Essentials of Operative Cardiac Surgery

This book will aid surgeons in mastering the essential skills necessary in the ever expanding field of cardiac surgery. As well as presenting basic surgical principles, emphasis throughout the book has been placed on providing essential tips to make every cardiac surgical operation easy, reproducible and safe to perform, and tricks to enable surgeons to manage the difficult situations they are likely to encounter and prevent serious complications.

Essentials of Operative Cardiac Surgery is an indispensable text for trainees and established consultants in adult cardiac surgery.

Table of contents : 

Front Matter....Pages i-xii

Echocardiography in Cardiac Surgery....Pages 1-53

Basic Setup in Cardiac Surgery....Pages 55-65

Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting....Pages 67-79

Aortic Valve Surgery....Pages 81-88

Mitral Valve Surgery....Pages 89-103

Tricuspid Valve Surgery....Pages 105-111

Ascending Aorta and Aortic Root Surgery....Pages 113-123

Cardiac Tumours....Pages 125-127

Essentials of Operative Cardiac Surgery