This issue will offer important information on the preoperative preparation of patients undergoing thoracic surgery. Individual articles will include topics on smoking cessations, informed consent, perioperative antibiotics, the anticoagulated patient, and reducing cardiac complications.
1. Smoking Cessation: Techniques and Potential Benefits (Ruoss) 2. Preoperative Teaching: Who, Where, When, and What Value (Mullin) 3. The Value of Preoperative Pulmonary Rehabilitation (Pulmonary Toilet Exercises - Techniques, Potential Benefits) (Weinacher) 4. Informed Consent: Ethical and Legal Aspects (Klove) 5. Fast-Tracking: Eliminating Roadblocks to Successful Early Discharge (Iannettoni)Perioperative Antibiotics: When, Why (Allen) 6. PE Prophylaxis: Evidence for Utility in Thoracic Surgery? (Donahue) 7. Management of the Anticoagulated Patient (Karmy-Jones) 8. Is A Pre-Operative Cardiac Evaluation Necessary: Reducing the Risk of Cardiac Complications (Vagelos) 9. Preoperative Preparation for Esophageal Surgery (Donington) 10. Preparation of the Patient with Myasthenia Gravis (Kernstine) 11. The Preoperative Pulmonary Evaluation (Mitchell) 12. The Preoperative Anesthesia Evaluation (Brodsky and Schmiesing)
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