Critical Care of Children with Heart Disease: Basic Medical and Surgical Concepts

Description of Critical Care of Children with Heart Disease: Basic Medical and Surgical Concepts

This extensively revised new edition comprehensively reviews the medical and surgical management of the acutely-ill child with congenital and acquired cardiac disease. It enables the reader to gain a thorough understanding of basic and practical concepts of anatomy, pathophysiology, surgical techniques and peri-operative management in this group of patients. Extensively revised chapters cover the management of cardiac patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, hemofiltration, and plasma exchange. New topics covered include the use of pharmaceuticals in cardiac intensive care, the implications of interventional cardiology in pediatric intensive care and ventricular assist devices. Practically relevant guidelines are also included for cardiovascular nurses.

Critical Care of Children with Heart Disease presents a thorough review of the practical concepts, available treatment techniques, and the challenges associated with managing these patients in the critical care unit. It represents a timely and valuable textbook reference for students and practising healthcare professionals alike seeking to learn or further their understanding of the latest advances in this discipline.

About the Author

Ricardo Muñoz, MD, is chief of the Division of Cardiac Critical Medicine , Executive Director , Telemedicine , Co-Director , Childrens’s National Heart Institute , Professor of Pediatrics , George Washington University School of Medicine , Children’s National Health System. Dr. Muñoz is a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics , fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

Victor O. Morell, MD, is the Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery and Surgeon-In-Chief of UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and the Eugene S. Wiener Professor and Chair, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Morell received his medical degree from the Ponce School of Medicine in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1988.

Eduardo M. da Cruz MD is the Associate Medical Director of the Heart Institute, Head of the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Program and Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Section and Inpatient Services at Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine.

Carol Vetterly, PharmD, BCPS, BCPPS, is the Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator and Clinical Pharmacist in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy and Pediatric Pharmacotherapy and a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Vetterly graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and completed a post-graduate Doctorate of Pharmacy at Duquesne University.

José P. da Silva, MD is a visiting professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and surgical director of the Center for Valve Therapy at the Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. Founding Director, Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly.

Read more about: Ricardo A. Munoz, Victor O. Morell, Eduardo M. da Cruz, Carol G. Vetterly, Jose Pedro da Silva