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Practical Handbook of Thoracic Anesthesia

  • 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

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Essential Principals of Clinical Management

  2. Specifi c Thoracic Surgical Procedures: Surgical and Anesthetic Management Essentials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 311-312
  3. Specific Thoracic Surgical Procedures: Surgical & Anesthetic Management Essentials

    1. Flexible Bronchoscopy

      • Philip M. Hartigan
      Pages 313-322
    2. Mediastinoscopy

      • Philip M. Hartigan
      Pages 323-333
    3. Anterior Mediastinal Mass

      • Ju-Mei Ng, Philip M. Hartigan
      Pages 335-353
    4. Pneumonectomy

      • Ju-Mei Ng
      Pages 363-374
    5. Extrapleural Pneumonectomy

      • Ju-Mei Ng
      Pages 375-387
    6. Lung Volume Reduction Surgery

      • Nelson L. Thaemert
      Pages 389-401
    7. Plueral Space Procedures

      • Shannon S. McKenna
      Pages 403-415
    8. Rigid Bronchoscopy

      • Eric D. Skolnick
      Pages 417-426
    9. Laser Surgery of the Airway and Laser Safety

      • Gyorgy Frendl
      Pages 427-444
    10. Tracheal Stent Placement

      • David A. Silver
      Pages 445-461
    11. Anesthesia for Tracheotomy

      • David A. Silver
      Pages 463-472
    12. Tracheal Resection and Reconstruction

      • David A. Silver, Philip M. Hartigan
      Pages 473-495
    13. Bronchopleural Fistula

      • Ju-Mei Ng
      Pages 497-509
    14. Esophagectomy

      • Ju-Mei Ng
      Pages 511-518
    15. Esophageal Perforation

      • Ju-Mei Ng
      Pages 519-526
    16. Lung Transplantation

      • Ju-Mei Ng, Vladimir Formanek
      Pages 527-548
    17. Miscellaneous Thoracic Surgical Procedures

      • Teresa M. Bean, Shannon S. McKenna
      Pages 549-562

About this book

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

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This is a comprehensive yet brief review of perioperative thoracic anesthesia care. … The target audience includes anesthesiologists who don’t routinely do thoracic cases and anesthesia residents. … Chapters are brief, to the point, and well illustrated. … provides real life information on thoracic anesthesia and demystifies lung isolation techniques in thoracic surgery. It’s a must read for all anesthesia residents and a must have for general anesthesiologists who may end up doing a complicated thoracic case while on call.” (Tariq M. Malik, Doody’s Review Service, April, 2012)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Perioperative and Pain Medicine,, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Prof, Dept of Anesthesiology,, Boston, USA

    Philip M. Hartigan

About the editor

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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Practical Handbook of Thoracic Anesthesia

  • Editors: Philip M. Hartigan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88493-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-88492-9Published: 28 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-88493-6Published: 07 January 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 636

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 157 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Anesthesiology, Thoracic Surgery

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, Health & Hospitals, Pharma

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 119.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access