What DM Cardiac Anaesthesiology residents and departments actually read in 2026 — with journals, a year-wise reading plan, and the references you will need for your thesis and exit practical.
These 15 titles are the standard references for Cardiac Anaesthesiology, drawn from the NBE DrNB curriculum and the texts Indian teaching departments work from. Each is shown with the edition in circulation now, so you can print or buy the right one first time.
The books most residents actually buy. These are the editions in circulation now, with a note on whether each is something you read through, keep as a reference, or open only for the viva.
Three years of superspecialty training goes faster than it sounds, and most of it is spent on the floor. The order below is what works for most DM Cardiac Anaesthesiology residents.
Read Hensley's A Practical Approach to Cardiac Anesthesia in full while doing routine adult cardiac lists, revise cardiac physiology and the relevant Braunwald chapters, and start structured basic TEE views. Register the thesis protocol.
Work through Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia systematically, read Gravlee during perfusion-focused months, and add Andropoulos for the paediatric cardiac rotation. Log comprehensive TEE studies and take ICU responsibility; collect thesis data.
Second pass of Kaplan's plus cardiothoracic critical care reading, systematic TEE revision against the ASE/SCA guideline views, and weekly mock long cases and CPB/ECMO vivas. Submit the thesis.
Protocol, methodology and reporting standards examiners expect you to have followed.
Cases, spotters and stations that come up again and again in the exit exam.
DM Cardiac Anaesthesiology (also styled Cardiac Anaesthesia) is a three-year course after MD/DNB in Anaesthesiology. The exit examination follows the NMC PG regulations pattern of four theory papers of 100 marks each together with clinical, practical and viva voce, with an accepted thesis required before appearing. Practicals centre on a pre-anaesthetic long case plus dedicated stations for transoesophageal echocardiography, cardiopulmonary bypass, haemodynamic monitoring and mechanical circulatory support.
The titles on this page are the ones residents and departments actually use, each with the edition in circulation now. Start with the first one listed and add the references as your reading deepens.
Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia: In Cardiac and Noncardiac Surgery by Kaplan, Augoustides, Manecke, Maus, Reich (eds) is the usual anchor. The single anchor text for DM Cardiac Anaesthesia in India.
DM Cardiac Anaesthesiology is a superspecialty course taken after a broad-specialty MD, MS or DNB, so the reading is narrower and deeper. The broad-specialty texts are assumed knowledge by the time you start.
No. Most residents own two or three and use the department or library copy for the rest. That is exactly why printing selected chapters from a PDF works out cheaper than buying volumes you will open twice.
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