Descripción

• Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title  Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia
  • Book Subtitle  A Primer for the General Anaesthetist
  • Authors  Jutta Scheffczik
  • Softcover ISBN  978-3-031-90329-8Due: 25 July 2025
  • Edition Number  1
  • Number of Pages  X, 210
  • Number of Illustrations  3 b/w illustrations, 101 illustrations in colour
  • Topics  Cardiac Surgery, Physiology, Anesthesiology, Pediatric Surgery
  • Price, $ 84.99

• Contains clearly explained principles of anaesthesia for congenital cardiac lesions, both repaired and unrepaired

• Reviews and explains the key principals of physiology appropriate for congenital heart lesions

• Provides a visual guide to anatomy and blood flow in congenital lesions

About this book

This book outlines how to approach the anaesthetic for congenital heart disease patients for non-cardiac surgery, how to plan for it and to provide a blueprint on how to anaesthetise any congenital cardiac lesion. It describes the physiology of congenital cardiac conditions (unrepaired and repaired) which is important for anaesthetic planning and contains anatomical drawings of the lesions with explanation on how the physiology of these lesions influences anaesthetic technique and how anaesthesia influences the lesion. One of the challenges of congenital cardiac conditions is their variability, which needs to be taken into account in any teaching material. With most congenital patients surviving to adulthood, every anaesthetist will come across these patients, regardless of where they work or which specialty they anaesthetise for.

Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia: a Primer for the General Anaesthetist provides specific information regarding the management of patients with a cardiac lesion and the risks with a general anaesthetic when troubleshooting does not include crashing onto cardio-pulmonary bypass. It is aimed at non-cardiac anaesthetists including anaesthetic trainees who need to learn about congenital cardiac lesions and anaesthetising for it and non-cardiac consultants who anaesthetise cardiac patients (both paediatric and adult) for non-cardiac surgery. It can be used by trainees for learning about it or by consultants for refreshing their memory.

Keywords

• Cardiac Anesthesia

• Congenital Heart Disease

• Congenital cardiovascular physiology

• Cardiac lesions

• Congenital cardiac lesions physiology

Table of contents (44 chapters)

1. Front Matter
2. Pages i-x

1. Anaesthetic Assessment and Planning
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   Pages 1-5

2. How to Read an Echo
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   Pages 7-10

3. Cardiovascular Changes at Birth
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   Pages 11-13

4. Pathophysiology and Anaesthetic Considerations
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   Pages 15-22

5. Lesions

   1. Front Matter

   2. Pages 23-23
   3. Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from Pulmonary Artery
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      Pages 25-27

   4. Aortic Arch Abnormalities: Vascular Rings
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      Pages 29-32

   5. Aortic Arch, Interrupted
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      Pages 33-36

   6. Aortic Valve
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      Pages 37-40

   7. Aorto-Pulmonary Window
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      Pages 41-42

   8. Atrial Septal Defect
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      Pages 43-45

   9. Arterio-Venous Malformation
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      Pages 47-51

   10. Atrio-Ventricular Septal Defect, Complete
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       Pages 53-56

   11. Atrio-Ventricular Septal Defect, Partial
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       Pages 57-58

   12. Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries
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       Pages 59-62

   13. Coarctation of the Aorta/Hypoplastic Aortic Arch
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       Pages 63-66

   14. Cor triatriatum
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       Pages 67-69

   15. Double Inlet Left Ventricle
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       Pages 71-75

   16. Double Outlet Right Ventricle
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       Pages 77-80

    

Authors and Affiliations

• Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK

  Jutta Scheffczik

About the author

Dr Scheffczik studied medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, specialising in anaesthesia. She came to the UK in 2007 to sub-specialise in Paediatric Anaesthesia.

While working at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Dr Scheffczik became fascinated by Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia and expanded her knowledge and skills with a cardiac fellowship at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Following Locum Consultant posts in Oxford and Glasgow, she got a substantive consultant post for Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia in Leeds in 2016.