Mark Griffiths & Jeremy Cordingley 
Cardiovascular Critical Care 

Remarkable improvements in cardiac survival rates have made
cardiovascular critical care much more common, but no less
challenging for the practitioner. This important volume draws on
the skills of an expert team of editors and contributors to present
a timely overview of clinical practice.

The book covers the full range of the field, from pre-operative
assessment and the haematological complications of cardiovascular
surgery and critical care to the care of patients with:

·
Arrhythmias

· Heart
Failure

· Adult
Congenital Heart Disease

· Mitral
Valve Disease

· Aortic
Valve Disease

· Infective
Endocarditis

·
Vasculitis

The authors also address the special problems associated with
the management of conditions consequent upon pregnancy, eclampsia,
and the hypertensive crisis.

With high-quality illustrations and a helpful index,
Cardiovascular Critical Care gives you access to information
that helps you provide the best possible care to your patients.

Table of Content

Contributors.

Introduction.

Chapter 1 Shock (Marius Terblanche and Nicole
Assmann).

Chapter 2 Resuscitation in Intensive Care (David A.
Zideman).

Chapter 3 Cardiovascular Monitoring in Critical Care (Michael
R. Pinsky).

Chapter 4 Cardiovascular Investigation of the Critically Ill
(Susanna Price and Jeremy J. Cordingley).

Chapter 5 Haematological Aspects of Cardiovascular Critical Care
(Kanchan Rege and Mark J.D. Griffiths).

Chapter 6 Cardiovascular Support: Pharmacological (Joseph E.
Arrowsmith and Florian Falter).

Chapter 7 Arrhythmias (Hugh Montgomery and Vivek
Sivaraman).

Chapter 8 Mechanical Heart Failure Therapy (Richard
Trimlett).

Chapter 9 Care of the High Risk Patient Undergoing Surgery
(Justin Woods and Andrew Rhodes).

Chapter 10 Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Principles of
Management in Critical Care (Susanna Price and Brian
Keogh).

Chapter 11 Common Complications of Cardiovascular Critical
Illness (Simon J. Finney and Mark J.D. Griffiths).

Chapter 12 Haemodynamic Management of Severe Sepsis
(Jean-Louis Vincent).

Chapter 13 Acute Coronary Syndromes and Myocardial Infarction
(Alex Hobson and Nick Curzen).

Chapter 14 Cardiogenic Shock (Divaka Perera and Gerald S.
Carr-White).

Chapter 15 Peri-operative Care of the Heart Transplant Recipient
(Keith Mc Neil and John Dunning).

Chapter 16 Adult Congenital Heart Disease Syndromes (Antonia
Pijuan Domènech, Katerina Chamaidi and Michael A.
Gatzoulis).

Chapter 17 Management of Arrhythmias in Adults with Congenital
Heart Disease (Barbara J. Deal).

Chapter 18 Mitral Valve Disease (Susanna Price and Derek
Gibson).

Chapter 19 Aortic Valve Disease (Susanna Price and Derek
Gibson).

Chapter 20 Infective Endocarditis (David Hunter and John
Pepper).

Chapter 21 Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Failure
(Alain Vuylsteke).

Chapter 22 Aortic Dissection (Maninder S. Kalkat, Vamsidhar
B. Dronavalli, David Alexander and Robert S. Bonser).

Chapter 23 Emergency Management of Cardiac Trauma (James
Napier and Mark Messent).

Chapter 24 Hypertensive Crises (Liao Pinhu and Mark J.D.
Griffiths).

Chapter 25 Pregnancy (Lorna Swan).

Chapter 26 Vasculitis (Lorna Swan).

Chapter 27 Endocrine Problems and Cardiovascular Critical Care
(Phil Marino and Susanna Price).

Chapter 28 Haemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy: A Personal
History 1961-1994 (Ronald Bradley).

Index.

The colour plate section.

About the author

Edited by Mark J.D. Griffiths, MRCP, Ph D, EDICM, BDICM,
Consultant Physician, Adult Intensive Care Unit, Royal Brompton
Hospital, London, UK

Jeremy J. Cordingley, MBBS, MRCP, FRCA, EDICM, Consultant
in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Royal Brompton
Hospital, London, UK

Susanna S. Price MB, BS, BSc, MRCP, EDICM, Ph D,
Consultant Cardiologist and Intensivist, Royal Brompton &
Harefield NHS Trust, London, UK