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Noncardiac Complications After Cardiac Surgery

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Surgical, technological, and pharmacologic advances during the past 25 years have enabled complex cardiac surgery to become more routine; however, one cannot underestimate the multiple potential complications that can still arise in the postoperative setting. The anesthesiologist, physician intensivist, and critical care nurse should be thoroughly familiar with a wide range of issues that can arise in the postoperative course in the intensive care unit after a patient has undergone cardiothoracic surgery.

The widespread use of large long-term clinical databases has led to a greater understanding of the most common complications facing cardiothoracic surgical patients and has allowed the delineation of comorbidities or factors associated with significant and commonly occurring postoperative events. Although an extremely vast myriad of noncardiac-related postoperative complications may occur after a patient has undergone cardiac surgery, this chapter will focus on the most common noncardiac complications after the patient has left the cardiac surgical operative arena and entered into the postoperative phase of care, typically provided in the intensive care unit.

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  1. Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography Education, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Antonio Hernandez Conte MD, MBA

  2. Cardiovascular Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Mahnoosh Foroughi MD

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  1. Dept. Anesthesiol. & Anesthesiol. Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Ali Dabbagh

  2. Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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  3. Divisions of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Sary F. Aranki

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Conte, A.H., Foroughi, M. (2014). Noncardiac Complications After Cardiac Surgery. In: Dabbagh, A., Esmailian, F., Aranki, S. (eds) Postoperative Critical Care for Cardiac Surgical Patients. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40418-4_8

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