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Anesthesia for Heart and Lung Transplantation

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The evolution of surgical technique and immunosuppression medications during the last half-century resulted in heart and lung transplantation becoming increasingly more common. While these life-saving procedures offer improved survival and quality of life, there are many challenges that need to be mitigated in order to realize these potential benefits. Advanced stage of primary disease, co-morbid conditions, and deconditioning are several factors that may place the recipient at risk of primary graft dysfunction, perioperative complications, and prolonged hospital course. In this chapter, we will review the underlying principles of anesthetic management that can contribute to successful outcomes for these complex operations. Tables 4.4 and 4.5 provide a summary of the considerations during heart and lung transplantation.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Blaine E. Farmer M.D.

  2. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Igor O. Zhukov M.D.

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  1. Hospital University Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Basavana G. Goudra

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Michael Duggan

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Vidya Chidambaran

  4. University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Hari Prasad Krovvidi Venkata

  5. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Elizabeth Duggan

  6. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Mark Powell

  7. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Preet Mohinder Singh

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Farmer, B.E., Zhukov, I.O. (2018). Anesthesia for Heart and Lung Transplantation. In: Goudra, B., et al. Anesthesiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74766-8_4

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