Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia

History of paediatric cardiac anaesthesia; physiological approach to congenital heart disease; cardiac embryology, growth and development; neonatal myocardial and circulatory function; preoperative evaluation of pediatric cardiac patients; paediatric echocardiography; diagnostic cardiac patient; paediatric anaesthesia pharmacology; extracorporeal circulation and circulatory assist devices in the pediatric patient; myocardial preservation during surgery for congenital heart disease; perioperative management of paediatric patients; septal and endocardial cushion defects; tetralogy of fallot; transposition of the great vessels; hypoplastic heart syndromes; anomalies of pulmonary and systemic venous return; anomalies of pulmonic valve and pulmonary circulation; anomalies of the atrio-ventricular valves; anomalies of the aortic arch and valve; myocardial and coronary anomalies; paediatric cardiac transplantation; paediatric cardiac intensive care; postoperative respiratory function and its management; postoperative complications; anaesthesia for non-cardiac surgery in children of adults with congenital heart disease.