- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Neuromuscular blockade
- Chapter 2 Anaesthetic equipment
- Chapter 3 Inhaled and intravenous anaesthetics
- Chapter 4 Total intravenous anaesthesia
- Chapter 5 Monitoring
- Chapter 6 Optimization
- Chapter 7 Complications of anaesthesia
- Chapter 8 Mechanisms of anaesthesia
- Chapter 9 Local anaesthesia
- Chapter 10 Perioperative cardioprotection
- Chapter 11 Neuroanaesthesia
- Chapter 12 Thoracic anaesthesia
- Chapter 13 Anaesthesia for vascular surgery
- Chapter 14 Anaesthesia for major abdominal surgery
- Chapter 15 Liver transplantation anaesthesia
- Chapter 16 Obstetric anaesthesia
- Chapter 17 Airway management
- Chapter 18 Paediatric anaesthesia
- Chapter 19 Malignant hyperthermia
- Appendix
- Author Index
- Subject Index
(p. 220) (p. 221) Perioperative cardioprotection
- Author(s):
ML Riess
and JR Kersten
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199583386.003.0010
Chapter 9 covers perioperative cardioprotection, and features Ten key investigations that highlight the progress in basic and clinical science in this area. In the last 10–15 years, a growing body of evidence has indicated that a variety of pharmacological approaches to decrease cardiovascular risk in patients with coronary artery disease exist including pre- and postconditioning with volatile anaesthetics; the use of noble gases to trigger endogenous cardioprotective signalling without producing loss of consciousness or hypotension; statin therapy to favourably modulate cardiovascular biology that may be both dependent and independent of cholesterol lowering; and judicious use of beta-blockers titrated to achieve maximum efficacy, but with a low risk for adverse effects.
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- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Neuromuscular blockade
- Chapter 2 Anaesthetic equipment
- Chapter 3 Inhaled and intravenous anaesthetics
- Chapter 4 Total intravenous anaesthesia
- Chapter 5 Monitoring
- Chapter 6 Optimization
- Chapter 7 Complications of anaesthesia
- Chapter 8 Mechanisms of anaesthesia
- Chapter 9 Local anaesthesia
- Chapter 10 Perioperative cardioprotection
- Chapter 11 Neuroanaesthesia
- Chapter 12 Thoracic anaesthesia
- Chapter 13 Anaesthesia for vascular surgery
- Chapter 14 Anaesthesia for major abdominal surgery
- Chapter 15 Liver transplantation anaesthesia
- Chapter 16 Obstetric anaesthesia
- Chapter 17 Airway management
- Chapter 18 Paediatric anaesthesia
- Chapter 19 Malignant hyperthermia
- Appendix
- Author Index
- Subject Index