Atlas of Cardiac Surgical Techniques

**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® with "Essential Purchase" designation in Cardiac Surgery**

Offering a state-of-the-art update in this challenging area of surgery, Atlas of Cardiac Surgical Techniques, Third Edition, provides expert, easy-to-navigate instruction on a wide variety of both open and interventional surgical techniques. Ideal for both fellows and veteran surgeons, this practical reference shows exactly how established technical masters perform a wide variety of select, often complex, cardiac operations. Pearls and Pitfalls sections at the end of each chapter provide additional clinically important details, allowing you to benefit from years of experience of established experts—many of whom developed the operations they are describing.Covers the surgical procedures you need to master in adult cardiac surgery, including minimally invasive techniques, robotic surgery, aortic dissection, and much more. A variety of techniques are covered in order to offer multiple options for proceduresUses a vividly illustrated format with more than 550 full-color images, line drawings, and intraoperative photographs that clearly depict the step-by-step progression of proceduresPresents each procedure in a consistent, easy-to-follow bulleted format, guiding you from surgical anatomy and preoperative considerations through operative steps and postoperative careFeatures access to more than 30 surgical technique videos (13 new to this edition) that highlight key states of surgical proceduresContains updates and rewritten chapters throughout, as well as brand-new chapters on Technical Considerations in Redo Cardiac Surgery; Left Atrial Appendage Closure; Surgery and Endovascular Techniques for Acute Pulmonary Embolism; Diversity Considerations in the Practice of Adult Cardiac Surgery; and Tips and Tricks in the Acquisition of Technical Skills in Adult Cardiac SurgeryProvides fresh perspectives from multiple new contributing authorsAn eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date