Anesthesia for Spine Surgery

Preface; Part I. General Considerations: 1. Preoperative assessment of the adult patient Elizabeth A. M. Frost; 2. Fluid management Maria Bauer, Andrea Kurz and Ehab Farag; 3. Blood conservation Robert Helfand; 4. Upper airway management Basem Abdelmalak and D. John Doyle; 5. Spine imaging Doksu Moon, Christian Koopman and Ramez Malaty; 6. Evoked potential monitoring Chakorn Chansakul and Dileep R. Nair; 7. Pharmacology of adjunct anesthetic drugs John E. Tetzlaff; Part II. Spine Surgery for Adult Patients: 8. Surgical techniques: 8.1. Anterior cervical surgery Iain H. Kalfas; 8.2. Posterior cervical surgery Kalil G. Abdullah, Jeffrey G. Clark, Daniel Lubelski and Thomas E. Mroz; 8.3. Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring: surgeon point-of-view Manuel Saavedra and Robert F. McLain; 8.4. An overview of minimally invasive spine surgery R. Douglas Orr; 8.5. Posterior lumbar interbody fusion Virgilio Matheus and William Bingaman; 8.6. Minimally invasive procedures for vertebral compression fractures Jason E. Pope and Nagy Mckhail; 8.7. Endoscopic surgery for Chiari type I malformation Rodolfo Hakim and Xiao Di; 8.8. Posterior and anterior thoracic surgery Matthew Grosso and Michael Steinmetz; 8.9. Surgery for intermedullary spinal cord tumors John H. Shin and Edward C. Benzel; 8.10. Avoiding complications: surgeon point-of-view Michael Kelly and Richard Schlenk; 9. Anesthsia for cervical spine surgery Alaa A. Abd-Elsayed and Ehab Farag; 10. Anesthesia for thoracic spine surgery Rafi Avitsian; 11. Lung isolation during thoracic spine surgery Gordon Finlayson and Jay B. Brodsky; 12. Anesthesia for lumbar spine surgery Mariel R. Manlapaz, Ajit A. Krishnaney and Zeyd Ebrahim; 13. Anesthetic management of spinal cord trauma Brian P. Lemkuil and Piyush M. Patel; 14. Anesthesia for patients with spinal cord tumors Stacie Deiner and Jeffrey Silverstein; Part III. Postoperative Care of the Adult Patient: 15. Complications Lorri A. Lee and Karen B. Domino; 16. Postoperative care in the PACU Maged Argalious; 17. Postoperative care in the neuro-intensive care unit James K. Liu, Dani S. Bodros and Edward M. Manno; 18. Postoperative acute pain Juan P. Cata and Sherif Zaky; 19. Postoperative chronic pain management Dmitiri Souzdalntiski and Jianguo Cheng; Part IV. Spine Surgery for Pediatric Patients: 20. Pathophysiology of the pediatric patient Stephen J. Kimatian and Kenneth J. Saliba; 21. Preoperative evaluation of the pediatric patient Sara P. Lozano and Julie Niezgoda; 22. Fluid management and monitoring of the pediatric patient Tunga Suresh, Patrick M. Callahan and Peter J. Davis; 23. Surgical techniques in the pediatric patient: 23.1. Scoliosis David Gurd; 23.2. Tethered cord: surgical release Mark Luciano; 24. Spinal surgery for patients with congenital heart disease and other associated conditions Patrick M. Callahan, Tunga Suresh and Peter J. Davis; 25. Postoperative pain control in pediatric patients Rami Karroum, Loran Soliman Mounir and John Seif; Index.