Peter D. Slinger - Thoracic Anesthesia, an Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics

Anesthesiology Clinics

Thoracic Anesthesia

Peter Slinger, MD, FRCPC

Professor of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2C4

ISSN 1932-2275

Volume 30 Number 4 December 2012

Contributors

CONSULTING EDITOR

LEE A. FLEISHER, MD

Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

GUEST EDITOR

PETER SLINGER, MD, FRCPC

Professor of Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

AUTHORS

KAYODE ADENIJI, BMedSci, MBBS, MRCP, DICM

Clinical Fellow, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PAUL H. ALFILLE, MD

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

RANDAL S. BLANK, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Chief, Thoracic Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia

SANJEEV V. CHHANGANI, MD, MBA, FCCM

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

STEPHEN R. COLLINS, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia

ANA FERNANDEZ-BUSTAMANTE, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado

ION A. HOBAI, MD, PhD

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

J. MICHAEL JAEGER, MD, PhD

Co-Medical Director, TCV Surgical ICU, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Associate Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia

DAVID W. KACZKA, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

GEORGE W. KANELLAKOS, MD, FRCPC

Chief, Thoracic Anesthesia, Assistant Professor, Dalhousie Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

BRUCE KILPATRICK, MBBCh, FCA(SA)

Anaesthesiologist, Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

JENS LOHSER, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

ANDREW B. LUMB, MBBS, FRCA

Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia, St Jamess University Hospital; Lecturer in Anaesthesia, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

RALPH LYERLY III

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama

GUIDO MUSCH, MD

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

ALESSIA PEDOTO, MD

Assistant Clinical Attending, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

ALBERT PERRINO, MD

Jr Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven

FERENC PUSKAS, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado

CAIT P. SEARL, BSc, MA, MBChB, MRCP, FRCA

Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist and Intensivist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

PETER SLINGER, MD, FRCPC

Professor of Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ANDREW C. STEEL, BSc, MBBS, MRCP, FRCA, FRCPC, EDICM

Assistant Professor, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

BRAD STEENWYK, MD

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama

BREANDAN SULLIVAN, MD

Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado

MARCOS F. VIDAL MELO, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

VERA VON DOSSOW-HANFSTINGL, MD

Department of Anesthesiology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

LAURA J. WALTON, MBChB, FRCA

Specialist Trainee in Anaesthesia, Department of Anaesthesia, St Jamess University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom

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Foreword

Lee A. Fleisher, MD

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce Street, Dulles 680, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

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Lee A. Fleisher, MD, Consulting Editor

It has been over 4 years since an issue of Anesthesiology Clinics has been devoted to thoracic anesthesia. During that interval, thoracic surgery has continued to evolve, which requires evolution in the anesthetic management of patients undergoing thoracic surgery. There are changes in airway and esophageal surgery. Technology has also had a major impact on the field, including the development of robotic surgery. With a focus on increasing our value in health care, it is also important to both implement strategies to reduce perioperative risk and treat complications effectively once they occur. In this issue of Anesthesiology Clinics, a remarkable group of international experts in the field have written outstanding reviews to help all of us provide state-of-the-art care.

In choosing an editor for a thoracic anesthesia issue, it was easy to once again ask Peter Slinger, MD, who was the editor of the 2008 issue. Dr Slinger is currently Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto and coeditor of 4 of the major texts in the field. He is currently an associate editor for the Thoracic Anesthesia section of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia and a member of the editorial board of