A Practical Handbook on Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Therapy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Klauwer, Dietrich (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Neuhaeuser, Christoph (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Thul, Josef (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zimmermann, Rainer (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Critical care medicine.; Cardiology.; Pediatrics.; Anesthesiology.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

This book combines valid physiology and treatment strategies with the institutional experience of one of the leading German pediatric heart centers. It is intended as a pragmatic guide, focusing on daily practice and bedside medicine: straightforward, easy to implement, and results-oriented. It offe...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. General considerations on pediatric cardiac intensive care medicine
• O2 supply, CO2 and acid-base balance
• Ventilation
• Cardiovascular monitoring and cardiovascular drug therapy
• Renal dysfunction
• Fluid, electrolyte and nutritional management
• Analgosedation
• Antibiotic therapy
• Coagulation system
• Pulmonary hypertension
• ECMO therapy and the heart-lung machine
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Resuscitation
• Part II. Management of specific pediatric cardiac problems
• Preoperative diagnostics
• Considerations for hemodynamics
• Heart defects with indication for neonatal surgery
• Heart defects with therapy post neonatal phase
• Heart transplantation
• Ultra fast tracking in pediatric cardiac surgery
• Drug list.