Anesthesia in High-Risk Patients

Introduction.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Part 1. Cardiac and hemodynamic risks.- The patient with acute coronary syndrome.- The patient with advanced chronic heart failure.- The patient with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension .- The patient with severe aortic stenosis.- The patient with congenital cardiac disease.- The patient with an automatic implanted device.- The patient with intra-abdominal hyperpression.- Part 2. Respiratory risks.- The patient with SOAS.- The patient with end-stage pulmonary disease.- Part 3. Renal and metabolic risks.- The patient with end-stage renal disease.- The patient with end-stage liver disease.- The severe obese patient.- Patients with rare metabolic diseases.- Part 4. Neurological risks.- Patients with cerebral diseases.- Patients with chronic neuromuscular diseases.- Part 5. Other risks.-  The patient with severe sepsis.- The patient with hemorrhagic risk.- The transplanted patient.- Aged patients with a frailty syndrome.-  The allergic patient.- The addicted patient.- The Jehovah witness patient.- The pregnant women.

Jean-Luc Fellahi, MD, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Hôpital Cardiovasculaire et Pneumologique Louis Pradel, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France. Dr. Fellahi combines his clinical work with university teaching activities and clinical and experimental research work;  he is a current member of the Scientific Committee of the French Society (SFAR) and also a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Anesthesiology. Dr. Fellahi is a reviewer for numerous journals and is the author of more than 50 original articles and many reviews, editorials, and book chapters.


Marc Leone, MD, PhD, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Chairman of Department, and Operating Room Coordinator in the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Hôpital Nord, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France. He is a current member of the ICU Committee of the French Society of Anesthesia and Resuscitation(FSAR) and a past member of FSAR's Guideline Committee. He is also a member of the European Society of Anesthesiology (ESA) Practice Guidelines Committee and has served on the ESA ICU Committee. Since 2011 Dr. Leone has been co-editor of the journal Annales Françaises d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation, and he is also a reviewer for many other leading journals. He is the author of more than 160 articles in PubMed-cited journals. 

"Each chapter is written as a well-referenced review article, and is easily and quickly digestible. The editors have attracted experienced international authors, adding great intellectual value to the content of the book. ... we recommend that this book be an addition to the library of both trainees and experienced anesthesiologists." (Ahmad Alli, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 127 (05), November, 2018)