Handbook of Perioperative Care in General Thoracic Surgery (Mobile Medicine) - Softcover

Jean Deslauriers; Reza Mehran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323018890 ISBN 13: 9780323018890

Publisher: Mosby, 2005

Synopsis

Here's quick, portable guidance on the most common perioperative problems encountered in thoracic surgery. Succinct discussions explore preoperative assessment, intraoperative care, post-operative care, complications, management of surgical challenges, and more. An outline format, with abundant tables and original illustra-tions, makes essential clinical knowledge easy to find and apply.

• Examines all major topics in pulmonary and esophageal surgery, including trauma, oncology, and management of benign conditions.
• Addresses specific challenges in thoracic surgery such as the management of intercostal neuralgia, esophageal rupture, superior vena cava obstruction, and hemoptysis.
• Features organized reference lists to help readers find further information on clinical topics quickly.
• Comes in a pocket-sized format for convenient use anywhere, anytime.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Deslauriers, MD, FRCPS(C), Professor, Department of Surgery, Laval University Faculty of Medicine, Head, Thoracic Surgery Division, Centre de Pneumologie de L'Hopital Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada; and Reza John Mehran, MDCM, FACS, FRCPS(C), Associate Professor, Division of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas

About this edition

• Publisher: Mosby
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0323018890
• ISBN 13: 9780323018890
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 704