Ali Dabbagh • Fardad Esmailian • Sary F. Aranki
Editors

2014

Cardiac surgery is a process, not an event. Due to the prevalence of cardiac diseases and conditions within society, cardiac surgeries now rank among the most common of all surgical procedures. But they are also the most challenging and complicated, all of which imposes a burden of instructive issues upon students and faculty alike. The following is a handbook encompassing the entire period of postoperative cardiac surgical care, including the basic physiologic and pharmacologic knowledge to clinical aspects of clinical care in different major body organs.