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Robot-Assisted Thoracic Surgery and Anesthesia

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Robotic assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) was mainly compared with the video assisted thoracic surgery. This technique gained recognition in thoracic surgery from the 1990s and some articles even reported significant improvements in comparison with open surgery. Nevertheless, a question is rising: is this new technique just a marketing method or it can be really beneficial for the patients and for the physicians, despite its high costs and higher learning curves as compared to more classical techniques? Could machines replace do the physicians job in thoracic surgery? From an anesthetic point of view, are there any differences as compared to other thoracic surgical technic, and if yes, what is the specificity that anesthesiologist should know concerning RATS? This chapter deals with the specificities of RATS, from surgical point of view, through lung separation, ventilation, fluid and pain management, to communication and arrangement of the operating room.

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  1. Department of Thoracic and Oncological Surgery, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Dirk Smets

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Brussels, Belgium

    Bérengère Papegay & Laszlo L. Szegedi

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Smets, D., Papegay, B., Szegedi, L.L. (2020). Robot-Assisted Thoracic Surgery and Anesthesia. In: Granell Gil, M., Şentürk, M. (eds) Anesthesia in Thoracic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28528-9_25

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