RT Book, Section A1 Levy, Jerrold H. A1 Tanaka, Kenichi A. A1 Ramsay, James G. A2 Cohn, Lawrence H. SR Print(0) ID 55910870 T1 Chapter 4. Cardiac Surgical Pharmacology T2 Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 4e YR 2012 FD 2012 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-163310-9 LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55910870 RD 2024/03/28 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.