Abstract

CARRILLO-TORRES, Orlando et al. Anesthetic considerations for thoracoscopic surgery. Rev. mex. anestesiol. [online]. 2019, vol.42, n.1, pp.35-44.  Epub Sep 30, 2020. ISSN 0484-7903.

Thoracoscopic surgery has evolved into a key player in the diagnosis and treatment of various pathologies of thoracic nature. Among these an examples are bullectomy, sympathectomy, pericardial fenestration, partial lung resection; thoracoscopic lobectomy and decortications. The key to success is to provide an adequate visualization of the chest with the new HD lenses, decrease postoperative pain, minimal invasion surgery, and small wound among others. Now increasingly frequent anesthetics procedures are performed with the patient awake and with adequate analgesia and sedation. Increasingly frequent thoracoscopy patient awake and adequate analgesia and sedation. Whatever the procedure chosen, thoracoscopy is more frequent than thoracotomy, so the anesthesiologist must know the ways to handle safely intubated patients (either selectively or not) of intubated patients as awake.

Keywords : Thoracoscopy; anesthesia; analgesia; sedation.