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Anesthetic and Perioperative Considerations in Patients Undergoing Placement of Totally Implantable Replacement Hearts

Rudd Heart-Lung Center, Jewish Hospital, Medical Center Anesthesiologists, PSC, Department of Anesthesiology

John R. Pank, MD

Rudd Heart-Lung Center, Jewish Hospital, Medical Center Anesthesiologists, PSC, Department of Anesthesiology

Robed D. Dowling, MD

Rudd Heart-Lung Center, Jewish Hospital, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Laman A. Gray, JR, MD

Rudd Heart-Lung Center, Jewish Hospital, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

The recent successful implantation of the AbioCor im plantable replacement heart at the Rudd Heart-Lung Institute, Jewish Hospital, Louisville, KY, has renewed clinical interest in the use of the mechanical replace ment heart as therapy for intractable heart failure. Al though the number of orthotopic heart transplants has plateaued in the past decade, the number of patients requiring transplantation continues to increase. This supply/demand discrepancy continues to be the main catalyst for the research and development of other therapies for the failing heart. This review addresses perioperative considerations, monitoring modalities, and perioperative therapeutic interventions that may help guide the cardiac anesthesiologist through the challenges presented by implantation of total replace ment hearts in end-stage cardiac patients.

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, Vol. 5, No. 4, 335-344 (2001)
DOI: 10.1053/scva.2001.28914


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