Perioperative Critical Care Cardiology

• Main Authors: Atlee, John L. (Author), Gullo, Antonino (Author), Sinagra, Gianfranco (Author), Vincent, Jean-Louis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan, 2007.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Series: Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.; Cardiac Surgery.

In this book, discussed are topics of particular importance to critical care cardiovascular diagnosis and management in the perioperative period. Chapter topics are the causes for heart failure; the pathophysiology of heart failure; coronary heart disease and ischemic preconditioning; hypertensive u...