Part I: Foundations of Cardiac Anesthesia
1. History of Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia
2. Principles of Cardiovascular Physiology
3. Cardiac Pharmacology
4. Pharmacologic Management of Arrhythmia
5. Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiac Catheterization
Part II: The Cardiac Surgery Patient: General Considerations
6. Preoperative Anesthesic Evaluation
7. Electrocardiographic Monitoring
8. Hemodynamic and Related Monitoring
9. Intraoperative Echocardiography
10. Cardiovascular Pharmacology of Anesthetics
Part III: Cardiopulmonary Bypass
11. The Coagulation System and Cardiac Surgery
12. Cardiopulmonary Bypass Equipment
13. Myocardial Preservation
14. Pathophysiology and Management of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
15. Termination of Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Post Bypass
Hemodynamic Management
16. Brain Injury and Brain Protection
Part IV: Intensive Care Medicine
17. Adult Intensive Care and Complications
18. Pediatric Intensive Care
Part V: Special Considerations
19. Anesthesia for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
20. Valvular heart Disease
21. Congenital Heart Disease
22. Surgical and Device Therapy for Cardiac Arrythmia
23. Cardiac and Lung Transplantation
24. Cardiac Reoperations
25. Anesthesia for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
26. Anesthesia for Pulmonary and Mediastinal Surgery
27. Anaethesia for Thoracic Aortic Surgery
28. Emergency Situations
Part VI: The Cardiac Patient and Anesthesia for Noncardiac
Surgery
29. Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery in the Pregnant Patient
30. The Adult Noncardiac Patient
31. Pediatric Noncardiac Anesthesia
Part VII: The Anesthesiologist and Cardiac Surgery
32. Practice Management: Quality Aspects
33. Education in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia