Manual of Perioperative Care in Cardiac Surgery, Third Edition

This 3rd edition of the hugely successful book is now more concise and manageable, devoted solely to cardiac surgery. The material was updated to reflect advances in equipment (circulatory assist devices, pacemakers, etc), procedures (balloon counterpulsation, shunting, etc) and drug therapies, including the newest class of beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, and antiarrhythmia drugs.