Transoral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Practical Guide to Surgical Approach and Patient Management

ISBN-13: 9783319816623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 230 str.

Claudio Vicini; Paul T. Hoff; Filippo Montevecchi

Spis treści

Introduction

Part I: Patient Work-Up

2 Tongue Pathophysiology in OSAS Patients: A Surgically Oriented Perspective

3 History-Taking and Clinical Examination

4 Sleep Studies

5 Imaging

6 Drug Induced Sedation Endoscopy (DISE)

7 Patient Selection

Part II: Surgery

8 Transoral Robotic Surgery as Single Level Surgery for Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

9 TORS in a Multilevel Procedure

10 Alternative Procedures

11 Robotic Setting

12 Surgical Anatomy in Trans-oral Robotic Procedure: Basic Fundamentals

13 Trans Oral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: An Anesthetist’s Point of View

14 Technique: How We do It

Part III: Post-Operative Concerns

15 Post-Operative Management of Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

16 Expected Outcomes

17 Complication Management

18 Short- and Long-term Dysphagia

19 Failures Management

Part IV: TORS for OSAS in Geographic Perspective: How to Run a Program in Different Countries

20 The North American Experience

21 The South American Experience

22 The European Experience

<23 The Middle East Experience

24 The Far Eastern Experience <

25 The Australian Experience

Part V: Research and Future Perspectives

26 Research and Future Perspectives

O autorze

Claudio Vicini, MD

Head & Neck Department, ASL Romagna

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Unit, Stomatology and Oral Surgery Unit, 

GB Morgagni – L Pierantoni Hospital (Forlì), 

Infermi Hospital (Faenza),

Italy

Paul Theodore Hoff, MS, MD

University of Michigan Hospital

Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Filippo Montevecchi, MD

Head & Neck Department, ASL Romagna

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Unit, Stomatology and Oral Surgery Unit, 

GB Morgagni – L Pierantoni Hospital (Forlì), 

Infermi Hospital (Faenza),

Italy

Blurb

This comprehensive book pulls together the essential elements needed to assess sleep apnea patients for the transoral robotic surgical approach and how to optimize the surgery.  Detailed information on patient selection, pre-operative work up, anesthesiological pre and post-operative management, surgery, complication prevention and management is provided along with background on sleep medicine and sleep surgery.  Authored for ENT surgeons, head and neck specialists and neurologists, pneumonologists, sleep doctors as well for anesthesiologists,  chapters offer solutions pulled from experts in the field of sleep surgery and information relevant to geographic areas worldwide.