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 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…
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…
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…
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 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 Antonio Rubino and Susan Stevenson Introduction Hypertension is a commonly encountered clinical problem in the cardiothoracic critical care unit in both its chronic and…
28 Acute Dyspnoea and Respiratory Failure Ken Kuljit Parhar Introduction Respiration is a complex process during which gas exchange occurs between the respiratory system of the patient and the surrounding…
38 Intensive Care Unit Management Following Valve Surgery Yasir Abu-Omar and Shakil Farid The post cardiac valve surgical patients follow the same general management principles as any other cardiac surgical…
32 The Infected Patient Simon J Finney Infection is a common problem for patients in cardiothoracic intensive care units (CT ICUs) and although it may be the primary reason for…
