Manual of Perioperative Care in Adult Cardiac Surgery

The sixth edition of Robert M. Bojar's Manual of Perioperative Care in Adult Cardiac Surgery is a comprehensive and practical guide for all those involved in cardiac surgery patient care. It includes updated information on cardiac surgical diseases, indications for surgery, operative procedures, and diagnostic techniques, as well as organ system management in the ICU and later postoperative management. The text is praised for its clarity, practicality, and comprehensive coverage, making it a valuable resource for clinicians worldwide.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 944 pages
Publication date: 28 January 2021
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Now in its sixth edition, Robert M. Bojar's Manual of Perioperative Care in Adult Cardiac Surgery remains the go-to practical guide for all those involved in the care of the cardiac surgery patient. Written in outline format, it provides a comprehensive, detailed, and clearly explained review of cardiac surgical disease and perioperative management that is of value to practicing cardiac surgeons as well as to cardiologists, residents, fellows, advanced practice providers, critical care and floor nurses, perfusionists, and medical students.

Extensively rewritten with updated references to incorporate the latest concepts, guidelines, protocols, and medications used in cardiac surgical practice, this classic text retains the pragmatic features that have made it the gold standard reference that clinicians have used worldwide for the past 30 years.

Highlights include:

Full coverage of cardiac surgical diseases, including pathophysiology, indications for surgery per guidelines, and figures of operative procedures and diagnostic techniques, with a panoply of examples

Chronologic evaluation of patients from preoperative assessment to intraoperative considerations to postoperative care for each procedure

Extensive chapters discussing organ system management in the ICU, followed by a discussion of later postoperative management and problems

Incorporation of newer techniques (TAVR, Mitraclip, etc.) within the chronologic format

Easy access to information using an outline format, markers on the free edges to identify chapters, synopsis pages at the beginning of each chapter, and a comprehensive index to provide easy referencing within the text

Updated references throughout that are available from online resources

Twenty-one appendices summarizing order sheets, protocols, commonly used medications, and more, making this manual an invaluable resource for any practitioner involved in cardiac surgical care.

Weight: 1158g
Dimension: 142 x 217 x 50 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119582557
Edition number: 6th Edition