Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive, practical and timely review of all aspects of video-assisted, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, used to treat conditions of the lung, pleura, mediastinum, chest wall and diaphragm.
Advances in technologies and instrumentation mean almost all thoracic surgeries may be performed by minimally invasive techniques rather than the traditional open surgeries.
This book describes the thoracoscopic procedures in current specialist practice with discussion on indications, patient selection, surgical approaches, complications and clinical outcomes.
The book opens with a summary of the rationale for minimally invasive surgery and when to convert to open surgery, as well as anaesthetic and peri-operative considerations, before covering the range of procedures organised by anatomical site.
Numerous figures and diagrams describe every technique in detail and an authoritative, international team of contributors provides clinical experience and expert guidance.
Table of Contents1 The rationale for minimally invasive thoracic surgery
2 The history and evolution of minimally invasive thoracic surgery
3 Establishing a minimally invasive thoracic surgery program
4 Anesthetic considerations
5 Clinical pathways in minimally invasive thoracic surgery
6 Patient preparation and port positioning
6 VATS lobectomy
7 VATS mediastinal lymph node dissection
8 Thoracoscopic pneumonectomy
9 Thoracoscopic sleeve lobectomy
10 VATS en bloc chest wall resection
11 Segmental resections
12 Intra-operative complications and conversions
13 VATS for minor procedures
14 Emerging non-surgical techniques for volume reduction in emphysema
15 VATS for empyema thoracis
17 Video mediastinoscopy
16 VATS thymectomy
17 Pericardial window
20 Sympathetic nerve
18 First rib and thoracic outlet
19 Management of chylothorax
20 VATS plication of the diaphragm
21 Surgery for pectus excavatum
22 Robotic-assisted mediastinal surgery
23 Robotic-assisted lobectomy
24 Needlescopic and biportal VATS lobectomy
25 Single-port VATS lobectomy
26 Single-port VATS for benign disease
27 Non-intubated VATS
28 Endobronchial ultrasound
29 Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy
30 Air leak and chest drain management
31 Pleuroscopy
