Emergency Presentation of Heart Disease -- Recognizing, stabilizing, and managing children with heart failure in the emergency department and other acute care settings -- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome -- Functionally Univentricular Heart with Right Heart Hypoplasia -- Common Surgical Interventions Resulting in Alterations in Hemodynamics -- Management of a Patient with Left to Right Shunt -- Cardiac Pharmacology -- ARRHYTHMIA IDENTIFICATION: STABILIZTION AND TREATMENT -- Hypercyanotic Spells -- Radiographic Evaluation of the Child with Heart Disease -- Child with Heart Transplant: Unique Immunologic and Hemodynamic Issues and Their Management -- Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support -- Recognition, Stabilization, and Management of Children with Pulmonary -- Hypertension in the Emergency Department -- Emergency Interventional Cardiology in Children -- Common Problems in Emergency Department in a Child with Known Heart Disease -- Recognizing and Managing Cardiogenic Shock -- Point-of-Care Cardiac Ultrasound in the Emergency Department -- Infective Endocarditis -- Inflammatory Heart Diseases in Children -- Cardiac Emergencies in Countries with Limited Resources -- Evaluation and Management of Pediatric Chest pain, Syncope and Murmur in the Emergency Department.

This book is primarily for pediatric and adult emergency room physicians, primary care providers, hospitalists, and nurses. It will also be useful for critical care specialists, cardiologists and trainees at all levels. Cardiac Emergencies in Children describes the pathophysiology of a diverse group of congenital and acquired heart conditions and presents a therapeutic rationale for treating children presenting with these conditions under life-threatening conditions. The book discusses the effects of surgery on hemodynamics and how to manage these effects. Also described are the daily challenges faced by physicians, including identifying a child with heart disease, interpreting chest radiographs, ECGs, and laboratory findings, and beginning appropriate therapies.