Cardiac Surgery: Safeguards and Pitfalls in Operative Technique

Now in its Fourth Edition, this text is a practical, heavily illustrated guide to procedures in cardiac surgery.Chapters cover acquired and congenital diseases and include surgical anatomy, surgical exposures, and step-by-step procedural details. The authors indicate pitfalls with a hazard sign and flag points of special interest with NB (Nota Bene). This edition has contributions from Abbas Ardehali, MD, FACS, the director of the UCLA heart, heart-lung, and lung transplant program. Highlights include a new chapter on heart transplantation. Also included are updates in minimally invasive surgery and vascular and endovascular surgery. Additional ISBNs 0781769507, 9780781769501Cardiac Surgery: Safeguards and Pitfalls in Operative Technique 4th Edition is written by Siavosh Khonsari MA, MB, BCh, FRCS(C), FACS, FACC Colleen F Sintek MD and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBNs for Cardiac Surgery: Safeguards and Pitfalls in Operative Technique are 9781451104134. Additional ISBNs include 0781769507, 9780781769501.