac Patient

31 Central Nervous System Dysfunction After Cardiac Surgery

32 Critical Care Ultrasound

33 Postoperative Respiratory Care

34 Postoperative Cardiovascular Management

35 Intensive Care Unit Management of Patients on Mechanical Circulatory Support

36 Postoperative Care of the Heart and Lung Transplant Patient

37 General Critical Care
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