Coagulopathy in the Cardiac Surgical Patient—It’s Not Just about the Numbers Joby Chandy MD Edwin G. Avery IV MD You are the anesthesia provider for a 71-year-old man with multivessel…
Off-Pump Cardiac Surgery: What Do You Mean No Pump Break for the Anesthesiologist? Biswajit Ghosh MD Vipin Mehta MBBS, MD, DARCS, FFARCSI A 68-year-old male is admitted for elective coronary…
Remember that Anesthesia for Left Ventricular Assist Device Surgery is Especially Challenging: Do Not Neglect These Essential Principles Mark Chrostowski MD Giora Landesberg MD, DSc, MBA The chronic shortage of…
Freeze—You’re Under Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest! Stephen R. Barone MD Michael G. Fitzsimons MD A 50-year-old male who works as an aeronautical engineer presents sporting a bicuspid aortic valve and…
Anesthesia for Ascending Aortic Dissection: It’s Like Walking on Eggshells for the Anesthesiologist James F. Dana MD Edwin G. Avery IV MD A 74-year-old man arrives at the emergency ward…
The Downside of Anesthesia for the Descending Thoracic Aorta: Just About All Anesthetic Issues are of Paramount Importance! Edwin G. Avery IV MD David A. Shaff MD Patients undergoing surgery…
Antifibrinolytic Agents: Spare the Clot But Spoil the Thrombus Ala Nozari MD, PhD Theodore A. Alston MD, PhD PHYSIOLOGY OF FIBRINOLYSIS The fibrinolytic system has evolved to dissolve intravascular thrombus…
On the Cusp of Disaster: Distinguish between the Anesthetic Management of Stenotic and Regurgitant Cardiac Valves George A. Mashour MD, PhD Theodore A. Alston MD, PhD The initial approach to…
Remember that It Is Not Possible to Completely Avoid Myocardial Ischemia Associated with Cardiopulmonary Bypass and the Delivery of Cardioplegia—The Goal Is to Minimize It Amy C. Lu MD, MPH…
Remember to Ask About A History of Esophageal Disease if Transesophageal Echocardiography is Planned (or Possible) Thomas R. Elsass MD Robert W. Kyle DO Fortunately, there are relatively few complications…
