RT Book, Section
A1 Blessing, Marcelle
A1 Cohen, Edmond
A2 Barbeito, Atilio
A2 Shaw, Andrew D.
A2 Grichnik, Katherine
SR Print(0)
ID 56782001
T1 Chapter 1. History and Scope of Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
T2 Thoracic Anesthesia
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-162566-1
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56782001
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  history  of  anesthesia  for  thoracic  surgery  encompasses  much  of  the  history  of  anesthesia  because  the  modern  practice  of  thoracic  anesthesia  relies  on  major  advances  in  preoperative  evaluation,  airway  management,  intraoperative  monitoring,  pharmacological  agents,  and  improvements  in  postoperative  pain  management  and  intensive  care  management.  These  advances  equip  the  modern  thoracic  anesthesiologist  with  the  tools  and  techniques  to  care  for  even  the  frailest  patients  undergoing  complex  surgical  operations.  Many  patients  who  would  have  been  deemed  inoperable  in  the  past  are  operative  candidates  today,  because  of  improvements  in  both  anesthetic  and  surgical  techniques  that  have  augmented  safety  for  all  patients  undergoing  thoracic  surgery.  The  current  practice  of  anesthesia  for  thoracic  surgery  represents  a  culmination  of  100  years  of  advances  in  anesthesia  techniques,  and  these  techniques  continue  to  evolve.