Practice Improvement and Patient Safety in Thoracic Anesthesia: A Human Factors Perspective Noa SegallJonathan B. Mark Clinical Vignette A 46-year-old woman was scheduled for bronchoscopy and mediastinoscopy. Following…
Perioperative Management of the Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension E. Andrew Ochroch Pulmonary hypertension is a common but underappreciated pathological condition in patients who undergo thoracic surgery, and being…
Mechanisms of Pain in Thoracic Surgery Jessica A. Boyette-DavisPatrick M. Dougherty Key Points • Acute pain can be produced from trauma sustained during surgery. This injury results in…
History and Scope of Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery Marcelle BlessingEdmond Cohen The history of anesthesia for thoracic surgery encompasses much of the history of anesthesia because the modern…
The Biology of Lung and Esophageal Cancer Mark W. OnaitisDavid H. Harpole Over the past decades, it has become recognized that cancer is a genetic disease. Therefore, the…
