Epidemiology of perioperative cardiac complications / Simon Howell -- Pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease / Allison C. Morton and David C. Crossman -- Management of ischemic heart disease / William H.T. Smith and Chris Pepper -- Mechanisms of perioperative myocardial injury / Hans-Joachim Priebe -- Stunning, hibernation, preconditioning, postconditioning and the effects of anesthetic drugs / Pierre Foex and Bruce Biccard -- Preoperative assessment / Pierre-Guy Chassot and Donat R. Spahn -- Cardioprotection by modulation of the adrenergic-system / Johannes Wacker, Marcus C. Schaub, and Michael Zaugg -- Intraoperative management of the patient with ischemic heart disease / J. Berridge -- Diagnosis of perioperative ischemia and infarction / George D. Lappas and Mark Stafford-Smith --

Management of perioperative ischemia and infarction / Micha Dorsch and Jim McLenachan -- Arrhythmias and the surgical patient / Andrew D. McGavigan and Andrew C. Rankin -- Heart failure and the surgical patient / Karl Skarvan -- Adult congenital heart disease and the surgical patient / Matthew Barnard -- Management of concomitant carotid and coronary disease / Demosthenes Dellagrammaticas and Michael J. Gough -- Urgent or semiurgent surgery in patients with severe coronary artery disease / Pierre-Guy Chassot, Carlo Marcucci, and Donat R. Spahn -- Anesthetic management of patients with valvular heart disease in noncardiac surgery / Kim A. Boost and Bernhard Zwissler -- Primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease / Deoraj Zamvar and Alistair S. Hall -- Conclusions and the future / Simon J. Howell, Chris Pepper, and Donat R. Spahn.