• Critical care clinics · Jan 2024

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    Heart Transplantation-Postoperative Considerations.

    • Gozde Demiralp, Robert T Arrigo, Christopher Cassara, and Maryl R Johnson.
    • Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, 600 Highland Avenue, B6/319 CSC, Madison, WI 53792, USA.
    • Crit Care Clin. 2024 Jan 1; 40 (1): 137157137-157.

    AbstractHeart transplantation (HT) remains the best treatment of patients with severe heart failure who are deemed to be transplant candidates. The authors discuss postoperative management of the HT recipient by system, emphasizing areas where care might differ from other cardiac surgery patients. Working together, critical care physicians, heart transplant surgeons and cardiologists, advanced practice providers, pharmacists, transplant coordinators, nursing staff, physical therapists, occupational therapists, rehabilitation specialists, nutritionists, health psychologists, social workers, and the patient and their loved ones partner to increase the likelihood of a successful outcome.Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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