RT Book, Section
A1 Wasnick, John D.
A1 Hillel, Zak
A1 Kramer, David
A1 Littwin, Sanford
A1 Nicoara, Alina
SR Print(0)
ID 8550001
T1 Chapter 1. Preoperative Evaluation of the Heart Surgery Patient
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=8550001
RD 2024/04/19
AB It  is  often  said  that  the  anesthesiologist  is  the  internist  of  the  operating  room  (OR).  By  extension,  the  cardiac  anesthesiologist  becomes  the  OR's  cardiologist.  While  it  is  certainly  true  that  anesthesiologists  must  have  knowledge  of  medicine  in  general  and  cardiology  in  particular,  the  practice  of  cardiac  anesthesia  is  a  unique  discipline  unto  itself.  Although  cardiac  anesthesiologists  must  have  knowledge  of  why  someone  is  being  taken  to  cardiac  surgery,  they  will  not  be  the  ones  to  decide  if  surgery  is  indicated  or  not.  Rather,  cardiac  anesthesia  staff  must  review  the  totality  of  the  patient's  cardiac  and  medical  history  to  determine  the  best  approaches  to  manage  sick  patients  perioperatively.  This  chapter  will  briefly  examine  how  someone  is  referred  for  cardiac  surgery  and  the  essential  elements  of  preoperative  evaluation  necessary  for  patient  management.