This book details topics of particular importance to critical care cardiovascular diagnosis and management in the perioperative period. It represents an important update for anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, emergency care physicians and intensivists caring for patients with acute, life-threatening cardiovascular afflictions
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Sudden Death in Heart Failure: Risk Stratification and Treatment Strategies.- Etiology and Pathophysiology of Heart Failure.- Cardiac Protection for Noncardiac Surgery.- Hypertensive Urgencies and Emergencies.- Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, and Diabetes Mellitus.- Circulatory Failure: Bedside Functional Hemodynamic Monitoring.- Perioperative Cardiac Risk Stratification.- Hemodynamic Monitoring in Patients with Acute Heart Failure.- Electrocardiography of Heart Failure: Features and Arrhythmias.- Management of Patients with Acute Heart Failure.- Pacemaker and Internal Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapies.- Updates on Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Circulatory Shock: Hypovolemic, Distributive, Cardiogenic, Obstructive.- Prevention and Management of Cardiac Dysfunction during and after Cardiac Surgery.- Management of Systemic and Pulmonary Hypertension.- Recent Advances in the Natural History of Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Review of the Heart Muscle Disease Registry of Trieste.
