RT Book, Section
A1 Wasnick, John D.
A1 Hillel, Zak
A1 Kramer, David
A1 Littwin, Sanford
A1 Nicoara, Alina
SR Print(0)
ID 8550423
T1 Chapter 4. Routine Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia
T2 Cardiac Anesthesia and Transesophageal Echocardiography
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-171798-4
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=8550423
RD 2024/04/20
AB In  decades  past,  the  otherwise  healthy  patient  for  coronary  bypass  surgery  was  the  "ideal"  patient  for  cardiac  surgery/anesthesia  teams.  Such  patients  often  presented  with  one  or  two  vessel  coronary  artery  disease  in  need  of  surgical  revascularization.  Perhaps  the  patient  had  suffered  a  myocardial  infarction  but  overwhelmingly,  ventricular  function  tended  to  be  preserved.  Free  from  both  systolic  and  diastolic  ventricular  dysfunction,  such  patients  tolerated  anesthesia  induction,  maintenance,  and  emergence  easily.  Often  these  patients  were  relatively  young,  in  their  forties,  fifties,  and  sixties  and  lacked  other  organ  system  diseases.  Time  on  cardiopulmonary  bypass  tended  to  be  short  since  the  patients  often  required  only  one  or  two  vessel  revascularizations.