[Anesthesia in heart surgery].

Today, the performance of anaesthesia in cardiac surgery is on a high quality level. It requires special knowledge of the various operative techniques, the different methods of extracorporeal circulation and haemodynamic changes of the underlying cardiological disease, as well as extensive experience in cardiac and vasoactive drugs. Heart patients are now being operated on in many departments of cardiac surgery. Over and above this patients with more or less severe cardiac diseases are being looked after in every Department of Anaesthesiology, thus, every anaesthesiologist should acquaint himself with these specific problems during his specialist training.