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Anaesthesiology

Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery

Built from Barash Clinical Anesthesia, 9th Edition

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12 sections · 199 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this topic covers
    • Core skills and key messages

    2 slides

  2. 02

    Coronary artery disease

    • Goals of care and the oxygen balance
    • Determinants of myocardial oxygen balance
    • Reading the oxygen balance diagram
    • Regulation of coronary blood flow and perfusion pressure
    • Aortic and left ventricular pressure determine coronary perfusion pressure
    • Ischemia, stunning and hibernation
    • Distinguishing viable from necrotic myocardium
    • Hemodynamic goals in coronary artery disease
    • Coronary artery disease: hemodynamic goals
    • Principles of anesthetic selection and opioids
    • Inhalation anesthetics and how the three compare
    • Intravenous sedative hypnotics
    • Vasoactive drugs and 2021 guideline statements
    • Treatment of intraoperative ischemia
    • Treatment of intraoperative ischemia (continued)
    • Nitroglycerin
    • Sodium nitroprusside
    • Cyanide toxicity from nitroprusside
    • Vasoconstrictors in ischemia
    • Beta-blockers in ischemia

    20 slides

  3. 03

    Valvular heart disease

    • Burden and management of valvular heart disease
    • Causes and pathophysiology of mitral stenosis
    • Pathophysiology of mitral stenosis
    • Treatment and anesthesia in mitral stenosis
    • Mitral stenosis: hemodynamic goals
    • Primary, secondary and structural classification of mitral regurgitation
    • Mechanisms of mitral regurgitation
    • Mechanisms of mitral regurgitation (continued)
    • Pathophysiology of mitral regurgitation
    • Chronic and acute mitral regurgitation
    • Two outflow tracts and the unmasking of dysfunction
    • Mitral regurgitation: hemodynamic goals
    • Hemodynamic goals and systolic anterior motion risk
    • Tricuspid stenosis and regurgitation
    • Management of tricuspid regurgitation
    • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
    • Pathophysiology of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
    • Dynamic outflow tract obstruction
    • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: hemodynamic goals
    • Anatomy, causes and grading of aortic stenosis
    • Transesophageal short-axis view of the aortic valve
    • Prognosis of symptomatic aortic stenosis
    • Aortic stenosis: classification of severity
    • Early and late stages of aortic stenosis
    • Concentric hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction
    • Anesthetic considerations in aortic stenosis
    • Aortic stenosis: hemodynamic goals
    • Classification of aortic insufficiency
    • Acute and chronic pathophysiology of aortic insufficiency
    • Aortic insufficiency: acute, chronic, and on bypass
    • Anesthetic management of aortic insufficiency
    • Aortic insufficiency: hemodynamic goals

    32 slides

  4. 04

    Diseases of the aorta

    • Origins of aortic disease
    • Classification and mortality of aortic dissection
    • Presentation, diagnosis and anesthetic priorities in dissection
    • Surgical treatment of aortic dissection
    • Hypothermic circulatory arrest and cerebral protection
    • Acute aortic dissection: hemodynamic goals
    • Classification and repair of aortic aneurysm
    • Spinal cord protection in descending aortic repair

    8 slides

  5. 05

    Heart failure and cardiogenic shock

    • Burden, definition and classification of heart failure
    • Diagnosis of heart failure
    • Diagnosis of heart failure (continued)
    • The New York Heart Association classification
    • Staging of heart failure
    • Staging of heart failure
    • Staging of heart failure (continued)
    • Temporal categories and pathophysiology of heart failure
    • Cardiogenic shock
    • Definition of cardiogenic shock
    • Stages of progression of cardiogenic shock
    • Stages of progression of cardiogenic shock (continued)
    • Why mechanical support beats drugs alone
    • Categories and indications for circulatory support
    • Design and physiology of the intra-aortic balloon pump
    • Timing of intra-aortic balloon inflation and deflation
    • Impella device decompressing the left ventricle
    • How the left ventricular Impella works
    • Blood path in veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
    • Retrograde perfusion, venting and device complications
    • Design and flow path of durable left ventricular assist devices
    • Pressure targets with a continuous-flow device
    • Suction events and supporting the right ventricle
    • Durable left ventricular assist device patients for noncardiac surgery: anesthetic considerations

