Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Florian Falter is Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and Chairman of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, UK. Albert C. Perrino, Jr. is Professor of Anesthesiology at Yale School of Medicine and Chief of Anesthesiology for the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Robert A. Baker is Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Quality and Outcomes Unit and Clinical Perfusion Department at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, South Australia. He is currently Chair of the Australian New Zealand Collaborative Perfusion Registry and President of the Australian and New Zealand Collage of Perfusion.

Introduction Alan Merry; 1. Human factors and teamwork in cardiac surgery Lindsay Wetxel, David Fitzgerald, Thor Sundt, Jake H. and Abernathy III; 2. Equipment for cardiopulmonary bypass Simon Anderson and Amanda Crosby; 3. Monitoring during cardiopulmonary bypass Richard F. Newland and Pascal Starinieri; 4. Cardiopulmonary bypass circuit set-up and safety checks Victoria Molineux and Shahna Helmick; 5. Priming solutions for cardiopulmonary bypass Filip de Somer and Robert Young; 6. Anticoagulation for cardiopulmonary bypass Martin Besser and Linda Shore-Lesserson; 7. Conduct of cardiopulmonary bypass Christiana Burt, Tim Dickinson, Narain Moorjani and Caitlin Blau; 8. Minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation Kyriakos Anastasiadis, Polychronis Antonitsis, Helena Argiriadou and Apostolos Deliopoulos; 9. Considerations for operations involving deep hypothermic circulatory arrest Pingping Song and Joseph E. Arrowsmith; 10. Metabolic management during cardiopulmonary bypass Jonathan Brandt and Edward Darling; 11. Myocardial preservation during cardiopulmonary bypass Gudrun Kunst, Luc Puis and Tom Gilbey; 12. Weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass Joanne Irons, Kenneth Shann and Michael Poullis; 13. Intraoperative mechanical support and other uses of cardiopulmonary bypass Mark Buckland and Jessica Underwood; 14. Short- and long term mechanical circulatory support Jason M. Ali, Ayyaz Ali and Yassir Abu-Omar; 15. Cardiopulmonary bypass for pediatric cardiac surgery Joseph J. Sistino and Timothy J. Jones; 16. Coagulopathy and hematological disorders associated with cardiopulmonary bypass Bruce Spiess and Erik Ortmann; 17. Inflammation and organ damage during cardiopulmonary bypass R. Clive Landis and Sherif Assaad; 18. Neuromonitoring and cerebral morbidity associated with cardiopulmonary bypass Etienne J. Couture, Stephanie Jarry and Andre Y. Denault; 19. Renal morbidity associated with cardiopulmonary bypass Juan Pablo Domenq and Robert C. Albright; 20. Comman and uncommon disasters during cardiopulmonary bypass Greg Janelle, Jane Ottens and Mike Franklin.