Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clinical judgment in critical care / Susan K. Chase -- Cardiovascular anatomy and physiology / Susan K. Chase -- Indications for cardiac surgery / Kristine J. Peterson -- Preoperative cardiac surgery nursing evaluation / Roberta Kaplow ... [et al.] -- Heart valve surgery / Catherine Drumm and Kristine J. Peterson -- Minimally invasive cardiac surgery / Jenniffer Hughes and Kirsten Platt -- Cardiopulmonary bypass and off-pump coronary artery bypass / Julie Miller -- Recovery from anesthesia / Toni Patrice Johnson -- Hemodynamic monitoring / Mary Zellinger -- Intra-aortic balloon pump / Barbara Hutton-Borghardt -- Mechanical ventilation after cardiac surgery / Mary Jane Bowles -- Pharmacological support following cardiac surgery / Timothy E. McMurry, Roberta Kaplow, and Sonya R. Hardin -- Postoperative complications of cardiac surgery and nursing interventions / Beverly Jones -- Pain management / Susan Lynch -- Postoperative dysrhythmias / Roberta Kaplow and Dawn B. Adams -- Neurological complications / Myra F. Ellis -- Fluid and electrolyte imbalances following cardiac surgery / Carol Isaac MacKusick -- Wound care / Mary Zellinger and Vicki Morelock -- Bridge to transplant and cardiac
.transplantation / Rachel S. Ball ... [et al.]