Abstract:

With the development of the social economy and the improvement of people's living standard, the incidence of cardiovascular disease increased year by year, becoming the main disease that affect the health of our people. Due to the complexity and diversity of cardiac surgery, anesthesiologists are now confronting an overwhelming challenge. Not only because most patients with heart disease are associated with cardiac dysfunction, heart failure or other chronic diseases, but also because the operation of cardiac surgery and the use of cardiopulmonary bypass that lead to the increasing morbidity of anesthetic complications after cardiac surgery, greater demands are accordingly being placed on the anesthesiologists. Anesthetic complications are defined as damage or consequences directly caused by narcotic drugs, types of anesthesia, equipment and management of anesthesia, not including primary diseases. In this paper, anesthetic complications after cardiac surgery were systematically classified, and the principles of corresponding treatment as well as the prevention were analyzed and put forward, to make a summary of guidance about anesthetic complications after cardiac surgery.

Key words: anesthetic complications, cardiac surgery, complication treatment