by Ross M. Ungerleider (Author), Kristen Nelson (Author), David S Cooper (Author), Jon Meliones (Author), Jeffrey Jacobs (Author)

• Features comprehensive updates throughout the text, including indications, techniques, potential complications in perioperative management of patients, and surgical techniques for congenital heart disease.
• Covers recent advances in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, developments in mechanical assist devices, heart and lung transplantation, and interventional cardiac catheterization.
• Features an all-new, full-color format that speeds navigation and helps clarify complex concepts.
• Contains 27 new chapters with an emphasis on the team approach to patient care in the ICU including creating multidisciplinary teams, quality and performance improvement, training , and challenges and solutions to developing a cohesive team environment.
• Includes a detailed chapter on bedside ultrasound, walking you through the techniques you’re most likely to encounter in the ICU.
• Employs well-documented tables, text boxes, and algorithms to make clinical information easy to access, and to provide a more complete understanding of echocardiography, imaging modalities, pulmonary hypertension, and more.
• Describes the basic pharmacology and clinical applications of new pharmacologic agents.
• Examines issues affecting adults with congenital heart disease.
  

  Product Details

  • Hardcover: 960 pages
  • Publisher: Elsevier; 3 edition (September 26, 2018)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1455707600
  • ISBN-13: 9781455707607