title: Anesthesia for esophagectomy.
abstract: Esophagectomy is a high-risk operation with significant perioperative morbidity and mortality. Attention to detail in many areas of perioperative management should lead to an aggregation of marginal gains and improvement in postoperative outcome. This review addresses preoperative assessment and patient selection, perioperative care (focusing on pulmonary prehabilitation, ventilation strategies, goal-directed fluid therapy, analgesia, and cardiovascular complications), minimally invasive surgery, and current evidence for enhanced recovery in esophagectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, City Campus, Hucknall Road, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK. Electronic address: adam.carney@nuh.nhs.uk.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carney
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Egerton Road, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XX, UK.
authors.forename: Matt
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dickinson
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000379:methods*; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016629:Esophagectomy; D006801:Humans
keywords: Anesthesia; Enhanced Recovery; Esophageal cancer; Esophagectomy; Perioperative complications; Perioperative management