The Complete Operative Guide to Cardiac Surgery in the Adult 2026: An Illustrated Reference for Bypass Grafting, Valve Repair, Aortic Procedures, and Postoperative Intensive Recovery - Softcover

P. Sedgewick, Merritt

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798176880571

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The Operation Doesn't End When the Sternum Closes

Most references teach the technique and abandon you at the skin. This one follows the patient the whole way — from the angiogram you read the night before, through the anastomosis, to the drain output at hour six that tells you whether you are going back in. Written as an experienced surgeon speaks at the table, in specifics rather than generalities: the caliber below which patency falls away, the bite depth that costs a pacemaker, the millimetre that separates a clean myectomy from a septal defect.

Every operation in adult acquired cardiac disease is carried as one continuous line — indication, planning, exposure, conduct, separation, recovery — so the whole case sits in one volume instead of three. Printed in full color with realistic clinical and operative imagery, labeled only for the teaching point rather than crowded with every visible structure.

Where this volume earns its place on your shelf:

• Coronary work in full, including composite Y and T graft construction, sequential and diamond anastomoses, transit-time flow interpretation, and revising a bad graft before you leave the table
• Valve surgery by mechanism, not by label — segmental mitral analysis, neochordal reconstruction, aortic cusp repair with effective and geometric height targets, and the honest criteria for abandoning a repair
• Aortic surgery from root to thoracoabdominal, with cerebral protection strategy, frozen elephant trunk, and spinal cord protection set out as a working bundle
• Reoperation and hostile anatomy, covering graft mapping before reentry, protecting the patent internal thoracic conduit, and reconstruction after failed transcatheter repair
• The first twelve hours in intensive care, where structured handover, drain thresholds, subtle tamponade, vasoplegia, and emergency resternotomy are treated as surgical problems
• Complications named with their fixes — groove disruption, outflow obstruction, ostial injury, malperfusion, conduction block — each with the specific decision that prevents it
• Color figures, algorithms, and decision pathways built to be consulted the night before a case and again after a difficult one

Buy now and put the whole operation — and the twenty-four hours that decide it — within arm's reach before your next case.

Written for surgeons, fellows, residents, intensivists, anesthesiologists, and perfusionists who carry these patients. The reasoning is explicit, the numbers are specific, and the judgment is the kind that usually takes a decade at the table to acquire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798176880571
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 497