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This chapter provides a short primer on anesthesiology for clinicians who are involved in the care of tumor ablation patients, but who have not been trained in one of the surgical subspecialties. Anesthesiologists, in the role of pain treatment specialists, have long been asked to care for patients with metastatic tumors; the role of anesthesiologists in tumor ablation therapy represents a continuation of a recent trend that has seen anesthesiologists perform their conventional services (i.e., to make the patient insensible to pain) in areas outside of the operating room. Anesthesiologists have expanded their roles in the past several years in angiography, endoscopy, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided surgical suites, in which they interact with physician and nonphysician personnel who are as unfamiliar with what the anesthesiologist needs to deliver patient care as the anesthesiologist is with the needs of the team members in these non—operating-room settings.
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Fox, J.A., Harvey, A.M. (2005). Anesthesia for Ablation. In: vanSonnenberg, E., McMullen, W.N., Solbiati, L., Livraghi, T., Müeller, P.R., Silverman, S.G. (eds) Tumor Ablation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28674-8_6
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