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time on the things you love being confident your family and income are protected. Hello and today we're going to talk about anesthesia for thoracic surgery. I've had a lot of requests for this and so decided to put something together.

A lot of this comes from the fantastic textbook, Barish clinical anesthesia. I highly recommend it for folks looking

for a good textbook out there. I make no money from it at all and have no relationship

other than that I think it's a great textbook and they do a great job.

All right, so let's talk about thoracic surgery.

Initially, preoperatively, one of the big things and this gets tested quite a lot

is the need to focus on the extent and

severity of both pulmonary and cardiac disease to figure out if the patient can

tolerate the procedure. The most common complications after thorlectasis, and so you want to take that into account.

Folks who are at high risk are folks with advanced age, poor health status, COPD, though obviously

that's a common indicator for thoracic surgery if it's bad enough.

Folks who are obese with a BMI greater than 30, with a low initial FE1 and a low post-op

predicted FE1.

Now we'll get back to talking about post-op predicted spirometry values because that does

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