Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2744991 | Anesthesiology Clinics | 2008 | 26 Pages |
Abstract
Anesthesiologists increasingly encounter patients who have a spectrum of heart failure ranging from stable chronic heart failure to acute heart failure to cardiogenic shock. Improved medical therapy has increased the survival of patients who have chronic heart failure but not of patients who have acute heart failure. New surgical techniques and mechanical devices may offer alternatives to certain patients who have refractory heart failure This article provides an overview of established and newer pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies and surgical interventions to manage patients who have heart failure, including the perioperative management of heart transplantation and ventricular assist devices.
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Authors
Annette Vegas,