The only concise handbook covering anesthetic management of congenital heart disease patients written by a team of two experienced pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists from Boston Children's Hospital.
Ideal for use a study material duringanesthesiologyresidency training and fellowshipsincludingadultcardiac, pediatric and pediatriccardiacanesthesia
Perfectformatforeasyreferralbywidermembers of themultidisciplinaryteamsuch as cardiologists, cardiacintensivists, perfusionists, and surgeons
Of use as a reference to guidemanagement of specificlesionsforthepediatricanesthesiologistcaringforcardiacpatientspresentingfor non-cardiacsurgery
Contents
Section 1: The Basics
Cardiovascular development
Importantconcepts in congenitalheartdisease
Preoperativeevaluation
Intraoperativemanagement
Interpretation of cardiaccatheterization data
Cardiopulmonary bypass
Mechanicalsupportdevices
Section 2: Specific Lesions
Patentductusarteriosus
Aortpulmonarywindow
Coarctation of the aorta
Atrial septal defect
Ventricular septal defects
Atrioventricular canal defects
Doubleoutletrightventricle
Truncusarteriosus
Total anomalous pulmonary venous return
Leftventricleoutflowtractobstruction
Mitral valve
Pulmonary atresia/intact ventricular septum (PA/IVS)
Tetralogy of fallot (TOF)
Tetralogy of fallotwithpulmonary atresia (TOF/PA)
Tetralogy of fallotwithabsentpulmonaryvalve (TOF/APV)
Transposition of thegreatarteries (TGA)
Single ventricle lesions
Hypoplasticleftheartsyndrome
Interruptedaorticarch
Vascular rings
Tricuspid atresia
Hearttransplantation
Heart-lung and lungtransplantation
Anomalousorigin of theleftcoronaryarteryfromthepulmonaryartery (ALCAPA)
Heterotaxy
Ebsteinanomaly
Author Information
Viviane G. Nasr, MD
Dr Nasr graduated from Medical School at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon in 2003, and pursued a residency in anesthesiology at AUB and Tufts Medical Center, Boston. She completed a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) in Washington DC and a pediatric cardiac anesthesia fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. She is American Board certified in Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology and an active member of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society.

James A. DiNardo, MD
Dr DiNardo graduated from Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School (with honors). He completed his anesthesia residency and fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He joined faculty at Boston Children'sHospital in 1999 where he currently serves as the Chief of the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia. He spend approximately one third of this clinical time as an Attending in the Cardiac ICU.

Dr DiNardo is certified in perioperative TEE and is former Chairman of the PTEeXAM Committee. He is also a Senior Oral Board Examiner for the ABA, a member of the ABA Pediatric Examination Writing Committee, and Chair of the PediatricMOCA Examination Committee. He is Past-President of both the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society and the Association of Cardiac Anesthesiologists. He is currently the Anesthesia and Analgesia Executive Editor for Pediatric Anesthesia.

He is the author of a major textbook on cardiac anesthesia and of more than 160 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.