Current Advancement in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia

Dear Colleagues,

With continued advancements in cardiac medicine, many patients who were not candidates for surgeries/interventional procedures are currently receiving the procedures. A representative example is the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Patients who were not considered for surgical aortic valve replacement due to advanced age, severe aortic valve stenosis and high comorbidities, are now the candidates for TAVR. Although this advancement has brought hope for many patients, it also brought challenges for anesthesiologists who must provide anesthesia services for these surgeries. Procedures for other structural heart diseases require the anesthesiologists to have in-depth knowledge and solid skills of transesophageal echocardiography.

Robotic assist minimally invasive cardiac surgery has been gained in popularity. It requires special training and skills for both surgeons and anesthesiologists because the perioperative management and monitoring are very different from conventional open-heart surgery. Care for patients with advanced ventricular assist devices (VADs) or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is another challenge for anesthesiologists with the complexity of managing the perioperative medications and intraoperative monitoring having an affect on patient outcomes. We seek manuscripts on the following topics and other related areas:

Anesthesia for structural heart disease

Anesthesia for minimally invasive heart surgery

Dexmedetomidine and cardiac surgery

Perioperative management for aortic aneurysm

COVID-19 and cardiac surgery

Anesthesia for ventricular assist devices

Electroencephalogram in cardiac surgery

Tissue oxygenation during cardiac surgery

Enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery

Opioid sparing anesthesia management in cardiac surgery

We invite submission of manuscripts on the subject “Current Advancement in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia” for this Special Issue. Meta-analysis, comprehensive review and other communications are welcome.

Prof. Hong Liu and Prof. Hushan Ao

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