Klauwer / Neuhaeuser / Thul A Practical Handbook on Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Therapy

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-92441-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten

Reihe: Medicine (R0)

Offers a pragmatic guide, focusing on daily practice and bedside medicine

Straightforward, easy to implement, and results-oriented

Provides readers with a profound understanding of intensive care, with a specific focus on organ systems, their interactions and the effect of life support technologies

Shows how to manage complex problems in a pragmatic, concrete and experience-based way.

Provides valid tools not only for countries with established specialized medical care and management but also for threshold countries which need clear instructions tailored to specific clinical situations

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klauwer, Dietrich

Neuhaeuser, Christoph

Thul, Josef

Zimmermann, Rainer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. General considerations on pediatric cardiac intensive care medicine.- O2 supply, CO2 and acid-base balance.- Ventilation.- Cardiovascular monitoring and cardiovascular drug therapy.- Renal dysfunction.- Fluid, electrolyte and nutritional management.- Analgosedation.- Antibiotic therapy.- Coagulation system.- Pulmonary hypertension.- ECMO therapy and the heart-lung machine.- Cardiac arrhythmias.- Resuscitation.- Part II. Management of specific pediatric cardiac problems.- Preoperative diagnostics.- Considerations for hemodynamics.- Heart defects with indication for neonatal surgery.- Heart defects with therapy post neonatal phase.- Heart transplantation.- Ultra fast tracking in pediatric cardiac surgery.- Drug list.

Über Autor(innen)

Dietrich Klauwer is a pediatrician, neonatologist, pediatric intensivist and pediatric cardiologist, who completed his training at Giessen University Children’s Hospital and Pediatric Heart Center as well as at Münster University Pediatric Heart Center.

Christoph Neuhaeuser worked as an anesthesiologist for nine years before becoming a pediatrician, neonatologist and pediatric intensivist. He was trained at the PICU at Giessen University Children’s Hospital. He is currently working as a consultant for pediatric intensive care in Giessen.

Josef Thul has been trained in neonatology, pediatric intensive care and pediatric cardiology. For more than a decade, he has been the head of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s Heart Center at Giessen University Hospital, where he is also the responsible cardiologist for the pediatric heart transplant program.

Rainer Zimmermann was trained as a pediatrician and pediatric cardiologist in Mönchengladbach, theUniversity Hospitals of London, Oxford and Würzburg, and the University of Giessen’s Pediatric Heart Center. He joined Actelion Pharmaceuticals in 2008 as a specialist for pulmonary arterial hypertension.