Immediate postoperative care of cardiac surgical patients.
Anesthetic care of the cardiac surgery patient is a continuum, beginning with the preoperative visit and ending when the patient is ambulatory and breathing well on the postoperative floor. Anesthesiologists are well-suited to provide postoperative care because the respiratory and cardiovascular management techniques are an extension of OR management. Attention to details is as important in the ICU as in the OR and offers the opportunity to forestall or reduce morbidity.
Higgins
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Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH., USA.
Yared
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Ryan
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D000758:Anesthesia; D002302:Cardiac Output; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000628:therapy; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy