Heart Transplant Critical Care

Heart Transplant Critical Care

Transplant Critical Care Series

Few patients concentrate as much complexity into one ICU bed as a heart transplant recipient — a denervated heart, a fragile right ventricle, layered immunosuppression, and infection risk, all unfolding at once. This book is built for exactly that: a comprehensive, exam-ready reference that carries you from pre-transplant candidacy through late complications with the depth clinicians and exam candidates actually need.

What’s inside

• Pre-transplant ICU foundations — candidate evaluation, cardiogenic shock, bridge-to-transplant MCS, the durable LVAD patient, frailty and delisting
• Donor & peri-transplant course — assessment through to ICU handover
• Immediate postoperative management — the first 24 hours, primary graft dysfunction, vasoplegia, arrhythmias in the denervated heart, bleeding and tamponade
• Right heart & circulatory failure — the recipient’s most dangerous early vulnerability
• Immunosuppression & rejection — protocols, surveillance, and diagnosis
• Infection in the immunosuppressed recipient — a dedicated risk-staged approach
• Multiorgan & later complications — renal, neurological, cardiac allograft vasculopathy, and metabolic care
• Special scenarios — paediatric and combined-organ transplants, ethics and end-of-life care
• Tiered review in every chapter — 10 questions graded Easy / Moderate / Difficult

Educational reference only — always follow your unit’s local protocols and clinical judgement.

By Dr. Gunadhar Padhi — Chief Intensivist, HN Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai.