ANAESTHESIA FOR HEART TRANSPLANTATION

Anaesthesia for Kidney Transplantation

Anaesthesia for isolated lung transplantation.

The anaesthetic management of a patient undergoing successful, left-sided orthotopic single lung transplantation is presented. Problems, specific to the operation, are featured and discussed.

Anaesthesia for patients after lung transplantation.

PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to review the literature on post lung transplant patients presenting for surgery and anaesthesia and to provide insight into their perioperative management. SOURCE Articles and books were identified via a Medline search and through a review of the bibliographies of these sources. PRINCIPLE FINDINGS Single and double lung transplantation is becoming mor...

Anaesthesia and Heart Failure

The following true/false questions may be attempted before reading the tutorial. The answers are given at the end of the text. 1. In the normal heart: a. Pre-load is the same as left ventricular end-diastolic volume b. Increase in pre-load has no effect on the force of the next contraction c. Systemic vasoconstriction reduces afterload d. Isovolumetric ventricular contraction ends when the aort...

Guidelines for heart transplantation.

Based on the changes in the field of heart transplantation and the treatment and prognosis of patients with heart failure, these updated guidelines were composed by a committee under the supervision of both the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Association for Cardiothoracic surgery (NVVC and NVT).THE INDICATION FOR HEART TRANSPLANTATION IS DEFINED AS: 'End-stage heart disea...