CARDIOLOGY
4. Cardiology
“All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.”- Maya Angelou 4.1 Atherosclerosis Source: Hypertension….
3. Pulmonology
“The act of breathing is living” 3.1 Acute Respiratory Failure Acute onset of shortness of breath (SOB) or acute respiratory decompensation is a common emergency condition. This can occur due…
5. Acid-Base Disorders
“An interesting fact about pH is that it is measured in log scale—meaning pH of 6 is 10 times more acidic than pH of 7 and 100 times more acidic…
Step by step cardiac surgical procedure with instrumentation
16 Step by step cardiac surgical procedure with surgical instrumentation Bhuvaneswari Krishnamoorthy and Janesh Nair Introduction This chapter is intended to help the new perioperative practitioner understand the basic cardiac…
Congenital cardiac surgical procedures
15 Congenital cardiac surgical procedures Georgios Kalarouziotis Introduction Cardiac surgery is a quite young specialty, only dating back about 80 years. The development of surgery for congenital heart diseases (CHDs)…
