Anesthesia in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

With the increasing survival over the last decade, the number of patients with congenital heart diease (CHD) has increased into adulthood. It becomes imperative for the cardiac anesthesiologist to be familiar with CHD for non-cardiac surgery, particularly in patients with a late presentation of CHD or repaired versus palliated CHD undergoing operative procedures. This chapter will be focused on pediatric cardiac surgery for CHD.