About the Book: Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children: 3rd Edition
Pediatric intensivists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and anesthesiologists
from the leading centers around the world present the collaborative
perspectives, concepts, and state-of-the-art knowledge required to care for
children with congenital and acquired heart disease in the ICU. Their
multidisciplinary approach encompasses every aspect of the relevant basic
scientific principles, medical and pharmacologic treatments, and surgical
techniques and equipment. From the extracardiac Fontan procedure, and the Ross
procedure through new pharmacologic agents and the treatment of pulmonary
hypertension to mechanical assist devices, heart and lung transplantation, and
interventional cardiac catheterization-all of the developments that are
affecting this rapidly advancing