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Cerebral Damage Before and After Cardiac Surgery

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Allen E. Willner

    1. Department of Psychology, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, USA
      Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Glen Oaks, USA

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Part of the book series: Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology (DCCA, volume 27)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Causes of pre- and post-operative cerebral damage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The causes of pre-operative psychopathology in cardiac surgery patients

      • Rudolf Meyendorf
      Pages 3-14

    3. Cardiac surgery and acute neurological injury

      • John C. Opie
      Pages 15-36

    4. Prevalence and causes of cerebral complications in cardiac surgery

      • K. A. Sotaniemi
      Pages 37-46

    5. Perfusion related parameters affecting cerebral outcome after cardiac surgery

      • Mark Kurusz
      Pages 47-56

    6. The role of the surgical team in minimizing postoperative cerebral dysfunction

      • Jonathan D. Katz
      Pages 57-67

    7. The causes of postoperative cerebral damage

      • Peter L. C. Smith, Stanton P. Newman
      Pages 69-81

    8. Central nervous risk factors in cardiac surgery

      • G. Rodewald, B. Dahme, Th. Emskötter, P. Götze, L. Lachenmeyer, U. Lamparter et al.
      Pages 83-98

  3. Techniques for assessing cerebral damage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Neuropsychological methods for evaluating regional brain dysfunction

      • Ruben C. Gur
      Pages 101-111

    3. Computerized EEG in cardiac surgery

      • E. H. J. F. Boezeman, J. A. Leusink, F. E. E. Vermeulen
      Pages 113-126

    4. Clinical electroencephalographic assessment of cerebral impairment

      • Frederick A. Struve
      Pages 127-145

    5. The promise and the peril of topographic mapping of quantified brain electrical activity: Technical and interpretive considerations affecting validity

      • Frederick A. Struve
      Pages 147-162

    6. Real time multichannel quantitative EEG monitoring

      • Robert J. Chabot, E. Roy John, Leslie S. Prichep, Pierre M. Landau, Wayne O. Isom, Laverne D. Gugino
      Pages 163-181

  5. Psychopathology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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About this book

Despite numerous reports of cerebral damage in cardiac surgery, the subject has not been given the attention it requires. This book, with a preface by Torkel Aberg, will remedy that situation.
The causes and incidence of pre- and post-operative cerebral damage are considered in the first section. Cardiac surgery patients frequently have preoperative cerebral impairment, not suprising when one considers the impaired circulation from a damaged heart and the brain's prodigious need for blood. Moreover, several perioperative aspects of surgical procedures have been considered as possible causes of cerebral dysfunction, for example: microbubbles, toxic by-products, non-pulsatile blood flow.
The second section describes how imaging techniques (CT scan, MRI, regional cerebral blood flow imaging), and functional assessment techniques. (PET scan, EEG, BEAM and evoked potentials) can be used to measure cerebral damage.
In the third section, psychometric and neuropsychological techniques are used to assess impaired mental abilities (abstract thinking, language, memory, visuo-spatial ability, mental flexibility, attention and concentration).
The final section explores the relationship between cerebral dysfunction and psychopathology (several types of depression, anxiety, and aspects of organic brain syndrome, delirium and dementia).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, USA

    Allen E. Willner

  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Glen Oaks, USA

    Allen E. Willner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cerebral Damage Before and After Cardiac Surgery

  • Editors: Allen E. Willner

  • Series Title: Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1852-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1928-3Published: 28 February 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4818-7Published: 02 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1852-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5294

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 270

  • Topics: Cardiology, Surgery, Neurology, Anesthesiology

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