Editor: Eugenio Pompeo

Awake Thoracic Surgery

eBook: US $69 Special Offer (PDF + Printed Copy): US $166
Printed Copy: US $131
Library License: US $276
ISBN: 978-1-60805-651-4 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-288-2 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2012
DOI: 10.2174/97816080528821120101

Introduction

Awake thoracic surgery is a new surgical field that is set to expand in the near future. Employing sole epidural or local anaesthesia in fully awake patients renders many thoracic surgical procedures doable with less invasiveness and general anaesthesia related adverse effects can be avoided. This, in turn, facilitates fast track surgery and improves cost-effectiveness of treatment procedures. The book explains issues relevant to awake thoracic surgery including postoperative immunologic and stress-hormone responses, lung volume reduction surgery, pulmonary resections and thymectomy. This Ebook should be useful to readers interested in a comprehensive reference work on this intriguing minimally invasive surgical option.

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Foreword

Minimally invasive thoracic surgery has been demonstrated to achieve superior outcomes for patients with basic and complex thoracic conditions. Advantages of thoracoscopic surgery include less postoperative pain, faster return to full activity, preserved pulmonary function, shorter length of hospitalization, reduced inflammatory response, and a lower rate of postoperative complications. With increasing experience, the boundaries of thoracoscopy have dissolved and the strategies of minimally invasive surgery have expanded. In particular, the concept of awake thoracic surgery has emerged as an important novel strategy to optimize the advantages of minimally invasive surgery.

Awake thoracoscopic surgery encompasses the advantages of limiting the invasiveness of both anesthesia and surgery, which may magnify the known benefits of minimally invasive thoracic surgery. Although initially applicable to only the most basic procedures, awake thoracoscopic strategies are currently used to successfully complete advanced procedures as well, including lung volume reduction, decortication, and thymectomy. Whereas the recognition of the advantages of thoracoscopic surgery has been slow in evolution, it is hoped that the strategy of awake thoracoscopic surgery is more promptly understood and embraced. This monograph by Dr. Eugenio Pompeo outlines both the theoretical and proved advantages of the anesthetic and surgical techniques that are employed in awake surgery. In addition, the results of a spectrum of awake thoracoscopic surgery, including both basic and complex procedures, are described in detail by the recognized experts in the field. Awake thoracic surgery will eventually be included in thoracic surgery training programs, but until then the practicing thoracic surgeon should learn this important strategy, and this monograph represents a comprehensive and valuable summary.

Thomas A. D’Amico
Professor of Surgery
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina


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