Anaesthesia for heart transplantation.
As the number of heart transplantation recipients continues to grow, more cardiac centres are performing heart transplantation and more anaesthetists need to be trained for this exciting and challenging field of anaesthesia. This articles looks at the anaesthetic management of both the heart donor and the heart recipient.
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Department of Anaesthesia, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000379:methods; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D011300:Preoperative Care; D014019:Tissue Donors