Cardiothoracic Critical Care

Dr Smith has been a Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care since 2006. Her clinical interests include cardiac anaesthesia, echocardiography and the care of patient with advanced heart failure requiring mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation.Dr McCall has been a Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital since 2020. His clinical interests include thoracic anaesthesia, echocardiography and the intensive care management of heart failure and cardiogenic shock, including mechanical circulatory support.He is involved in a wide range of peri-operative and intensive care research, but his own research interests are in the cardiovascular response, particularly of the right ventricle, to critical illness. He completed his MD (by research) thesis at the University of Glasgow in 2018 on the topic; “the right ventricular response to lung resection.Dr Ashworth has been a Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine for 12 years. Dr Ashworth works in a large tertiary referral Cardiothoracic centre. The unit also undertakes Heart and Lung transplantation, mechanical circulatory support and respiratory ECMO. Dr Ashworth is the Deputy Clinical Director for Cardiothoracic Critical Care and Quality and Safety lead.Dr Ashworth is a Consultant Clinical Adviser for National Institute of Health and Care Excellence in the Interventional Procedures programme supporting safe innovation within the NHS.

• 1: Robyn Smith; Sarah Finlayson: The normal postoperative cardiac patient2: Vallish Bhardwaj; Stephen Webb: Risk Prediction and Outcome3: Stefan Schraag: Fast-tracking the low-risk patient4: Tim Strang; Dr Lajos Szentgyorgyi: Resuscitation in the cardiac intensive care setting5: Robyn Smith: Myocardial ischaemia and infarction6: Rajamiyer Venkatswaran; Stuart Grant: Bleeding management reexploration7: Mark Thornton: Postoperative Hypotension8: Alice Montalti; Rita Lopes: Glucose, lactate, and acidDSbase9: Ben Shelley; Jonathan Neil: Postoperative medications10: Andrew McGuire: Information handover and care planning11: Robyn Smith: Left ventricle12: Philip McCall: Right ventricular failure13: Robyn Smith: Valvular heart disease14: Robyn Smith: Common arrhythmias and their management15: Neil Brain: Lung16: Neal Padmadhaman: Organ Dysfunction: Kidney17: Anton Buter: Gastrointestinal18: Geoffrey Warnock; Chris Hawthorne: Nervous system19: Lynne Anderson: Haematology20: Tim Hayes: Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) and cardiac surgery21: Adam Glass; Ben Shelley: The thoracic patient22: Robyn Smith; Niki Walker: The adult patient with congenital heart disease23: Mark Thornton; Rachel Darling: The obstetric patient with cardiac disease24: Yuran Zheng; Paul Callan: Heart failure resistant to standard medical therapy25: Alice Brennan; Jonathan R Dalzell: The cardiac transplant patient26: John Blaikley: The transplant patient DS lung transplant27: Rachel Fraser; Kenneth McKinlay: Acute cardiology28: Ashleigh Taylor: Central venous cannulation, pulmonary artery catheter, and minimally invasive cardiac output monitoring29: Martin Hughes; Lia Paton: Airway management30: Martin Hughes; Kathryn Puxty: Respiratory management31: Jennifer Willder: Circulatory support: pharmacological32: Sam Howitt; Alan Ashworth: Circulatory support: mechanical33: David A.W. Reid: Epicardial pacing34: Stefan Schragg: Sedation and pain relief35: Prashant Mohite; Doshi Harikrishna: Wound management36: Tristan Banks; Stephanie Thomas: Infection control and prevention37: Philip McCall: Bedside echocardiography: transthoracic echocardiography38: Philip McCall: Transoesophageal echocardiography

Review from previous edition All in all, the book is a quick reference guide that covers most important clinical issues... The main strength lies in the easily accessible information with quite extensive and good practical recommendations.