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Previous Volume 350:1162 March 11, 2004 Number 11

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Second edition. Edited by Lawrence H. Cohn and L. Henry Edmunds, Jr. 1573 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2003. $250. ISBN 0-07-139129-0.

Cohn and Edmunds have edited exactly the kind of state-of-the-art textbook that is essential for practitioners and students of cardiac surgery. Such a book is needed because innovations in surgical technique and in strategies for the treatment of cardiac disease and the controversies surrounding the introduction of such new practices are appearing at an ever-accelerating pace. An up-to-date understanding of the theory and practice of modern cardiac surgery is critical to those interested or participating in the field.

The fundamentals of cardiac surgery, including normal cardiac anatomy and physiology, drug therapies, and monitoring techniques, are appropriately covered in this book, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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