Cardiac Anaesthesia: Problems and Innovations

-What should the cardiac anaesthesiologist know about heart catheterization?.- -Transesophageal 2-D echocardiography: a new dimension in clinical care.- -The EEG and evoked potentials.- -Preoperative medication: maintenance or modification?.- -Preoperative evaluation of the patient with mitral valve disease.- -The use of invasive monitoring techniques in cardiac surgery.- -Inotropic agents/Vasoactive agents.- -Techniques of anesthetic administration: are they more important than choice of anesthetic agent?.- -Detection of myocardial ischemia during anesthesia.- -The management of intraoperative myocardial ischemia and hypotension.- -Metabolic changes and interpretation of blood gas analysis during hypothermia.- -Profound hypothermia and circulatory arrest: studies of intraoperatieve metabolic changes and late postoperative intellectual development after correction of congenital heart disease.- -Flows and pressures during cardiopulmonary bypass.- -Promoting cardiac metabolism before and after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).- -Coronary circulation and myocardial metabolism during anaesthesia.- -Sequential myocardial depressant and non-depressant anaesthesia for coronary artery surgery.- -Continuous arterial pH-monitoring following coronary artery bypass surgery.- -The management of cardiac emergencies - cardiac tamponade.- -Leaking prosthetic valves.- -Massive pulmonary embolism.- -Ruptured coronary artery following angioplasty.- -Index.