Cardiac Surgery

Semester: 1st   
Type: Compulsory
ECTS: 4
Distance learning: 75%

Learning objectives:
After successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- understand the basic cardiac and circulatory physiology
- connect cardiac pathophysiology with clinical manifestations of cardiac disease
- be able to evaluate the main findings of the laboratory exams in cardiology
- understand the main indications that guide surgical management of various cardiac diseases
- familiarize with the basic cardiac surgical techniques   

Syllabus:
The course syllabus is the following:
History of cardiac surgery; preoperative evaluation
Cardiac monitoring; postoperative monitoring of the cardiac patient in the ICU
Principles of cardiac anesthesia; inotropes and vasoactive drugs;
Management of postoperative complications
Principles of surgical management of coronary artery disease
Beating-heart coronary artery bypass grafting
Principles of surgical management of aortic valve disease
Principles of mitral valve surgery
Principles of tricuspid valve surgery
Diseases of the pericardium

Lecturers:
Anastasiadis Kyriakos, Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Foroulis, Christophoros Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Tagarakis Georgios, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Antonitsis Polychronis, Assoc. Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Karapanagiotidis Georgios, Assoc. Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Voucharas Christos, Ass. Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Argyriadou Eleni, Professor of Anesthesiology