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The Brain and Cardiac Surgery: Causes of Neurological Complications and Their Prevention
edited by Stanton P. Newman and Michael J.G. Harrison,
351 pp., Reading Berks, UK, Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000, $112
Nowhere is the interplay between the brain and the heart more apparent than during cardiac surgery. Similarly, rarely are clinicians and investigators brought together from such a wide range of interests to address a single issue. The Brain and Cardiac Surgery: Causes of Neurological Complications and their Prevention presents an all-inclusive review of this topic. This multiauthored book, edited by Stanton P. Newman and Michael J.G. Harrison (a psychiatrist and a neurologist), has contributions from the fields of cardiothoracic surgery, anesthesiology, cardiology, radiology, neuropsychology, internal medicine, and statistics. This is the strength of this book; it gives the reader a comprehensive look at all facets of the relationship between cardiac surgery and neurologic complications, with topics ranging from neuropathology to retrograde cardiac perfusion. In some ways, this tends to limit the appeal of the book because many chapters may be felt to be of limited interest to a neurologist or may require a working knowledge of a related field in order to be appreciated. Yet, to those who want to understand the perspective of an anesthesiologist on this problem, this book is invaluable. The editors clearly …
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