Table of Contents

Preface; Abbreviations; Part I. Preoperative Considerations: 1. Anatomy David Morrice; 2. Physiology Cait P. Searl; 3. Respiratory pharmacology Cait P. Searl; 4. Respiratory diseases Cait P. Searl; 5. Preoperative assessment Sion Barnard and Douglas Aitchison; 6. One lung isolation David Place; 7. Management of one-lung ventilation Leena Pardeshi and Ian Conacher; Part II. Anesthesia for Operative Procedures: 8. Bronchoscopy Ian Conacher; 9. Tracheal surgery Taj Dhallu; 10. Mediastinoscopy/mediastinotomy David Smith; 11. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery Mahesh Prabhu; 12. Anesthesia for lung resection John Jerstice; 13. Surgical management of emphysema Christopher Wigfield and Cait P. Searl; 14. Lung transplantation Cait P. Searl and Stephen Clark; 15. Anesthesia for pulmonary thrombo-endarterectomy K. Valchanov and Alain Vuylsteke; 16. Anesthesia for oesophageal surgery A. Banni; 17. Anesthesia for pleural and chest wall surgery Cait P. Searl; 18. Anesthetic implications of chest trauma Sameena T. Ahmed; 19. Pediatric thoracic procedures Tim Murphy and Jonathan Hayden Smith; 20. Ageing and adverse outcomes in thoracic surgery Vijay Jeganath; 21. Management of the morbidly obese patient Sameena T. Ahmed; 22. Management of thoracic emergencies Sameena T. Ahmed; Part III. Post-Operative Management: 23. Fluid balance management Sameena T. Ahmed; 24. General postoperative management Sameena T. Ahmed; 25. Management of postoperative respiratory problems Cait P. Searl; 26. ECMO and related technologies Jonathan Hayden Smith; 27. Management of bronchopleural fistula O. P. Sanjay and Sameena T. Ahmed; 28. Postoperative analgesia Alexander Ng and Christine Tan; 29. Chronic pain management Sameena T. Ahmed; 30. Post-thoracotomy arrythmias Sameena T. Ahmed; Index.

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About the Author

Cait P. Searl is Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist/Intensivist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Sameena T. Ahmed is Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist, Freeman hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

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