Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

Contributors

vii

 

Preface

ix

Chapter 1

Clinical Judgment in Critical Care   Susan K. Chase

1

Chapter 2

Cardiovascular Anatomy and Physiology   Susan K. Chase

13

Chapter 3

Indications for Cardiac Surgery   Kristine J. Peterson

27

Chapter 4

Preoperative Cardiac Surgery Nursing Evaluation   Roberta Kaplow, Sonya R. Hardin, Brenda Hardin-Wike, and Timothy E. McMurry

53

Chapter 5

Heart Valve Surgery   Catherine Drumm and Kristine J. Peterson

73

Chapter 6

Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery   Jenniffer Hughes and Kirsten Platt

93

Chapter 7

Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass   Julie Miller

115

Chapter 8

Recovery from Anesthesia   Toni Patrice Johnson

127

Chapter 9

Hemodynamic Monitoring   Mary Zellinger

145

Chapter 10

Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump   Barbara Hutton-Borghardt

165

Chapter 11

Mechanical Ventilation After Cardiac Surgery   Mary Jane Bowles

185

Chapter 12

Pharmacologic Support Following Cardiac Surgery   Timothy E. McMurry, Roberta Kaplow, and Sonya R. Hardin

205

Chapter 13

Postoperative Complications of Cardiac Surgery and Nursing Interventions   Beverly Jones

257

Chapter 14

Pain Management   Susan Lynch

287

Chapter 15

Postoperative Dysrhythmias   Roberta Kaplow and Dawn B. Adams

309

Chapter 16

Neurologic Complications   Myra F. Ellis

323

Chapter 17

Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalances Following Cardiac Surgery   Carol Isaac MacKusick

345

Chapter 18

Wound Care   Mary Zellinger and Vicki Morelock

371

Chapter 19

Bridge to Transplant and Cardiac Transplantation   Rachel S. Ball, Kathy Halabicky, Laurie Hartman, Erin Lindstrom, and Tracey Romans

393

 

Glossary

433

 

Index

445