POSTOPERATIVE CARE IN THORACIC SURGERY. A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE

1. What Happens to the Lung During Mechanical Ventilation and One-Lung Ventilation?
2. Where Should I Send My Patient After the Operation?
3. Does It Matter How I Ventilate the Patient During the Operation?
4. Can Postoperative Pulmonary Complications Be Objectively Evaluated?
5. Fluid Management During and After the Operation: Less Is More or More Is Less?
6. How to Organise the PACU? What to Treat in the PACU?
7. Should I Blame the Surgeon: Surgical Complications and Surgical Treatment of the Complications
8. Should Every “Myasthenic Thymectomy” Be Sent to ICU?
9. How About Esophagectomies?
10. Do the New Hemodynamic Monitoring Devices Make Sense Compared to the “Classical” Ones?
11. What Are the Specific Challenges in the Postoperative Mechanical Ventilation After Thoracic Surgery?
12. Pros and Cons of Non-invasive Ventilation After Thoracic Surgery
13. Lung Surgery and Extracorporeal Oxygenation
14. Pneumonia After Thoracic Surgery
15. When and How Do I Have to Treat the Arrhythmias After Thoracic Surgery?
16. Management of Antiaggregated and Anticoagulated Patients Scheduled for Thoracic Surgery: Recommendations for Venous Thromboprophylaxis
17. Pain Management Following Thoracic Surgery
18. Rehabilitation for Thoracic Surgical Patients: Why, When, and How
19. Perioperative Care of Thoracic Trauma Patient
20. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Postoperative Period

This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of optimal postoperative care in patients who have undergone thoracic surgery and discusses challenging issues that are of interest not only in the context of thoracic surgery but also more generally within the fields of anesthesia, intensive care, and pain medicine. The coverage ranges, for example, from use of non-invasive ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and new monitoring devices to fluid management, pain control, and treatment of arrhythmias. A key feature of the book is the exceptionally attractive list of authors, who represent the most authoritative experts on the topics that they address. The approach is appropriately multidisciplinary, acknowledging that in many centers thoracic anesthetists are responsible for care during the postoperative period. This book is exceptional in being devoted solely to postoperative care in thoracic surgery, even though the difficulties involved in thoracic operations sometimes exceed those of cardiac surgery, especially in the postoperative period.

Features
• Focuses solely on postoperative care in patients who undergo thoracic surgery
• Offers a multidisciplinary perspective
• Written by the most authoritative experts on the topics that they address

Author
Dr. Mert Sentürk received his medical degree from Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University and started his training in Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology in the same school. He spent 10 months of his training in the Department of Anesthesiology of the Medical Faculty of Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich, Germany; he graduated in 1995 and started to work as a staff member in the same department. During this period he spent 2 months in the Thoraxklinik Heidelberg-Rohrbach and 2 months in the Department of Anesthesiology of the Medical Faculty of Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University.
Dr. Sentürk has published 34 peer-reviewed articles in national and international journals, co-authored three book chapters, and given numerous invited lectures at national and international level. Besides thoracic anesthesia, he is interested in anesthesia in peripheral vascular surgery and regional anesthesia. He is also active in fellow and resident education and takes part as a lecturer in educational programs of the Turkish Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care.