Decision Making for Cardiac Surgery
Focusing on the decision-making process for surgical treatment of congenital heart defects, this comprehensive reference provides in-depth coverage of all pertinent aspects. It serves as a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, offering insights and guidelines to enhance clinical practice in managing these complex conditions.
-Numerous illustrations help the reader visualize the anatomy and key operative steps -Written in an accessible, easy-to-read format that allows the reader to understand the steps for the surgical procedure -Comprehensively cover all the material necessary to make competent decisions on treatment -Each chapter is dedicated to one single malformation allowing the reader to fully understand that malformation before moving on
Volume 1: Common Defects. Volume 2: Less Common Defects
Focused on aiding decision-making for surgical treatments of congenital heart defects, this comprehensive reference addresses all pertinent aspects of the topic. It serves as a vital resource for medical professionals in the field, providing insights and guidelines to enhance patient care and outcomes.
Decision Making for Cardiac Surgery
Focusing on surgical treatment for congenital heart defects, this reference provides comprehensive guidance for decision-making. It encompasses all pertinent aspects, aiming to support healthcare professionals in effectively addressing the complexities of these conditions.
Expressly created to assist with decision making for surgical treatment of congenital heart defects, this new reference covers all relevant aspects. The congenital heart defects are presented with each chapter devoted to a single malformation, with incidence, morphology, associated anomalies, pathophysiology, diagnosis (including clinical pattern, electrocardiogram, chest X-ray, echocardiogram, cardiac catheterization with angiography), indications for surgical treatment, details of surgical treatment, potential complications and literature references. Morphology, pathophysiology and surgical treatment of the defects are explained with schematic drawings, while images taken from morphologic specimens, echocardiographic and angiographic investigations as well as from intra-operative photographs illustrate better than any words the key points of the decision-making process for the surgical treatment of congenital heart defects.