Many day-to-day practices in patient perioperative care are exercised as second nature by surgeons. These practices almost always work, but occasionally some efforts make a situation worse. A solid understanding of the fundamentals of the physiological basis of day-to-day practice enables surgeons to provide better quality of care for patients.

Cardiac Physiology: Function

Cardiac Physiology: Structure

View all of the chapters of Southampton Reviews in Cardiothoracic Surgery here [3].