Mechanical Circulatory Support for Advanced Heart Failure A Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine Approach /

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• Other Authors: Morgan, Jeffrey A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Civitello, Andrew B. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Frazier, O.H (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Cardiac surgery.; Cardiology.; Anesthesiology.; Cardiac Surgery.

This book provides the most up to date information on every aspect of clinical care relating to patients with advanced heart failure who require mechanical circulatory support as a treatment strategy. The book begins with an extensive description of the preoperative patient selection process as well...

Table of Contents:

• History of Mechanical Circulatory Support
• Who is an Appropriate Candidate for Long-Term MCS: The Art of Patient Selection
• Optimization of Right Ventricular Function Pre-Operatively for LVAD Implantation
• Bridge-to-Bridge Strategies with IABP, Impella, and Tandem Heart
• LVAD Surgical Implant Technique: Extra-Peritoneal Approach
• LVAD Surgical Implant Technique: Infra-Diaphragmatic Approach
• Intraoperative Anesthesia Management
• Perioperative Management of LVAD Patients
• Perioperative Optimization of a Patient's Fluid Status
• Chronic Management of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices
• Surveillance Echocardiography for LVAD Patients
• Diagnosis of Device Thrombosis
• Device Exchange: THI Technique Involving a Left Subcostal Approach
• Mechanical Circulatory Support to Bridge to a Long-term Continuous-flow Left Ventricular Assist Device as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation
• Outcomes Using LVADs for Destination Therapy
• Cardiac Regenerative Strategies for Advanced Heart Failure
• Long-Term Complications of Ventricular Assist Devices
• Right Ventricular Failure in Patients Undergoing LVAD Placement.