    24 slides

  6. 06

    Cardiopulmonary bypass

    • Purposes and components of cardiopulmonary bypass
    • Cardiopulmonary bypass circuitry
    • Following the blood through the circuit
    • Venous cannulae and cannulation strategies
    • Venous reservoir and mechanical pumps
    • Oxygenators and control of gas exchange
    • Arterial cannulation and recognising dissection
    • Signs of aortic dissection after starting bypass
    • Composition, volume and reduction of the pump prime
    • Managing hemodilution on bypass
    • Why anticoagulation is essential and how heparin works
    • Heparin resistance from antithrombin deficiency
    • Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and alternatives
    • Rationale and preoperative optimisation for blood conservation
    • Antifibrinolytic drugs
    • Acute normovolemic hemodilution
    • Retrograde autologous priming and transfusion thresholds
    • Cell salvage and ultrafiltration
    • Three pillars of myocardial protection
    • Strategy of myocardial protection
    • Cardioplegia solutions and delivery
    • Timing and variants of cardioplegia
    • Onset of arrest and left ventricular venting

    23 slides

  7. 07

    Preoperative assessment and monitoring

    • Purpose of the preoperative visit
    • Perioperative medication management
    • Communication and premedication
    • Electrocardiographic monitoring and localising ischemia
    • Temperature monitoring
    • Arterial catheterization and the post-bypass pressure discrepancy
    • Central venous and pulmonary artery catheters
    • Uses of echocardiography before bypass
    • Uses of echocardiography after bypass
    • Burden, mechanisms and monitoring of neurological injury
    • Risk factors for neurological complications
    • Surgical strategies for a severely diseased aorta
    • Cerebral oximetry and treating a desaturation
    • Origins and shape of contemporary cardiac anesthesia
    • Anesthetic depth and drug handling on bypass

    15 slides

  8. 08

    Intraoperative management

    • Surgical steps of conventional on-pump bypass grafting
    • Cannulation, cross-clamping and graft patency
    • Preparing the operating room
    • Anesthetic preparation for cardiac surgery
    • Anesthetic preparation for cardiac surgery (continued)
    • The preinduction period and invasive access
    • Induction and intubation
    • The preincision period and incision to bypass
    • Recognising ischemia before bypass
    • Initiating cardiopulmonary bypass
    • Checklist during cardiopulmonary bypass
    • Checklist during cardiopulmonary bypass (continued)
    • Checklist during cardiopulmonary bypass (continued)
    • Cooling and interpreting labs on bypass
    • Rules for rewarming
    • De-airing and removing the aortic cross clamp
    • Checklist before separation from cardiopulmonary bypass
    • A checklist approach to separating from bypass
    • The A to H preparation for separation
    • Etiology of right or left ventricular dysfunction after cardiopulmonary bypass
    • Coronary air embolism during weaning
    • Vasoactive drug doses used during separation
    • Diagnosing and treating low pressure after weaning from bypass
    • Reading the low-pressure diagnostic table
    • Predictors of inotrope use and low output syndrome
    • Protamine and its adverse reactions
    • Test dosing protamine
    • Residual pump blood, bleeding and chest closure

    28 slides

  9. 09

    Minimally invasive and percutaneous approaches

    • Principles of minimally invasive cardiac surgery
    • Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass
    • Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting
    • Verticalization, risks and outcomes of off-pump grafting
    • Anesthetic considerations for off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery
    • Robotic valve surgery and transcatheter aortic valve replacement
    • Structural risks and percutaneous mitral repair

    7 slides

  10. 10

    Postoperative considerations

    • Problems in the cardiac intensive care unit
    • Indications for re-exploration
    • Anesthesia for emergency re-exploration for tamponade

    3 slides

  11. 11

    Children with congenital heart disease

    • Scale and challenge of congenital heart disease
    • Physiologic effects of congenital cardiac lesions
    • History, examination and records
    • Laboratory and imaging evaluation in cyanotic lesions
    • Premedication and monitoring in children
    • Induction and balancing the two circulations
    • Features of the neonatal myocardium
    • Bypass coagulopathy and separation in children
    • Tracheal extubation and ventilatory failure
    • Regional anesthesia in pediatric cardiac surgery
    • Fontan ventilation and low cardiac output syndrome
    • Pulmonary hypertension crisis
    • Recognising a pulmonary hypertension crisis
    • Adults with congenital heart disease

    14 slides

  12. 12

    Summary and references

    • Summary: the coronary oxygen balance
    • Summary: hemodynamic goals across valve lesions
    • Summary: bypass and its risks
    • Summary: separating from bypass
    • Summary: heart failure, shock and support
    • Summary: children with congenital heart disease
    • References
    • References (continued)
    • References (continued)
    • References (continued)
    • References (continued)
    • Barash, Cullen, and Stoelting's Clinical Anesthesia, 9th Edition

    12 slides