RT Book, Section
A1 Wasnick, John D.
A1 Nicoara, Alina
SR Print(0)
ID 1166981422
T1 Anesthesia for Electrophysiology, Hybrid, and Catheterization Procedures
T2 Cardiac Anesthesia and Transesophageal Echocardiography, 2e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071847339
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1166981422
RD 2024/09/07
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).