Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Sunit Ghosh is Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK. Florian Falter is Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK. Albert C. Perrino, Jr is Professor of Anesthesiology at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

1. Equipment and monitoring for cardiopulmonary bypass Victoria Molyneux and Andrew A. Klein; 2. Cardiopulmonary bypass circuit set-up and safety checks Hannah Kiziltug and Simon Colah; 3. Priming solutions for cardiopulmonary bypass circuits Christiana Georgiou and Joanne Irons; 4. Anticoagulation, coagulopathies, blood transfusion and conservation in cardiac surgery Liza Enriquez and Linda Shore-Lesserson; 5. Conduct of cardiopulmonary bypass Christiana Burt, Saran Hutton and Betsy Evans; 6. Metabolic management during cardiopulmonary bypass Kevin Collins and G. Burkhard Mackensen; 7. Myocardial protection and cardioplegia Maurice Hogan and David Jenkins; 8. Weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass Amy Needham and Christopher P. R. Walker; 9. Mechanical circulatory support Kirsty Dempster and Steven Tsui; 10. Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest Joseph E. Arrowsmith and Charles W. Hogue; 11. Organ damage during cardiopulmonary bypass Christopher C. C. Hudson and Sherif Assaad; 12. Cerebral morbidity in adult cardiac surgery David J. Cook and Sean M. Bruggink; 13. Acute kidney injury (AKI) in cardiac surgery Robert C. Albright; 14. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Loreta Grecu; 15. Paediatric aspects of cardiopulmonary bypass D. D. L. Wong and Craig R. Bailey; 16. Non-cardiac surgery functions of cardiopulmonary bypass Lay Ping Ong and Sukumaran K. Nair.