Anesthesia in High-Risk Patients edited by Jean-Luc Fellahi, Marc Leone.

This book describes the approach to anesthetic and perioperative management in different categories of high-risk patient scheduled to undergo elective noncardiac surgery. Individual sections focus on patients with conditions entailing cardiac and hemodynamic risks, respiratory risks, renal and metab...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fellahi, Jean-Luc (Editor), Leone, Marc (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Cardiac and hemodynamic risks
  • The patient with acute coronary syndrome
  • The patient with advanced chronic heart failure
  • The patient with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension
  • The patient with severe aortic stenosis
  • The patient with congenital cardiac disease
  • The patient with an automatic implanted device
  • The patient with intra-abdominal hyperpression
  • Part 2. Respiratory risks
  • The patient with SOAS
  • The patient with end-stage pulmonary disease
  • Part 3. Renal and metabolic risks
  • The patient with end-stage renal disease
  • The patient with end-stage liver disease
  • The severe obese patient
  • Patients with rare metabolic diseases
  • Part 4. Neurological risks
  • Patients with cerebral diseases
  • Patients with chronic neuromuscular diseases
  • Part 5. Other risks
  • The patient with severe sepsis
  • The patient with hemorrhagic risk
  • The transplanted patient
  • Aged patients with a frailty syndrome
  • The allergic patient
  • The addicted patient
  • The Jehovah witness patient
  • The pregnant women.