An essential pocket reference guide for all staff members caring for patients who are critically unwell with heart and lung problems. It covers all aspects of the routine management of patients undergoing heart and lung surgery and how to recognise when things aren't proceeding as planned.
The Oxford Specialist Handbook in Cardiothoracic Critical Care summarises current knowledge and provides an evidence-based approach to all aspects of patient care. It is written by leading experts in the field and provides a guide to clinical decision making in a user-friendly format.
Written in the Oxford Handbook format, each section is comprised of short topics ideal for quick reference. Portable, accessible, and reliable, the book equips the clinician with the basic scientific and clinical knowledge to safely assist in formulating management plans, based on current best practice. It is intuitively divided in to four sections, concisely covering; postoperative management, organ dysfunction, specific patient groups and treatments and procedures.
This allows confidence in the management of all patients in the cardiothoracic critical care unit, including patients immediately following cardiac surgery, those with acute cardiovascular disorders, those with pre-existing cardiac disease and many others. It will provide knowledge and instil confidence for the procedures regularly performed such as pacing, central venous cannulation and echocardiography.
This concise and practical handbook would be useful to the general intensivist and is an indispensable pocket reference for intensive care nurses, advanced critical care practitioners and trainees & consultants in cardiothoracic surgery and critical care. This edition has been updated to cover all recent advances in the management of this critically unwell patient group.
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Review from previous edition All in all, the book is a quick reference guide that covers most important clinical issues... The main strength lies in the easily accessible information with quite extensive and good practical recommendations. * Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association * This user-friendly pocket guide imparts information consistent with contemporary treatment strategies in this critical care subspecialty. This is a worthy bedside tool that complements major books in this field. * Doody's Notes * Overall, the editorsandauthorshaveperformedaherculean task of presenting this practical guide that is concise, succinct, easy to read, and informative. Although in the preface, it is mentioned that the book is primarily aimed at cardiothoracic intensive care residents, fellows, and nursing staff, I see no reason as to why it should not be in the pocket of an experienced anaesthetist as well for a quick reference... this should be available in all the cardiothoracic ICUs for a ready reference. * British Journal of Anaesthesia *
1: Robyn Smith; Sarah Finlayson: The normal postoperative cardiac
patient
2: Vallish Bhardwaj; Stephen Webb: Risk Prediction and Outcome
3: Stefan Schraag: Fast-tracking the low-risk patient
4: Tim Strang; Dr Lajos Szentgyorgyi: Resuscitation in the cardiac intensive
care setting
5: Robyn Smith: Myocardial ischaemia and infarction
6: Rajamiyer Venkatswaran; Stuart Grant: Bleeding management reexploration
7: Mark Thornton: Postoperative Hypotension
8: Alice Montalti; Rita Lopes: Glucose, lactate, and acidDSbase
9: Ben Shelley; Jonathan Neil: Postoperative medications
10: Andrew McGuire: Information handover and care planning
11: Robyn Smith: Left ventricle
12: Philip McCall: Right ventricular failure
13: Robyn Smith: Valvular heart disease
14: Robyn Smith: Common arrhythmias and their management
15: Neil Brain: Lung
16: Neal Padmadhaman: Organ Dysfunction: Kidney
17: Anton Buter: Gastrointestinal
18: Geoffrey Warnock; Chris Hawthorne: Nervous system
19: Lynne Anderson: Haematology
20: Tim Hayes: Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) and cardiac surgery
21: Adam Glass; Ben Shelley: The thoracic patient
22: Robyn Smith; Niki Walker: The adult patient with congenital heart
disease
23: Mark Thornton; Rachel Darling: The obstetric patient with cardiac
disease
24: Yuran Zheng; Paul Callan: Heart failure resistant to standard medical
therapy
25: Alice Brennan; Jonathan R Dalzell: The cardiac transplant patient
26: John Blaikley: The transplant patient DS lung transplant
27: Rachel Fraser; Kenneth McKinlay: Acute cardiology
28: Ashleigh Taylor: Central venous cannulation, pulmonary artery catheter,
and minimally invasive cardiac output monitoring
29: Martin Hughes; Lia Paton: Airway management
30: Martin Hughes; Kathryn Puxty: Respiratory management
31: Jennifer Willder: Circulatory support: pharmacological
32: Sam Howitt; Alan Ashworth: Circulatory support: mechanical
33: David A.W. Reid: Epicardial pacing
34: Stefan Schragg: Sedation and pain relief
35: Prashant Mohite; Doshi Harikrishna: Wound management
36: Tristan Banks; Stephanie Thomas: Infection control and prevention
37: Philip McCall: Bedside echocardiography: transthoracic echocardiography
38: Philip McCall: Transoesophageal echocardiography
Dr Smith has been a Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care since 2006. Her clinical interests include cardiac anaesthesia, echocardiography and the care of patient with advanced heart failure requiring mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation.
Dr McCall has been a Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital since 2020. His clinical interests include thoracic anaesthesia, echocardiography and the intensive care management of heart failure and cardiogenic shock, including mechanical circulatory support. He is involved in a wide range of peri-operative and intensive care research, but his own research interests are in the cardiovascular response, particularly of the right ventricle, to critical illness. He completed his MD (by research) thesis at the University of Glasgow in 2018 on the topic; the right ventricular response to lung resection.
Dr Ashworth has been a Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine for 12 years. Dr Ashworth works in a large tertiary referral Cardiothoracic centre. The unit also undertakes Heart and Lung transplantation, mechanical circulatory support and respiratory ECMO. Dr Ashworth is the Deputy Clinical Director for Cardiothoracic Critical Care and Quality and Safety lead. Dr Ashworth is a Consultant Clinical Adviser for National Institute of Health and Care Excellence in the Interventional Procedures programme supporting safe innovation within the NHS.
