Study about Cardiac Anesthesia as Super-specialty: A Clinical Approach

Abstract

Development of cardiac anesthesia and its progress is albeit a short duration but a rapid one. Basically, this picked up a pace in late 90’s even though it came into existence during 1950’s. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the core of cardiac surgery which has revolutionized the life of patients with critical and multiple coronary artery disease. Apart from cardiac output monitoring, cardiac anesthesia care has been benefitted by cerebral tissue oxygen monitoring too. Cardiac surgery was notorious for the humongous requirement of blood and its products. This also led to wastage of these precious assets apart from transfusion related serious health hazards. Bleeding and deranged coagulopathy, are very common in cardiac surgeries.