Anesthesia For Patients With Valvular Heart Diseases.

• Instructor: admin
• Lectures: 11
• Duration: 10 weeks

Valvular heart disease disturbs the natural physiology of the circulatory and pulmonary systems. The heart valves commonly affected by the disease are aortic and mitral. Valvular pathology can lead to valve incompetence or stenosis. The resistance to outflow from a cardiac chamber or the retrograde flow back of blood has systemic effects. The chambers of the heart are also affected by these circulatory restrictions. The effective forward cardiac output of the heart is adversely affected. The organ most affected the valvular lesions is the lung, which develops changes in its perfusion. The maintenance of normal cardiopulmonary physiology is paramount in the conduct of anesthesia. The cardiovascular and pulmonary changes majorly changes the patient responses to anesthetic agents and mechanical ventilation. This course module is focused on enhancing the knowledge of an Anesthesiologist in managing patients with Valvular Heart Disease.