42 – Aortic Surgical Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
42 Aortic Surgical Patients in the Intensive Care Unit Pedro Catarino and Swetha Iyer Introduction Aortic surgical patients in the ICU can be some of the most challenging patients. Further,…
43 – Thoracic Surgical Patients
43 Thoracic Surgical Patients J Irons and S Ghosh Introduction In the UK, 26,746 thoracic surgical procedures were recorded in the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons Thoracic Registry as having been…
39 – Pulmonary Endarterectomy Patients in Cardiothoracic Critical Care
39 Pulmonary Endarterectomy Patients in Cardiothoracic Critical Care Choo Yen Ng Introduction Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) arises from total or partial occlusion of the pulmonary vascular bed from non-resolving…
31 – Pulmonary Hypertension in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit
31 Pulmonary Hypertension in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit Mark Toshner and Joanna Pepke-Zaba Introduction Pulmonary hypertension (PH) represents a group of conditions which share the haemodynamic definition of a mean…
35 – Cardiothoracic Trauma
35 Cardiothoracic Trauma Alia Noorani and Ravi J De Silva Background Trauma accounts for up to 720,000 annual admissions, and over 6 million attendances to the emergency department in the UK. Thoracic injuries…
33 – Seizures
33 Seizures Ari Ercole and Lara Prisco Introduction Seizures are common in intensive care patients generally and cardiac surgery or post-cardiac arrest patients are at particular risk. Seizures are an…
37 – Management after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery
37 Management after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery Sam Nashef and Paolo Bosco Professor Kolesov performed the first beating-heart left internal mammary artery to left anterior descending coronary artery bypass…
36 – The Bleeding Cardiac Surgical Patient
36 The Bleeding Cardiac Surgical Patient Jerrold H Levy , Kamrouz Ghadimi and Ian J Welsby Introduction Bleeding is the commonest complication following cardiac surgery. The amount of blood loss…
26 – Airway Emergencies
26 Airway Emergencies Tom P Sullivan and Guillermo Martinez Introduction The majority of patients admitted to an intensive care unit require mechanical ventilation and consequently they are vulnerable to a…
30 – Systemic Hypertension in Cardiothoracic Critical Care
30 Systemic Hypertension in Cardiothoracic Critical Care Antonio Rubino and Susan Stevenson Introduction Hypertension is a commonly encountered clinical problem in the cardiothoracic critical care unit in both its chronic and…
