Postoperative Care in Thoracic Surgery

1. What Happens to the Lung During Mechanical Ventilation and One-Lung Ventilation?
Göran Hedenstierna

2. Where Should I Send My Patient After the Operation?
Lukas Kreienbühl, Tiziano Cassina, Marc Licker

3. Does It Matter How I Ventilate the Patient During the Operation?
Laszlo L. Szegedi

4. Can Postoperative Pulmonary Complications Be Objectively Evaluated?
Marcelo Gama Abreu, Thomas Kiss, Lluis Gallart, Jaume Canet

5. Fluid Management During and After the Operation: Less Is More or More Is Less?
Catherine Ashes, Peter Slinger

6. How to Organise the PACU? What to Treat in the PACU?
Mohamed R. Tahan

7. Should I Blame the Surgeon: Surgical Complications and Surgical Treatment of the Complications
Jelena Grusina-Ujumaza, Alper Toker

8. Should Every “Myasthenic Thymectomy” Be Sent to ICU?
Zerrin Sungur, Mert Şentürk

9. How About Esophagectomies?
Tamás Végh

10. Do the New Hemodynamic Monitoring Devices Make Sense Compared to the “Classical” Ones?
Giorgio Della Roca

11. What Are the Specific Challenges in the Postoperative Mechanical Ventilation After Thoracic Surgery?
Edmond Cohen, Peter Biro, Mert Şentürk

12. Pros and Cons of Non-invasive Ventilation After Thoracic Surgery
Lorenzo Ball, Maddalena Dameri, Paolo Pelosi

13. Lung Surgery and Extracorporeal Oxygenation
Edda M. Tschernko, Clemens Aigner

14. Pneumonia After Thoracic Surgery
Perihan Ergin Özcan, Evren Şentürk

15. When and How Do I Have to Treat the Arrhythmias After Thoracic Surgery?
Wilhelm Haverkamp, Thomas Hachenberg

16. Management of Antiaggregated and Anticoagulated Patients Scheduled for Thoracic Surgery: Recommendations for Venous Thromboprophylaxis
Juan V. Llau, Manuel Granell, Mª José Jiménez

17. Pain Management Following Thoracic Surgery
Mukadder Orhan Sungur, Mert Şentürk

18. Rehabilitation for Thoracic Surgical Patients: Why, When, and How
Grégoire Blaudszun, Frédéric Triponez, Pierre-Olivier Bridevaux, Marc Joseph Licker

19. Perioperative Care of Thoracic Trauma Patient
Kemalettin Koltka

20. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Postoperative Period
Gary H. Mills

Nyckelord: Medicine & Public Health, Anesthesiology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Pain Medicine, Thoracic Surgery