Congenital-Heart-Disease Books

Perloff and Child's book Congenital Heart Disease in Adults provides excellent clinical information on the special needs and concerns faced in caring for adults with CHD. I found the section on cyanotic CHD particularly useful and referred my primary care physician to it.

I got the book without any problem at all and in perfect cobnditions.
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A good review of the pathophysiology of the original lesion and also the consequences of the repair/ palliation. Good reference to assist in management of the "ex" cardiac surgery patient, in health, disease, pregnancy, or for non-cardiac surgery.

this is a manual!!!!
if you are doing ped cath lab you MUST have it.
if you are learning...you can do anything without it

This book contains medical studies concerning HLHS since the early 1950s. I have enjoyed reading the research articles but I need a dictionary! I feel this book is best suited for individuals with a medical background.

As a parent of a child with HLHS, I can't stop referring to the book. I enjoyed reading it. It helped me understand the condition more. The various illustrations of the heart are very detailed but easy to follow. The book provides hope that there will be a cure someday soon:)

Thank you for putting the time and effort into writng the book. I really appreciate the wealth of resources that was brought together in one book.

I bought it because my daughter has a heart disease, but then I realize that this book was about another heart disease. I gave a check an it is full of pictures and examples and what I liked the most is that it has some reviews of parents who have children with this problem, it gave strength to me. Then I decided to give it to my daughter's doctor, and she was fascinated. I'm looking for a similar book but about my daughter's illness, it would be perfect.

Dr's Wernovsky and Rychik are my daughter's cardiologists and I know them as a parent of a child with a form of HLHS. I reviewed the chapters that are geared for the pediatrician and it provides valuable information for your pediatrician. Since HLHS is a multifaceted problem impacting various aspects of your child's development, the sections I reviewed provides guidance on what to look for and the degress of changes occuring in your child. Good highly technical info that gives a parent some insight but really geared to the medical professional.

This is an outstanding book on the various congenital defects and repairs. Tons of illustrations covering every aspect of pediatric heart surgery. If your involved in the fields of pediatrics, cardiac surgery, anesthesia, and perfusion this book is the gold standard.

My child is 7 and in 2nd grade already. I wish I would have bought this before he started school. I learned a lot (I thought I knew almost everything I needed to know,) about how to talk with your child's teacher and what to expect from the school. After reading the book I donated it to our school so that my son's teachers can read the book before he starts a new year and can better understand what we as a family and he as a heart child is going through.

The book was well written. A must read for anyone having to deal with pediatric heart problems. My daughter is a cardiac surgeon and verified that it is accurate. My only complaint was that the print was misaligned and located close to the binding on a lot of the pages which made reading very annoying.

My daughter was born with a heart defect in 2007. She had had one open-heart surgery by the time I was introduced by word-of-mouth to this book. I can't say how important it was to me as a parent to read this book. It gives an insider's view of the world of congenital heart surgery and if you are a parent who wants to know what doctors really think and do, you have to read this - if you are a parent who wants to put all of your faith in the perfection of doctors, then don't read it. My family is very grateful that things have turned out well for my daughter, who is now 15 months, and can't thank her healthcare team enough... but if she needs another surgery, we are going to go to one of the surgeons mentioned in the book. We'll fly her to another state - whatever it takes to get the very best care for her. I hope if you are looking at this book because someone you love has a heart defect, that things turn out well for you, too. What a living nightmare. Read the book.

Roger Mee, the surgeon profiled in this very well-researched and well-written book, would be the first to tell you that he possesses no divine powers. As he stresses, and author Ruhlman emphasizes, the craft of surgery is in attention to detail. An interesting contrast is drawn between Mee, who strikes the reader as very down-to-earth, and a brilliant but difficult intern, who (after this book was published) took his own life.

The book also contains excellent portraits of Mee's surgical nurse, the difficulties facing anesthesiologists when working with 5-pound neonates, and is very sensitive to the awful, gut-wrenching torment suffered by the new parents, who would rather be anywhere than inside a pediatric ICU.

Ruhlman is at his best when writing about how difficult it is to do things right, as in his other great book "Wooden Boats."

I recently became a pediatric cardiac intensive care nurse. I never really understood what it was like to be a family, or cardiac surgeon until reading this book. It is so amazing that someone could write such as informational insiring book, that has no health background. It makes me proud to be a nurse for this type of unit.

Imagine opening a newborn baby's chest and holding his plum-sized heart in your hands, confident that you can repair it and give the child a healthy life.

Meet Dr. Roger Mee, one of the world's top pediatric heart surgeons. Dr. Mee and his team at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio do just that, two or three times a day, five or six days a week. Author Michael Ruhlman spent a year as an embedded observer in this center of excellence, exploring an elite surgical specialty and the professionals who devote themselves to perfecting it.

"Walk on Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit" is the wonderful product of that year, and you won't find a more fascinating or inspiring story. Ruhlman gives us a satisfying mix of history, anatomy, biography, and personal interest.

The unit specializes in the repair of congenital heart defects. Each chapter starts with a case or an individual, suffering from or exemplifying some condition. Then the author catalogues the development of treatment options for that condition. Finally, he returns to the clinical setting to finish the story.

Ruhlman discusses medical politics and the story behind outcome statistics. What is the impact on a unit's statistics when that unit is a referral center for the sickest babies? How can a patient -- or a parent -- know the importance of the BEST care versus GOOD care? Thorny questions are raised.

But this is first and foremost the story of New Zealand-born Dr. Mee and his team, and the huge demands they make on themselves every day for the sake of these babies who got an unlucky draw -- at least, unlucky until they come under Dr. Mee's care.

"Walk on Water" is action-packed and sensitively written. If you are interested in medical non-fiction, you WILL be stunned by this book. It's a completely absorbing read and I highly recommend it.

Linda Bulger, 2008