title: Anesthesia for thoracoscopy: an overview.
abstract: Advances in technology have provided the means to reduce the length of stay for some surgical patients while offering increased quality of care. Videoscopic surgery is a rapidly expanding technology with increasing applications. When used in place of open thoracotomy, thoracoscopy offers the patient a less traumatic treatment modality. This procedure presents challenges to the anesthetist in choosing anesthetic technique, patient monitoring, and maintenance of cardiorespiratory function in the presence of pneumothorax and a variety of coexisting disease states.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Fair
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009719:Nurse Anesthetists; D011300:Preoperative Care; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing