Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Description

The third edition of Cardiopulmonary Bypass offers a comprehensive, and up-to-date reference text to extracorporeal cardiopulmonary support. This book provides a clinically-focused tutorial with chapters spanning the technical aspects, patient related considerations, and human factors essential to contemporary practice of cardiopulmonary bypass. Written concisely to allow the reader to gain and apply critical knowledge to the clinical setting and featuring artwork that has been extensively updated to include numerous figures and color plates imbedded into each chapter. A remarkable collection of international experts in the fields of perfusion, anesthesiology, and cardiac surgery were recruited to co-author chapters, providing a multidisciplinary approach to case management. This completely updated edition includes expanded content on developments in minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation, anticoagulation, organ injury, and human factors. The comprehensive coverage of perfusion practice in a concise, highly illustrated format makes it the go-to, portable reference manual for perfusionists, cardiac surgeons, and anesthesiologists.

Florian Falter is Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and Chairman of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, UK. Albert C. Perrino, Jr. is Professor of Anesthesiology at Yale School of Medicine and Chief of Anesthesiology for the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Robert A. Baker is Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Quality and Outcomes Unit and Clinical Perfusion Department at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, South Australia. He is currently Chair of the Australian New Zealand Collaborative Perfusion Registry and President of the Australian and New Zealand Collage of Perfusion.