TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 4. Routine Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia A1 - Wasnick, John D. A1 - Hillel, Zak A1 - Kramer, David A1 - Littwin, Sanford A1 - Nicoara, Alina PY - 2011 T2 - Cardiac Anesthesia and Transesophageal Echocardiography 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. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=8550423 ER -