Developments in critical care medicine and anaesthesiology, 12.
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What should the cardiac anaesthesiologist know about heart catheterization? --; -Transesophageal 2-D echocardiography: a new dimension in clinical care --; -The EEG and evoked potentials --; -Preoperative medication: maintenance or modification? --; -Preoperative evaluation of the patient with mitral valve disease --; -The use of invasive monitoring techniques in cardiac surgery --; -Inotropic agents/Vasoactive agents --; -Techniques of anesthetic administration: are they more important than choice of anesthetic agent? --; -Detection of myocardial ischemia during anesthesia --; -The management of intraoperative myocardial ischemia and hypotension --; -Metabolic changes and interpretation of blood gas analysis during hypothermia --; -Profound hypothermia and circulatory arrest: studies of intraoperatieve metabolic changes and late postoperative intellectual development after correction of congenital heart disease --; -Flows and pressures during cardiopulmonary bypass --; -Promoting cardiac metabolism before and after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) --; -Coronary circulation and myocardial metabolism during anaesthesia --; -Sequential myocardial depressant and non-depressant anaesthesia for coronary artery surgery --; -Continuous arterial pH-monitoring following coronary artery bypass surgery --; -The management of cardiac emergencies --; cardiac tamponade --; -Leaking prosthetic valves --; -Massive pulmonary embolism --; -Ruptured coronary artery following angioplasty --; -Index.