Main description:

This 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.

Contents:

1 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