TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 4. Cardiac Surgical Pharmacology A1 - Levy, Jerrold H. A1 - Tanaka, Kenichi A. A1 - Ramsay, James G. A2 - Cohn, Lawrence H. PY - 2012 T2 - Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 4e AB - Clinical pharmacology associated with cardiac surgery is an important part of patient management. Patients in the perioperative period receive multiple agents that affect cardiovascular and pulmonary function. This chapter summarizes the pharmacology of the agents commonly used for treating the primary physiologic disturbances associated with cardiac surgery, hemodynamic instability, respiratory insufficiency, and alterations of hemostasis. For cardiovascular drugs, the common theme is that pharmacologic effects are produced by intracellular ion fluxes. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/16 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55910870 ER -