Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 February 2025
As antenatal diagnosis improves and surgical techniques are developed, the paediatric cardiac anaesthetist has an increasing role in the multidisciplinary team looking after the child undergoing cardiac surgery. Successful major operations in the neonatal period require balancing circulation and managing inotropy, coagulation and technical challenges. The anaesthetist must understand the entire perioperative period. This chapter covers the essentials of cardiac-stable anaesthesia, management of cardiopulmonary bypass and the physiological changes that can occur during children’s surgery for heart disease. Common cardiac lesions and their anaesthetic management are described in addition to the potential decompensation pathways and strategies to mitigate them. Right-to-left and left-to-right shunts, complex anatomical arrangements and anaesthesia for poor ventricular function are all covered.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.