Cardiac Anesthesia: Current Research and Future Prospects
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Anesthesiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2026) | Viewed by 2292
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ECMO; perioperative echocardiography; endothelial function; cardiac anaesthesia; cardiac arrest; ECPR
Interests: emergency medicine; pulmonary hypertension; echocardiography; heart failure; pulmonary circulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advances in the field of cardiac anesthesia have made it possible to treat increasingly elderly and complex patients.
Furthermore, from the original environment of the operating theatre, over the years, cardiac anesthetists have taken on an increasingly prominent role in the fields of interventional cardiology, short- and medium-term mechanical support, extracorporeal resuscitation (ECPR), and highly complex non-cardiac surgery in cardiac patients.
The number of procedures—in and out of the cardiac theatre—requiring the skills of cardiac anesthetists is constantly increasing.
Preoperative evaluation and risk stratification are pivotal in the management of patients in an era where personalized medicine, tailored to the single patient, has become the standard of care.
Perioperative diagnostic techniques, echocardiography above all, have been in the armamentarium of cardiac anesthesia from the beginning, but their role in minimally invasive and robotic procedures, in interventional cardiology, and in intensive care units has largely increased, as well as the complexity of the available techniques.
Mechanical circulatory assistance has grown both in surgical and medical patients, leading to increased possibilities of intervention, as well as improved outcomes.
On top of conventional treatments, there is a need for advanced therapies, such as long-term mechanical circulatory support and heart transplants. Furthermore, on the one hand, there is a need for better knowledge of right ventricular failure and temporary assistance, and on the other hand, there is a need for the development of techniques and protocols to increase organ availability and preservation, and ultimately the number of organs available for transplant, and hence patients’ outcomes.
Dr. Fabio Sangalli
Dr. Lorenzo Stephan Cesare Grazioli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiac anesthesia
- cardiac surgery
- echocardiography
- interventional cardiology
- anesthesia
- cardiology
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