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Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care

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Although cardiac surgery is usually recognized as a discipline predominantly being performed in the operating room, several other components are required for a successful cardiac operation, one of the most important being represented by cardiac surgical intensive care medicine (CSICM). Therefore the key elements of CSICM are presented in this chapter starting with the basic principles of CSICM providing diagnostic and therapeutic concepts for patients with an uneventful postoperative course. Among the multiple problems which may be encountered after cardiac operations, hemodynamic deterioration is the most frequent and the most dangerous. Therefore, staged diagnosis and therapy of hemodynamic abnormalities are emphasized. In addition, an overview about how to realize and handle the most common problems of other organ systems is given.

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  1. Department for Cardiovascular Surgery, Central Military Hospital, Koblenz, Germany

    Andreas Markewitz MD, PhD, Col. & Axel Franke MD, PhD

  2. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    René H. Bombien MD, PhD & Ali Khoynezhad MD, PhD, FACS, FACC

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Markewitz, A., Franke, A., Bombien, R.H., Khoynezhad, A. (2017). Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care. In: Ziemer, G., Haverich, A. (eds) Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52672-9_9

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