TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Cardiac Surgical Pharmacology A1 - Levy, Jerrold H. A1 - Schroder, Jacob N. A1 - Ramsay, James G. A2 - Cohn, Lawrence H. A2 - Adams, David H. PY - 2017 T2 - Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 5e AB - Clinical pharmacology associated with cardiac surgery is an important part of patient management. Patients in the perioperative period receive multiple therapeutic agents that affect cardiovascular and pulmonary functions. 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 - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/12 UR - accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144149406 ER -