Anesthesia Issues in Cardiac Surgery

Anesthesia in Cardiac Surgery (Open-Closed Heart)

In this paper the duties of an anesthesiologist and his right of i=;electing patient is discussed. La,ter, we di:=:cuss the <::mergencies cf heart surgery, pre up visit and alsc few dcails of pre up medication cf thei,e pati<mts. We also touch on the stages of anesthPsia and point to our preference for the use cf artery and vein for arterial and venous cannulation. In this paper we discuss in b...

Anesthesia in Cardiac Surgery

The cardiac surgical procedures are increasingly performed each year up to a number >700000 (data in 1997 in US) per year, of which >600000 are coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures. After 1997, there has been a gradual decrease in CABG procedures as percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) grow. In 2005, a total of 699000 cardiac surgical procedures were reported, including 469000...

Fast Track Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia

Thoracic epidural anesthesia for cardiac surgery

cardiac surgery has its roots in the groundbreaking work by Blomberg et al.1–4 Following this examination of the effect of TEA on patients with coronary artery disease, others including this author were enthused to apply these findings to patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Throughout the 90’s, additional work was done to document the role of TEA in cardiac surgery. The major impediment to bro...

CAUSES OF MORTALITY IN CARDIAC SURGERY REOPERATIONS

From March 1990 to May 1993,309 patients underwent redo cardiac surgery operation at the Shahid Rajai Heart Hospital in Tehran. Early mortality rates in these patients showed a significant increase in comparison to patients undergoing open heart surgery for the first time. Late mortality (at least one month after surgery) in the patients was slightly increased also but less than early morta...

The current role of total intravenous anesthesia in cardiac surgery: total intravenous anesthesia and cardiopulmonary bypass.

From the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank, Scotland. S.S. is a consultant for Fresenius Kabi and has been for Covidien and Mylan in the past. Supported by Mylan Specialty, LP (Canonsburg, PA), which provided funding for editorial assistance. Address reprint requests to: Stefan Schraag, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesia and Periope...