TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Anesthesia for Electrophysiology, Hybrid, and Catheterization Procedures A1 - Wasnick, John D. A1 - Nicoara, Alina PY - 2019 T2 - Cardiac Anesthesia and Transesophageal Echocardiography, 2e AB - The number of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions performed outside of the operating room requiring anesthesia services has increased exponentially over the past 10 years. Anesthesiologists are engaged in doctor’s offices, ambulatory surgery centers, and endoscopy suites. Although cardiac anesthesiologists are most often involved with highly invasive heart surgery procedures, they too find an increasing part of their practice spent outside of the traditional heart surgery operating theater. Evermore complicated catheter-mediated procedures are completed in ever-sicker patients in the cardiac catheterization and electrophysiological laboratories. Increasingly, hybrid suites have been constructed to facilitate combined open and catheter-based surgeries. Common procedures include: diagnostic coronary angiography, coronary stenting, percutaneous closure of septal defects, electrophysiology studies, arrhythmia ablations, and implantations of pacemakers and cardioverter defibrillators. Also, as was previously discussed, catheter-based valve replacements and aortic aneurysm repairs are performed in hybrid procedural suites (see Chapters 6 and 9). SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/20 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1166981422 ER -