Practical Handbook of Thoracic Anesthesia

✍ Scribed by Thomas Edrich MD, PhD, Beatrice Trotman-Dickenson MB.BS., MRCP, FRCR (auth.), Philip M. Hartigan (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 632
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive handbook delivers “bottom line,” evidence-based guidance in the practice of thoracic anesthesia. Chapters are short and practical and include actionable technical pearls not available elsewhere. The editor and contributors are academic faculty who work at one of the busiest thoracic surgical programs in North America, and their aim has been to integrate essential concepts with practical decision-making.

•Detailed guidance for performing more than 30 thoracic surgical procedures

•Relevant surgical insights from a senior thoracic surgeon included for each procedure

•Full range of modern thoracic anesthetic challenges covered

•Essential foundation concepts digested and simplified

•Technical aspects sufficiently detailed to be useful

•An efficient resource for skilled generalists and trainees

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Thoracic Radiology....Pages 3-16
Respiratory Physiology....Pages 17-39
Respiratory Pathophysiology....Pages 41-58
Respiratory Effects of General Anesthesia....Pages 59-70
Physiology of One-Lung Ventilation....Pages 71-92
Idiopathic Acute Lung Injury Following Thoracic Surgery....Pages 93-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Thoracic Positioning and Incisions....Pages 111-126
Bronchoscopic Anatomy....Pages 127-139
Technical Aspects of Lung Isolation....Pages 141-175
Special Airway Devices for Thoracic Anesthesia: CPAP, PEEP, and Airway Exchange Catheters....Pages 177-189
Alternative Ventilatory Techniques....Pages 191-207
Respiratory Therapy Devices....Pages 209-219
Technical Aspects of Common Pain Procedures for Thoracic Surgery....Pages 221-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Preoperative Evaluation of the Thoracic Surgical Patient....Pages 239-258
Overview: Surgeon’s Approach to the Patient with Lung Cancer....Pages 259-268
Principles of Anesthetic Management for Pulmonary Resection....Pages 269-290
Management of Common Complications Following Thoracic Surgery....Pages 291-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-312
Flexible Bronchoscopy....Pages 313-322
Mediastinoscopy....Pages 323-333
Anterior Mediastinal Mass....Pages 335-353
Front Matter....Pages 311-312
Lung-Sparing Pulmonary Resections: Bronchoplastic/Sleeve Resection....Pages 355-361
Pneumonectomy....Pages 363-374
Extrapleural Pneumonectomy....Pages 375-387
Lung Volume Reduction Surgery....Pages 389-401
Plueral Space Procedures....Pages 403-415
Rigid Bronchoscopy....Pages 417-426
Laser Surgery of the Airway and Laser Safety....Pages 427-444
Tracheal Stent Placement....Pages 445-461
Anesthesia for Tracheotomy....Pages 463-472
Tracheal Resection and Reconstruction....Pages 473-495
Bronchopleural Fistula....Pages 497-509
Esophagectomy....Pages 511-518
Esophageal Perforation....Pages 519-526
Lung Transplantation....Pages 527-548
Miscellaneous Thoracic Surgical Procedures....Pages 549-562
Anesthesia for Pediatric Thoracic Surgery....Pages 563-585
Front Matter....Pages 587-587
Acute Postoperative Pain Control Following Thoracic Surgery....Pages 589-607
Chronic Post-Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome....Pages 609-616
Back Matter....Pages 617-636

✦ Subjects

Anesthesiology; Thoracic Surgery