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• Employs well-documented tables, text boxes, and algorithms to make clinical information easy to access.
  
• Features chapters each written and reviewed by intensivists, surgeons, and cardiologists.
  
• Integrates the authors' extensive experiences with state-of-the-art knowledge from the literature.

• Offers four completely new chapters: Cardiac Trauma, Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult, Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries, and Outcome Evaluation.
  
• Describes the basic pharmacology and clinical applications of all of the new pharmacologic agents.
  
• Details important refinements and developments in surgical techniques, including the Ross pulmonary autograft replacement of the aortic valve, video-assisted fluoroscopy, and the extracardiac Fontan connection, and discusses their indications and potential complications.
  
• Explores the latest advances in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, new developments in mechanical assist devices, heart and lung transplantation, and interventional cardiac catheterization.
  
• Examines issues affecting adults with congenital heart disease.

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It was a very fast shipping.	Customer Rating:
The book is in the best condition and it is a very fast shipping. I am impressed with this dealer. This book will give you all you need to take care sick kids during post op open heart.

critical heart disease	Customer Rating:
excellant perioperative management of complex congenital heart disease. A must have for any peds anesthesiologist doing peds cv.

Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children	Customer Rating:
Comprehensive, fresh and multidisciplinary approach makes this a unique and useful text for students and young faculty. Chapters are for the most part well written and the book is nicely updated over previous addition. Should be a part of the library for clinicians who care for children with congenital heart disease