This new and extensively updated edition reviews the postoperative management of patients who have undergone cardiac surgical procedures, some of the most common and most complicated forms of surgery. These patients and their management are characterized by complex challenges, while among the factors determining ultimate clinical outcome, postoperative critical care is of major importance.

Postoperative Critical Care for Adult Cardiac Surgical Patients describes the course of clinical care in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, providing the reader with a practical «cookbook» of postoperative intensive care in adult cardiac patients. It has been extensively updated to include the developments in this field since the previous edition, with new and extensively revised chapters on perioperative echocardiography, how to manage heart failure in adult cardiac surgery, how to manage electrophysiology (including the use of pacemakers and ICDs) in adult cardiac surgery, and postoperative management of pregnant women after cardiac surgery. Uniquely, the Editors have included a chapter on the role of AI after cardiac surgery, providing some context to this important new technology. This book is of critical importance for cardiac surgeons, cardiac anesthesiologists and intensivists, and defines optimal daily practice for adult patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures.

Ali Dabbagh, MD is a Cardiac Anesthesiologist, who has been in practice for more than 20 years. He is currently serving as the Director of the Anesthesiology Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Iran. He has been visiting a number of well named Worldwide centers as a visiting Professor, including, Texas Heart Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford Anesthesia. He has been visiting a number of well named Worldwide Centers as a visiting Professor, including, Department of Anesthesiology, at Texas Heart Center, Houston, TX, USA and Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford Anesthesia, Palo Alto, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Fardad Esmailian is a thoracic and cardiac surgeon in Los Angeles, California and is affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He received his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.