Anesthesia in High-Risk Patients

Part I. Cardiac and Hemodynamic Risks

1. The Patient with Acute Coronary Syndrome
Simon Hennink-Schadenberg, Benedikt Preckel

2. The Patient with Advanced Chronic Heart Failure
Patrick F. Wouters, Koen Lapage

3. Pulmonary Hypertension in Cardiac Surgery
Bastien Olivier

4. The Patient with Severe Aortic Valve Stenosis
Priscilla Medeiros Teixeira, Rémi Schweizer, Jean-Luc Fellahi

5. The Patient with Congenital Cardiac Disease
Philippe Mauriat, Jana Assy

6. Perioperative Management of the Patient with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
Julien Amour

7. What Every Anaesthetist Needs to Know About Respiratory and Cardiovascular Dynamics in Patients with Obesity or Intra-abdominal Hypertension
Manu LNG Malbrain, Claudia Olvera, Adrian Regli

Part II. Respiratory Risks

8. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and Anesthesia
Silvia Martin, César Aldecoa

9. Anesthesia for End-Stage Respiratory Disease
Morgan Guen, Sofian Faiz

Part III. Renal and Metabolic Risks

10. The Patient with End-Stage Renal Disease
Antoine Dewitte, Olivier Joannès-Boyau

11. The Patient with End-Stage Liver Disease
Emmanuel Weiss, Catherine Paugam-Burtz

12. The Severely Obese Patient
Lorrie Tremblay, Jean S. Bussières, Paul Poirier

13. Anaesthesia and Rare Metabolic Disorders
Markus M. Luedi, Frank Stueber

Part IV. Neurological Risks

14. Patients with Cerebral Diseases
C. Binet, A. C. Lukaszewicz

15. Patients with Chronic Neuromuscular Diseases
Valentine Léopold, Alice Blet, Kathleen McGee, Benoît Plaud

Part V. Other Risks

16. The Patient with Septic Shock
Bruno Pastene, Gary Duclos, Marc Leone

17. The Patient with Haemorrhagic Risk
Claire Pailleret Ringuier, Charles-Marc Samama

18. The Transplanted Patients: Can We Improve Outcomes of Non-transplant Surgery?
Christopher P. R. Walker, Paul Harris, Janos Fazakas, Janos Gal, Nandor Marczin

19. Aged Patients with a Frailty Syndrome
Claudia Spies, Rudolf Mörgeli, Alissa Wolf, Anika Müller, Oliver Birkelbach

20. The Allergic Patient
Paul Michel Mertes, Charles Tacquard

21. The Addicted Patient
Pierre Beaulieu

22. The Jehovah’s Witness Patient
Chantal Lerminiaux, Philippe Linden

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Anesthesiology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, General Surgery, Practice and Hospital Management