Practical Handbook of Thoracic Anesthesia

This concise, practical handbook is an essential guide to clinical decisions in thoracic anesthesia. The book takes a perioperative approach with a focus on the management of specific surgical procedures. Its format is geared toward quick reference.

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

Bottom line, evidence-based guidance Aimed at skilled generalists as well as trainees 30 thoracic surgical procedures, from bronchoscopy to lung transplantation Each procedure includes: management specifics; what you really need to know; newest surgical techniques; senior thoracic surgeon's perspective Actionable technical pearls Management of post-operative pain, acute and chronic General principles of case management Clinically relevant physiology and pathophysiology (including one-lung) Edited and written by physicians at one of the busiest thoracic surgical programs in North America Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Philip M. Hartigan, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Director, Division of Thoracic Anesthesia

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA 02115

Inhalt

Preface: How to use this book.- I. Essential Foundations:.- 1. Thoracic Radiology.- 2. Respiratory Physiology.- 3. Resiratory Pathophysiology.- 4. Respiratory Effects of General Anesthesia.- 5. Physiology of One-Lung Ventilation.- 6. Idiopathic Acute Lung Injury following Thoracic Surgery.- II. Essential Technical Aspects.- 7. Thoracic Positioning & Incisions.- 8. Bronchoscopic Anatomy.- 9. echnical Aspects of Lung Isolation.- 10. Special Airway Devices for Thoracic Anesthesia: CPAP, PEEP, & Airway Exchange Catheters.- 11. Alternative Ventilatory Techniques.- 12. Respiratory Therapy Devices.- 13. Technical Aspects of Pain Control Procedures for Thoracic Surgery.- III. Essential Principals of Clinical Management.- 14. Preoperative Evaluation of the Thoracic Surgical Patient.- 15. Overview: Surgeon's Approach to the Patient with Lung Cancer.- 16. Principals of Anesthetic Management for Pulmonary Resection.- 17. Management of Common Complications Following Thoracic Surgery.- IV. Specific Thoracic Surgical Procedures: Surgical & Anesthetic Management Essentials.- 18. Flexible Bronchoscopy.- 19. Mediastinoscopy.- 20. Anterior Mediastinal Mass.- 21. Lung-Sparing Pulmonary Resections: Bronchoplastic/Sleeve Resection.- 22. Pneumonectomy.- 23. Extrapleural Pneumonectomy.- 24. Lung Volume Reduction Surgery.- 25. Plueral Space Procedures.- 26. Rigid Bronchoscopy.- 27. Laser Surgery of the Airway and Laser Safety.- 28. Tracheal Stent Placement.- 29. Anesthesia for Tracheostomy.- 30. Tracheal Resection and Reconstruction.- 31. Bronchopleural Fistula.- 32. Esophagectomy.- 33. Esophageal Perforation.- 34. Lung Transplantation.- 35. Miscellaneous Thoracic Surgical Procedures.- 36. Anesthesia for Pediatric Thoracic Surgery.- V. Essential of Pain Management following Thoracic Surgery.- 37. Acute Postoperative Pain Control following Thoracic Surgery.-38. Chronic Post-Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome.- Index.